Deafheaven : Infinite Granite

Ever since their debut album Roads To Judah, Deafheaven have been on a steady incline. Each record outdid the previous in scope, musicality, and artistic depth. Their sound was loud, abrasive, and aggressive, but also extremely melodic and at times melancholy. “Blackgaze” , combining black metal and shoegaze, may be a trite tag but it […]

Deafheaven Return With ‘Infinite Granite’, Out August 20th; Bask In “Great Mass Of Color”

Two of the most loyal groups of fans are metal fans and Star Wars fans. Two of the most aggravating fans are metal fans and Star Wars fans. If either get a whiff of something different or something going against the norm they take great pains to let the world know what BS it is. […]

Deafheaven : 10 Years Gone

Deafheaven have reshaped what it is and what it can be to be a metal band over the last decade. Seamlessly combining elements of black metal, post-rock, thrash, shoegaze, and even dream pop throughout each of their releases, the California 5-piece somehow make switching gears from Burzum and Slayer to Wilco and Explosions in The […]

deafheaven’s “Black Brick”

So maybe as to kick the naysayers in the teeth, Deafheaven have dropped a meteoric slab of pure thrash/black metal called “Black Brick” onto an unsuspecting earth. This song is so full of vitriol and venom that you have to keep double checking that you are indeed listening to Deafheaven. It’s that heavy, and that […]

Complex Distractions Presents : JHubner’s Top 10 Albums of 2018

It’s been a long road, but we’ve made it. Revisiting, revising, re-thinking, and rediscovering a good portion of what I listened to this year in order to find a reasonable order of importance(to me, anyways.) My top ten albums were pretty obvious to me, as most of them were in constant rotation from the moment […]

Deafheaven : Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

It’s really hard to digest the full extent of growth in Deafheaven’s musical evolution. From West Coast black metal to blackgaze to introspective metal to where they are now is quite an astonishing feat. I didn’t jump into their swirl of guitars, screams, and melancholy till after Roads To Judah. I wasn’t a fan of […]

New Deafheaven “Honeycomb”

New Deafheaven on the way. New song here. “Honeycomb”. Nearly 12 minutes of pummeling. That is all. Get to it.

Deafheaven : New Bermuda

Never in my life did I ever think I’d like a so-called “black metal” band. Up until a few years ago I didn’t know what black metal really was. The black metal genre was something I looked at from a distance and thought better to indulge in it. I got the Gothic stuff. The sludge-y, […]

Honorable Mention Part IV: Deafheaven ‘Sunbather’

I’ve never been a fan of the screaming. Even as a child, when I was around another tot that found it necessary to scream and bark to get attention from other tots, a teacher, adult, or the like I felt that I needed to get away from this banshee in OshKosh B’gosh as quickly as […]

Sunbather

Well I threw Deafheaven’s Sunbather on after having listened to Dent May’s Warm Blanket on repeat for the last two days. Quite a palette cleanser. When I first listened to Sunbather I was floored by the music, but the screaming vocals just didn’t do it for me. Then I listened to it again. And again. […]