tag:sargenthouse.com,2005:/blogs/deafheaven-blog?p=33Deafheaven blog2023-04-11T15:52:43-07:00Sargent Housefalsetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71879572023-04-11T15:52:43-07:002023-10-16T07:55:50-07:00DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND SHOWS 2023<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/159790/e7d2359fe07c58e91cd63c4a6d899dbe2087c0af/original/deafheaven-australia-alldates.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p>Deafheaven have announced a run of Summer 2023 shows in Australia and New Zealand. Tickets are available <a class="no-pjax" href="https://deafheaven.com/shows" data-link-type="url"><u>here</u></a><a data-link-type="url">.</a></p><p>May 31 Melbourne, AUS | Max Watt's *<br>June 1 Melbourne, AUS | Max Watt's *<br>June 2 Sydney, AUS | Metro Theatre *<br>June 3 Brisbane, AUS | The Triffid *<br>June 6 Wellington, NZ | San Fran<br>June 8 Auckland, NZ | Tuning Fork<br>June 11 Perth, AUS | Rosemount Hotel<br>June 12 Perth, AUS | Badlands Bar<br>June 13 Adelaide, AUS | The Gov<br><span data-tt='{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4,"style":3}}'>June 15 Hobart, AUS | Dark Mofo</span></p><p>Support Bands:<br>* Closure in Moscow</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71725912023-03-16T04:37:32-07:002023-03-16T04:37:32-07:00DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCE NEW UK AND IRELAND SHOWS FOR 2023<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/159790/9c50279b39db14b7c48b9344b71204db98858293/original/2-dhvn-uk.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style='-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;'><div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Delighted to announce that <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/deafheaven?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZUFVuBkcFfkeseEhxqEq4LnsnwDSwKDd_tZ02j5qxuSy1gjBrkAmA1XrUjEPSa5g4oICkmcR8SQfZFpUoLjqBF2Q4FOgWVLX-p3R9WVGL4HOWUAYmF7gwDglgPfgLhy-Jo&__tn__=-%5DK-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span>Deafheaven</span></a> will be playing UK and Ireland in August. Full dates below:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style='-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;'><div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">
<a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/deafheaven?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZUFVuBkcFfkeseEhxqEq4LnsnwDSwKDd_tZ02j5qxuSy1gjBrkAmA1XrUjEPSa5g4oICkmcR8SQfZFpUoLjqBF2Q4FOgWVLX-p3R9WVGL4HOWUAYmF7gwDglgPfgLhy-Jo&__tn__=-%5DK-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span>Deafheaven</span></a> EU/ UK/IRELAND 2023</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style='-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;'>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Apr 20 Roadburn Festival (Sunbather Set) - Tilburg, NL</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Apr 21 Roadburn Festival (Infinite Granite Set) - Tilburg, NL</div>
</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style='-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;'>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">August 19 Bristol, UK | Arctangent Festival (Sunbather Set)</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">August 20 Glasgow, SCO | Core</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">August 21 Edinburgh, SCO | Summerhall</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">August 22 Belfast, N-IRE | Limelight 2</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">August 23 Dublin, IRE | Button factory</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">August 24 Leeds, UK | Brudenell Social Club</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">August 25 London, UK | Islington Assembly Hall</div>
</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style='-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;'><div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto"><a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.deafheaven.com/?fbclid=IwAR2UyM5dCpboSHpyfbqMaZE-tXRmLxLhRpod89PZgFrWzubrsFH4nMWnccc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0"><span>www.deafheaven.com</span></a></div></div>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71683652023-03-09T12:44:34-08:002023-03-09T12:44:34-08:00DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCE NEW US HEADLINE SHOWS 2023<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/159790/7ed232b18f5553b457d87c7b84869dbf7e43e7eb/original/334998186-486872593522623-1589116441891816860-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style='-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;'><div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">We have added 7 US headline shows for <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/Deafheaven-1573862002827331/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXGOLjSounGV4FzyAi_aC7qAIhA9A0Xve1Ie5oX5o4whg3PNJHnaxzJEzdyR4riMRon5j82K0eTm2-D6VdmiO4jLh4Yday1IIJab9eLjyipqhhwrwZUfWwYmaiWXTVLnjA-1r1TuEBgZd468eW9hFtL35KkqUztw-E2gnZLu2cW_QS-bKUbtYMpg1YFNxMyXMw&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span>Deafheaven</span></a> in and around our tour with <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/coheedandcambria?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXGOLjSounGV4FzyAi_aC7qAIhA9A0Xve1Ie5oX5o4whg3PNJHnaxzJEzdyR4riMRon5j82K0eTm2-D6VdmiO4jLh4Yday1IIJab9eLjyipqhhwrwZUfWwYmaiWXTVLnjA-1r1TuEBgZd468eW9hFtL35KkqUztw-E2gnZLu2cW_QS-bKUbtYMpg1YFNxMyXMw&__tn__=-%5DK-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span>Coheed and Cambria</span></a>. Tickets for our new dates are on sale Friday.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style='-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;'>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">N. AMERICA TOUR WITH COHEED AND CAMBRIA</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">(DEAFHEAVEN ONLY) where noted*</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Apr 26 Indianapolis, IN | Hi-Fi *</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Apr 27 Harrisburg, VA | Golden Pony*</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Apr 28 Norfolk, VA | The NorVa SOLD OUT</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Apr 29 Philadelphia,PA | Union Transfer *</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Apr 30 Pittsburgh, PA | Stage AE</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 1 Silver Spring, MD | The Fillmore</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 3 New York, NY | Pier 17 SOLD OUT</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 4 Boston, MA | Roadrunner</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 5 Montréal, QC | Théâtre Corona SOLD OUT</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 7 Toronto, ON | History</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 9 Columbus, OH | Kemba Live</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 10 Cleveland, OH | Agora Ballroom</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 12 Wichita, KS | The Cotillion Ballroom</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 13 Kansas City, MO | Madrid Theater *</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 14 Oklahoma City, OK | The Criterion</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 15 Dallas, TX | House of Blues SOLD OUT</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 17 Austin, TX | Waller Creek</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 18 Houston, TX | House of Blues</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 20 Atlanta, GA | Tabernacle SOLD OUT</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">May 21 Daytona Beach, FL | Welcome to Rockville Festival</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 06 Charlotte, NC | The Fillmore Charlotte</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 08 Asheville, NC | Grey Eagle *</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 09 Birmingham, AL | Avondale Brewing Company</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 10 New Orleans, LA | Fillmore New Orleans</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 11 San Antonio, TX | Aztec Theatre</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 13 Omaha, NE | The Admiral Theater</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 14 Des Moines, IA | Wooly’s *</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 15 Saint Paul, MN | Palace Theatre</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 16 Madison, WI | The Solver</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 18 Royal Oak, MI | Royal Oak Music Theatre</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 19 Chicago, IL | Riviera Theatre</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 20 Grand Rapids, MI | Elevation *</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 23 Denver, CO | Mission Ballroom</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 24 Salt Lake City, UT | The Union Event Center</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 26 Boise, ID | Knitting Factory Concert House SOLD OUT</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 27 Missoula, MT | The Wilma</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 29 Spokane, WA | Knitting Factory Concert House</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Sept 30 Calgary, AB | The Palace Theatre</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Oct 2 Vancouver, BC | Vogue Theatre</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Oct 3 Seattle, WA | Showbox SoDo SOLD OUT</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Oct 4 Portland, OR | Roseland Theater SOLD OUT</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Oct 7 Los Angeles, CA | Palladium SOLD OUT</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">all ticket info: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdeafheaven.com%2Fshows%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2THkOY17csuGdWobg9ZpGvL25jlMGl5SSFK-nkSC_KTJZwlszQ7dlS6yo&h=AT3hG32_i2V9Fa6Evwb10zIpMK5P66SY0PCf4-VY646o8HPVqP-8QKc1vKT6YmhtMS1XJR2gQaigkxuGGnd66Q6B0kGVUz6C5m-ATmh0Ha_A4DSAs9NfgEO0lVEXCPkjr_mQSbc94Q&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT07s344VYczhI_q9ZjEP7w8SGVEmK31vsIpnJ-fgEV1DDGjGT0Q79gzXiIFxDKJlXoudg48JenhdpG7DYZ5hq2B3AxXDJNb1WNvsF9KVqrTJrZsfr2r3fq7SGE3QXkVGV0ropYExD7LhBWyoaEuV2yZtiamu5fgDzkbKud3ys7-AKLfqdPowysxjL-yIeICGPEbvxn3U9OY" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0"><span>deafheaven.com/shows</span></a>
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</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style='-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;'>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Photo by @deeskey</div>
<div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto">Bogotá March 5, 2023</div>
</div>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71432392023-01-25T07:40:01-08:002023-01-25T07:40:01-08:00Deafheaven on tour with Coheed and Cambria<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/79317d6431f943b59969c6f939a620a35f8033bb/original/image002-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven will support Coheed and Cambria during their US 2023 shows.</p>
<p>Tickets will go on sale on Friday, January 27, at 10am local times: <a contents="www.deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.deafheaven.com">www.deafheaven.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71351882023-01-09T08:07:15-08:002023-01-09T08:07:15-08:00Sunbather 10th Anniversary pullover now available<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/6dd8cbfe55fe6953a32a7c6a71883076c5ccb3bd/original/324347987-498817775712407-3017203015552998638-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Pre order for the Sunbather 10th Anniversary pullovers are up now <a contents="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven">https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71351862023-01-09T08:05:47-08:002023-01-09T08:05:48-08:00Daniel Tracy from Deafheaven covered "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins with others for Two Minutes to Late Night. <p>Daniel Tracy from Deafheaven covered "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins along with Jeremy Bolm (Touché Amoré, Hesitation Wounds), Wade MacNeil (Alexisonfire, Gallows), Hunter Burgan (AFI) and Jordan Olds aka Gwarsenio Hall for Two Minutes to Late Night. </p>
<p>All the info: https://linktr.ee/twominutestolatenight</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/goERfkDQr8g" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71351902022-12-20T00:00:00-08:002023-01-09T08:12:17-08:00DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCE NEW SHOW AT WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/43c9ab7440e6ef92f7a3509fb4a6e6ef879d5b75/original/zyqarceb.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p>DEAFHEAVEN will play Welcome To Rockville in Daytona Beach in May 2023. </p>
<p>May 18-21, 2023 </p>
<p>Daytona International Speedway | Daytona Beach, FL </p>
<p>Festival Website: <a contents="www.welcometorockville.com&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.welcometorockville.com">www.welcometorockville.com </a> </p>
<p>Ticket Link: <a contents="https://bit.ly/wtr2023" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/wtr2023">https://bit.ly/wtr2023</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71195042022-12-07T10:00:00-08:002022-12-07T10:00:05-08:00DEAFHEAVEN LATIN AMERICA TOUR 2023<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d6d8115f8f02be83ce84ebaa47d601613731ba68/original/wkhjayry.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven just announced their Latin American Tour 2023 in Mexico City, Bogota, Santiago, Buenos Aires and Šao Paulo.</p>
<p>March 4: Mexico City @The World is a Vampire Fest<br>March 5: Bogota @Herbivoro<br>March 8: Santiago @Blondie<br>March 10: Buenos Aires @Uniclub<br>March 12: Sao Paulo @Fabrique Club</p>
<p>Tickets: <a contents="www.deafheaven.com/shows" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.deafheaven.com/shows">www.deafheaven.com/shows</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71140592022-12-02T10:13:22-08:002022-12-02T10:13:22-08:00DEAFHEAVEN HEADLINE HOMESICK FESTIVAL SATURDAY JANUARY 21- SINGLE DAY TICKETS ON SALE NOW<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c4439bdc5978e9a64df54544d3e5be3f6555f10a/original/image0.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Deafheaven will Headline Day 2 of Homesick Festival.</p>
<p>Single Tickets can be purchased <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/2468243/homesick-2-day-pass-2023-berkeley-the-uc-theatre" target="_blank">here</a>. <br> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71130942022-11-29T10:23:28-08:002022-11-30T12:42:53-08:00SECOND NIGHT ADDED AT THE LODGE ROOM<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/fbeb22d77404d7c023002ae5ec73f63cdd4302dc/original/image001.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Just Announced: Due to demand, a second show has been added for Deafheaven at the Lodge Room.<br>January 17 tickets <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/deafheaven/" target="_blank">here</a>. (LOW TICKETS)<br>January 18 tickets <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/deafheaven-2/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71090752022-11-23T11:17:36-08:002022-11-23T11:17:36-08:00DEAFHEAVEN PLAYING MEXICO<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/5fc984738444adc90e655f235c21c59b44358afd/original/dfhvnnn.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven will play The World Is A Vampire fest in Mexico. Presale starts 11/28 at 2PM Mexico time <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.ticketmaster.com.mx/promo/z900w7" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/71029482022-11-15T13:29:08-08:002022-11-17T13:22:33-08:00Deafheaven to Play Two California Dates in January<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/de695eca5c6c1f057d15482a2c1a8eb5aba7c98f/original/deaf.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />January 17 at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles - Tickets on Sale Thursday at 12pm <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/deafheaven/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>January 20-21 at Homesick Festival at the UC Theatre in Berkley - Tickets on Sale Thursday at 12pm <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/2468243/homesick-2-day-pass-berkeley-the-uc-theatre" target="_blank">here</a></p><!-- more -->Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/70943962022-11-03T06:00:00-07:002022-11-03T06:00:04-07:00SUNBATHER AND INFINITE GRANITE EXCLUSIVE SETS AT ROADBURN 2023<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a72a067930b81f2f26e64cda84ea5bd278e9452e/original/kgxjjtrw.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p style="line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Has any heavy band really captured both the mainstream and underground at once like </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Deafheaven</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> did with the release of their second album, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Sunbather</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">? With their sophomore album, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Deafheaven</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> became a trio and expanded their post-black metal sound, welcoming elements of shoegaze and alternative rock to create an atmosphere that was warm and welcoming but no less intense. It drew critical acclaim and ushered in a new audience to black metal, all the while appealing to devotees of Alcest and their kin. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Sunbather</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> alone would have been enough to set </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Deafheaven's</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> legacy as an essential 2010s act but the band —a quintet today —have continued to push themselves further. The three albums that followed—</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">New Bermuda</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> and 2021's</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none"> Infinite Granite</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">—saw </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Deafheaven</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> flirt further with indie rock, alternative and shoegaze. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">From the familiar embrace of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Dream House</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> to the equally-emotive </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Great Mass of Color</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">, challenging definitions of heaviness and extremity is part of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Deafheaven's</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> musical DNA. It is our pleasure that </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Deafheaven</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> will give Roadburn a career-spanning retrospective with front-to-back performances of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Sunbather</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Infinite Granite</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">. The San Francisco quintet's desire for change is not unlike Roadburn's constant need to evolve with our audience, a fact lost on neither party. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">For our part, we’ve been long-term admirers of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Deafheaven</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> and had the opportunity to witness just how in tune with our attendees they were when they performed at the 2017 edition of the festival. Having followed their career trajectory for many years, we jumped on the opportunity of flying them in to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Sunbather</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> with not just one special set, but two - truly encompassing just how multi-faceted the band are. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">"Since it began, Roadburn have steadily expanded their festival with new sounds and artists, and shown how diverse a metal festival can be. In that spirit, we’re honored to return in 2023 to play </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Sunbather</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Infinite Granite</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> in full. We are looking forward to showing all sides of the band, mirroring the exciting, ever-evolving Roadburn.”.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Deafheaven</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> will play </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Sunbather</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> on April 20 and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="text-decoration:none">Infinite Granite</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> on April 21. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">-Emily Bellino</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Raleway, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/73e1a0b64d903dfab4fb23ca9cdb83212b554a43/original/wc3cwxp0.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><br> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/70549202022-09-07T06:27:16-07:002022-09-07T06:29:34-07:00DEAFHEAVEN FULL LIVE PERFORMANCE OUTBREAK FESTIVAL 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/3ee55eb11a10479ad1ef20677e9c74a765b279b0/original/screenshot-2022-09-07-at-15-18-52.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Deafheaven playing Outbreak Fest 2022 at Bowlers Arena in Manchester on Sunday 26th June 2022.</p>
<p>Full videos <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxUE2Nogrso">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/70035482022-06-28T12:14:23-07:002022-06-28T12:14:23-07:00DEAFHEAVEN TO HEADLINE NOISE POP AND SFPA'S DUE SOUTH IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://duesouthsf.com" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/12506c81a8eaa9ab916145f1142ffc358dbd5c46/original/deafheaven.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will headline night one of <a contents="Due South" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://duesouthsf.com" target="_blank">Due South</a>, a free San Francisco concert series presented by <a contents="Noise Pop" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://noisepop.com" target="_blank">Noise Pop</a> and <a contents="SF Parks Alliance" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sanfranciscoparksalliance.org" target="_blank">SF Parks Alliance</a>, with special guests <a contents="Marbled Eye" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://marbledeye.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Marbled Eye</a>. <br><br>After a two year hiatus, Due South returns as a free outdoor concert series taking place at the historic Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in McLaren Park. In 2022, Due South will feature a diverse lineup of contemporary talent, celebrating the cultures and communities that surround McLaren Park and its neighboring districts. All three concerts in the series are free and open to the public, taking place on the following Saturdays: August 27, September 17, and October 8. Attendees can expect to enjoy live music, local eats, and neighborhood fun from 2-6PM at each event, as well as free bike valet services from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. <br><br>All info can be found at <a contents="duesouthsf.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://duesouthsf.com" target="_blank">duesouthsf.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69999622022-06-23T05:46:27-07:002022-06-23T05:46:46-07:00DEAFHEAVEN NEW SHOW ANNOUNCED IN THAILAND<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8d947f1cad1bb4961cf45dcd04f6a222621a24bf/original/289837576-10167033434625529-6783314448357665561-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Just announced: Deafheaven will play in <strong>Bangkok</strong> on August 9th, 2022.</p>
<p><strong>Tickets on sale now <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.ticketmelon.com/loudlyprefer/deafheaven-live-in-bangkok-2022?fbclid=IwAR0YC86REQ_S-9raoLgCANJ8dWtZ4HVoEaNKAPyrwLNQejN6e-IAX857528">HERE</a></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69859322022-06-03T05:38:53-07:002022-06-03T05:38:53-07:00Deafheaven’s George Clarke & Kerry McCoy on Sobriety, Surfing and Stage Stamina<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/638235a77453388c05d1ad550133f5751869832c/original/screenshot-2022-06-03-at-14-35-57.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/928335f91a84f5da6fc56f7391a40553c8b25c11/original/screenshot-2022-06-03-at-14-36-07.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><strong>Deafheaven</strong> have come a long way from “Windows,” off 2013’s Sunbather, which contains audio of guitarist Kerry McCoy scoring drugs with the last of his cash. It’s incredibly harrowing. It’s perhaps just as incredible that Deafheaven as a band left years of drug and alcohol abuse behind. Now they’re sober, healthy, and making artistic strides with their latest album, Infinite Granite. </p>
