Defect Designer

Summertime is here! And the vinyl release for Chitin is approaching. Have you ordered yours yet?
Get it and our awesome Defect Designer merch that is already available!
https://defectdesignerband.bandcamp.com/

Gratulerer med dagen, Norge! 🇳🇴

"Listen to Chitin! And then again and again and again and again until you understand about 15% of what this album is doing."

We are on the editor's pick of Heavy Blog Is Heavy. Thank you for your kind words!

Editors' Picks // April 2024 Regardless of their level of uniqueness, each release on here, as per usual, is well worth your time, so let's not waste any more of yours and dive in!

9/10 Chitin review from Obliveon

DEFECT DESIGNER - CHITIN - Obliveon Auf ihrem dritten Album "Chitin" bieten die Norweger DEFECT DESIGNER abgedrehten wie eingängigen Death Metal mit coolen Voivvod-Vibes.

Any drummers out there? Here is Eugene and a drum playthrough.

DEFECT DESIGNER (Norway) - We Will Need Your Chitin DRUM PLAYTHROUGH Transcending Obscurity Subscribe to our official channel for daily updates - https://bit.ly/2Fr49KHThe drums have been slightly enhanced in this mix for the purpose of the playthro...

Have you managed to do a spin of our new album yet? Weekend of the release brings some more great reviews (this one is in German):

DEFECT DESIGNER – Chitin (2024) (8.797) Maik (8,0/10) Surreal Death Metal

Our new album Chitin is officially out today - digitally and on physical format.
Blast it loud!

https://defectdesignerband.bandcamp.com/album/chitin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQVjl54SxH0

Chitin, by DEFECT DESIGNER 12 track album

"they should be applauded for trying something different as opposed to another album of blast beats and razor focused guitar"

Reviews: Per Wiberg, Before The Dawn, Defect Designer, Cave (Reviews By Matt Bladen & Mark Young) A blog about hard rock & heavy metal reviews

Yet another review from Last Rites. Thank you!
The release date is tomorrow!

Defect Designer - Chitin Review - Last Rites [Cover art by Ian Miller] Here’s a one-image review of Chitin, the latest full length from Defect Designer: Oh, do you require more information? Okie dokie. Here we go… Defect Designer’s lineup has shifted considerably since their early days in Russia. Now based in Norway, they are simply the ...

A killer review of Chitin from The Razor's Edge!

Album Review: Defect Designer - Chitin The Razor's Edge review the new Defect Designer album, Chitin. Released March 15th via Transcending Obscurity Records | Death Metal |

New items in our Bandcamp (this is a Bandcamp Friday, btw!). Chitin vinyl and a combo of Chitin and Neanderthal vinyl!

https://defectdesignerband.bandcamp.com/album/chitin

Chitin, by DEFECT DESIGNER 12 track album

A new great review of Chitin in da haus:
https://www.dargedik.com/2024/02/defect-designer-chitin-resena-2024.html

Preorder here: https://defectdesignerband.bandcamp.com/album/chitin

Defect Designer - "Chitin" [Reseña] (2024) Webzine Rock Metal de Opinión y Crítica en español.

Our own Martin has a birthday today! As Martin now suffers from sound engineering (I meant, enjoys sound engineering!) activities for some new upcoming music from us, let's cheer Martin up and wish him a Happy Birthday!

PS: check this out, btw. Perhaps, you need a mix?

Sounds of O Studio - Mixing and editing services for rock and metal Sounds of O Studio - Sound engineering services for rock and metal music. Run from Frogner, Norway. Takes on remote and local work.

Some nice words from friends NO CLEAN SINGING and yet one more new song release!!
Have an awesome weekend!

The thoroughly unorthodox Norway-based death metal band Defect Designer have a new album eager to escape its quivering cage in March via Transcending Obscurity Records. Some of the record's mutated musical menagerie have already escaped into the world, and today we free another one, a bewildering but mauling creature named... “Gaudy Colours From Your Plastic Bag”. Prepare to smile (through broken teeth) and listen via the comment link below.

Certainty After The Kafkaesque Twist

You may pre-order Chitin and get what's left from the Neanderthal here: https://defectdesignerband.bandcamp.com/

DEFECT DESIGNER (Norway) - Certainty After The Kafkaesque Twist (Technical/Progressive Death Metal) Subscribe to our official channel for daily updates - https://bit.ly/2Fr49KHTaken from the upcoming release from DEFECT DESIGNER titled 'Chitin' coming soon ...

As the release date is approaching, here is one more new track from us! That one is different, make sure to crank it very loud and headbang!

