Championed in the press as "the saviours of U.K. metal" the British industrial-metal five-piece the Defiled originally formed in London in 2005. Their first proper EP, 1888, appeared in 2009, but it wasn't until 2011 that their debut album, Grave Times, appeared. The five-piece continued to tour throughout 2012, with performances at South by Southwest and numerous supporting slots, including tours with Dragonforce and Gojira. Using the pledgemusic website to fund their second album, the band headed to Florida to record with Jason Suecof (Trivium, the Black Dahlia Murder). In March 2013, the group announced that they had signed a deal with Nuclear Blast, who released their sophomore album, Daggers. ~ Rich Wilson