<p>I talked to McCoy and vocalist George Clarke as they prepared to tour again after two years of COVID-19 pandemic. They presented a textbook lesson in how one is the company one keeps. (Their friends include previous Health Awaits interviewees Nate Garrett of Spirit Adrift and Gina Gleason of Baroness.) They also offered insight into staying balanced through life’s ups and downs – by staying busy, establishing routines, and keeping fit.</p>
<p><a contents="Full interview via&nbsp;decibelmagazine.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2022/06/02/deafheaven-on-sobriety-surfing-and-stage-stamina/"><strong>Full interview via decibelmagazine.com</strong></a></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69516332022-04-19T08:17:38-07:002022-04-19T08:17:38-07:00DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCE EU/UK TOUR 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8e30f2bec74ef08c5e59ff59bd10381e9541c00d/original/278582182-563051525177155-6304811277395839488-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8e30f2bec74ef08c5e59ff59bd10381e9541c00d/original/278582182-563051525177155-6304811277395839488-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />We’re delighted to announce <strong>Deafheaven EU/UK tour 2022</strong> with special guests Whistler, Lauren Auder and Slow crush on selects dates. Tickets on sale on April 21st at 11:00am (CET): <a contents="deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com">deafheaven.com</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>DEAFHEAVEN EU/UK TOUR 2022 </strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sept 12 Perfect Sounds Forever - Bergen NO * </p>
<p> Sept 13 John Dee – Oslo NO * </p>
<p> Sept 14 Slaktkyrkan – Stockholm SE * </p>
<p> Sept 15 Pustervik – Gothenburg SE * </p>
<p> Sept 16 Fonden Voxhall - Aarhus DK * </p>
<p> Sept 17 Pumpehuset – Copenhagen DK * </p>
<p> Sept 18 Festsaal Kreuzberg – Berlin DE * </p>
<p> Sept 20 Paradiso – Amsterdam NL * </p>
<p> Sept 21 AB Box – Brussels BE * </p>
<p> Sept 23 EartH – London UK + </p>
<p> Sept 24 The Cluny - Newcastle UK + </p>
<p> Sept 25 Classic Grand – Glasgow SCO + </p>
<p> Sept 26 Gorilla – Manchester UK + </p>
<p> Sept 27 O2 Academy2 - Birmingham UK + </p>
<p> Sept 28 SWX – Bristol UK + </p>
<p> Sept 30 Elysee Montmartre - Frankenhooker - Paris FR # </p>
<p> Oct 1 Club Manufaktur – Schorndorf DE # </p>
<p> Oct 2 Junkyard - Dortmund DE # </p>
<p> Oct 4 WUK - Vienna AT # </p>
<p> Oct 5 Freiheiz - Munich DE # </p>
<p> Oct 6 Bogen F – Zurich CH # </p>
<p> Oct 7 L’Epicerie Moderne – Lyon FR # </p>
<p> Oct 9 AM Fest – Barcelona ES # </p>
<p> Oct 10 Jimmy Jazz – Vitoria ES # </p>
<p> Oct 12 Mon Live – Madrid ES w/ Sumac </p>
<p> Oct 13 Amplifest – Porto PT </p>
<p> Oct 15 Gagarin 205 - Athens GR </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>* WHISTLER </strong></p>
<p><strong>+ LAUREN AUDER </strong></p>
<p> <strong># SLOW CRUSH</strong></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69257602022-03-18T09:40:23-07:002022-03-18T09:40:24-07:00DEAFHEAVEN ONE OF THE HEADLINERS OF OUTBREAKER FEST IN MANCHESTER<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a705046498f328f3a77abaa3a4bb67a33129b3e0/original/outbreak-do-not-post-before-10am-u-k-time.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven will be playing Outbreak Festivla in Manchester on June 26, 2022. A limited amount of tickets will be available on Saturday March 19th at 10am GMT at <a contents="outbreak-fest.co.uk" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://outbreak-fest.co.uk">outbreak-fest.co.uk</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69237492022-03-16T08:16:01-07:002022-03-16T08:16:01-07:00DEAFHEAVEN RETURN TO AMPLIFEST PORTO 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/77e1efd061171a13c7ff0057aa41f519d6e75473/original/amplifest2022-poster-update4.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven will play Amplifest Porto 2022 on October 13th. </p>
<p><a contents="Info / tickets: deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deafheaven.com">Info / tickets: deafheaven.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69237082022-03-16T08:08:46-07:002022-03-16T08:08:46-07:00DEAFHEAVEN WILL PLAY DARK MOFO 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/ebeffd725333619457291f77782219bd3c08a42a/original/dark-mofo.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Tasmania’s festival Dark Mofo returns on 8–22 June 2022.</p>
<p>Week One highlights include the launch of the festival’s full art program, including influential video and new media artist Bill Viola (USA), as well as the photographer, sculpturist, and multi-channel video artist Doug Aitken (USA). </p>
<p>There will also be a special ‘Mona Up Late’ opening of three new major exhibitions: Jeremy Shaw (Canada), Fiona Hall (lutruwita/Tasmania) and AJ King (lutruwita/Tasmania bigambul/wakka wakka), and Robert Andrew(Brisbane Yawuru), and this year the event will see the return of its exclusive and infamously debaucherous costume event, this year titled The Blue Rose Ball. </p>
<p>As for week two, highlights include celebrated musician, composer and producer Nils Frahm (Germany) playing a number of world premiere shows titled ‘Music For Hobart’. He will also perform at the Opera House as part of VIVID Live, with the festivals working together to secure exclusive Australian performances. </p>
<p>Other major international artists feature as well, including performances by the devastatingly beautiful, classically-trained multi-instrumentalist Lingua Ignota (USA), the visual artist, writer, actor and a founding member of the post-punk experimental rock band Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon and band, performing songs from her 2019 solo release ‘No Home Record’, renowned space rock band Spiritualized^ (England), an exclusive appearance from rock band Deafheaven, plus a full band rock set from Chelsea Wolfe and a solo piano set from Emma Ruth Rundle (USA).</p>
<p><a contents="More info: darkmofo.net.au" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.darkmofo.net.au">More info: darkmofo.net.au</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69237522022-03-03T08:00:00-08:002022-03-16T08:23:51-07:00DEAFHEAVEN RETURN TO EUROPE FOR AMFEST IN BARCELONA<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/e0d7cd334b3ce1ec94d5896bba8886b99faf5b51/original/275554971-10166701518505529-7896663197200789830-n.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven will be back to Europe in October 2022 for AmFest 2022 in Barcelona.</p>
<p><a contents="Full line-up / Tickets: deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deafheaven.com">Full line-up / Tickets: deafheaven.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68912592022-02-07T14:56:22-08:002022-03-16T08:13:03-07:00TOUR UPDATE: MONTREAL & TORONTO SHOWS CANCELLED, REPLACED WITH SHOWS IN HAMDEN, CT AND BUFFALO, NY<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/bab98527e5ee94e903b624d51806945f7351b257/original/aqjix-rg.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Due to ongoing restrictions on events and gatherings in Canada, shows originally scheduled for March 10th and 11th in Montreal in Toronto have been cancelled. Ticket holders for these shows can get refunds at the point of purchase. The Vancouver date is not affected. Canada- we are sorry about this, and we promise to be back as soon as we can.</p>
<p>The March 10th and 11th dates are now at the Space Ballroom in Hamden, CT and the Rec Room in Buffalo, NY. Tickets for these shows are available at our <a contents="Shows" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">Shows</a> page</p><!-- more -->
<p>DEAFHEAVEN TOUR 2022<br>Special Guests Holy Fawn & Midwife</p>
<p>2/22 - Phoenix, AZ - SOLD OUT <br>2/23 - Sante Fe, NM - Meow Wolf <br>2/25 - Fort Worth, TX - Tulips <br>2/26 - Austin, TX - Mohawk <br>2/27 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall <br>3/01 - Tampa, FL - The Orpheum <br>3/02 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade <br>3/03 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle <br>3/04 - Richmond, VA - The Broadberry <br>3/05 - Washington, DC - Black Cat <br>3/06 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer <br>3/08 - Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw <br>3/09 - Boston, MA - Royale <br>3/10 - Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom<br>3/11 - Buffalo, NY - Rec Room <br>3/12 - Detroit, MI - El Club <br>3/14 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall <br>3/15 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line <br>3/16 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theater <br>3/18 - Denver, CO - Summit <br>3/19 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge <br>3/21 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theater <br>3/22- Seattle, WA - The Crocodile <br>3/23 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom <br>3/24 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest*</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68677382022-01-13T07:23:08-08:002022-01-13T07:23:08-08:00CHRIS JOHNSON ON TWO WEEK NOTICE PODCAST<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/9cc72fdbcb21ba965865d78fb44733d73f5a964d/original/271804757-10166528199565529-1477239675860425882-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven’s Chris Johnson discusses his career path leading up to joining Deafheaven with Two Week Notice Podcast.</p>
<p>Listen <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/104-chris-johnson-deafheaven-doomriders/id1481133684?i=1000547036307&l=en">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68354762021-12-09T14:49:52-08:002021-12-09T14:49:52-08:00NAIL THE MIX: JACK SHIRLEY MIXES HONEYCOMB BY DEAFHEAVEN<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/0e7e82f78c4ef4a5bf6e86025e209d60dbc2a844/original/urm-heroimages-deafheaven-fbog-1200x630-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>This month on Nail The Mix, producer Jack Shirley mixes Honeycomb by Deafheaven. </p>
<p>Deafheaven are trailblazers of the metal scene, and Jack Shirley played an integral role in developing their unique sound. </p>
<p>Join now and you'll get instant access to the complete raw multi-tracks, access to the livestream session where Jack will mix the song and answer your questions, a chance to enter our mixing competition and win an incredible prize package. </p>
<p>All the info: <a contents="http://nailthemix.com/deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://nailthemix.com/deafheaven">http://nailthemix.com/deafheaven</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68293882021-12-03T12:27:06-08:002021-12-03T12:27:06-08:00DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCED TO PLAY THIS AIN'T NO PICNIC FESTIVAL 2022<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thisaintnopicnic.com" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d62b40410956ae70bd5590e99b914ef16b0dfa0a/original/zx1ivceurjo1sw4kd2trzcebyqauo2vzsol5zqvy.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="Deafheaven" data-link-type="page" href="/deafheaven">Deafheaven</a> have just been announced to play <a contents="This Ain't No Picnic 2022" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thisaintnopicnic.com" target="_blank">This Ain't No Picnic 2022</a> in Pasadena, CA.</p>
<p>The two day event takes place on August 27-28 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl and marks the return of the festival, which originally debuted for 3 years starting in 1999. Headliners include LCD Soundsystem, The Strokes, Beach House, Le Tigre, and many more</p>
<p>For tickets and more information, click <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thisaintnopicnic.com/#tunespeak" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68267972021-12-01T10:41:28-08:002021-12-01T10:41:28-08:00DEAFHEAVEN "INFINITE GRANITE" RIVERWOOD ARTS FULL ALBUM SESSION<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/9bb844df2f682b1aa63efe8ce5fa729ccb64a7d6/original/dhvn-copy.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Deafheaven “Infinite Granite” full album live session will air on December 17th. Recorded and presented by the Riverwood Arts Cooperative @thefarmfamily </p>
<p>Tickets are available through Moment House and allow access to 24 hours of viewing: <a contents="https://www.momenthouse.com/deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.momenthouse.com/deafheaven">https://www.momenthouse.com/deafheaven</a></p>
<p>Audio recorded and mixed by Darrell Thorp <br>Video by Sean Stout</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68059782021-11-11T12:23:05-08:002021-11-11T12:23:05-08:00DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCES 2022 SPRING TOUR SUPPORT<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7b0d60d4dfc24f2810e2cb6f34569a80a90b962e/original/dfhvn-tour-22-ig-cover-square.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Phoenix, AZ's <a contents="Holy Fawn" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://holyfawn.bandcamp.com/album/the-black-moon">Holy Fawn</a> and Denver, CO's <a contents="Midwife" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sistergrotto.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Midwife</a> have just been announced to join Deafheaven on their 2022 Spring tour, which is on sale now- tickets can be purchased <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deafheaven.com/shows">HERE</a><br><br>Dates: <br> <br>2/22 - Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge <br>2/23 - Sante Fe, NM - Meow Wolf <br>2/25 - Fort Worth, TX - Tulips <br>2/26 - Austin, TX - Mohawk <br>2/27 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall <br>3/01 - Tampa, FL - The Orpheum <br>3/02 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade <br>3/03 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle <br>3/04 - Richmond, VA - The Broadberry <br>3/05 - Washington, DC - Black Cat <br>3/06 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer <br>3/08 - Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw <br>3/09 - Boston, MA - Royale <br>3/10 - Montréal, QC - Théâtre Fairmount <br>3/11 - Toronto, ON - Opera House <br>3/12 - Detroit, MI - El Club <br>3/14 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall <br>3/15 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line <br>3/16 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theater <br>3/18 - Denver, CO - Summit <br>3/19 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge <br>3/21 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theater <br>3/22- Seattle, WA - The Crocodile <br>3/23 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom <br>3/24 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest*<br><br>*No Holy Fawn/Midwife</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67881692021-10-27T05:54:18-07:002021-10-27T05:54:18-07:00DEAFHEAVEN HAVE 'MORE CONFIDENCE' IN CONTINUING TO EXPAND SOUND<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/0bbf25614071e1325b5d80fa406ad3206e7cac77/original/screenshot-2021-10-27-at-14-52-22.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Deafheaven's George Clarke was the latest guest on Full Metal Jackie's weekend radio program. The vocalist discussed the group's latest album, Infinite Granite, and explained the significance of the band's stylistic evolution on the album wrought from the pandemic. </p>
<p>The new record is the shoegaze/black metal group's first since 2018's Ordinary Corrupt Human Love and, again, Deafheaven continue their sonic expansion and redefine themselves, gaining more confidence along the way. </p>
<p><strong><em><a contents="Full interview via loudwire.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://loudwire.com/deafheaven-george-clarke-infinite-granite-interview/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral">Full interview via loudwire.com</a></em></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67698322021-10-08T06:37:30-07:002021-10-08T06:37:30-07:00INTERVIEW: SITTING IN TRAFFIC WITH KERRY MCCOY OF DEAFHEAVEN<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/794153214fd003cbe587792cb6d014637fcc251b/original/20a4376-edit-2136x1424.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven is a band known for its eclectic blend of black metal, shoegaze and post-rock. In 2019, they were nominated for a Grammy under Best Metal Performance, and upon listening to their new record Infinite Granite, it’s easy to hear why. On the way to surf, we hit some LA traffic and I thought I’d pass the time by asking McCoy a few questions.</p>
<p><em><strong><a contents="Full Interview via&nbsp;monsterchildren.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.monsterchildren.com/sitting-in-traffic-with-kerry-mccoy-of-deafheaven/">Full Interview via monsterchildren.com</a></strong></em></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67590132021-09-27T13:00:38-07:002021-10-06T13:42:22-07:00TEST PRESS RAFFLE TO HELP BILLY FRASER<p>Our good friend and sound-man Billy Fraser needs our help. He was in a serious motorcycle accident and is currently in the hospital. <br>We are raffling off an original test press of Infinite Granite signed by the whole band to raise money for him. If you would like to simply help, donate to his GoFundMe: <a contents="https://www.gofundme.com/f/billy-badnews-motorcycle-crash" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/billy-badnews-motorcycle-crash" target="_blank">https://www.gofundme.com/f/billy-badnews-motorcycle-crash</a>. <br>-For the Raffle: each $10 donated enters you a chance to win. You don't have to do separate donations- For example, if you donate $100 you will be entered 10 times. <br>-Once you have donated, Email <a contents="deafheavenraffle@gmail.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:deafheavenraffle@gmail.com">deafheavenraffle@gmail.com</a> with your proof and amount of donation attached. Include your name and best way to contact you if you win! Drawing will be on or around November 1st. Shipping will be included.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/f6cb46a0d5cd9a642b0f6028949a3d620b77c281/original/243225233-428694028612906-262852590250377483-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/3a0ee9c70345fb1d6eb619d5ab5d3f2b72bb2c80/original/243332370-428694281946214-7272561033406519088-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67561722021-09-24T04:47:07-07:002021-09-24T04:47:07-07:00APPLE MUSIC INTERVIEW: DEAFHEAVEN<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/233598c7fc7dfc82f6fc8ebb8499bc0511ce4db5/original/screenshot-2021-09-24-at-13-37-47.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven and Strombo discuss Infinite Granite on Apple Music.</p>
<p>Watch the interview with Kerry Mccoy, George Clarke, Shiv Mehra: <a contents="https://music.apple.com/de/music-video/strombo-and-deafheaven-discuss-infinite-granite/1585719408" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/de/music-video/strombo-and-deafheaven-discuss-infinite-granite/1585719408">https://music.apple.com/de/music-video/strombo-and-deafheaven-discuss-infinite-granite/1585719408</a></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67322212021-08-31T12:30:08-07:002021-08-31T12:30:08-07:00DEAFHEAVEN TO PERFORM 10 YEARS GONE RETROSPECTIVE SET AT FURNACE FEST 2021<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/423fa4e794b96ce4981b0a25b7bb55329c3840a6/original/dh-furnace.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Deafheaven will be appearing at this year's Furnace Fest in Birmingham, AL on Saturday, September 25th to perform a special 10 Years Gone retrospective set in celebration of the band's first decade. </p>
<p>Single day passes are almost completely sold out, but a select remaining few can be found <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.freshtix.com/events/furnacefest">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67318102021-08-31T04:47:03-07:002021-08-31T04:48:27-07:00DEAFHEAVEN GUITARIST KERRY MCCOY SHREDS ON HIS CUSTOM GUITAR RIG 6 PRESETS<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c7ed9d9aa466a25094b00d27869f112174d5c889/original/screenshot-2021-08-31-at-13-36-52.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Watch Kerry play through and explain his signature GR6 sounds, and read about his musical influences and stylistic inspirations.</p>
<p> </p>
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<p><em><a contents="Full article via&nbsp;blog.native-instruments.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://blog.native-instruments.com/deafheaven-guitarist-kerry-mccoy-shreds-on-his-custom-guitar-rig-6-presets/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-nativeinstruments&utm_content=later-20169516&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio">Full article via blog.native-instruments.com</a></em></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67308132021-08-30T04:35:25-07:002021-08-30T04:45:08-07:00DEAFHEAVEN: INFINITE GRANITE REVIEW – ROCK AT ITS MOST MAJESTICALLY BEAUTIFUL <p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/f24dae34b233a32c484d94e19aef4ded83b7c314/original/screenshot-2021-08-30-at-13-29-05.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/a944afe49f4152f02c4cac5cdaba2017ed2ea4c7/original/fmequrbq.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Each new Deafheaven album has seemed to react against the last, changing moods and textures without ever sacrificing their heaviness. Infinite Granite might be their most startling gesture yet: though elements can be traced back to 2018’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, it takes those elements and expands them to album length. Infinite Granite, really, is not a metal album. It’s the album where the shoegaze entirely supplants the black metal in their blackgaze equation. For almost the whole record, George Clarke sings clean – there are, literally, seconds of growling on the album; on Villain, for example – and the guitars eschew the violence of metal for something just as intense and crushing in its own way, but dazzling and beautiful and – yes, this is shoegaze, so we’re dropping the e-bomb – ethereal. </p>
<p><a contents="Full review via TheGuardian.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/20/deafheaven-infinite-granite-review">Full review via TheGuardian.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67308142021-08-30T04:34:04-07:002021-08-30T04:45:08-07:00GEORGE CLARKE ON DEAFHEAVEN'S NEW ALBUM 'INFINITE GRANITE,' FINDING HIS VOICE & BREAKING OUT OF UNDERGROUND MEMEIFICATION <p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/b252f4e218d44502dfb7d59dba7f17a60a1f55fd/original/screenshot-2021-08-30-at-13-31-45.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>When Deafheaven got huge, a swath of black metal purists went to war while diehard fans exalted them as be-all-end-alls. But their best album yet, 'Infinite Granite,' is—as singer George Clarke insists—"just a record" </p>
<p><a contents="Full interview via grammy.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/george-clarke-deafheaven-infinite-granite-new-album-interview-sargent-house">Full interview via grammy.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67308152021-08-30T04:31:19-07:002021-08-30T04:45:08-07:00INTERVIEW: DEAFHEAVEN ON THE FADER PODCAST <p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/9f878f310576d541dcf335aba5d27155b5fa36dc/original/b-w10-9.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Deafheaven talk about their first decade together, turning off the critical noise when necessary, and the new album ‘Infinite Granite’ on this week's episode of The FADER Interview. </p>
<p><a contents="https://link.chtbl.com/thefaderinterview" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://link.chtbl.com/thefaderinterview">https://link.chtbl.com/thefaderinterview</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67266202021-08-25T06:57:17-07:002021-08-25T06:57:17-07:00INTERVIEW: DEAFHEAVEN - THE MEET AND GREET WITH BEEZ!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/ee8b70c9d57aa3f84e989f64bff2ec69aaf6ec27/original/e9ouhx0xeaaxipw.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Watch the interview with Deafheavenband’s George Clarke for The Meet and Greet by Danny Wimmer.</p>
<p>Link: <a contents="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1128316117" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1128316117">https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1128316117</a></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67216122021-08-19T13:04:31-07:002021-08-19T13:30:18-07:00INTERVIEW: DEAFHEAVEN’S GEORGE CLARK DISCUSSES NEW SOUND ON NEW LP, ‘INFINITE GRANITE’<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/2520d981d0777d126522065d533a85380bd30623/original/new-noise-logo-3.gif/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c92142dc68cc617a9f57783ce57dfac626f1cf6a/original/screenshot-2021-08-19-at-21-58-58.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7d7439b955b7267fd87625c8a74f3d019d0b66ba/original/deafheaven-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Ever since their 2013 release Sunbather, much of the discourse surrounding Deafheaven is whether or not they are a “metal band.” It’s difficult to plot their discography on some sort of metal vs. not-metal axis. Their past releases have the blast beats and guttural screeching vocals of a black metal band, but their instrumental arrangements borrow more from bands like My Bloody Valentine and Echo the Bunnymen than Immortal and Dimmu Borgir. They don’t look or dress like a metal band. In fact, whenever I deep dive into the Reddit or Twitter threads and read about Deafheaven, there’s a lot of discussion about frontman George Clarke’s hair and how it reflects on the band.</p>
