Defeater at Music Hall of Williamsburg
Defeater at MHOW in 2016 (more by Mimi Hong)

Defeater announce US dates w/ One Step Closer (who have other shows)

Boston hardcore band Defeater recently announced their anticipated first album in four years (self-titled), and released the promising lead single “Mothers’ Sons,” and now they’ve added a run of Northeast US shows happening around the album’s release (5/10 via Epitaph). The shows happen in Somerville, Hartford, Brooklyn, and Philly, and they have a great support lineup of Milford, Mass post-hardcore trio Born Without Bones, Wilkes-Barre metallic hardcore crew One Step Closer, and Easthampton, Mass shoegazers Kindling (ex-Ampere).

The Brooklyn show happens May 11 at Saint Vitus. Tickets go on sale today (3/20) at 10 AM. These US shows happen after Defeater return home from a Europe/UK tour. All dates are listed below.

One Step Closer also play the United Blood and Sound and Fury festivals, they’re opening one of the Boston-area dates of Have Heart‘s reunion tour, and they’ve got a run of shows with Choice To Make, including Brooklyn’s Kingsland on April 9. If you haven’t heard their 2019 EP From Me To You on Triple B Records, it’s a good one. All of their dates are listed below too.

Kindling also open the Boston-area stop of the Jeromes Dream/Loma Prieta tour.

Listen to music from all four bands on the Saint Vitus show below…

Defeater

Defeater — 2019 Tour Dates
4-19 Germany / Berlin / Musik Und Frieden^
4-20 Germany / Leipzig / Impericon Festival
4-21 Czech Republic / Prague / Futurum^
4-22 Hungary / Budapest / Duerer Kert^
4-23 Austria / Wien / Arena^
4-24 Germany / Munchen / Feierwerk^
4-25 Germany / Oberhausen / Kuttempel^
4-26 France / Paris / Gibus^
4-27 Belgium / Merhout / Grozerock
4-28 UK / Leeds / Outbreak Fest^
5-09 Somerville / MA / Once Ballroom*
5-10 Hartford / CT / Webster Underground*
5-11 Brooklyn / NY / Saint Vitus*
5-12 Philadelphia / PA / First Unitarian Church*

^ – w/ Dead Swans, Swain
* – w/ Born Without Bones, One Step Closer, Kindling

One Step Closer — 2019 Tour Dates
4-5 Richmond / VA / United Blood
4-6 Richmond / VA / United Blood
4-7 Philadelphia / PA^
4-9 Brooklyn / NY / The Kingsland^
5-09 Somerville / MA / Once Ballroom*
5-10 Hartford / CT / Webster Underground*
5-11 Brooklyn / NY / Saint Vitus*
5-12 Philadelphia / PA / First Unitarian Church*
7/5 Worcester, MA Palladium%

^ – w/ Choice To Make
^ – w/ Defeater, Born Without Bones, Kindling
% – w/ Have Heart