BiografieThe biography of a band, the few lines in which one is going to try to sell art as a product and make it look attractive to the medias and the recording industry, while in fact the passion and the energy that has been put into a band or into a song can hardly be described with words and will never be for sale.

Record after record dEFDUMp managed to bring their own sound to another level and succeeded in translating their feelings and states of mind into music and words, into verses and songs.They?ve always had an incredible time giving their best at every gig playing squats, pubs, clubs, festivals, making the stage their home each and every night, playing more than 500 shows all over Europe. Of course true fans will tell you that dEFDUMp is a live band before all and that you shouldn?t miss them if they ever play your town.They played numerous reputated festivals like Dour, Alive, Fury fest +++,alongside bands like Slipknot, Fear factory, Killswith Engage, HIM,Therapy, Sick of it all, Suicidal Tendencies, Shai hulud, the Dillinger escape plan +++

They?ve toured and supported Soulfly several times, this on special request of Max Cavalera who turns out to be the band?s most famous fan.After the 2003 Soulfly support tour their drummer Dirk Mechtel decided to leave the band for personal reasons and parted ways in best terms. After 3 weeks of endless auditions they found the perfect replacement in 25 year old Belgian drummer Vincent Orianne.

The first steps with their new drummer resulted in the 2005 EP called Makeshift Polaris. Conceived as a pre-production of what was going to be their next full length album, the band decided to release this EP as ltd edition because of the huge demand coming from the fans that hadn?t heard of the band in quite a while. Here they were on the road again, with a release they hadn?t really planned and now they were about to play their most intense shows on the biggest stages they had ever seen.

It started with a small Club tour through Germany, then followed the Baltics in which the dEFDUMp fan community constantly kept growing which resulted in the headlining of the Put On The Music Festival in Riga (December 2005) which gathered 1200 people. The same year they got to play with Life of Agony, then with Korn for the opening of Luxemburgs new Rock club ?Rockhal? in front of 4000 people. Not really recovered from that shock, they hit the road again with Soulfly in France playing sold-out shows every night.

It was about time for the band to settle down and to focus on the songwriting and recording of that album they wanted to record quite a time ago.This is forevermore.

To try to classify the musical spectrum of This is forevermore into genres, styles or trends would be useless as the band tried to escape to all of the actual definitions of modern music.Now you may call it Hardcore, Metal, Metalcore, Emo or Screamo, Post-HC, -Punk or Post - whatever Core. Just make sure it always sounds trendy and / or stylish but none of the mentioned terms will fit to their sound once you?ll be facing distorted guitars on Samba rythms, lo-fi electro next to violent drum breakouts, neurotic chants and desperate screams that underline bittersweet bass melodies.Needless to say that this new effort is a concept album following the lyrical direction of Makeshift Polaris, so I guess the best thing to do is to listen to the music and to read their lyrics so you might eventually find the classification you feel the most comfortable with.

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General

dEFDUMp are based in Luxembourg, a tiny country in the north-western part of Europe, right next to France, Germany, and Belgium.Population : 450 000 inhabitants. 2586 km2.

Pascal Useldinger - Vocals and modulations / Félix Faber - Bass / Marc Pierrard - Guitars / Vincent Orianne - DrumsQuelle: http://www.defdump.com/Discografie2007 This Is Forevermore www