<p><em><strong><a contents="Full interview via newnoisemagazine.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://newnoisemagazine.com/interview-deafheavens-george-clark-discusses-new-sound-on-new-lp-infinite-granite/">Full interview via newnoisemagazine.com</a></strong></em></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67216152021-08-16T13:42:03-07:002021-08-19T13:30:18-07:00STEREOGUM PREMATURE EVALUATION: DEAFHEAVEN INFINITE GRANITE<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2157040/deafheaven-infinite-granite-review/reviews/premature-evaluation/" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/5604e06b28514d0e997e86ae252c6dedca0b91c3/original/img-6562.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="Stereogum" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.stereogum.com" target="_blank">Stereogum</a> featured Infinite Granite in their Premature Evaluation series this week. Writer <a contents="Michael Nelson" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://twitter.com/nelsonicboom" target="_blank">Michael Nelson</a> says of the album:</p>
<p>"Everything works perfectly here. Like, perfectly. These are clearly the tightest and most deliberately constructed songs ever written by Deafheaven; the progressions and patterns rise, fall, and rise anew as steadily and naturally as the ocean tides. It’s a glowing, sad, beautiful album. But it’s so fucking powerful, too. It’s physically powerful. These dudes are a goddamn machine. They are a force."</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE to read the entire review feature." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2157040/deafheaven-infinite-granite-review/reviews/premature-evaluation/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE to read the entire review feature.</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67154662021-08-13T07:01:39-07:002021-08-13T10:00:05-07:00INTERVIEW: DEAFHEAVEN'S SHIV MEHRA AND KERRY MCCOY ON EMBRACING NEW GEAR AND SONIC APPROACHES FOR INFINITE GRANITE<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7a05ebdc7b5a4efdf76fb3d40842356fd29d805a/original/screenshot-2021-08-13-at-15-56-02.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d1ae866c9e030784467a86f659d5c191e30775a2/original/yznub7mfnn7xlu63chzqld-1024-80.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Uncompromising, unflinching and unwilling to be boxed in, Deafheaven have always been hard to pin down. </p>
<p>The Bay Area five-piece have been pushing the boundaries of heavy music since they burst onto the scene early last decade, blurring the lines between post-rock, black metal and shoegaze to the point that nobody really knows exactly what to make of them. </p>
<p>Too brutal for one crowd, too hip for the other, and for those that are on board, there’s absolutely no guarantee they’ll do what you want them to – just as it should be. </p>
<p>True to form, they’ve taken another wild leap on their new album, Infinite Granite.</p>
<p><em><strong><a contents="Full interview via guitarworld.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.guitarworld.com/features/deafheaven-infinite-granite">Full interview via guitarworld.com</a></strong></em></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67136112021-08-11T09:08:06-07:002021-08-11T13:45:13-07:00INTERVIEW: DEAFHEAVEN - FROM HERE TO INFINITY<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c52937ee21e5ac73535b84e64c3862b04f49daca/original/dfdscvr.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />When “Great Mass of Color” was released, gone were the blast beats and metal screeches Deafheaven had been known for since their inception, and in place were luscious guitars and whimsical vocals. “It wasn’t a clear decision, and it wasn’t anything supernatural.” vocalist George Clarke told us, “It took a ton of work, but we needed to grow.” This leap took the band into Infinite Granite. The quintet has started a new chapter of their lore that, while not as heavy, is them at their core, expanding their horizons as artists who are infinitely working and improving upon their art.</p>
<p><strong><em><a contents="Full interview via&nbsp;dscvrd.co" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://dscvrd.co/noise/deafheaven-from-here-to-infinity">Full interview via dscvrd.co</a></em></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67132602021-08-11T08:42:25-07:002021-08-11T08:45:22-07:00DEAFHEAVEN ARE THE NEW KERRANG! COVER STORY<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8ca8c4bc89fd73d175f4f0c0624cb403b2cf1982/original/kerrang-coverstory52-deafheaven.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>For much of 2020, George Clarke found himself staring into the pale wash of dawn. Brimming with pent-up energy he’d normally expend onstage or traversing the great American outdoors, the locked-down Deafheaven frontman bounced off the four walls of his neat Los Angeles apartment and into an extended bout of insomnia. Rather than stewing in the still, antisocial silence of the small hours, however, he found himself captivated by their stark beauty, and took to writing between three and six in the morning, repeatedly watching the thick dark of night dissolve into the dewy haze of day. </p>
<p>Largely a result of those late-late sessions, Deafheaven’s fifth LP Infinite Granite feels like a glimmering reflection of wan light on the horizon. Jettisoning much of the remaining metallic heft they had carried through 2018’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, it boldly commits to the sounds of shoegaze and avant-garde post-rock, delivering nine tracks of delicate melody and atmosphere. </p>
<p>“If Sunbather was summery high noon,” George begins, drawing a comparison with his band’s blistering 2013 breakthrough – its hot pink, Nick Steinhardt-crafted artwork meant to evoke bright light burning through shut eyelids – “then Infinite Granite is the early morning.”</p>
<p><em><strong><a contents="Full interview via kerrang.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.kerrang.com/features/when-the-sun-hits-how-deafheaven-stepped-out-of-the-shadows-to-embrace-a-brave-new-dawn/">Full interview via kerrang.com</a></strong></em></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67112922021-08-09T10:26:41-07:002021-08-09T10:26:41-07:00DEAFHEAVEN FEATURED ON THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF DECIBEL MAGAZINE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/93f3326b32cdd989a735bca253dd3def203c1c69/original/img-5625.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven are featured on the September issue of Decibel Magazine out now.</p>
<p>Get your copy: <a contents="https://www.decibelmagazine.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.decibelmagazine.com">https://www.decibelmagazine.com</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/22046836f2b22a1e26302ba9e6c669b3a98e7040/original/img-5626.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67095182021-08-06T16:39:55-07:002021-08-06T20:00:17-07:00DEAFHEAVEN INTERVIEW WITH SONGWRITERS ON PROCESS<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.songwritersonprocess.com/blog/deafheaven" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/1e9b28a55b6499d290fd9c5c1ccc8b65e01bbc23/original/screen-shot-2021-08-06-at-4-01-45-pm.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>George Clarke and Kerry McCoy sat down to talk to <a contents="Songwriters On Process" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.songwritersonprocess.com" target="_blank">Songwriters On Process</a> about their creative process, inspiration, and personal approach to songwriting. Click below to watch the full interview:</p><!-- more -->
<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="0LoO8uvwSGw" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/0LoO8uvwSGw/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0LoO8uvwSGw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="296" width="530" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67069892021-08-04T12:57:57-07:002021-08-04T14:00:05-07:00DEAFHEAVEN'S "IN BLUR" FEATURED ON APPLE NEW MUSIC DAILY<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/dea886ad509a055ad9135f61183f7827342b604b/original/ms11-ms-ww-nmd-adam-id-1053165857.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Apple Music featured Deafheaven's new single "In Blur" on their New Music Daily playlist.</p>
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<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67066152021-08-04T08:54:30-07:002021-08-04T09:00:16-07:00DEAFHEAVEN SHARE “IN BLUR” THE LAST SINGLE/VIDEO AHEAD OF ALBUM RELEASE<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/cc7231ecd5c3a4f8ed9a9cc75f11bcfdd2062c07/original/968405.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>San Francisco band Deafheaven’s forthcoming LP Infinite Granite is coming August 20th via Sargent House, today they debut the final single from it along with the first official video from the album. “In Blur” is a fever dream of melody and weighted past. The album was written during a period of unrelenting insomnia leaving a smear of morning blue across Infinite Granite from seeing the morning blue hour for months. “In Blur” fully encapsulates that notion as does the video. Directed by John Bradburn the video tips its hat to Sisyphus, the Greek Mythology story of rolling the boulder up the hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top. The song follows the first two singles “Great Mass of Color” and “The Gnashing.” </p>
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<p>Infinite Granite is yet another giant leap forward for Deafheaven - a band that has been defying genre conventions for the past decade. With production from Justin Meldal-Johnsen, known for his stellar work with M83, Wolf Alice, Paramore, Metric, among others, Deafheaven embarks on a new chapter of defiant beauty and their most goosebump-inducing album to date. Jack Shirley, who recorded all the previous Deafheaven albums, remained on board to engineer part of Infinite Granite at his Atomic Garden East studio in Oakland, CA with additional engineering and mixing coming from nine-time Grammy Award winner Darrell Thorp (Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Beck).</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67055232021-08-03T04:56:47-07:002021-08-03T08:30:14-07:00DEAFHEAVEN ON THE COVER OF ROCKZONE MAGAZINE SPAIN<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/04e822d9c939d89eefa27c7a29f57fe03ff35ce9/original/portada-deafheaven-agosto-2021.gif/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Deafheaven are the cover story of Rock Zone Magazine Spain new issue - August 2021.</p>
<p>Read the interview with George Clarke: <a contents="https://www.rockzonemag.com/entrevista-a-deafheaven-no-digas-que-fue-un-sueno/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.rockzonemag.com/entrevista-a-deafheaven-no-digas-que-fue-un-sueno/">https://www.rockzonemag.com/entrevista-a-deafheaven-no-digas-que-fue-un-sueno/</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66826272021-07-08T11:05:48-07:002021-07-08T13:30:10-07:00DEAFHEAVEN FEATURED IN PITCHFORK'S "THE PITCH"<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-deafheaven-made-their-least-metal-album-yet/#intcid=_pitchfork-bottom-recirc_dcb8c845-bd0f-4acd-9b9e-3157dd29b000_similar2-3" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/5fd751e644b2bd2f04ba646ed476fa823eff5c49/original/screen-shot-2021-07-08-at-10-44-03-am.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-deafheaven-made-their-least-metal-album-yet/#intcid=_pitchfork-bottom-recirc_dcb8c845-bd0f-4acd-9b9e-3157dd29b000_similar2-3" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/94151e4310482f7ced41e6b6767d3acde9603536/original/screen-shot-2021-07-08-at-10-47-34-am.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Singer George Clarke sat down with <a contents="Pitchfork" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.pitchfork.com" target="_blank">Pitchfork</a> to discuss his vocal approach and songwriting style in regards to their forthcoming new record. Read the whole interview feature <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-deafheaven-made-their-least-metal-album-yet/#intcid=_pitchfork-bottom-recirc_dcb8c845-bd0f-4acd-9b9e-3157dd29b000_similar2-3" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66825012021-07-08T11:02:09-07:002021-07-08T11:02:09-07:00DEAFHEAVEN FEATURED IN PITCHFORK'S "THE PITCH"<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-deafheaven-made-their-least-metal-album-yet/#intcid=_pitchfork-bottom-recirc_dcb8c845-bd0f-4acd-9b9e-3157dd29b000_similar2-3" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/f030d92a8c395ae3d9ad659d1cc4ec0eb71f8551/original/screen-shot-2021-07-08-at-10-44-03-am.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-deafheaven-made-their-least-metal-album-yet/#intcid=_pitchfork-bottom-recirc_dcb8c845-bd0f-4acd-9b9e-3157dd29b000_similar2-3" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/9a29862321f5eadb160561249a54011ef6a3c00c/original/screen-shot-2021-07-08-at-10-47-34-am.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_l justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>George Clarke of <a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> sat down with <a contents="Pitchfork" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.pitchfork.com" target="_blank">Pitchfork</a> to discuss his vocal approach and songwriting style in regards to their forthcoming new record. Read the whole interview feature <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://George%20Clarke%20of%20Deafheaven%20sat%20down%20with%20Pitchfork%20to%20discuss%20his%20vocal%20approach%20and%20songwriting%20style%20in%20regards%20to%20their%20forthcoming%20new%20record.%20%20Read%20the%20whole%20interview%20feature%20HERE" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66822692021-07-08T05:26:39-07:002021-07-08T08:30:18-07:00DEAFHEAVEN RELEASE NEW SONG “THE GNASHING” + ANNOUNCE TOUR <p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/3785c5d0f3a410417b0f9c30d08d252af05fa014/original/lhj36wcq.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>San Francisco band Deafheaven’s forthcoming LP Infinite Granite is coming August 20th via Sargent House and here is their next offering. “The Gnashing” is grand in scope; an urgent rock masterstroke driven by shimmering, technicolor guitar work and Clarke’s newfound shift in vocal approach. The song follows the first single “Great Mass of Color”, which brought to light the vocal shift to their fans with Pitchfork commenting “it’s shocking to hear the band turn their carefully crafted aesthetic inside out just because they can.” </p>
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<p>The band has also announced a 25 date tour. With two previously announced shows this October in Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA the tour will kick off in Phoenix on February 22, 2022 wrapping at Treefort Music Festival on March 24th making stops in Austin, DC, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Toronto, Denver, Seattle and more (full dates below). Tickets go on sale tomorrow, July 9th at 10:00 am local time. </p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/a7633fc9e7e62486426c42717c18751bafb292e9/original/dfhvn-tour-2021-22-admat-f-square-dates.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66587742021-06-14T05:10:09-07:002021-06-14T05:11:05-07:00INFINITE GRANITE: THREE NEW COLOR VARIANTS NOW AVAILABLE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/2695d0da6379e79b366a1a4e39b9c3a60c036415/original/deafheaven-feed.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>If you missed out on the first presses of Deafheaven exclusive colors act fast we are adding three new color variants as band exclusives but reserve your copies soon this album is a HOT Title. </p>
<p>US: <a contents="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven">https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven</a></p>
<p>EU/UK: <a contents="smarturl.it/EGdeafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/EGdeafheaven">smarturl.it/EGdeafheaven</a></p>
<p>Note: these may not ship until early next year, vinyl production wait times are insane.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66554072021-06-10T08:50:37-07:002021-06-11T07:21:54-07:00DEAFHEAVEN: "GREAT MASS OF COLOR" // PRESS<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="font_large"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/573f9b4715fbb90d29dc76496c6e0d3b4f4c8f79/original/9079157.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />"GREAT MASS OF COLOR"</strong></span></span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7f68f57e845464de230eedcf8fc1cec883692675/original/rolling-stone.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><strong><em>"A characteristically dense and sprawling composition that repeatedly strives towards supersonic heights"</em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/86bed22221664ae592e097f24cacb6206feac7d8/original/96454288edb0a542c0757356da0f8cab.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><strong><em>“another giant leap forward”</em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/786e6750cc617f476a989d95438ef2bb46a404f8/original/d9c2034844f96ad60f0a17ccc2793d44.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>"Great Mass of Color points to creative refreshment"</em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/3993206e1261bbefe66a6815cc83dd9269a46f62/original/screenshot-2021-02-01-at-20-09-20.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><strong><em>"crisp, vivid, emotional and extremely well-done"</em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/cb1e4b9c5097936819f38fcdc669fb883b23f0a4/original/forbes-logo.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><strong><em>"The outcome is sheer brilliance"</em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7f29d85c401873d75c9a33388bbcd5570170f8f1/original/screenshot-2021-04-09-at-16-49-10.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>"it feels like a big payoff after a dreamy, proggy journey"</em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color:#000000;">"Deafheaven remain as willing as ever to pull the rug out from underneath us"</span></strong></em></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66541322021-06-09T05:05:00-07:002021-06-09T05:57:42-07:00DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM 'INFINITE GRANITE'. LISTEN TO “GREAT MASS OF COLOR”<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/a944afe49f4152f02c4cac5cdaba2017ed2ea4c7/original/fmequrbq.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>For the past ten years, the seminal San Francisco band Deafheaven has been driven by evolution and innovation within themselves and their respective genres. With their forthcoming album Infinite Granite, available August 20th via Sargent House, they’ve taken another giant leap forward. With production from Justin Meldal-Johnsen, known for his stellar work with M83, Wolf Alice, Paramore, Metric, among others, Deafheaven embarks on a new chapter of defiant beauty. The album’s first single, “Great Mass of Color,” pairs sparse, hushed verses with roaring technicolor choruses - a song where their mastery over the relationship between tension and release is on full display. </p>
<p>Across the album, vocalist George Clarke showcases a startling vocal range; falsettos, whispers, multi-part harmonies, and other adventurous vocal treatments, with his trademark black metal-inspired howls mostly absent. Guitarists Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra expand their sonic palette to include synth textures using them to enrich their astral guitar work rather than outright replace it. Drummer Daniel Tracy has always been a force to reckon with behind the kit, but where he used to floor audiences with his speed and stamina, he’s now free to broaden his approach and lay down authoritative drum patterns that together with bassist Christopher Johnson’s punchy bass lines anchor the band’s lofty arrangements. Ultimately, Infinite Granite is Deafheaven’s most goosebump-inducing album to date. </p>
<p>Jack Shirley, who recorded all the previous Deafheaven albums, remained on board to engineer part of Infinite Granite at his Atomic Garden East studio in Oakland, CA with additional engineering and mixing coming from nine-time Grammy Award winner Darrell Thorp (Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Beck).</p>
<p>Stream / Pre-order: <a contents="https://ffm.to/dfhvn-ig" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://ffm.to/dfhvn-ig">https://ffm.to/dfhvn-ig</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="330" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mF70xjmMJ9I" title="YouTube video player" width="530"></iframe></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66520242021-06-07T12:38:05-07:002021-06-07T12:38:05-07:005<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a5c04d3c41bf671e468cb8be08c2c4140c792950/original/820.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66409752021-05-26T14:57:25-07:002021-05-26T15:30:21-07:00Deafheaven Announce Two California Shows In 2021<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/b47e5a468e3ebac7eb8a44a327895e997ebc6c1a/original/jpeg.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Tickets are on sale now for these 2 special Deafheaven shows in 2021. <br>October 15 The UC Theater - Berkeley <br>October 16 The Theater at Ace Hotel - Los Angeles</p>
<p>Get tickets <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Shows" data-link-type="page" href="https://deafheaven.com/shows">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66346502021-05-19T12:29:32-07:002021-05-26T13:02:38-07:00DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCE TWO NEW SHOWS IN 2021<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8f9b97dbe06a57a4e80a34a16782801e9f71a59f/original/dfhvn-ca-october2021-poster-ig-grid-4x5.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Deafheaven will play two shows in California in 2021.</p>
<p>- October 15 The UC Theater - Berkeley </p>
<p>- October 16 The Theater at Ace Hotel - Los Angeles </p>
<p>tickets on sale Friday May 21. </p>
<p>More info: <a contents="deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com">deafheaven.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66178852021-04-30T02:52:59-07:002021-04-30T02:52:59-07:00GEORGE CLARKE OF DEAFHEAVEN ON MAKING WAYS PODCAST<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7155bc84a0ee6c9fbe3de1a83a4643ae01de6bc4/original/180425888-10165638252775529-5296072498645778862-n.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>George Clarke of Deafheaven joined Making Ways Podcast alongside his creative collaborator, close friend, graphic designer, and musician Nick Steinhardt from the band Touche Amore.</p>
<p>Listen to the episode here: <a contents="http://www.makingways.co/episodes/deafheaven/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.makingways.co/episodes/deafheaven/">http://www.makingways.co/episodes/deafheaven/</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/65717982021-03-12T06:09:53-08:002021-03-12T06:10:45-08:00George Clarke of Deafheaven on Thoughtseize Interviews Episode 8 <p> </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/39fd5f3eb10fd7fb1c70c988d3e42f6b45fdf63b/original/maxresdefault-5.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />George Clarke of <a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=deafheaven+sargent+house&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">Deafheaven</a> discusses insomnia, writing, the gym, texas justice, nfts and more in this weeks powerhouse episode of Thoughtseize interviews with Cole Smith of <a contents="DIIV" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sargenthouse.com/diiv">DIIV</a> and Lukas Frank <a contents="Storefront Church" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sargenthouse.com/storefront-church">Storefront Church</a>.</p>
