Defeater announce new album ‘Abandoned’

Defeater have announced details of a brand new album, ‘Abandoned’.

Due for release next month, their latest full-length continues the current conceptual theme that has tied together all of their previous records. It’ll land on 28th August through Epitaph Records.

Having spent their first three albums following a New Jersey family and the troubles they face in a post-World War II world, the band’s latest record is set to deviate from the core story somewhat, with it chronicling - according to the press release - “the story of a lapsed Catholic priest, whose battles in Europe during the war drag him first toward faith and then his own poisonous faithlessness.”

Speaking of the new record, frontman Derek Archambault has said: “One of the threads running through this record is how people sometimes look for the answers to their problems in the darkest places.”

The tracklisting of ‘Abandoned’ is as follows.

1. Contrition
2. Unanswered
3. December 1943
4. Spared In Hell
5. Divination
6. Borrowed & Blue
7. Penance
8. Remorse
9. Pillar Of Salt
10. Atonement
11. Vice & Regret

The band have also unveiled the first track to be taken from it, ‘Spared In Hell’. You can watch the video for it below.