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DEFECT DESIGNER (Norway) - Insomnia (Death Metal) Transcending Obscurity Records to our official channel for daily updates - https://bit.ly/2...

"With this album, Defect Designer have cemented their place as one of the most original extreme metal bands on the planet"
Thanks to the US site Wormwood Chronicles for an absolutely brilliant review of the upcoming Defect Designer record!
Link: https://www.wormwoodchronicles.net/torture-chamber/defect-designer_1

Preorder: https://defectdesignerband.bandcamp.com/

Wormwood Chronicles - DEFECT DESIGNER DEFECT DESIGNER “Chitin” By Dr. Abner Mality I remember being dumbfounded by this Norwegian band’s last record “Neanderthal”, which cooked up an amazingly eccentric approach to grindcore unlike anything I’d heard before. Now I have before me “Chitin”...have DEFECT DESIGNER streamline...

Check out the new Defect Designer song - out today through the Transcending Obscurity Records label sampler!
Blast it loud!

The Transcending Obscurity Records 2024 label sampler is LIVE! I'm grateful to the bands for being a part of it and the label of course, and for already paving the way for what promises to be another tremendous year for the label! As always, it's for free download, with any proceeds going towards the rescued animals, and I hope you enjoy some of the music that we have to offer.

Link - https://transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com/album/2024-label-sampler

Bands/songs that are part of this -
Diskord (Norway) - Shivering, As We Shed Our Hides (Technical/Dissonant Death Metal)
Replicant (US) - Or**sm Of Bereavement (Technical/Dissonant Death Metal)
CARNOPHAGE (Turkey) - Underneath The Horrendous One (Technical/Brutal Death Metal)
Byonoisegenerator (Russia) - 5mgInspiredVibes (Jazz/Grindcore/Brutal Death Metal)
RESIN TOMB (Australia) - Putrescence (Dissonant Death Metal/Grind/Sludge)
Maere (Germany) - Think Of Me As Fire (Dissonant Death Metal)
Devenial Verdict (Finland) - I Have Become The Sun (Dissonant/Atmospheric Death Metal)
Vorga (Germany) - Magical Thinking (Black Metal)
Malconfort (UK) - Rage (Indulgence) (Experimental Black Metal)
Hell Is Other People (Canada) - Fates (Atmospheric/Post-Black Metal)
Typhonian (Germany) - The Gatekeeper (Death Metal)
Paganizer (Sweden) - Flesh Requiem (Death Metal)
CRAWL (Sweden) - Until They Crawl (Death Metal/Crust)
Feral (Sweden) - Phantoms of Antiquity (Death Metal)
Baron (Finland) - Primordial Possession (Death/Doom Metal)
Shrieking Demons (Italy) - Apostasy, So**my And Sacrilege (Death/Doom Metal)
Monument Of Misanthropy (Austria) - A Nice Beheading For MoM (Brutal Death Metal)
Cutterred Flesh (Czech Republic) - Descent Into Torment Of Abyssal Whispers (Brutal Death Metal)
THE LAST OF LUCY (US) - Shedim Seance (Technical Death Metal)
Construct of Lethe (US) - Denial In Abstraction (Death Metal)
Phasma (International) - Shoggoth Bell Gate (Black/Death Metal)
Evilyn (International) - Penance (Technical/Dissonant Death Metal)
HIERARCHIES (US) - Complexity Parallels (Technical/Dissonant Death Metal)
Fathomless Ritual (Canada) - Gelatinous Being Of Countless Forms (Death Metal)
Atvm (UK) - Cancer (Technical/Progressive Death Metal)
Defect Designer (Norway) - Certainty After The Kafkaesque Twist (Technical/Progressive Death Metal)
SWELLING REPULSION (International) - Fatally Misguided (Technical Death Metal)
FEBRUUS (Sweden) - The Price of Enterprice (Progressive Death Metal)
Misanthropy (US) - The All-Devouring (Technical Death Metal)

The label sampler is coming your way, stay tuned for some new Defect Designer, Diskord and more bands of Transcending Obscurity Records!

Here's the artwork for the 2024 Transcending Obscurity label sampler which will go up on January 8th. It's created by Belial NecroArts.

The sampler will feature never before heard songs from the upcoming releases of Diskord, Replicant, Vorga, CARNOPHAGE, RESIN TOMB, Maere, Paganizer, CRAWL, Feral, Baron, Monument Of Misanthropy, Cutterred Flesh, THE LAST OF LUCY, Atvm, Defect Designer, Fathomless Ritual and of course our new signings for which we'll make official announcements later on, closer to their individual release dates.

It's an immensely satisfying sampler for me and I can't wait for you all to listen to it!