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<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/65684082021-03-08T16:19:20-08:002021-03-08T16:30:42-08:00'New Bermuda' & 'Sunbather Tab Books Pre-order<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven" style="" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/96e71905d47149118055610124bd3017de60a2b8/original/deafheaven-tab-books-graphic.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><em>New Bermuda</em> guitar tab books & previously sold out <em>Sunbather</em> tab books are available now for pre-order. Both are available in hard copy or digital only at Hello Merch: <a contents="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven" target="_blank">https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/65365892021-02-01T13:17:43-08:002021-02-01T13:24:11-08:00Deafheaven "10 Years Gone" Limited Edition Vinyl Variant<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/Deafheaven10YG" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/f37e522cfbf365608eeb1fe75c26b8b055040940/original/etkvqwguyasqfyk.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Today we've added a new limited edition vinyl variant of Deafheaven's live album ‘10 Years Gone’ in both of their web stores. This coke bottle green with gold splatter vinyl is limited to 1k copies worldwide. <br>Order here: <a contents="US Store" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven" style="" target="_blank">US Store</a> // <a contents="EU/UK Store" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/EGdeafheaven" target="_blank">EU/UK Store</a><br>Stream album: <a contents="http://smarturl.it/Deafheaven10YG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/Deafheaven10YG" target="_blank">http://smarturl.it/Deafheaven10YG</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/65322162021-01-27T15:10:08-08:002021-01-27T15:10:19-08:00INTERVIEW W/ KERRY MCCOY "HOW DEAFHEAVEN MADE A LIVE ALBUM IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC" // GUITAR.COM<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://guitar.com/features/interviews/how-deafheaven-made-a-live-album-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic/" style="" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/e8d16b89498955278e013ddf5083ec538e34e8be/original/guitar-com-logo.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://guitar.com/features/interviews/how-deafheaven-made-a-live-album-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic/" style="" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/79016c3b2da0a3a731b81b2e6d20bdfbbb9fbc36/original/deafheaven.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/af6ad395cfc760da1a29fd5b08c885d62a645014/original/screen-shot-2021-01-27-at-3-08-10-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>You can feel the effort, as though you’re at close quarters and the kick drum wants to punch a hole through your chest. The guitars mesh together in a blissed-out maelstrom as those roiling blastbeats unfold into George Clarke’s piercing shriek. It’s Deafheaven playing Dream House, and as it has done on thousands of nights in the past seven years it sounds monumental: ferocious, majestic, almost perfect. </p>
<p>But this isn’t like those other nights. There’s no crowd. There’s no sweat flying. There are no arms reaching towards the band from the front row. Instead, there are five musicians separated by screens in an Oakland studio. This is 10 Years Gone, a live album for our complicated times. </p>
<p>“There is no way to get that feeling that’s there when we’ve got an audience in front of us,” guitarist Kerry McCoy laments. “Some of the time, playing the songs almost made me emotional. Touring is something that I’ve essentially dedicated my life to, and I firmly believe that it’s what I was put on this earth to do. There’s just no way to get it back. We tried to do our best and not cut corners and not put too much of a shine on it.” </p>
<p>Back in June, Deafheaven turned 10 when the anniversary of their self-titled demo’s Bandcamp release rolled around. Plans were in place to celebrate the occasion with a North American tour alongside openers Inter Arma, Greet Death and All Your Sisters. Naturally, Covid-19 had something to add to that conversation. “To rebound from the financial and morale hit, we put together an album of the set we intended to perform,” Clarke said when announcing 10 Years Gone.</p>
<p><a contents="Full article via Guitar.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://guitar.com/features/interviews/how-deafheaven-made-a-live-album-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic/" target="_blank"><i>Full article via Guitar.com</i></a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/64917292020-12-04T09:11:05-08:002020-12-04T09:43:02-08:00Deafheaven "10 Years Gone" // OUT NOW<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/Deafheaven10YG" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/72b3cbe672fa52c5a11f233a0bf77751e9149863/original/eoy4j27wmaisihh.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Deafheaven 's live album "10 Years Gone" is OUT NOW on all platforms. Stream / purchase wherever you listen to music: <a contents="https://smarturl.it/Deafheaven10YG" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://smarturl.it/Deafheaven10YG" style="" target="_blank">https://smarturl.it/Deafheaven10YG </a></p>
<p>With Covid taking touring away for the conceivable future, the band decided to record the set live at Atomic Garden studios. Deafheaven has capped an incredible ten year run with the release of their live album which includes songs that span their entire discography. The indie exclusive vinyl is available today in all stores.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/64911922020-12-03T15:23:46-08:002020-12-03T15:23:46-08:00Big Ups: Deafheaven Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://daily.bandcamp.com/big-ups/big-ups-deafheaven?fbclid=IwAR1kOCMp5RAD_7NzK7u-vD1HkAlGBGlBqfWIDWjMjNYReolb1uxABhnvN5o" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/4ffb8864c54f16403a6c3a7f514549ac5e0ecefc/original/0022636606-0.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>In a year where it’s hard to celebrate virtually anything, <a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="Deafheaven" data-link-type="page" href="/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> are commemorating their 10th anniversary virtually by releasing <em>Ten Years Gone</em>: A live album recorded in the studio with material dating back to that fateful demo, together with classic tracks from the rest of their discography, up to their Grammy-nominated Ordinary Corrupt Human Love. The eight tracks, originally intended to be their setlist for a now-postponed tour with Inter Arma, remind fans that while records like Sunbather are important monuments to an era, the Calfornia band’s core competency is on the live stage. </p>
<p>“I think it was people’s openness to the demo—its sound, the visuals, the mystery of how it was presented—and its path through the blog community that really helped us get to a point where we could play shows, be in front of people and grow,” recalls frontman George Clarke about their humble beginnings. “That connection, playing shows, was the only ambition we ever had. It remains the most gratifying part of this experience.” </p>
<p>And with shows on hiatus, Deafheaven have left us the next best thing in Ten Years Gone. In celebration of the release, each member of Deafheaven have picked a pair of releases that have meant a great deal to them in the past few months, including during the recording of <em>Ten Years Gone</em>.</p>
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<p><span class="font_small">Full feature on <a contents="Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://daily.bandcamp.com/big-ups/big-ups-deafheaven?fbclid=IwAR1kOCMp5RAD_7NzK7u-vD1HkAlGBGlBqfWIDWjMjNYReolb1uxABhnvN5o" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a></span></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/64603502020-10-21T07:24:47-07:002020-10-21T08:22:24-07:00DEAFHEAVEN DETAILS LIVE ALBUM 10 YEARS GONE // LISTEN TO "DAEDALUS (LIVE)"<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/Deafheaven10YG" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/939387efba3db68b103fae4a942c3c2a8e01bccd/original/dh-ten-years-gone-digital-artwork-rgb.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
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<p>Deafheaven has officially announced their live album "10 Years Gone" to be out December 4th and along with it the song 'Daedalus (Live)'. <br>PRE-ORDER / STREAM <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/Deafheaven10YG" style="" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>
<p>Words from George Clarke: </p>
<p>“Earlier this year we intended on celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Deafheaven demo released through Bandcamp on June 1, 2010 with a tour of North America with our friends Inter Arma, Greet Death and All Your Sisters. Unfortunately, we couldn’t fulfill that tour because of fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. To rebound from the financial and morale hit, we put together an album of the set we intended to perform. </p>
<p>Revisiting the songs in this studio sessions format with Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden reminded us of how important these years have been. I’m thankful we were able to give songs like Daedalus, the first we wrote, and other favorites like Vertigo and Kettle new power after so many years of playing them. They made me think of the people who played on them with us. For the first time we’ve included information on who played on what tracks and when they were originally released. We included thank you-s in the liner notes to these musicians who’ve spent time with this project, on tour or on record and all of the touring crew, label support and management support who have helped us this past decade. </p>
<p>We're thankful we were able to do this project and that fans have stuck with us as we make new music for 2021. Thank you for helping us move forward and I hope you enjoy this record as a small interim in the Deafheaven story. We’ll see you soon.”</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/64497542020-10-05T15:33:17-07:002020-10-05T15:34:11-07:00Deafheaven 'Up to Date' Playlist // Evil Greed<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6p7L6iB0sYzqP12VtD7YCl?si=Xst4qS43RW2CHl0pivHL_Q" style="" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/ffe0c5776621e6b74a450fdc27e7781634a1e07f/original/ejkqs03x0aeq25s.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>In conjunction with the upcoming release of Deafheaven's '10 Years Gone' Live session album, they were asked to contribute a playlist to EVIL GREED ‘Up to Date’ series. The playlist features tracks from bands they have toured with. Listen to the Spotify playlist <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6p7L6iB0sYzqP12VtD7YCl?si=Xst4qS43RW2CHl0pivHL_Q" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
<p>'10 Years Gone' Pre-orders: (<a contents="EU/UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://evilgreed.net/collections/deafheaven" target="_blank">EU/UK</a> / <a contents="US/CAN" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven" style="" target="_blank">US/CAN</a>)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/63488882020-06-10T11:53:21-07:002020-06-10T12:01:32-07:00Deafheaven Custom Dunable Guitar & Signed Drumhead Black Lives Matter Raffle<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/sargent-house-raffle/products/deafheaven-custom-dunable-guitars-flying-v"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/92b005d75447acaa4ac85f106fa9363a6ae7e020/original/deafheavencustomdunableguitarsflyingvbandshot.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/sargent-house-raffle/products/deafheaven-custom-dunable-guitars-flying-v"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/6289e852b748590765a88f9494793f1a1ae7c4e3/original/deafheavensnarehead.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>Sargent House will be holding a raffle to help contribute to various Black Lives Matter organizations and will be selling many exclusive items from various members of the Sargent House family.</p>
<p>Deafheaven has contributed a Custom Dunable Flying V Guitar. Enter the raffle <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/sargent-house-raffle">HERE</a>. Entries are unlimited and are all going to a great cause.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/63165572020-05-14T12:16:48-07:002020-05-14T12:16:48-07:00Story Time With Sargent House // George Clarke Of Deafheaven May 18th<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/af0b22ad62f3377be0f8e29a60133d7e770430ed/original/su2g5d6a.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br>NEXT ON STORY TIME – Cathy Pellow interviews Sargent House artists on IG live @ <a contents="http://instagram.com/sargenthouse" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://instagram.com/sargenthouse" target="_blank">instagram.com/sargenthouse</a><br><br>MAY 18 George Clarke of <a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="Deafheaven" data-link-type="page" href="/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a></p>
<p>The first 3 episodes of STORY TIME are now posted on our instagram. Click the TV button to view interviews with <a contents="Lingua Ignota" data-link-label="Lingua Ignota" data-link-type="page" href="/lingua-ignota" target="_blank">Lingua Ignota</a>, <a contents="Dylan Carlson" data-link-label="Dylan Carlson" data-link-type="page" href="/dylan-carlson" target="_blank">Dylan Carlson</a> of <a contents="Earth" data-link-label="Earth" data-link-type="page" href="/earth" target="_blank">Earth</a> and <a contents="Ioanna Gika" data-link-label="Ioanna Gika" data-link-type="page" href="/ioanna-gika" target="_blank">Ioanna Gika</a>. on our IGTV. Only on <a contents="instagram.com/sargenthouse" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://instagram.com/sargenthouse" target="_blank">instagram.com/sargenthouse</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/62774952020-04-09T13:04:20-07:002020-04-09T13:04:37-07:00Deafheaven "Demo" Limited Edition Vinyl Reissue <p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/6cef730b96b0574c6a0f1f52029f3de2a8b58a9d/original/uvm1ysha.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Deafheaven's debut simply called "Demo" was self-released by the band in 2010. After being remastered by Jack Shirley, Sargent House did the first vinyl press in 2012. Ten years after its release, "Demo" is now available in the new Blue & Black Marble Vinyl Limited Edition Reissue. Pre-orders are now open. Both stores ship worldwide!</p>
<p>US // Hello Merch: <a contents="hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven" target="_blank">hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven</a><br>EU // EVIL GREED: <a contents="smarturl.it/EGdeafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/EGdeafheaven">smarturl.it/EGdeafheaven</a> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/62511802020-03-16T11:27:28-07:002020-03-16T13:24:30-07:00DEAFHEAVEN. 10 YEAR TOUR SPECIAL DOUBLE LP <p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/EGdeafheaven-tourLP" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/19f92922a7f706ee1a385e22e75e392f835fe212/original/afcortes-gazette-musicale-2339.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>As part of <a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="Deafheaven" data-link-type="page" href="/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>'s 10 year tour, the band planned to record sets in Chicago toward a live album for fans while we working on new music for the next album. However, due to the recent Corona crisis, the band is forced to postpone the tour and instead will release a live recording including songs from all releases to make up for it. <a contents="US $ pre-order" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven" target="_blank">US $ pre-order</a> // <a contents="EU&nbsp;pre-order" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://evilgreed.net/collections/deafheaven" target="_blank">EU pre-order</a> (both ship worldwide)</p>
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<p>"We are trying to make the best of a hugely difficult situation. It is extremely hard for bands to have to ask for help so we wanted to offer something special in return. We have just launched a Worldwide pre-order <a contents="Hello Merch" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/deafheaven">Hello Merch</a> and <a contents="EVIL GREED" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/EGdeafheaven-tourLP">EVIL GREED</a> to a special Deafheaven double LP vinyl of what was to be their 10 Year tour sets. Ordering it will really help them to recover some of their lost income. We are also making all the new tour merch available along with a Sunbather Tablature book we had planned to surprise people with later. Thank you, and please take care of each other out there." - Cathy (Mgmt) / <a contents="Sargent House" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> </p>
<p>Below is a message from George on behalf of the band. “As part of our 10 year tour, we planned to record sets in Chicago toward a live album for fans while we work on new music. However, the last 24 hours since the tour cancelation have been a whirlwind while we rearrange our year and take these losses. Touring is our sole livelihood, but we have to move forward through the unexpected. We've made some phone calls, gotten some exciting people on board and are going to give fans a glimpse of what we originally had in mind for the year while we work to reschedule tour dates. We will be live recording a set of material from all our albums and releasing it digitally. In addition, we have started a pre-order for a special Double LP release on vinyl of this material slated for later this year, along with merchandise that was to be sold on the tour. We don't even have an album cover yet. There's no press release. All I know is we're moving this into immediate action and turning this massive set-back around. We don't ask for handouts, but are hoping this special session can help generate some good energy while we all wait for the rescheduling”</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/62484772020-03-13T15:18:35-07:002020-03-13T16:15:28-07:00POSTPONED: DEAFHEAVEN US 10 YEAR TOUR 2020<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7abc377941cdf164e2d68e3fc6a8f9ae76f3d55c/original/89398084-10163549477425529-483139707190902784-o.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><br><strong>URGENT TOUR POSTPONEMENT: Deafheaven </strong><br><br>"Due to COVID19, city ordinances, recommended quarantines, and public health, our upcoming N. American tour with INTER ARMA, Greet Death, and ALL YOUR SISTERS has been postponed until further notice. Our miracle team has been working diligently to reschedule and honor this tour and we will update everyone with new information as soon as possible. Like so many other hard working people in the touring world being affected by the virus, we appreciate your patience and understanding while we all work through this." DH </p>
<p>No updates yet on the status of any of their future tour dates still listed at <a contents="deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com </a></p>
<p>photo by Geert Braekers</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/62206832020-02-19T11:19:58-08:002020-02-19T15:15:25-08:00Deafheaven at Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago 2020<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchforkmusicfestival.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7dcd5735d1df2ab8cadb1f96d4692f2c8e298b59/original/deafheavenpmfc-final.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="Deafheaven" data-link-type="page" href="https://deafheaven.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> is playing Pitchfork Music Festival 2020 in Chicago, Friday July 17. Info: <a contents="pitchforkmusicfestival.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://pitchforkmusicfestival.com/" target="_blank">pitchforkmusicfestival.com</a></p>
<p>ALL upcoming tour & festival dates: <a contents="deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a></p><!-- more -->
<p>DEAFHEAVEN TEN YEARS GONE <br>MAR 20 Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall * <br>MAR 21 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater * <br>MAR 23 Lawrence, KS @ The Granada * <br>MAR 24 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall * <br>MAR 25 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall * <br>MAR 26 Detroit, MI @ El Club * <br>MAR 27 Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace * <br>MAR 28 Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount * <br>MAR 29 Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall * <br>MAR 31 Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom * <br>APR 01 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair * <br>APR 02 Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere * <br>APR 03 Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere * <br>APR 04 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer * <br>APR 06 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club * <br>APR 07 Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theater * <br>APR 08 Columbus, OH @ Skully's Music Diner * <br>APR 09 Indianapolis, IN @ The Hi-Fi* <br>APR 10 Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar * <br>APR 11 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In * <br>APR 13 Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle Music Hall * <br>APR 14 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall * <br>APR 15 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade - Hell * <br>APR 16 Orlando, FL @ The Abbey + <br>APR 18 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio + <br>APR 19 San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger + <br>APR 20 Austin, TX @ Barracuda ^ <br>APR 22 Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf ^ <br>APR 23 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom ^ <br>APR 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room ^ <br>APR 25 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room ^ <br>APR 27 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall ^ <br>APR 28 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall ^ <br>APR 30 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom ^ <br>MAY 01 Seattle, WA @ Neumos ^ <br>MAY 02 Vancouver, BC @ The Imperial ^ <br>w/ Inter Arma & Greet Death * <br>w/ Greet Death & All Your Sisters + <br>w/ Inter Arma & All Your Sisters ^</p>
<p>JUN 26 Helsinki, FI @ Tuska Open Air Metal Festival <br>JUN 28 Ferropolis, DE @ Full Force Festival <br>JUN 30 Athens, GR @ Gagarin 205 <br>JUL 01 Istanbul, TR @ Zorlu Center PAC <br>JUL 03 Moskva, RU @ Bol Festival <br>JUL 05 Ieper, BE @ Ieperfest <br>JUL 06 Tilburg, NL @ 013 </p>
<p>JUL 17 Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival</p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/61992582020-01-31T16:45:57-08:002020-01-31T20:15:42-08:00European Festival Announcements // Summer 2020<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/f4a8100ed78510a5bd56cd5044b114c3004e7a54/original/84213783-2142915709145243-5514980531982303232-o.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Just announced – Deafheaven we will be playing Tuska Festival in Helsinki // tickets & all upcoming dates <a contents="deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com </a></p>
<p>Europe tour schedule: <br>JUN 26 Helsinki, FI @ Tuska Open Air Festival <br>JUN 28 Ferropolis, DE @ Full Force Festival <br>JUN 30 Athens, GR @ Gagarin 205 <br>JUL 01 Istanbul, TK @ Zorlu Center of Performing Arts <br>JUL 03 Moscow, RU @ Bol Festival <br>JUL 05 Ieper, BE @ Ieper Festival <br>JUL 06 Tilburg, NL @ O13</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955482019-12-10T11:19:26-08:002020-01-23T01:58:38-08:00DEAFHEAVEN CELEBRATING 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH 2020 US TOUR<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deafheaven.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c95c65b1aa660011c2ee50180dfda1f31d650658/original/dh-10yg.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>Deafheaven will be embarking on a US tour in 2020 to celebrate their 10th anniversary as a band and will be playing material spanning all of their release. Joining them on select dates will be Inter Arma, Greet Death, and All Your Sisters. Tickets on sale Friday, Dec 13 at <a contents="deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a></p><!-- more -->
<p>MAR 20 Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall * <br>MAR 21 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater * <br>MAR 23 Lawrence, KS @ The Granada * <br>MAR 24 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall * <br>MAR 25 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall * <br>MAR 26 Detroit, MI @ El Club * <br>MAR 27 Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace * <br>MAR 29 Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall * <br>MAR 31 Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom * <br>APR 01 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair * <br>APR 02 Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere * <br>APR 03 Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere * <br>APR 04 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer * <br>APR 06 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club * <br>APR 07 Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theater * <br>APR 08 Columbus, OH @ Skully's Music Diner * <br>APR 09 Indianapolis, IN @ The Hi-Fi* <br>APR 10 Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar * <br>APR 11 Nashville, TN @ Exit In * <br>APR 13 Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle Music Hall * <br>APR 14 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall * <br>APR 15 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade - Hell * <br>APR 16 Orlando, FL @ The Abbey + <br>APR 18 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio + <br>APR 19 San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger + <br>APR 20 Austin, TX @ Barracuda ^ <br>APR 22 Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf ^ <br>APR 23 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom ^ <br>APR 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room ^ <br>APR 25 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room ^ <br>APR 27 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall ^ <br>APR 28 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall ^ <br>APR 30 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom ^ <br>MAY 01 Seattle, WA @ Neumos ^ <br>MAY 02 Vancouver, BC @ The Imperial ^ </p>
