The Defiled were a four-piece British band from London mixing groove-laden hardcore/metal with electronic music influences.
[2] In 2012 The Defiled opened for the Jägermeister Music tour 2012 at the Brixton Academy, supporting Black Spiders, Therapy?
[4] The band opened up a PledgeMusic campaign to aid the funding of their second album, recorded in Florida with producer Jason Suecof.
The Defiled supported DragonForce along with Alestorm on the UK and Irish leg of their European Tour in Autumn 2012.
In February 2014, the band embarked on a UK tour with support from Butcher Babies and The Killing Lights.
Their influences, as cited by Stitch D in an interview with EverythingRock, include: Nine Inch Nails, Slayer, Nirvana, Ministry, Machine Head and Freddy Krueger.
On 18 March 2016 the band announced that they split up via their Facebook page: "It is with heavy, blackened hearts, that we inform you that the time has come to lay The Defiled to rest.
There is no drama or fallouts, but we have been forced to face the reality that the love of what we do is not enough to keep our black ship sailing; the continuation of The Defiled has become logistically (financially) untenable.
The Defiled 1888 – 2016" Stitch D now lives in America and fronts the band Lowlives under the stage name Lee Villain.