New Defect Designer in 2024. Happy New Year!

Happy Friday! Two songs from the upcoming album are available on the streaming platforms. Download, share, blast them loud on repeat!!
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2OGZH9sb4m19IdsDA0cwh6
https://music.apple.com/us/album/chitin/1721626239
https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCJsVRIABNcvMDFTQ9k8Lh5g
https://www.deezer.com/en/artist/500890

Defect Designer Defect Designer is a progressive death metal band from Oslo but originally coming from Akademgorodok, part of the Siberian city Novosibirsk.

Things are about to get proggy... while being death metal of course. The new Defect Designer full length is imminent. And it's so much fun!
Listen to a brand new song before the preorders go up this week - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mjvuoyg2Lg

Line up:
Dmitry Sukhinin (Diskord) - Guitars, vocals, music, lyrics
Martin Storm-Olsen - Bass, vocals, lyrics, sound engineering
Eugene Ryabchenko (Fleshgod Apocalypse) - Drums

Artwork by Ian Miller's Fantastic Art (Ulthar)

The sketches for Chitin layout and merch look absolutely majestic! We will announce the pre-order soon, - stay tuned!

We're thrilled to unveil the artwork for the new full length of the Norwegian death metal band Defect Designer. It's courtesy Ian Miller's Fantastic Art again and the music is similarly intricate, colourful and wild! It's a huge leap ahead for the band musically. You can listen to one of the new songs here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-doC81BSR8

Line up -
Dmitry Sukhinin (Diskord) - Guitars, vocals, music, lyrics
Martin Storm-Olsen - Bass, vocals, lyrics, sound engineering
Eugene Ryabchenko (FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE) - Drums

Band's statement - "Hello world, Defect Designer here sending cheers form sunny Oslo!

We are happy to reveal the artwork and a new song from out upcoming full-length album that will be out through Transcending Obscurity Records.

Once again, we were lucky to be able to use majestic Ian Miller for the beautiful artwork, and merch looks stunning!

We deliberately made Chitin very dark-sounding and obscure; it is death metal in the code, not as much grind-oriented as our previous release Neanderthal, but has blends from other music styles and will have some surprises. Part of the sound is due to a lineup change, and further updates will reveal some of our key sound elements, so stay tuned and, meanwhile, blast this song very loud!

To Ziggurat!"

Happy Birthday to the Neanderthal EP! A great reason to blast it loud and get a vinyl, while there still are a couple of copies available. And get that shirt as well - just to be sexy!
We will start promoting our next full-length album very soon, stay tuned!

Neanderthal (Death Metal/Grindcore), by DEFECT DESIGNER 7 track album

After being delayed by the vinyl plants, the Defect Designer MLPs are finally in! Thanks to everyone for their patience with this! They're currently getting ready to be shipped to everyone who preordered them! The last copies can be found at the below links -

Bandcamp - https://defectdesignerband.bandcamp.com
Label main store - http://tometal.com
EU store - http://eu.tometal.com
US store (stock coming soon) - http://transcendingobscurity.aisamerch.com

Happy New Year, friends!
2022 was a very difficult year..
But it also was a year when our EP got released by Transcending Obscurity Records! And some people like it, so here is one more Best Of 2022 from kind Metallerium Webzine.
2023, we hope, should be the year of our next full-length release. Finishing touches are being put now.

https://www.metallerium.com/lo-mejor-del-2022-segun-sercifer

Lo mejor del 2022 según Sercifer Lo mejor del 2022 según nuestro escritor y critico metalero de Sercifer, recopilando lo mejores álbumes en muchas variantes dentro de la música extrema y metal extremo

Made it to another best of list - this time, Metallurgi - best 2022 EPs & demos.
Merry Krampus!

Årets edleste norske metaller 2022: EP’er og demoer Med nok et innholdsrikt år i bakspeilet er det en glede å kunne ønske velkommen til årets listesesong hos Metallurgi! Da vi startet opp bloggen i 2020 hadde vi utvilsomt ambisjoner om å holde på en…

Hey there! Update while we are working on the vocals for the next upcoming full-length.

Check this out, - we made it to the best of list from Last Rites. As no 1.
Yaaaaay :)

Best Of 2022 – Top 10 EPs & Demos If there’s one thing that we at Last Rites cannot be accused of, it’s not expressing ourselves enough to get the points across. Maybe it’s our enthusiasm in discussing the finer points of this wide…

Moving forward with the recording!

Dmitry Sukhinin on Instagram: "We're done with the bass! . . #defectdesigner #deathmetal" Dmitry Sukhinin shared a post on Instagram: "We're done with the bass! . . ". Follow their account to see 471 posts.