<p>w/ Inter Arma & Greet Death * <br>w/ Greet Death & All Your Sisters + <br>w/ Inter Arma & All Your Sisters ^</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955492019-12-04T15:22:56-08:002020-01-13T11:15:25-08:00"BLACK BRICK" ON 25 BEST SONGS OF 2019 // REVOLVER <p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/25-best-songs-2019#2-deafheaven-black-brick" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/239a45bf7f0da07d383011813ab6a34073f599d7/original/revolver-logo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/fe5a042ec4d9c5bdf463e60943134515dad6e40d/original/screen-shot-2019-12-04-at-3-18-12-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
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<p><br><br>Deafheaven may liberally work in moments of overt beauty and shoegaze into their brand of black metal, but it's clear the members all have deep love for the genre's grimmest musical aspects. A leftover cut from the Ordinary Corrupt Human Love sessions, the single "Black Brick" sort of sounds like a mix between their early material and New Bermuda, but taken to a considerably heavier, darker place. Drums thunder while more traditional swarming black-metal riffs back them up, propelling the song ever forward without letting a moment of light leak in.<br><br><a contents="Full list via Revolver" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/25-best-songs-2019#2-deafheaven-black-brick" target="_blank"><em>Full list via Revolver</em></a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955502019-11-24T15:25:00-08:002020-01-13T11:15:26-08:0010 Years Of Deafheaven Interview With George Clarke // Consequence Of Sound<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/11/deafheaven-george-clarke-decade-interview-2019/" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a86f2c6166249ceb26f3b562a4cbc6dd7e7e0be8/original/george.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><em>(Via <a contents="Consequence Of Sound" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequenceofsound.net/" target="_blank">Consequence Of Sound</a> by <a contents="Joseph Schafer" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequenceofsound.net/author/joseph-schafer/" target="_blank">Joseph Schafer</a>)</em></p>
<p>Consequence Of Sound interviewed George from <a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deafheaven.com/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> about the past 10 years in Metal, read the entire interview <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/11/deafheaven-george-clarke-decade-interview-2019/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
<p>In many ways, the story of metal in the past decade is the story of Deafheaven. Vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy formed the band in their San Francisco apartment in 2010, when they were barely legal drinking age, and leveraged the internet to spread their blend of black metal and post-rock. </p>
<p>In 2013, Deafheaven released their breakout sophomore album, Sunbather, which may be the most popular metal album of the decade among critics. It precipitated a renaissance in atmospheric black metal that defined the decade. Many perpetually contrarian black metal diehards hated it, but their admonition didn’t stop Deafheaven from growing into a must-see live act and crossover musical success.</p><!-- more -->
<p>Now, at the end of the decade, Deafheaven have two more esteemed albums — New Bermuda and Ordinary Corrupt Human Love — under their belt, not to mention a whole lot of touring experience. As such, there’s no better musician than George Clarke to unpack the last decade in metal with us. </p>
<p>With Deafheaven recently included on Consequence of Sound’s lists of Top 100 Albums, Top 25 Metal Albums, and Top 25 Metal Songs of the 2010s, Clarke recently spoke to us from his Tokyo hotel room to talk about youth, maturity, and why metal will never die. </p>
<p><u><strong>On his life and musical taste at the start of the decade </strong></u></p>
<p>In 2009, I was living in San Francisco, I had moved there that year. It was a lot of fun; It was an exciting time. I had just turned 20 and we were pretty careless. Everything was about going to shows, going to parties, meeting new people, and living a new life in a lot of ways. </p>
<p>I’ve always been listening to things besides metal but at the time I was particularly into the heavy stuff. I was listening to His Hero Is Gone, Eyehategod, and I remember listening to Crossed Out, Siege and a lot of ’80s hardcore, as well as Discordance Axis, Insect Warfare, Pig Destroyer and the wave of metallic grindcore that was happening. I remember in 2009 seeing Unholy Grave with Magrudgergrind and that being par for the course. And then, of course, black metal, too, certainly, listening to a lot of Weakling, Ludicra, Velvet Cacoon, a lot of weirder black metal. Also, I was listening to the Cascadian stuff, including Skagos and Wolves in the Throne Room. That’s where I was between 18 and 20. </p>
<p><u><strong>On how he was affected by the 2008 recession leading into the new decade </strong></u></p>
<p>I remember that time very specifically. Kerry and I talk about this quite a bit, being in high school during the Bush era and there being a tremendous distrust of government. There was a kind of freedom in it. I also remember the 2008 financial crash happening — I remember despair but also thinking, “This is a chance to live outside of all this.” It was very teenage, but we felt like the only reaction was to have no responsibility at all. It was a kind of a low-living free-for-all in a lot of ways. That kind of mentality opened us up to being more expressive and not caring about confines and stuff like that. A lot of that with maturity has changed — my attitude about the world for sure — but coming out of that I remember thinking, “All of this is insane and beyond me and has nothing to do with me. We’re just going to make music and live in our own world.” So we didn’t go to college, we dropped out of high school and did or own thing. It’s funny how something that monumental effects a generation in so many different ways. </p>
<p><u><strong>On their 2013 breakout album Sunbather </strong></u></p>
<p>People later in conversation about that record, in particular, have reframed it politically. In a sense [Sunbather is] all about youth and identity in a way — not knowing yourself — and wanting more and looking at wealth disparity. But that’s not overtly talked about, it’s kind of just there as part of the theme of the album. I think about it as kind of apolitical and more focused on emotion and internal feelings, and adjusting to the realities of adulthood. </p>
<p><u><strong>On black metal’s success over the past decade – and death metal’s rise </strong></u></p>
<p>I turned 31 last month and I was having a conversation with a friend about black metal. More specifically, in the time that we came up when Alcest, Lantlos, and Krallice were very much a hotbed. That was our generation. It’s true that black metal had its moment. </p>
<p>I like this about metal: because it exists so much on its own without major media attention — even when certain bits of it have their peaks and valleys — the whole of it continues. Right now I would argue that death metal, especially the OSDM [Old School Death Metal revival] is having its moment more than any other subgenre; it’s right now at the period where I felt like I was going to shows from 2008 to 2011, when everyone was wearing black metal t-shirts. It’s great because death metal still existed then and black metal still exists now, so I think when these things have their peaks and valleys we should celebrate them in their moment and enjoy it. It will go away but it also won’t go away, it will always be there because nothing gets so big that it blows out and people become exhausted from it, so much so that you never see it again. I think that’s positive. </p>
<p><u><strong>On the worst thing to happen to music in the past decade </strong></u></p>
<p>So much has changed good and bad. I think that the worst thing to happen to music since Deafheaven started is the tearing down of Mediafire and Megaupload. When those sites were torn down and labels fixed the downloading problem by creating music streaming — and I stream music — I think that’s the biggest change that happened. Do you remember the Mediafire hearings? I remember seeing pictures of the Mediafire guys in court. </p>
<p>I had libraries of music from the internet, lots of live cuts and rarities. I had like four Sepultura live sets from 1993. It was music collecting for a different generation. As a teenager, I didn’t have any money and certainly in my young 20s, the same applied. We supported music in our own ways. But when that changed, sales changed and marketing changed. The idea of corporate interest changed and became much more involved. Things got homogenized a little bit. It’s been interesting to see that unfold. </p>
<p>Kerry and I worked at a nonprofit group called Clean Water Action in downtown San Fransisco. We both kind of hated it. We would leave in the morning with 20 albums downloading, or rarity collections, and we would come home stoked. We would go grab some beer and then listen to the records, or at least that’s how we listened to music because we didn’t have records. </p>
<p>And that’s how Deafheaven came up. When we had our demo, every blog that I loved I just sent the demo to. People that liked it would do a write-up and put it up for free. I also remember first hearing about Bandcamp in 2010, or at least we set up a Bandcamp in 2010 and did the blog thing. We got signed off of a blog. I loved that whole community. I thought it was very rich and I do think it was kind of stolen. I respect artists and I respect what it feels like to have your art stolen but I think that tearing those things down hurt the collector more than the average consumer. </p>
<p>In our tenure that was the biggest thing to happen to music in a world of otherwise positives. </p>
<p><u><strong>On the best thing to happen to music in the past decade </strong></u></p>
<p>We’ve seen artists take much more control of their art. We’ve seen artists take much more control of their deals. I think artists have much more power when it comes to where they position themselves, their influence and their platform. The visual art aspect has expanded so much because things are less formulaic. Major labels do have less control despite what I just said about the streaming model. </p>
<p>I also think we grew up hearing about labels doing nothing but screwing artists, so when we got old enough to get deals, we approached it with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude. I said to my label, ”I appreciate that you are trying to help us, and I want you to help us, and I think this could be mutually beneficial, but I need you to know that nothing even gets listened to until it’s mastered.” We don’t send music or send art. The label gets zero approval. Once our album is submitted, we turn it in and it’s done. And thankfully we have found people that agree to that and it works really well. I know other artists that have had that same experience and I think it’s great. I also think with the advent of social media we’re able to feel each other out a bit more and share experiences, so people are smarter and more prepared.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955512019-11-19T11:11:06-08:002020-01-23T01:47:20-08:00Deafheaven Is Artist Of The Decade // VICE<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmnkq/deafheaven-is-the-artist-of-the-decade?fbclid=IwAR3oJnmuWR785XPsONO9uOcQCdquDQRxao8FCOvN9Jp1nrbHwJt4Y52McMA" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/56b8ac2051bf66752ef0675bca4bb83ee666b6da/original/deafheaven.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><i>Via <a contents="Vice" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmnkq/deafheaven-is-the-artist-of-the-decade?fbclid=IwAR3oJnmuWR785XPsONO9uOcQCdquDQRxao8FCOvN9Jp1nrbHwJt4Y52McMA" target="_blank">Vice</a> by <a contents="Andy O'Connor" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/contributor/andy-oconnor" target="_blank">Andy O'Connor</a></i></p>
<p><a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deafheaven.com/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> has been named one of the artists of the decade by Vice, joined by Grimes, Tyler The Creator, and many more.</p>
<p>Read the full feature <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmnkq/deafheaven-is-the-artist-of-the-decade?fbclid=IwAR3oJnmuWR785XPsONO9uOcQCdquDQRxao8FCOvN9Jp1nrbHwJt4Y52McMA" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p><!-- more -->
<p>Seeing Deafheaven for the first time was both a revelation and a harbinger. When I glanced at the band onstage at the old Emo’s in Austin in 2011, I was… taken aback. Vocalist George Clarke looked far too clean-cut to be fronting a black metal band, clad in a light blue, button-down shirt that screamed "Gap model" more than "intimidating frontman." Guitarist Kerry McCoy's hair was cut into… is that a rattail? And their drummer at the time looked like he skipped out on his SATs for the gig. What were these punk models—or model punks, or whatever—up to? </p>
<p><br>I was expecting a heavy dose of pomp and a mess of riffs with no substance. When they actually played, I was knocked on my ass. They were not fucking around. And eight years later, they remain one of the few metal bands to come up in the 2010s to feel singularly of this decade. They owned the metal conversation, for better or (often) for worse. Was a black metal sound as burdened by its own harsh aesthetics as much as its own history ready to go overground? Was extreme metal not just the province of a select few anymore? Were Deafheaven's members just too pretty to play ugly music? (Despite the fanfare surrounding it, Sunbather wasn’t the first metal record with a pink cover; Saint Vitus beat ‘em to that 27 years prior with Born Too Late.) These were questions a lot of less tolerant metalheads were not ready to answer. And regardless of which side you take in that ongoing conversation, there's one undeniable argument to be made about their influence: They redefined the genre of metal for the better. </p>
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<p>There’s been a lot of great metal this decade; in fact, this may be the best decade for metal since its heyday in the 80s and early 90s. The mid-00s resurgence of virtually every subgenre—death metal, black metal, doom, sludge—bloomed into a new generation of sick riffers, polygenre beasts, avant-weirdos, and vigorous revivalists. Many of those bands tinkered with and refined sounds of the past, and there’s nothing wrong with that. And Deafheaven, a mega-90s fusion of Britpop, shoegaze, and second-wave black metal, is no exception. That combination of influences alone wasn’t enough to make them a great band, though; it was their music’s juxtaposition of darkness and light that put them in their own league, one where they’ve yet to be bested. </p>
<p>“Dream House,” Sunbather’s leadoff song, was a monster track when it dropped—and a huge step forward for the band and for metal as a whole. McCoy’s blackened jangle opened up to melodically rich tremolo, and the influences they wielded finally gelled into something breathtaking, greater than the sum of its parts. “Dream House” was an aspirational jaunt not just because of where it took the band, but also because of how Clarke wrote it, wandering the streets in awe of actual dream houses, capturing a melancholic feeling of longing spiked with joy. In 2019, it scans as a lamentation for lost dreams: Deafheaven formed just a couple years after the 2008 financial crisis, and their music, especially “Dream House,” reflects the anxiety and uncertainty that would follow young Americans through this decade, a generation for whom a stable future, much less home ownership, still feels mostly out of reach. It’s a narrative reflected in Deafheaven’s story as well: Even with Sunbather being the first of their three Best New Music wins and garnering the magnitude to be featured an iPhone announcement didn’t prevent Deafheaven from being displaced from their hometown of San Francisco to marginally cheaper and more creative-friendly Los Angeles, a bitter affirmation of “Dream House’s” agony. </p>
<p>Still, Sunbather dominated year-end lists and saw the kind of crossover attention that had been unprecedented in metal for some time; like Metallica blowing up with 8-minute prog-thrash jaunts, though, it didn’t need commerifical signifers to do so. They didn’t need traditional structures—yes, verse-chorus-verse is a concern in metal, too—and Clarke didn’t need to make his screech more palatable or discernable to reach out to their growing fanbase. They got better and kept getting better: McCoy asserted his status as lead songwriter and really let his inner Johnny Marr go off; drummer Dan Tracy, who would go one to become a permanent member following Sunbather’s touring cycle, gave them the rhythmic edge that made their hard edges harder. A sound became their sound. </p>
<p>Deafheaven’s sound isn’t just contrasts and rises and falls—it’s the whole picture, driving the blackgaze in vogue a decade before into a cosmopolitan direction of empathy over the esoteric. It’s not as though metal was never emotionally expansive, but Deafheaven showed that you can both draw from feelings of introspection and engage with the broader world. “Worthless Animal,” from last year’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love,was inspired by Clarke helplessly watching as he saw a struggling homeless man attacked in Los Angeles. It’s a beautiful song that shows a lot of heart, not just through McCoy’s bright guitars, but in its real consideration for the human condition. “Gifts for the Earth,” which closed out their third record New Bermuda, brings that same sensitivity into accepting death as becoming one with the planet. By harnessing the raw emotion of melodic post-hardcore and swelling it into a more spacious, cinematic framing, the song takes a common fear and gives it a welcoming air, a balm for the inevitable. Clarke’s ending shriek fades into Stones Roses-esque psych and even gentle piano that winds down with grace; if there was shepherding metal, this would be it. </p>
<p>Escapism has a place in metal. But that’s not what Deafheaven are about; they demand that you realize that you are part of life, and of the world around you. As such, their career over the course of the decade shows not just a musical or emotional progression, but an existential one: Roads to Judah is where you’re just opening your eyes to the world; Sunbather is the ascent into greater consciousness, and the ability to find beauty in love and pain; New Bermuda plunges into the darkness that comes with awareness of all of life's injustices; and Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is a sober, accepting moment of reflection. Their discography is a meditation on the shift from being wild-eyed and frankly kind of dumb in your youth to achieving clear-eyed self-awareness in adulthood, accepting the things you cannot change without losing your spark. </p>
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<p>Black metal can be real, real cruel, as even a not-so-deep dive into its history reveals, and to use it as a medium of spreading compassion, warmth, acceptance, and even a glimmer of hope is nothing short of revolutionary. Does this sound like what their detractors accuse them of, of making metal soft? Maybe those purists forget that Megadeth had killer acoustic intros, too. Deafheaven can still unleash a mean blackened thrash riff, as they do on New Bermuda’s “Luna” and this year’s single “Black Brick.” Knowing the institutional rules of the genre makes breaking them even more satisfying. Metal can be your identity, or at least a big part of it, without becoming a straitjacket. If nothing else, that’s the most important concept Deafheaven brought to the metal game this decade. </p>
<p>Deafheaven sounds the way life in the 2010s feels: constantly in flux and brimming with injustice and turmoil, interspersed with moments that continue to show life’s ever-brittle beauty. What was promised to our generation isn’t realistic, and we’ve got to rewrite our own expectations and sense of purpose. In metal, at least, Deafheaven accomplished that. Weathering many storms, over and over again: Isn’t that what maturing is? </p>
<p>When an old band can still rock the leather and studs and bad teeth and worse breath that they did in the 80s, well, rock on, then. But it’s also important to know when to grow so that the thing you love doesn’t get petered out by being the same old shit. The thing is, at the end of the day, metal has always been great and more versatile than it’s given credit for, and in embracing that versatility, Deafheaven made it stronger. </p>
<p>They’re a reminder that metal isn’t gonna get constrained by old-timers (and the old at heart), no matter how hard they try. Metal is too good for that.</p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955522019-10-25T12:59:59-07:002020-01-13T11:15:26-08:00Evil Greed Interviews Deafheaven<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="wa3evgkM8do" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/wa3evgkM8do/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wa3evgkM8do?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="600" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
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<p>"During Amplifest 2019, we sat down with George Clarke and Shiv Mehra to talk about the last 10 years of Deafheaven: the progression between "Roads to Judah", "Sunbather", "New Bermuda" and "Ordinary Corrupt Human Love", Grammy Awards, underground music and the new album the band is working on."</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955532019-10-10T07:00:00-07:002020-01-13T11:15:26-08:00Deafheaven To Play Evil Beat Vol. 2 January 2020<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/620f7894a453ad8c001c0da4039dc8a829b56396/original/evil-beat.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p><a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0C005747A01027B8">Deafheaven</a> will be playing Evil Beat Vol. 2 on January 11th, 2020 in Dallas along with <a contents="Carcass" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/OfficialCarcass/" target="_blank">Carcass</a>, <a contents="Power Trip" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/powertripTX/" target="_blank">Power Trip</a>, <a contents="Razor" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/RazorThrashBand/" target="_blank">Razor</a>, <a contents="Vio-Lence" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vio-lence" target="_blank">Vio-Lence</a>, <a contents="Sheer Mag" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.sheer-mag.com/" target="_blank">Sheer Mag</a>, <a contents="Drab Majesty" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://drabmajesty.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Drab Majesty</a>, and many more. </p>
<p>Tickets available <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0C005747A01027B8" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955542019-09-12T13:38:57-07:002020-01-13T11:15:26-08:00WESTLAKE & EVERGREEN BOOKS BY GEORGE L. CLARKE<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/george-l-clarke" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/16731158d09ca9dfd0e5f5592a8043f6159d4b92/original/screen-shot-2019-09-12-at-1-22-36-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>It is an honor for us to announce that we are publishing the first two books written and photographed by George L. Clarke of Deafheaven. </p>
<p>“<a contents="Westlake and Evergreen" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/george-l-clarke" target="_blank">Westlake and Evergreen</a> are stories dealing with identity, aloneness, fear and the idea of willful anonymity in which characters are purposefully a mystery to themselves and others. Inspired by The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes and Ray DeCarava, I aim to guide and contextualize these stories with photography. I have also added in bits of prose, dh related lyrics, etc. <br>Each is 80 pages. I made a few and they’ll be signed and mailed out when I’m back from tour mid October. <br>Thank you to Chelsea, Nick, and Cathy for their help with this. “ - George L. Clarke </p>
<p>Limited edition, signed copies are only available to pre order here: <br><a contents="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/george-l-clarke&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/george-l-clarke" target="_blank">https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/george-l-clarke </a></p>
<p>Design by Nick Steinhardt</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955552019-09-08T16:21:34-07:002020-01-13T11:15:27-08:00EU/UK Co-headline Tour with Touche Amore & Portrayal of Guilt starts Sept 16<p><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="504" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdeafheaven%2Fvideos%2F441579593261413%2F&show_text=1&width=560" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="560"></iframe></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955562019-09-04T16:30:13-07:002020-01-13T11:15:27-08:00Tour Dates in China Announced<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/1c8b8da630bb862d9af843961db07ceb1565e648/original/deafheaven-china-poster.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Deafheaven has added China dates in November to their tour of Asia. Tour dates in EU/UK with Touche Amore are quickly approaching. <br>All tour dates: <a contents="deafheaven.com/shows" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">deafheaven.com/shows</a></p>
