Defeater live rating based on critic concert reviews.
ON TOUR

Defeater

16
critic reviews
rock

Live Rating

80
%
Based on 
16
critic reviews
LAST 12 MONTHS RATING
%
Based on 
critic reviews

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Critic Consensus

Based on 16 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Defeater is rated as an excellent live performer. Defeater concert reviews from critics describe live shows and performances as intense, emotional, raw, visceral, passionate, powerful, and cathartic.

ON TOUR

shows
Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, AL, United States (Sep 22); Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, AL, United States (Sep 23)

Latest release

title
Defeater (April 27, 2019)

artist info

GENRE
rock
ORIGIN
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States (2004 – present)
BIO
HAS PERFORMED with

CRITIC REVIEWS

Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

July 10, 2023
80
%
Defeater Live in Concert At Outbreak Fest 2023

Already Heard (UK)

September 4, 2017
70
%
Leeds Festival 2017

Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

August 30, 2017
80
%
FESTIVAL ArcTanGent Festival 2017 – Saturday

Rockfreaks.net (Denmark)

August 5, 2016
70
%
Beta, Copenhagen, Denmark

Birmingham Live (UK)

March 14, 2016
%
I am not a Hardcore Kid. I am however an Emo Kid; a proper Emo Kid. A genre coined by Sick of It All and evolved from the 90s HC scene, not the media coined emo. So you may wonder why I’m not just talking about the show already. I love a few hardcore bands, Defeater being one of them, and the writer’s narrati

100 Percent Rock Magazine (Australia)

February 11, 2016
%
Lakewood on February 9, 2016

Birmingham Live (UK)

July 8, 2015
%
There is little point verbosely writing upon the musicality of the supports. It equates to variations of standard hardcore riffs. It’s a hardcore show, surprises would have been welcomed but the probability was low. Rise of Athena opened proceedings and ‘Fight Owens Fight’ were words I was hoping the whole

Past critic reviews published in

Hit The Floor Magazine (UK), The Upcoming (UK), Room Thirteen (UK)

IMAGE CREDIT

Chey Rawhoof [CC BY 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons