In our ongoing investigation of deceptive and outright fraudulent extreme metal acts, we pull the rug under a handful of established outfits that don’t even seem to bother hiding that they are after your money first, artistic integrity a distant second - an audience satisfaction not even registering. The more we pull away the blinds the more obvious these practices become. Maybe your favorite band is in here, maybe your life-long inspiration only cares about the dollars/euros you’re giving him/her? Don’t be fooled, there are plenty of honest, hard-working metal bands everywhere in the scene. It’s just that these money-hungry, artistically vacuum units make it difficult for everybody involved. These bands stopped caring, they lost the passion and fire. In short: they Sold Their Souls...
If there’s one band in Germany that has been steadily on the rise in the underground it must be Defeated Sanity. Since 1994 these men have been writing some of the most oppressingly heavy and mean death metal in all of Europe. These disciples of depravity have never veered from the path of pure and unadulterated death metal. With their recently Willowtip/Hammerheart Records released "Passages Into Deformity", their fourth album overall, Masterful Magazine caught up with Lille Gruber (drums) to talk about the band’s formation, all their records and how they look towards their past, present and future as one of Germany brightest stars in the genre. His answers aren’t the most detailed, or interesting – but at least it gives an idea what this band is about.
Germany has always had a very potent death metal scene, with bands like Anasarca, Blood, Entrails Massacre, Fleshcrawl, Golem, Ingurgitating Oblivion, Meatknife, Necrophagist, Obscenity, Obscura, Pavor, Resurrected and Vomiting Corpses. When you were forming Defeated Sanity in 1994 were there any regional bands that you, individually and collectively, looked up to? 
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Once again you self-produced and independently released another promo EP in 2005. "Promo 2005" introduced Jens Staschel behind the microphone. Was it released locally or was it a quickly put together recording for interested label parties? Did Willowtip show interest already before this EP was put together? 
Three years later, in 2010, "Chapters Of Repugnance" was a special album of sorts. You had hooked up with former Disgorge vocalist AJ Magana. The album was once again recorded at Soundforge Recordings in Berlin with producer Andreas Hilbert. This was your label debut for US label Willowtip Records. In what ways was the recording contract with Willowtip better than your previous experience with Grindethic Records? 
"Passages Into Deformity" includes notable guest vocals from Frank Rini (Internal Bleeding), AJ Magana (Disgorge, US), and Brian Forgue (Syphilic, Gutrot) with sound effects created by Jon Engman (ex-Brodequin). Was this planned from the beginning – or was this something the label came up with to more easily market the release? 