<p>New dates: <br>NOV 19 Beijing, China @ Mao Livehouse <br>NOV 20 Shanghai, China @ Bandai Namco Future House </p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955572019-06-25T15:47:04-07:002020-01-13T11:15:27-08:00George Clarke on Slipknot Debut Album // Revolver<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="142" data-orig-width="844"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/deafheavens-george-clarke-slipknots-debut-album-was-gateway?fbclid=IwAR1BGN18omHsHhV4swpSuq0WhnY5Q8C62cTJUSJKmqeursOyo3mgydYHX-E" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/a7a39fedc4dd4ee8d749db92b75838c7/tumblr_inline_ptoegoINy21qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a722c0edc65249ad760286d723743e8bb5c1268d/original/screen-shot-2019-06-25-at-3-42-18-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p><a contents="(via Revolver)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/deafheavens-george-clarke-slipknots-debut-album-was-gateway?fbclid=IwAR1BGN18omHsHhV4swpSuq0WhnY5Q8C62cTJUSJKmqeursOyo3mgydYHX-E" target="_blank">(via Revolver)</a><br><br>When <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/12-insane-stories-slipknots-self-titled-debut-album">Slipknot</a> dropped their <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/slipknot-nightmarish-story-behind-nines-self-titled-album">self-titled debut album</a> in 1999, it sent shock waves through the rock and metal world. It was so ferocious and yet so catchy, so maniacal and yet so meticulous — from the industrial menace of "742617000027" all the way through to the raw, spasmodic grind of "hidden" track "Eeyore." Then there was the band themselves: the masks, the jumpsuits, the "fuck you all" attitude of their interviews, the "fuck you all even harder" attitude of their live shows. Below, on the eve of the album's 20th anniversary, <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/deafheaven-personal-demons-band-fights-making-their-master-puppets">Deafheaven</a> frontman George Clarke looks back on the first time Slipknot blew his mind and the impact the album has had on him ever since.</p><!-- more -->
<p><strong>TALK ABOUT THE FIRST TIME YOU HEARD SLIPKNOT'S SELF-TITLED ALBUM, AND HOW YOU DISCOVERED IT.</strong><br>GEORGE CLARKE: It was the summer following sixth grade and I had been spending most of it at my friend Jared's house. We were in his bedroom listening to Life Is Peachy and I was singing along to the CD into a pillow, trying to convince him that we should start a band. His older brother came into the room laughing at us. He asked if we wanted to hear "some real shit," then played us "Wait and Bleed."</p>
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<p><strong>WHAT DOES SLIPKNOT MEAN TO YOU?</strong><br>Slipknot was an album that was very formative for me that also became a gateway to more extreme, more underground metal. I remember reading Hit Parader or Circus, seeing titles like [Slayer's] Reign in Blood or [Cannibal Corpse's] "Hammer Smashed Face," then going from there.</p>
<p><strong>HOW, IF AT ALL, DID THE BAND'S FIRST ALBUM INFLUENCE YOUR OWN CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT, OR THE WAY YOU THOUGHT ABOUT WRITING MUSIC?</strong><br>What excited me then that has gone on to impress me further as I get older, is how immersive their approach is. Every detail is constructed with so much intent. They're masterful at developing and maintaining their own world.</p>
<p><strong>DID YOU HAVE A FAVORITE MASK OR MEMBER OF THE BAND AT THE TIME? HAS THAT CHANGED OVER THE YEARS?</strong><br>Mick, always.</p>
<p><strong>WAS IT IMPORTANT TO YOU THAT THE BAND WORE MASKS AND JUMPSUITS LIKE THEY DID?</strong><br>For a young fan who had never seen that before, I loved it. I remember reading theories about who the members were and going online to find photos of them backstage at Ozzfest or Tattoo the Earth, but they were always good about covering their faces with their hands. I'm not sure my intrigue would have been the same had the mystery not been there.</p>
<p><strong>WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SLIPKNOT TRACK, AND WHY?</strong><br>I always loved "Tattered & Torn," maybe the most demented track on the album. "Surfacing" was the anthem, though.</p>
<p><strong>IS SLIPKNOT SOMETHING YOU REGULARLY GO BACK AND LISTEN TO? OR DOES IT REPRESENT A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME IN YOUR HISTORY?</strong><br>They're an important band for my early years of music discovery, and while I don't listen to the album as regularly as I once did, seeing those songs live still gives me that spark.</p>
<p>Below, watch Deafheaven play their brutal standalone single "Black Brick" live:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="auto" src="//content.jwplatform.com/players/HnwfU9U2-8aTNQvbK.html" width="640"></iframe></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955582019-06-04T15:17:33-07:002020-01-13T11:15:27-08:00Deafheaven: Blackgaze Metal Pioneers Prod The Edges, Upgrade Touring // Pollstar<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="3263" data-orig-width="2511"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.pollstar.com/article/deafheaven-blackgaze-metal-pioneers-prod-the-edges-upgrade-touring-138118?fbclid=IwAR2QVLMOVkjFunnqVACxv7EbaAR4c4NOC5CuXOuie3Vge-qvShA5dvJ7TPI" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/53c2f10fe6890969df3f73d788c3b491429b645a/original/307d7164-cf34-467c-a3e8-2b7840a9c539-060319cv.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></figure>
<p><a href="https://www.pollstar.com/article/deafheaven-blackgaze-metal-pioneers-prod-the-edges-upgrade-touring-138118?fbclid=IwAR2QVLMOVkjFunnqVACxv7EbaAR4c4NOC5CuXOuie3Vge-qvShA5dvJ7TPI"><i>via Pollstar</i></a></p>
<p>Experimental heavy band <a href="https://deafheaven.com/blogs/deafheaven.com">Deafheaven</a>, fresh off of a co-headlining tour with Baroness, has proven an act of its ilk can make its way on the road and do things its own way while continuing to grow, from a recent Grammy nomination to increasing ticket sales across the board.</p>
<p>“I think the greatest thing about moving up in size and rooms is the freedom to be more creative,” says Deafheaven frontman George Clarke, mentioning the band’s added production effects on its latest tours. “It’s always a dream of mine to make our show bigger and more entertaining.”</p><!-- more -->
<p>And grow they have. The band’s recent history includes an Aug. 18 date at Los Angeles’ Wiltern that moved 1,720 tickets and grossed $36,285 and a near-sellout July 24 at Brooklyn Steel that grossed $34,817. Deafheaven also enjoyed strong co-bill numbers at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre and Manhattan’s Terminal 5.</p>
<p>Deafheaven worked hard from the start, often touring for 10 months of the year and making its bones on the club circuit. The band has grown lots from its early days: In February, its members felt somewhat out of place at the Grammys, where Deafheaven’s 11-minute track “Honeycomb,” off 2018’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, was nominated for Best Metal Performance.</p>
<p>“They were young boys when I met them,” says manager Cathy Pellow of <a href="https://deafheaven.com/blogs/sargenthouse.com">Sargent House</a> with a laugh. Pellow met Deafheaven almost 10 years ago through another client of hers, Russian Circles, and took the group on its first major tour. The band’s 2013 album Sunbather received unexpected critical buzz, including Pitchfork’s coveted Best New Music designation, and set the bar for the black metal and shoegaze acts collectively known as “blackgaze.” Subsequently, Deafheaven’s touring exploded and the group graduated to headliner status. </p>
<p>“It’s been beautiful to watch them get big and support other up-and-coming bands,” Pellow says. “They really deserve everything they get. It’s such a proud thing for me to be at the Wiltern and say ‘Wow, these guys, when I met them….’ It’s unimaginable. They’re extremely grateful for it and don’t take it for granted.”</p>
<p>The band’s hard-to-define sound, which incorporates elements from serene shoegaze and post-rock to brutal, crushing metal featuring Clarke’s intense vocals, has meant careful planning when coming up with tour packages and determining festival slots.</p>
<p>“They’ve done dates with Slipknot, and opened for Lamb of God, but it didn’t always connect super well,” the band’s booking agent and close personal friend, Merrick Jarmulowicz at Ground Control Touring, says.<br><br>“That was a learning process, just trying to figure out what the audience is down to go on the ride with us for. The strategy has been mostly to prod the edges of where we can take it.” </p>
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<p><br>This year, those edges include a Bonnaroo slot, and niche events like August’s Psycho Las Vegas, which boasts a lineup for metal purists topped by Megadeth and Opeth as well as genre mainstays such as High On Fire and Full of Hell. Deafheaven will also play Austin’s multi-venue Levitation Festival, which has acts from freak-folk acoustic strummer Devendra Banhart to thrash band Power Trip.<br><br>“We’ve been very fortunate to be invited to such a broad array of festivals,” Clarke says. “A lot of it is due to Merrick’s hard work, and hopefully just being an entertaining live band. We’re always kind of the odd man on festivals. I don’t know if that’s an advantage, but people keep inviting us and I think it’s fun to be part of different worlds.”<br><br>Those worlds go beyond the underground metal scene, which wasn’t always receptive to the band, despite a seeming openness to outsiders.<br><br>“They’re a very divisive band and they really took a lot of lumps getting to where they are now, taking a beating from the people who were probably their most natural fanbase,” Jarmulowicz says. “The people who want to just listen to the music and go to a show and be open-minded enough to be convinced, we’ve won a lot of them over because the live show is so good. It wasn’t natural and wasn’t embraced by everyone immediately.”<br><br>Clarke says the band’s performances speak for themselves. “For me, every stage is a proving ground,” he explains. “It’s important, no matter who we’re playing with or whatever audience, to represent what we do in its purest and most honest way, and to be ourselves and to give the best set we can. That’s kind of our motto.”<br><br>Touring with Baroness, another metal band albeit a more straightforward and melodic one, was one way to do that; Jarmulowicz and Pellow anticipate more creative packages.<br><br>“It’s probably not the last time we do that kind of thing, whether it’s supporting or co-headlining, anything to raise the profile of the band,” says Jarmulowicz, although Pellow notes Deafheaven likely won’t open for anyone. “They’re busy guys, they’ll probably do 150 shows this year or maybe more,” Jarmulowicz adds, mentioning the band will hit Asia this year after a Euro leg with Touche Amore. Even with a conservative average gross of $16,335, that means Deafheaven could easily surpass $2 million in that span.<br><br>“We find ourselves in a very motivated time right now,” Clarke says. “I don’t see things slowing down. Both in touring and writing, we are going to stay busy. Hopefully it’s just onward and upward.” </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955592019-04-30T14:05:32-07:002020-01-13T11:15:27-08:00Deafheaven on Over/Under // Pitchfork<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="173" data-orig-width="1000"><p><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/4a2c858f2d0f043d671b004f5a7e4422/tumblr_inline_pqskicIhtb1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="364" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8O9y8r4jBlw?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="600"></iframe><br>Watch Kerry, George & Shiv rate scented candles, raya, and more in this episode of Over/Under.</p></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955602019-04-26T14:52:25-07:002020-01-13T11:15:27-08:00Deafheaven at Levitation<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deafheaven-russian-circles-emma-ruth-rundle-brutus-jaye-jayle-tickets-60692085662" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/4fa3b216b5f69cb24380725c3e1dae8d136a8509/original/levitation-2019-sargent-house-square-web.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>Deafheaven will be performing at Levitation 2019 in Austin, TX for a special Sargent House showcase with Russian Circles, Brutus, Emma Ruth Rundle, Jaye Jayle & Lingua Ignota. Tickets <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deafheaven-russian-circles-emma-ruth-rundle-brutus-jaye-jayle-tickets-60692085662" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955612019-04-23T09:55:27-07:002020-01-13T11:15:27-08:00Deafheaven & Touché Amoré 2019 EU/UK Tour<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/948a747478299a2156520166db55ee33ff9ec560/original/b-oj3ox9.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Deafheaven & Touché Amoré have announced their co-headlining EU/UK 2019 tour with support from Portrayal of Guilt. Tickets on sale Friday, April 26th at <a contents="deafheaven.com&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a></p>
<p>SEP 16 Budapest, HU @ A38 <br>SEP 17 Ljubljana, SL @ Kino Siska <br>SEP 18 Milan, IT @ Santeria Social Club <br>SEP 20 Vienna, AT @ Arena <br>SEP 21 Prague, CZ @ Meet Factory <br>SEP 22 Berlin, DE @ SO36 <br>SEP 23 Copenhagen, DK @ Vega <br>SEP 25 Hamburg, DE @ Markthalle <br>SEP 26 Haarlem, NL @ Patronaat <br>SEP 27 Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof <br>SEP 29 Bristol, UK @ SWX <br>SEP 30 Newcastle, UK @ Riverside <br>OCT 01 Glasgow, UK @ Garage <br>OCT 02 Manchester, UK @ Academy 2 <br>OCT 03 London, UK @ Electric Ballroom <br>OCT 04 Brussels, BE @ AB Ballroom <br>OCT 05 Paris, FR @ Trabendo <br>OCT 07 Cologne, DE @ Carlswerk Victoria<br>OCT 08 Munich, DE @ Backstage Werk <br>OCT 09 Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik <br>OCT 10 Lyon, FR @ Epicerie Moderne <br>OCT 11 Barcelona, ES @ AMFest <br>OCT 12 Madrid, ES @ Sala Shoko <br>OCT 13 Porto, PT @ Amplifest</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955622019-04-15T12:36:16-07:002020-01-13T11:15:28-08:00Deafheaven & Baroness Live Review // Consequence of Sound<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="194" data-orig-width="893"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/04/live-review-baroness-deafheaven-new-york-city-2019/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/b679ebe398b04bc4743b3a470d3a8c03/tumblr_inline_pq0p328f2U1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/04/live-review-baroness-deafheaven-new-york-city-2019/" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/fa664bc4fef7dfc2b94e3ba16b17d10405c6c0d5/original/baroness-deafheaven.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p><i><a href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/04/live-review-baroness-deafheaven-new-york-city-2019/" target="_blank">Full feature & photo gallery via CoS</a></i><br><br><b>Setting the Stage:</b> A steady rain descended on Manhattan as fans filtered into the industrial concert space Terminal 5 for a stacked bill. Baroness and <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> were making the final stop on their co-headlining tour with support from Zeal & Ardor, and though none of these bands sound alike, they all craft metal on their own terms and without creative borders. From the swamplands of Georgia, Baroness emerged 15 years ago with their joyous, lyrical sludge, while Deafheaven rose out of San Francisco at the beginning of the decade to turn black metal onto itself for positivity and romance rather than evil. There were artistic parallels and a welcome sonic contrast between bands, which made for a lively, well-paced evening of music.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955632019-04-09T11:18:10-07:002020-01-13T11:15:28-08:00Japanese Dates with Emperor Announced<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/0d3ef112ac86c63ca82b8f17008a6aa90e007f6d/original/dfhvn-j.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="Deafheaven" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be performing in Osaka & Tokyo, Japan on shows with Emperor this Fall.<br>Tickets on sale this Friday, April 12 at <a contents="deafheaven.com " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com </a></p>
<p>Nov 13 Osaka, JP @ Namba Hatch <br>Nov 14 Tokyo, JP @ Tsutaya O-East <br>Nov 15 Tokyo, JP @ Tsutaya O-East</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955642019-04-08T10:30:43-07:002020-01-13T11:15:28-08:00"Black Brick" Live // Revolver<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="66" data-orig-width="524"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/premium-video/music/watch-deafheavens-devastating-live-performance-new-song-black-brick" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/0aaeb3c22ef0427d3e50252ec6f238bf/tumblr_inline_ppnkocHpyz1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="364" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u9QJo5fBADE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="600"></iframe></p></figure>
<p><span class="font_large"><b><a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/premium-video/music/watch-deafheavens-devastating-live-performance-new-song-black-brick" target="_blank">WATCH DEAFHEAVEN’S DEVASTATING LIVE PERFORMANCE OF NEW SONG “BLACK BRICK” <i>via Revolver</i></a></b></span><br><br>In 2018, Revolver went on the road with <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> for our two-part documentary <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/premium-video/music/corrupt-love-across-america-road-deafheaven-pt-1" target="_blank">Corrupt Love Across America</a>; last month, we dropped in again, on a few of the West Coast tour dates on their co-headlining run with Baroness. The group’s recently released stand-alone single <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/hear-deafheavens-heavy-hell-surprise-new-song-black-brick" target="_blank">“Black Brick”</a> — a B-side from their excellent, adventurous fourth album, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love — serves as a particularly vicious highlight of Deafheaven’s set. In contrast to the heavily shoegaze-inflected atmosphere of many of the quintet’s other songs, the nearly eight-minute composition is steeped in classic black-metal grimness and ferocity, both of which are only amplified live onstage. Watch the recent performance to see what we mean.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955652019-02-27T11:21:39-08:002020-01-13T11:15:28-08:00Deafheaven Share Heavy New Track, “Black Brick” // Pitchfork<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="173" data-orig-width="1000"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/news/listen-to-deafheaven-new-song-black-brick/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/b9488a71bdab3d3a5d995768cd77b6fa/tumblr_inline_pnlna8FsbZ1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/2c08e82a20f9c0c8d5a95414f19436d4/tumblr_inline_pnlmwnLq6i1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://pitchfork.com/news/listen-to-deafheaven-new-song-black-brick/" target="_blank">Full feature via Pitchfork</a></p>
<p><a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> have just released a new song. It’s called “Black Brick,” and it’s a B-side from their 2018 album <a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love/" target="_blank">Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</a>. Listen below.</p>
<p>Deafheaven are <a href="https://pitchfork.com/news/deafheaven-and-baroness-announce-tour/" target="_blank">set to tour North America</a> with Baroness next month. This past December, frontman <a href="https://pitchfork.com/news/deafheavens-george-clarke-talks-grammy-nomination-inclusivity-in-metal/" target="_blank">George Clarke spoke to Pitchfork</a>shortly after the Grammy nominations were announced. (The band was <a href="https://pitchfork.com/news/kendrick-drake-cardi-b-lead-2019-grammy-nominations/" target="_blank">nominated for Best Metal Performance</a>.) “It’s very cool. It’s surreal to have a band like ours making the music that we make be recognized on that kind of a level,” he said. “We appreciate it a lot.”</p>
<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-orig-height="304" data-orig-width="540" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FKGXm6m5OnAc"><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KGXm6m5OnAc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="600"></iframe></p></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955662019-02-22T12:12:23-08:002020-01-13T11:15:28-08:00The Story of Deafheaven in 5 Songs // Interview with LNWY<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="458" data-orig-width="879"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://lnwy.co/read/the-story-of-deafheaven-in-5-songs/" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/06343add10cb91f94fd9a20fdbbbcf5167fc73d7/original/screen-shot-2019-02-22-at-12-09-19-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></figure>
<p><a href="https://lnwy.co/read/the-story-of-deafheaven-in-5-songs/" target="_blank">Full interview via LNWY</a></p>
<p>BORN from the ashes of tech-death/grindcore band Rise Of Caligula, <a href="http://facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> began at the very start of the decade as a passion project between vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy.</p>
<p>Initially, there was no real desire to exist beyond the walls of their bedrooms – to them, this was just a creative outlet to indulge in on the side. “All we had was this demo, which we put up online for free,” explains George.</p><!-- more -->
<p>“We sent it off to a couple of blogs and that was it. There wasn’t anything in mind beyond that. Pretty soon, though, we started getting emails from local venues asking about us playing shows. We didn’t even have a band together, but we agreed that playing a show would be fun.</p>
<p>“We were able to Frankenstein a line-up together using Craigslist and friends of friends to play with us, and it went from just playing a show to playing shows. We became a band – quite quickly, too.”</p>
<h2>“The thing about Deafheaven is that even when the lyrics come across as abstract, they’re often quite autobiographical.”</h2>
<p>Needless to say, the universe had other plans that lay past Clarke and McCoy’s apartments. Deafheaven have been heralded as one of contemporary metal’s most ambitious, inventive and important bands in the ensuing years.</p>
<p>They’ve been nominated for a Grammy, taken to global festival stages and even been the gateway band for a legion unsuspecting indie kids, now inducted into the cult of heavy metal and here to stay.</p>
<p>Ahead of the band’s <a href="http://handsometours.com/tours/deafheaven-2019/" target="_blank">Australian tour</a>, George spoke about the band’s life and times through the lens of five key tracks from Deafheaven’s back catalogue.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955672019-02-07T14:33:29-08:002020-02-07T06:19:28-08:00Deafheaven at Psycho Las Vegas 2019<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1920" data-orig-width="1080"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/11c38b5163ad11666d6ac21e850d9e20b2e7ba35/original/image001.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></figure>
<p>Deafheaven will be performing at Psycho Las Vegas 2019 (Aug 16 – 18). More info at <a contents="vivapsycho.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://vivapsycho.com" target="_blank">vivapsycho.com </a></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955682019-01-30T13:07:59-08:002020-01-13T11:15:28-08:00Grammy Nomination Interview // Billboard<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="421" data-orig-width="2000"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/8495177/deafheaven-grammy-nomination-metal-honeycomb-interview?utm_source=twitter" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/eccb5ee7745250230e7ec6f6c97453b4/tumblr_inline_pm5x2xCC5I1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="152" data-orig-width="607"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/8495177/deafheaven-grammy-nomination-metal-honeycomb-interview?utm_source=twitter" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/11b5820f714c2870379af521a75f261c/tumblr_inline_pm5x3qXecr1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="421" data-orig-width="636"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/8495177/deafheaven-grammy-nomination-metal-honeycomb-interview?utm_source=twitter" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/18c3fb2ff37802f381429f90d824bdcead334f14/original/deafheaven-press-by-shane-gardner-bb2-2019-billboard-1548.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></figure>
<p>Full article via <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/8495177/deafheaven-grammy-nomination-metal-honeycomb-interview?utm_source=twitter" target="_blank">Billboard</a><br><br>Famous major-label acts like Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica and Slipknot have long dominated the best metal performance category at the Grammy Awards. But this year the field is more in tune with the underground: Four of the five nominated acts are signed to independent labels, including first-time nominee <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> (ANTI-). The San Francisco band, which formed in 2010, earned a nod for its Ordinary Corrupt Human Love track “Honeycomb,” an 11-minute primer on its experimental sound.</p><!-- more -->
