The way these guys write is so amazing.For anyone who doesn't know, Defeater is what critics call a 'concept band' where all of their albums strictly cover an overarching story. Defeater's story takes place among the struggles of a working class New Jersey family in the Post-World War II Era.*Lyrical spoilers*Their first album, Travels, is from the perspective of the younger brother who grew up with an abusive alcoholic father who is a veteran of the war, an older brother who doesn't care for him and for an odd reason still idolizes their father, and a heroin-addicted mother who's lost hope in a better life. He kills his father while protecting his mother and then runs away, surviving as a drifter, not returning home until after being inspired to face his past by a homeless black man/WW2 veteran who lives off the streets with nothing but his old guitar. His return home was met with the knowledge that his mother died years ago and the only thing waiting for him is his older brother who offers him no redemption for killing their father and then leaving them behind.Album #2, Lost Ground, is the story of a black man/World War II veteran who upon returning from the war finds that his service and sacrifices mean nothing and is shamed for the color of his skin. Losing hope in the country he thought would welcome his selfless service, he becomes a drifter, playing the blues on his guitar on street corners and train-cars when he meets a young man [younger brother from Travels] running from his problems, and inspires the man to return to his home and face the struggles of his life.The third album, Empty Days & Sleepless Nights, is the life of the older brother, taking place between the time that the younger brother killed their father and his return home to face what he had done. The eldest brother struggles to make ends meet, supporting his heroin-addicted mother alone until she dies and trying to find a way to keep the hatred for his younger brother at bay. He eventually settles down and gets married but the marriage begins falling apart due to his excessive alcoholism and the demands of an old bookie his father was in debt to. Pushing the bookie too far, the elder brother gets knocked unconscious, and upon waking up and returning to his house, finds his wife had been raped and murdered. Finding nothing left to live for, he works and waits for his brother to return home so he can kill him. When the younger brother does return, the elder brings him to a set of train tracks they played on as children, pointing a gun to his head and forcing him to either wait to be hit by a train, or be shot if he gets off the tracks. The elder being an alcoholic and his anger blinding his focus as the train approaches, the younger brother manages to wrestle the gun from the elder and reverse the situation, the train killing the elder brother. [The fate of the younger brother is covered in Travels' finale, Cowardice.]And now, Letters Home, the perspective of the father. Each song is a rendition of a letter the father had written while in the war, detailing the traumas he has endured and the toll his failing marriage takes him, spiraling into an alcoholic and abusive husband/father.The only part of the story the band has left is the perspective of their heroin-addicted, emotionally/physically-abused wife/mother. Even though it is now May of 2015 and the band has not officially announced that they are working on it yet, no one believes that Defeater will deprive this amazing story's final element of it's own album. It would be a cardinal sin not to, and Defeater knows it.Even if you do not like the genre of music, post-hardcore, you can not deny that these guys know how to write a damn good story and eject the perfect doses of emotion into it through their music.