Trauma never truly leaves you. Its hurts and hang-ups, initial agonies and and echoing aftershocks have a way of staying buried within, carving away, shaping the person you will become. That doesn’t stop Defects frontman Tony Maue doing his damnedest to defiantly unload on the ascendant UK metallers’ expansive, explosive debut LP. Every moment of Modern Error seems marinated in experience. Every fury and fear feels drawn from a deeper place. Pain seeps from every pore. Heart on sleeve and head held high, the singer is open about a troubled past that saw him taken into care at a young age, losing family, struggling to readjust. It’s easy to imagine him turning to the bands who so clearly influenced Defects during those dark years: Slipknot, Lamb Of God, Killsw...