<p><b>Back in December, how did you find out you were nominated?</b></p>
<p>George Clarke (vocals): I was on a flight to New York and had a layover in North Carolina that was only about an hour long. When I landed, I turned my phone back on and had a text from a friend: it was a screenshot of the nominees, saying congratulations. I could hardly believe it. I called Kerry immediately.</p>
<p>Kerry McCoy (guitar): I was in Paris with a friend at lunch. I was texting George about random stuff and then he called me. He knew I was in Paris so he knew it was like, 25 cents a minute – not cheap. I thought it was an emergency. So I answered and he asked me if we got nominated for a Grammy. I was like, what? No, it can’t be! I didn’t have Internet out there so I couldn’t verify it until we got back to the apartment. It was surreal but really awesome.</p>
<p><b>I’m sure you weren’t really expecting it, but was the chance of a nomination on your minds at all?</b></p>
<p>Clarke: Not really… I think we were all still on a high from how fun the touring had been and how the album was received. For us, that’s really enough.</p>
<p>I will say that given who’s been nominated the last few years – Baroness, Code Orange, Mastodon – it did seem like someone at the Grammys was paying more attention, which thought was very cool. I thought our category needed to be shaken up the past few years, and it has been. I’m happy to be included in a new wave of attention to younger, heavier artists.</p>
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<p><b>How did “Honeycomb” come together?</b></p>
<p>McCoy: It was one of the first songs we wrote as a band after I had gotten sober [in late 2017]. I had this burst of creativity. I was listening to a ton of Pulp, Oasis, and Dinosaur Jr, stuff like that at the time. That big, Oasis-like middle section was the first thing we had come together. I took rough sketches up to Oakland and the whole song came together within a couple days. [Guitarist] Shiv [Mehra] had a bunch of leads he threw on there immediately. Chris [Johnson] added the great bass and [drummer] Dan [Tracy] was doing his stuff. It sounds easy – not technically easy – but easy in the way music feels when it’s written by people who enjoy it.</p>
<p>Clarke: It exemplifies the celebratory feeling we had with this record.</p>
<p><b>The Grammys don’t typically recognize music like Deafheaven’s; why do you think they’re coming around now? </b></p>
<p>Clarke: I don’t have an answer to that… In our community, there are a lot of hardworking people who sacrifice a ton to release records like this, to stay on the road. Perhaps together we’ve drummed up enough attention for these major outlets to recognize. We just try to make meaningful music and work hard.</p>
<p><b>It felt like Deafheaven helped lead a lot of non-metal people and publications to open up to metal, especially around your 2013 sophomore album, Sunbather.</b></p>
<p>Clarke: If we played a part in being a gateway for major outlets to cover [artists] of our caliber, that’s really positive.</p>
<p><b>You mentioned Baroness – they were nominated in 2017 and Deafheaven is about to go on tour with them. Did they impart any Grammys wisdom?</b></p>
<p>Clarke: When I was in New York I had dinner with a couple of those guys who live out in Brooklyn. It was fun. They gave me a rundown of how it was, the overall weirdness of it all, how funny certain aspects are. We’re essentially foreign to this whole world, so they way they described it was just to enjoy the experience. To fill those weird shoes. They seemed to have a lot of fun and I think we will, too.</p>
<p><b>What are you going to do that day? Are you going to walk the red carpet?</b></p>
<p>Clarke: Honestly, we have no idea how it works, but from what we’ve been told thus far, yes. We’ll be doing the red carpet. We’re taking our moms. From my understanding, it’s the whole thing. We’ll be dressing up and being fancy for a night.</p>
<p>McCoy: My mom is talking about having her friends style her and everything… She’s pumped.</p>
<p><b>Did you notice that four of the five metal nominees – Between the Buried and Me, High on Fire, Underoath and Deafheaven – come from independent labels?</b></p>
<p>Clarke: We did! That’s something I wanted to speak on, too. These are groups of musicians who have been working, grinding for an extremely long time, some of which we’ve had the pleasure of touring and playing with before. It’s really cool that whoever is running this Grammy committee is giving these artists recognition.</p>
<p>McCoy: Of all the bands that are nominated, we’ve been along for the shortest amount of time. And we’ve been around for nine years!</p>
<p><b>Why do you think it takes metal bands so long to get noticed? </b></p>
<p>Clarke: Metal is not typically the most commercial genre. It hasn’t been for a while. And that’s okay. Metal is gonna be fine on its own. It has an extremely dedicated, built-in community. It has extremely dedicated musicians. And it’s never gonna go away. It’s really cool to be recognized, but I don’t think metal relies on the Grammys’ attention. And I think the Grammys know that, too.</p>
<p>McCoy: It’s not something that everybody listens to. I’m sure the people at the Grammys are just as much regular people as my mom is. And my mom doesn’t really listen to metal except for us [Laughs].</p>
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<p><b>You mentioned 2018 nominees Code Orange; what are some other younger metal bands you’d like to see the Grammys recognize?</b></p>
<p>Clarke: I’d love to see <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/inter-arma" target="_blank">Inter Arma</a> or <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/power-trip" target="_blank">Power Trip</a>.</p>
<p><b>Aside from the Grammys, what are you most excited for this year?</b></p>
<p>Clarke: Just getting out in general. We’re a band that thrives on touring and thrives on seeing fans all over the world.</p>
<p>McCoy: Even though we’ve done it so many times, we can’t get enough of it: figuring out set lists, hanging with friends, seeing what the health food stores in random parts of the country are like.</p>
<p><b>Does a band like Deafheaven earn most of its livelihood from touring?</b></p>
<p>Clarke: For a band like us, yes. Touring and merchandising are our bread and butter. We see income from little things here and there, but touring is where we make our money.</p>
<p><b>Things worked out really well for you in that respect.</b></p>
<p>McCoy: We always used to say it felt like a scam because we used to spend money to tour. And now we get paid to do it. We keep wondering what the catch is!</p>
<p><b>Are you thinking about your next release or working on new music?</b></p>
<p>Clarke: Not heavily but it’s always being talked about. The thing about our band is we’re all very good friends, so we talk all the time. Kerry and I are always sharing little ideas of where we might want to go. Or little riffs here and there. Shiv is the same way. So on that level it’s kind of a constant thing, but no, as far as right now we haven’t sat down and planned anything.</p>
<p>The whole [Grammys] thing is weird for us, but we’re enjoying it. It’s a great way to start the year.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955692019-01-14T10:32:24-08:002020-01-13T11:15:28-08:00Deafheaven Joins Gojira for NC show dates<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="960" data-orig-width="738"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/5e9abae18617ced1e7e722e846b2dbf1/tumblr_inline_plc3fpjYkl1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be joining <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GojiraMusic/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARD7Ji85fQaaXfLa64_lO08fjLay8PulyQga16C2OCprf_0OiZSJr889sVBYswaw1-gm-q97xWQXmQ-O&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCMk-AsvjAIuSZHssYrsmw0ZOxUzY3EmUuTyVCypErV_jgwBjIh19rJBHhSvK8-uxYj3ineFvU5wjDCMgxIpGoSMJykyjSgPVmk5UZkVXpKwrBh7f0ekq93ZLzhP-lHqkyfc7HribYzEilfPQ-uAyN1BhGixyyOH6VH8zIkNn6NFKjnJa8-d42SMnkyRCWW2ibkPFaYKyyoxVx4Dcp10AthKYXe7p7ExHTgpet9482ULsguvvpOazhOfVx1hFypMdHVZG57qkX1bgz0RHkBoJf1jb48EEBVfkgBe2dy1pj2YnAqUskIumHVy-U5rw5R_z1DENrqUrLvBnH3J_Akoux1rw" target="_blank">Gojira</a> for three shows in North Carolina before playing Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. All ticket links at: <a href="http://deafheaven.com/?fbclid=IwAR2jEiaICncVncyu-Vy-JX3QzwcvhH4xaTRbjPREBVqk8IY6MqpakyEmm34" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a></p>
<p>June 11 Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz *<br>June 12 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore *<br>June 13 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel<br>June 14 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Festival</p>
<p>* also with All Them Witches</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955702019-01-08T10:32:24-08:002020-01-13T11:15:29-08:00Deafheaven at Bonnaroo 2019<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1500" data-orig-width="1500" style=""><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bonnaroo.com/tickets" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/e7cbb28e7ac0b9baec2e1df7c5478575/tumblr_inline_pl0zgyroKY1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> has been announced to play Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 14. Tickets: <a href="http://bonnaroo.com/tickets" target="_blank">bonnaroo.com/tickets</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955712018-12-11T10:30:04-08:002020-01-13T11:15:29-08:00Deafheaven X Baroness // 2019 N America Tour<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="2569" data-orig-width="1669"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/c49a55e749bc9c1939a519e2118e947c/tumblr_inline_pjl4du7OlJ1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/deafheaven/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be joining <a href="https://www.facebook.com/YourBaroness/?__tn__=KH-R&eid=ARBg68y6AdioScmaPvtr4tdHcbd8o1-zjI9Ir5gx-GzWwSWU-sj_BkLeLb2Wm__brblQv7H4PZ2AlHiw&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAK9MU-jmNh0Z9UkY00lGPUHyzXxYZTHK77xuOljBUGJQNMxlfwdDXd8x66Dr_M-4CSCmP3ATw9R_-IlDhfjwVJWcCc8WTit5d-_vwRy6n0zWB3kA4iAM1L_QYGqqS0WtCQJmYsAWE4DgAHbZECtokmtYQalgJWv1Qk50ZabBdWPM75EGFgxlJ1PVY7QuJaTfLhvFLIYlGXgXB5MVyketTZ4pM8m2jUp9rE6R17YQwzmLNk0TCImDziFTWvCfkG5RMQdMI_CHjJ11naZ639Z4TUptUFeC-Ia-jj-_kgKU29VOU4rpugCFGr3CC1hCZ5UdzkrXNTnZdjWrsPYai-" target="_blank">Baroness</a> on a co- headlining N. American tour with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zealandardor/?__tn__=KH-R&eid=ARAd4CGV8BeFy0HmCX0F6SuSkyjKn68v2P04K7u8DSnT-E_EYsXC6pBKNjgyUYwJ2cA9PoDVmFgPStoM&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAK9MU-jmNh0Z9UkY00lGPUHyzXxYZTHK77xuOljBUGJQNMxlfwdDXd8x66Dr_M-4CSCmP3ATw9R_-IlDhfjwVJWcCc8WTit5d-_vwRy6n0zWB3kA4iAM1L_QYGqqS0WtCQJmYsAWE4DgAHbZECtokmtYQalgJWv1Qk50ZabBdWPM75EGFgxlJ1PVY7QuJaTfLhvFLIYlGXgXB5MVyketTZ4pM8m2jUp9rE6R17YQwzmLNk0TCImDziFTWvCfkG5RMQdMI_CHjJ11naZ639Z4TUptUFeC-Ia-jj-_kgKU29VOU4rpugCFGr3CC1hCZ5UdzkrXNTnZdjWrsPYai-" target="_blank">Zeal & Ardor</a> opening all shows. Tickets on sale Friday, Dec 14.<br>More info at <a contents="deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a> // <a contents="yourbaroness.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://yourbaroness.com" target="_blank">yourbaroness.com</a></p><!-- more -->
<p>MAR 8 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall<br>MAR 9 Austin, TX @ Emo’s<br>MAR 10 Dallas, TX @ Canton Hall<br>MAR 12 Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren<br>MAR 13 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern<br>MAR 14 Anaheim, CA @ The House of Blues<br>MAR 16 Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre<br>MAR 18 Portland, OR @ Roseland<br>MAR 19 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox<br>MAR 20 Vancouver, BC @ The Vogue Theatre<br>MAR 22 Edmonton, AB @ Union Hall<br>MAR 23 Calgary, AB @ The Palace Theatre<br>MAR 24 Spokane, WA @ The Knitting Factory<br>MAR 26 Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall<br>MAR 27 Denver, CO @ The Ogden Theater<br>MAR 29 Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theatre<br>MAR 30 Madison, WI @ The Sylvee<br>MAR 31 Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theater<br>APR 02 Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall<br>APR 03 Montreal, QC @ The Corona Theater<br>APR 05 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom<br>APR 06 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium<br>APR 07 Albany, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall<br>APR 09 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre<br>APR 10 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore<br>APR 12 New York, NY @ Terminal 5<br> <br>APR 14 Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore / Decibel Metal & Beer Fest (Deafheaven only)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955722018-12-07T13:28:30-08:002020-01-13T11:15:29-08:00Deafheaven 2019 Grammy Nomination // Best Metal Performance<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1024" data-orig-width="1024"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/b851657373d39aeebf0bcadf25bed005/tumblr_inline_pjdy6qhn8g1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> have been nominated for the Best Metal Performance Grammy. <br>Pitchfork coverage <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/news/grammy-nominations-2019-see-the-full-list-here/?utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=p4k&mbid=social_twitter" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955732018-11-19T10:33:06-08:002020-01-13T11:15:29-08:00Deafheaven on the Cover of the January Decibel<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1097" data-orig-width="820"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/11/19/deafheaven-grace-the-cover-of-the-january-decibel/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/22497cfd13f5ba270bf9604e771c8e4b/tumblr_inline_pigdwa5Q8c1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p>Via <a href="https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/11/19/deafheaven-grace-the-cover-of-the-january-decibel/" target="_blank">Decible Magazine</a><br><br>Making not just their Decibel cover debut, but their North American cover debut, ever-controversial post-black metallers <a href="https://www.facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> are here to give their side of the story. Including the objective and 100% accurate Top 40 Albums of 2018 feature as well as an exclusive Withered picture flexi featuring art from legendary artist Paul Romano, the latest issue of your favorite metal publication is sure to turn some heads. <a href="https://store.decibelmagazine.com/collections/back-issues/products/january-2019-171" target="_blank">Get your copy today</a>!</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955742018-11-07T16:57:57-08:002020-01-13T11:15:29-08:00Deafheaven Announce 2019 New Zealand + Australia Tour<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1517" data-orig-width="1080"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/563d41fae35e63d954d1a96f1e60370c/tumblr_inline_phu7nbt01e1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<p>Deafheaven have announced their 2019 tour in Australia & New Zealand. Visit <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a> for tickets and more info.<br><br>FEB 20 Wellington, NZ @ Valhalla<br>FEB 21 Auckland, NZ @ Galatos<br>FEB 22 Perth, AU @ Perth Festival<br>FEB 24 Brisbane, AU @ Crowbar<br>FEB 27 Melbourne, AU @ Corner Hotel<br>FEB 28 Sydney, AU @ Manning Bar</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955752018-10-29T10:56:07-07:002020-01-13T11:15:29-08:00Deafheaven at Decibel’s Metal & Beer Fest Philly 2019<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1280" data-orig-width="957"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/10/29/first-wave-of-bands-breweries-announced-for-decibel-metal-beer-fest-philly-2019/?fbclid=IwAR3_wPjA4kkbi3vw1UfmQUooyAO9C5-2DaXn9lcRnPVAY5b0-muD8WYlroc#.W9c8ZLYCBVA.facebook" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/64f66bb0e112256c3cf2e2a70e7f3576/tumblr_inline_phdggjpuof1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/deafheaven/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARD0-jwbYUdzJbRyICfzkxYEZRAG2RFq61pqpEnce1WTI065CfjAQCUkd_rTbatIe2Kt1uJD8U_d3ynX&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARArJCGyTNdyn2RZb7fJO5inl7RoXUtEXsmoTe8IhPPIYGiL7kh3ZBRdQwocl5U94ht4tvrZfhxT5ZWfCi-KN7UO8B_n3KMZaP2SQubhAyKRY6Je_IKj6a5rqtL8229VGYjSj24yHMbuRmrCxHMmaApSy2Om5IzanRAQOzAaf1TSTkAY7f-XBGbiLyVvt7WcDLijgpNdG6ExCev0D8frQh7dz0WK9g" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be playing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/decibelmagazine/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARDwdf-HH7FQ5KaME7PQ-2ayiYcD3d3AkXp0Ow8qBM9KgQC5oevp6xxUZEiIpKaWPqBU2QCZJ7RnttUz&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARArJCGyTNdyn2RZb7fJO5inl7RoXUtEXsmoTe8IhPPIYGiL7kh3ZBRdQwocl5U94ht4tvrZfhxT5ZWfCi-KN7UO8B_n3KMZaP2SQubhAyKRY6Je_IKj6a5rqtL8229VGYjSj24yHMbuRmrCxHMmaApSy2Om5IzanRAQOzAaf1TSTkAY7f-XBGbiLyVvt7WcDLijgpNdG6ExCev0D8frQh7dz0WK9g" target="_blank">Decibel</a>’s Metal & Beer Fest, April 2019 in Philadelphia, PA. Tickets on sale Friday, Nov 2. More info <a href="https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/10/29/first-wave-of-bands-breweries-announced-for-decibel-metal-beer-fest-philly-2019/?fbclid=IwAR3_wPjA4kkbi3vw1UfmQUooyAO9C5-2DaXn9lcRnPVAY5b0-muD8WYlroc#.W9c8ZLYCBVA.facebook" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955762018-10-11T17:12:44-07:002020-01-13T11:15:29-08:00Deafheaven Live Review // NME<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/9ddedc73c32f0bf9e7a941a0896bbedd/tumblr_inline_pgglritSAB1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p>
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<p>Written by Tom Connick via <a href="https://www.nme.com/reviews/live/deafheaven-ulu-london-review-photos" target="_blank">NME</a><br><br><span class="font_large">The genre fluid group mark their return to the UK with a set that revels in moments of human connection</span></p><!-- more -->
<p>The only thing more incongruous than Deafheaven’s sound is the venue that hosts their London return. With Fresher’s Week only just wrapped up, London’s ULU student union tonight plays host to a very different sort of evening, the scent of regrettable Jagerbombs still lingering in the air as crowds of black-clad metal fans fill out a room more used to day-glo club nights.</p>
<p>Against the odds, though, Deafheaven make this bizarre locale their own. Striding on stage to the triumphant strains of ‘Honeycomb’, guitarist Kerry McCoy sporting an Oasis Knebworth t-shirt, they highlight the anthemic edge to their genre-fluid sound from the off. Through the ensuing eleven minutes, they exercise breathtaking restraint, the pregnant pauses and soaring atmospherics of that recent single exhibiting the same build and release of tension as a neo-classical composer, as frontman George Clarke punctuates his searing screams with moves more befitting of a conductor at the Proms.</p>
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<p>That contrast between beauty and gloom defines the evening. As Clarke’s black dress shirt comes to resemble an oil slick poured across his back, the band slip into the brief breather of ‘Canary Yellow’, an ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’-heavy set surging forward. Clarke clutches at a tambourine, but – rather than tapping it against his palm, as is conventional wisdom – he wields it like a hand-axe, swinging it with ever-increasing fury into his mic stand. By the time the gang vocals at the end of ‘Canary Yellow’ see the crowd indulge in a rare moment of singalong euphoria, that juxtaposition feels unitary – everyone in the room relishing the outsider status of Deafheaven’s music.</p>
<p><br>It’s not all about reclusion, though – there are more than enough moments of pure bliss to prevent this Friday night from slipping into blackness. ‘Sunbather’ sees one erstwhile crowdsurfer travel all the way from the back of the room to the stage, letting out a note-perfect scream as he connects with Clarke’s microphone, while ‘Worthless Animal’ finds guitarist Shiv Mehra taking to the front of the stage, noodling away like Keith Richards at his most showboating.</p>
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<p>As the band return to the stage for an encore of ‘You Without End’, Kerry taking to the piano to soften the edges of their sound, members of the crowd begin to yell birthday wishes to George (who turned 30 yesterday). Before long, the whole crowd is singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to the blushing metal frontman.</p>
<p>It’s those moments of humanity amongst all the chaos which truly define Deafheaven. As closer ‘Dream House’ sees them soar to the skies, Clarke himself takes to the crowd, diving headfirst into his throng. It’s a physical connection to rival the emotional one that Deafheaven have gunned for all evening – the perfect encapsulation of their poignant approach.</p>
<p>All photos: Deafheaven live at London ULU (Photo: Abbie Shipperley/NME)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955772018-09-17T16:03:11-07:002020-01-13T11:15:29-08:00Deafheaven Perform Live Songs // Audio Tree "Far Out" Session<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="193" data-orig-width="858"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://audiotree.tv/farout/deafheaven" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/3e07c099d1aaf9d5e63d41f2b4f64bac/tumblr_inline_pf82r0VU2e1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sC3V6DU-o9k?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="540"></iframe><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gJ-WmYn_9GE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="540"></iframe></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> perform “Honeycomb” and “Worthless Animal” at the Preston Bradley Center Auditorium in Chicago, IL.<br>(Via <a contents="Audio Tree" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://audiotree.tv/farout/deafheaven" target="_blank">Audio Tree</a>)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955782018-09-13T12:11:51-07:002020-01-13T11:15:29-08:00Deafheaven on Carson Daly<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="494" data-orig-width="750"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.nbc.com/last-call-with-carson-daly" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/f2b2bacd7de0e7e45fa0bd35b3084e0b/tumblr_inline_pf0d8iSqSS1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p>Tonight on NBC they will be airing an excerpt from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>’s show at The Wiltern on “Last Call With Carson Daly” - the full clip will then be up on the shows youtube channel.<br>Tune in late night <a href="https://www.nbc.com/last-call-with-carson-daly" target="_blank">https://www.nbc.com/last-call-with-carson-daly</a><br><br>EU/UK Tour starts today – Tickets available at <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955792018-08-31T11:58:54-07:002020-01-13T11:15:30-08:00On the Road with Deafheaven PT. 2 // Revolver<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/premium-video/music/corrupt-love-across-america-road-deafheaven-pt-2" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/0a55a37173f3c82af3cdc16b9b7df645/tumblr_inline_pec9voscdC1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
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<p>In the second and final installment of “Corrupt Love Across America,” our exclusive on-the-road doc on <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>, Revolver joins the genre-defying band for the last leg of their recent headlining tour, which hit the West Coast — the place they call home. As we visit the Bay Area, the band members discuss their deep, nostalgic connection to the region, and explain why they recorded their new album <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/review-deafheavens-ordinary-corrupt-human-love-no-fucks-given-triumph" target="_blank">Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</a> there. Overall, the positivity of <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/premium-video/music/corrupt-love-across-america-road-deafheaven-pt-1" target="_blank">the tour’s first leg</a> continues, but after some hiking, river boat cruising and, yes, more backstage dancing, all good things do come to an end (at least until the band’s <a href="https://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">imminent next tour</a>). It all culminates in a massive show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, a stage adorned in sunflowers, and an intense, passionate and beautiful full live performance of “Honeycomb.”<br><br>(via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/premium-video/music/corrupt-love-across-america-road-deafheaven-pt-2" target="_blank">Revolver</a>)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955802018-08-21T11:42:45-07:002020-01-13T11:15:30-08:00Interview with George Clarke // Submerge<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="286" data-orig-width="1404"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://submergemag.com/music/deafheaven/" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/a71c9fbcb171e945da0076f3cf79108c/tumblr_inline_pdtqd9tUuo1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/9aee64d0f93dfe7bdc1a30b0d11fb923/tumblr_inline_pdtqe7Kb101r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/3d450431e7845929ac169db9ac0c549b/tumblr_inline_pdtqefeN141r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p>Article by Andrew Russel via <a href="http://submergemag.com/music/deafheaven/" target="_blank">Submerge</a><br><br>Listening to Ordinary Corrupt Human Love on a packed light rail car, scraping along through the wreckage of the workweek under the full weight of afternoon midsummer heat, in close quarters with inscrutable humanity—anonymous lives in the thick of their separate mortal coils—might be the ideal context in which to slip into the most recent offering by Deafheaven. Eschewing the frozen wastes and infernal abysses of metal hyperbole, and mostly foregoing the introspective dread and purgation of the band’s previous albums Sunbather and New Bermuda, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love allows breathing room in which to enjoy Deafheaven’s ever more sophisticated sonics and passages of understated beauty in between the cinematic, pulse-pounding peaks. Such moments still abound, but a new focus on earthbound visions and the beauty in day-to-day existence has altered the emotional timbre this time around.</p><!-- more -->
<p>If this is a wistful look back, then it is well-earned, and perhaps the first opportunity they’ve had to do so in the seven breathless years since their debut, Roads to Judah, was released. The shadows of their twenties grow long. After breaking out of Modesto, a decade of hard party life and turmoil ensued as they ventured from San Francisco to Los Angeles, their stars rising almost immediately. Early commercial success and critical hype supplied by tastemaking blogs and publications unleashed a wave of interest in indie circles and an equally thunderous wave of spite among black metal genre cultists more concerned with face paint and cover art than great production, technical chops and originality. The comment-section-level discourse, once fierce, has since died down, blown away with the chaff by a continuous gust of quality releases and a determination to follow their instincts into whatever stylistic territory they may lead.</p>
<p>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love begins with a subdued spoken word piece describing a flock of geese passing overhead in the Oakland dusk. Even during the flintiest moments that come afterward, the main current of the album is a collection of fragmented observations of poetic happenstance amidst natural and intimately human surroundings. It feels quintessentially Californian in some sense, the feeling of perfection escaping in the corner of one’s eye, a consistently frustrated yearning for utopia, an unrequited romance with life in a nonexistent universe, and the stark specter of reality coming into full bloom while tugged at on all sides by the perpetual call of the dream. It ranges from blazing on “Honeycomb” to haunting on the Chelsea Wolfe duet “Night People,” both tendencies converging on the beautiful closing track “Worthless Animal.”</p>
<p>However you parse out the influences that have made up their sound, from black metal to post-hardcore and shoegaze, Deafheaven is less “about” any of those styles and more about empathy and reflection, sentiments that today have almost become as extreme as their musical expression, which may play some part in their wider success. The new record is the sound of a band content in its manifestation, calmly embracing the inherent faults of earthbound life.</p>
<p>We had the opportunity for a brief chat with vocalist George Clarke on some of the ideas floating around Deafheaven’s fourth LP ahead of their Sacramento appearance next month alongside the post-industrial wrath of Uniform and the sepulchral grace of Drab Majesty.</p>
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<p><b>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love sounds comparatively subdued and less emotionally raw than the last few records. What took you in this direction?</b><br>Basically, for our first three records, they were so heavily introspective that I wanted to get away from that a little bit and start fresh with this album. I consider the first three almost as a trilogy of sorts that summarized our twenties. I found my twenties to be tumultuous in a lot of ways, and I wrote a lot about that. Being 29 now, on my way to 30, it just felt like I needed to mature a little bit, and I needed to not just think about my own personal journey. There was no big catalyst or anything, just a sense of maturity, a sense of growing up; and I wanted this to be a fresh start. It is a bit more outward looking.<br><br><b>The title of the record comes from a line in a novel [The End of the Affair] by Graham Greene. What should that line or the book tell us about the music here?</b><br>The book itself doesn’t have anything to do with the record necessarily, but I just came across that passage while reading it, and I felt that those four words summarized what I was trying to say, in terms of appreciating life for what it is—ordinary, and mundane, and that’s cool, it doesn’t need to be anything else. It was a striking combination of words, so I decided to take it. In part I wanted to talk about the lives of people that I observed, I wanted to create a different narrative. I think that people can often feel bogged down by the weight of the world or our current affairs, and I think there’s a lot of negativity that gets pushed around, and I wanted to offer something different, even for a moment, to step back a little bit and see these lives and how they intersect with each other, and how the process of living is in a lot of ways a gift. So yeah, that was the mood for the record. I would say that all the lyrics stem from literally just sitting in a park, or walking around neighborhoods, observing people.<br><br><b>Genre cults, especially within metal, can feel like heavily policed prisons at times. Does it feel like the manufactured controversy about what genre Deafheaven is has finally been left behind?</b><br>I‘d like to leave it behind. It’s something that’s been mentioned for a lot of years now, and it very much is a tired conversation. I would rather people just check out what we do and listen without pretense, and if you like it, you like it; and if you don’t, you don’t. But yeah, this idea of metal credibility or that genres can be bastardized, it’s a little played by this point.</p>
<p><b>I’ve heard there’s been more of a commitment to sobriety in the band in the last six months or so. Did this have an impact on the outlook on Ordinary Corrupt Human Love? </b><br>I’d would be lying to call it a “sober” album, because that wasn’t happening during a lot of the writing of it, but certainly during the process and thereafter, I found that in order to continue this, we had to make some changes. When you don’t die at 27, and life continues, and you still want to make music a career, I’ve found that for me it’s a good idea to take a break from the things that come with the lifestyle. And so far it’s been great. Touring has been nice. It hasn’t been a huge, scary adjustment by any means, and I find that we’re all in a very good place.</p>
<p><b>A big part of listening to Deafheaven is getting a sense of purgation—of negative energy and inward torment. Is this fundamental to your creative process, and does it still play a part on the new record?</b><br>Every album is very emotionally driven. I think it’s our intent to make emotional music, so every record does deal with catharsis and purging, but certainly the first three were heavier on that end. I consider this to be our celebration record; the “we survived, and are somehow thriving” kind of record. That’s really the mindset where we’re at now.</p>
<p><b>I found the lyrics on “Worthless Animal” to be the most puzzling and compelling. Is there a story behind it?</b><br>Long story short, I saw a homeless man being attacked in Downtown L.A. for holding up traffic. A man got out of his car and accosted him for no reason. This guy was clearly mentally unstable, and I felt this rush of emotion about it, a helplessness and confusion as to why this man was being treated with cruelty, and I wanted to compare him to a deer, eating flowers. I wrote a good bit of it in my car that day, but the track is meant to emphasize empathy and remind people to be good to one another.</p>
<p><b>Eight years in, would you send back any advice for yourself or the band at the start of your career?</b><br>Just enjoy it, and keep going. I wouldn’t change anything. We’ve had a really great run. We’re really lucky and fortunate to be able to do what we do, and I’ve had a lot of fun throughout the years. I would just tell myself to always remember to enjoy it.</p>
<p><b>With the band’s ability to draw crowds from inside and outside the metal crowd, how would you recommend your live set to newcomers?</b><br>I would just tell people that what we offer is an honest show, and one that has a heavy emphasis on emotion, but it’s also fun and loud. There’s speed and heaviness, and they should hopefully just take it in. It’s an experience, and I hope that’s what we can create for them.</p>
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<p>Feature by Tom Connick via <a href="https://www.nme.com/nme-big-read-deafheaven-exclusive-interview" target="_blank">NME</a></p>
<p>With ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’, California’s <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> have released one of the most acclaimed albums of the year, a record that makes non-metal fans sit back and think, ‘Wait, do I like metal?’ Tom Connick finds them – surfing, no less – on the day of the album’s release.</p><!-- more -->
<p>Kerry McCoy spent the morning surfing. The black-haired, bespectacled metalhead might not look like the archetypal surf bro, but McCoy uses the waves as an escape fairly often. Today, the guitarist took to the board to get away from his own record – <a href="https://www.nme.com/artists/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>’s <a href="https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love-review" target="_blank">‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’</a>, which, when we speak, has been streaming online pre-release for a matter of hours.</p>
<p>“I’ve been trying not to look,” he says of the online reaction to the record. After his time on the sea, he went to hang out with friends – now he’s back home, ignoring his phone as much as possible. “My mom is keeping me updated,” Kerry says – he laughs when I suggest she might be filtering out any negativity.</p>
<p>Any longtime Deafheaven fan will appreciate his apprehension. Since their 2013 breakthrough, the Californian metallers – completed by vocalist George Clarke, guitarist Shiv Mehra, bassist Chris Johnson and see-him-to-believe-it mega-talent drummer Dan Tracy – have courted critical acclaim and genre purist backlash like few others. Second record ‘Sunbather’, released in 2013, was a beautiful fusion of post-rock atmospherics and doomy, heavy aggression, which achieved metal’s most elusive feat – crossover success. Heralded as genius by critics across the globe, this small-time, seemingly niche prospect soon found themselves performing at mainstream festivals like Coachella, and – according to reviews aggregate Metacritic – producing the year’s most critically acclaimed record, beating the likes of Beyoncé‘s self-titled, Kanye West‘s ‘Yeezus’, Daft Punk‘s ‘Random Access Memories’ and countless others to the top spot.<br><br>With breakthrough success, though, came underground backlash. Black metal purists turned their noses up at Deafheaven, pinning them as culture vultures after a quick buck. They hadn’t paid their dues, spewed the forums, all while Deafheaven’s stature continued to rise. Their sonic fusions irritated the blacker-than-thou, too. “A lot of people have this idea that we’re thumbing our nose at the metal diehards,” says Kerry, “and it’s never that. It’s really just that we want to be this kind of band.”<br><br>The fact they were pinned as metal saviors by some corners of the press was “overwhelming”, Kerry admits. Reviewed and written about by critics who’d never delved into the world of atmospheric metal before, they soon became tagged with all kinds of statements – ones they never wanted to make themselves. “You got people that either like, just really liked Beach House and had in no way ever listened to metal, but were like, ‘This is the most original thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life, this is god’s gift to music, oh my god’, and then there were people where all they listen to is Mortuary Drape, or they’re on the Nuclear War Now! Forums like, ‘This band is wildly unoriginal and the original thing that they’re ripping off sucks – this is the worst thing that could possibly happen to music’,” Kerry explains. “Both of those people were wrong!”</p>
<p>Citing the likes of ColdWorld and Alcest as early inspirations, he’s keen to drive home that Deafheaven never thought they were reinventing any wheels. “You’re getting blamed for stuff that you didn’t write, or you didn’t say, or whatever,” he shrugs. “People are gonna say what they’re gonna say, and they’ll like it or they won’t. Either way, we tried our hardest. That’s a mature way of thinking about it that I have now, but I think at the time we were trying to get to that point… hence my mom texting me stuff about the record, rather than me looking at it.</p>
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<p>Photo credit: Sean Stout<br><br>‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ is a record many will have to hear to believe. A swarming, euphoric mass of metal extremity, huge post-rock, Britpop melodies and guitar solos that could slot into place on a Thin Lizzy record, it’s a record that could soundtrack both victory marches and funerals – at once beautiful and bleak. “We’re all dudes that like extreme metal – really heavy, ridiculous stuff – but then we’re all dudes that really like psych-rock and shoegaze, Britpop, Madchester… Everyone in the band listens to everything,” explains Kerry of that anything-goes musical approach. No idea is considered too outlandish in the writing process, he explains: “If we like it, it goes in there – I think that’s how we end up with things like ‘Night People’ on the record, which is more like <a href="https://www.nme.com/artists/Portishead" target="_blank">Portishead</a> or The xx than anything else.<br><br>The main thing that stops it sinking into those more atmospheric indie passages is George’s banshee vocal. A death metal-like scream that could shatter your grandma’s spine, it adds an element not often found in records this sonically beautiful. “I think that the juxtaposition between the harsh vocal and the more melodic parts of the songs is cool,” says George, matter-of-factly. “I think that my voice, more than anything, provides a lot of texture to the music. I think that its main process is to provide texture, which I think is a little bit different to how vocals are normally approached.” It’s a method which sees George’s vocal used as much like a musical instrument as it is a means to deliver a story – though that vicious scream hides poetry worthy of its own publication. “I think that – while it can be a little difficult for some to hear – it’s an integral part of the band,” George continues. “It’s necessary to do.”<br><br>Fusing all those elements is often a case of trial-and-error. When it came time to approach ‘Ordinary Corupt Human Love’, the band exchanged voice notes and iPhone memos for months, before entering the practise studio last October. Picking out various riffs and piano parts that they’d demoed, and noodling over the top of each other, Kerry and Shiv began constructing what would become Deafheaven’s fourth full-length, almost by accident. “That happens a lot,” Kerry admits, “I’ll be playing this weird riff, just messing with it, and Shiv will just jump on top of it with something he’s making up on the fly, and we’ll be like, ‘Stop… that’s the thing. Don’t change that – that’s it right there’.”<br><br><b>Your music taste stems from a pretty British indie background – <a href="https://www.nme.com/artists/oasis" target="_blank">Oasis</a> are one of your favourite bands, right?</b><br><br>Kerry: Yeah, definitely. Shiv is really into that too – we’re both large Manchester fans. I’m more of like a hooks, Beatles-y kinda guy, and he’s more of a Pink Floyd-y, psychy kinda guy. When we put that together, it comes out with this weird thing. For me, I can hear all of those things. I feel like it’s a… I don’t know what else to really compare it to, and I don’t mean to compare myself to this band, but I’d imagine this is how Thom and Jonny from Radiohead feel. There’s a really cohesive thing, where both of their separate influences gel together really nicely – that’s how I feel about Shiv. We’re both really good at separate things, and those things come together really nicely.<br><br><b>Is it nice to find someone that you can gel with like that – if you’re mixing together loads of different influences, it can go disastrously, sometimes.</b><br><br>Kerry: Absolutely. [laughs] And especially with Chris – he’s by far the most musical of any bassist we’ve ever had, and then Dan’s drumming, I think, just speaks for itself. I’m yet to meet another person who can play drums like him.<br> </p>
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<p>Photo credit: Sean Stout<br><br>That adulation is core to Deafheaven’s being. Now steadfast in their line-up after a bunch of early-days personnel changes, their trust runs deep. Kerry and George – ostensibly Deafheaven’s central duo – met at 14, drawn together in the kind of teen movie fashion only outcast kids at an American high-school could really muster. “I saw George at school – he was this new kid and he had a Slayer shirt on,” Kerry explains. “I went over to him and complimented him on his Slayer shirt, and I had a Dead Kennedys back patch and he was like, ‘Cool patch!’. The rest is history,” he peels off with a laugh.<br><br>“I feel very fortunate to have that relationship,” says George more solemnly. “Most people go into these great adventures alone, and it’s been nice not having to do that.<br><br>”Off the back of ‘Sunbather’’s acclaim, 2015 follow-up ‘New Bermuda’ was a much darker prospect, stripping out much of the beauty that made ‘Sunbather’ so accessible to those outside of metal’s four walls. Rather than a sonic mission statement, the shift was a reflection of the impact that explosion of interest had on the band. “It was just exhausting,” says George today. “We didn’t really have a break between ‘Sunbather’ and ‘New Bermuda’, and we essentially – in terms of recording and touring – just merged those two together. By the time that we were done recording that record, we were a little bit jaded, and definitely in need of a break.”<br><br>Kerry agrees: “’New Bermuda’ was a very big reaction – when I listen to that record I can feel the stress in it – it sounds like five guys who have their insides all wound up.” The result was a record which revelled in self-hatred.</p>
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<p>Photo Credit: Sean Stout<br><br><b>Was that darkness on ‘New Bermuda’ a reaction to the way ‘Sunbather’ exploded? You just got thrown into this, what I expect was, quite an unexpected success.</b><br><br>George: Yeah. That’s exactly it – with ‘Sunbather’ we found an opportunity to live off our music, and then we started living off our music, and then we got really scared of not being able to do that. We just kept going – we didn’t want to take any breaks. It was great – we did a tonne of extremely cool things – but it also took a bit of… a bit of a toll.<br><br><b>Growing up in that metal community, too, you don’t ever expect to have that kind of crossover success. It’s not really the done thing – it’s not something you’re prepared for.</b><br><br>George: Yeah, I think so. We’re flying this ship blindly, is how I like to describe it. Everything that we were embarking on then – and even still now – a lot of the time, is unfamiliar territory. We navigate it as best we can. It is interesting being this sort of ‘crossover’ metal act, because there comes pressure from both sides, in a way.<br><br>The Deafheaven of 2018 harbour a far more positive view of that crossover appeal – in fact, with the demons of the ‘New Bermuda’ cycle now behind them, ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ is an altogether more positive prospect all round. “If we’re your gateway into this beautiful form of music, then I think that’s win-win for everybody,” shrugs Kerry.<br><br>“I feel like when I was a kid, there was a hard line between being into alternative music and alternative things – especially aggressive music and aggressive things – and being a regular guy,” Kerry continues. “What I kinda see happening is that those lines are getting blurred. Some of these kids, these high-school kids, it’s not a big thing. They’re listening to the new Drake record or whatever, and then they’ll have Code Orange or Power Trip on next. From what I’ve seen, it’s not even really being talked about anymore – it’s kinda generally accepted that everyone needs to have a diverse music diet. I think that there’s a lot of bands out there that are helping open those doors, and I hope we’re one of them. More than it’s bands that are doing it, I think it’s just kids are smarter now than when I was in high school,” he breaks off with a laugh: “I remember it sucked being the punk kid in high school, when I was there.”<br><br>‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’, then, feels like a victory lap. It’s an escape from numerous dark pasts – one that finds Deafheaven rejuvenated. “It’s definitely a cathartic record,” Kerry agrees. “To me it sounds like five dudes who have, essentially, been holding their breath for about five years [laughs]. We’re finally taking a deep breath and relaxing a little bit, instead of trying to handle things in a negative way. I think you can definitely hear that on it.” It’s a record which doesn’t shy away from the grisly truth of that path to redemption, though – for every soaring, reflective moment of musical bliss, there’s a doomy scream, or a well-timed lyrical takedown, to bring things back to reality – for every ‘You Without End’, on which George sings of being “In a dark tunnel / And new dawn approaching / With a sphere of light / Ever glowing”, there’s a ‘Honeycomb’, which finds him declaring that “My love is a bulging, blue-faced fool / Hung from the throat by sunflower stems.”<br><br>“If I’m going to be spending time making art, or spending time writing lyrics or writing music, I think it’s important just to be honest,” says George. “I think it’s a waste of time if I’m not honest, and in being honest one has to reflect on both the positive and negative aspects of life. I think we try and do that – we try and be well-rounded about our reflections on life, and take the good with the bad, and not shun away the darker side of things. We try and be as accurate a representation of our feelings as possible.”<br><br>“I think that, where the world is at now… I know I’m in desperate need of some positivity these days,” says Kerry. “It is nice to be out there and put out a record that isn’t literally pure darkness. It’s almost like a true, human version of positivity – it’s flawed positivity, like: ‘Hey, no one’s perfect here – but we’re all gonna end up alright’.<br><br>”Deafheaven’s new album ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ is out now via ANTI- Records.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955822018-08-08T10:55:48-07:002020-01-13T11:15:30-08:00On the Road with Deafheaven PT. 1 // Revolver<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/premium-video/music/corrupt-love-across-america-road-deafheaven-part-1" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/0a55a37173f3c82af3cdc16b9b7df645/tumblr_inline_pd5lqsaI2P1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
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<p>“The last two records were written in really dark places,” <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/deafheaven-personal-demons-band-fights-making-their-master-puppets" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> guitarist Kerry McCoy says in the first episode of our two-part tour doc with the band. “For me, it was a lot of drugs — and not fun ones. And that shit kills your creativity.” Enter <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/review-deafheavens-ordinary-corrupt-human-love-no-fucks-given-triumph" target="_blank">Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</a>, the band’s triumphant fourth album, which was born of new positivity, and behind which the group is touring now. Deafheaven invited us to hop on their bus for an exclusive inside look at life on the road, from the downtime — filled with dancing, swimming, sightseeing, soccer, backstage conversations — to the shows, sweaty, visceral and cathartic. Featuring openers and Deafheaven friends Drab Majesty and Uniform, the tour — like the record — represents a “message of togetherness and wholeness,” says singer George Clarke.</p>
<p>(via <a contents="Revolver" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/premium-video/music/corrupt-love-across-america-road-deafheaven-part-1" target="_blank">Revolver</a>)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955832018-08-01T10:44:52-07:002020-01-13T11:15:30-08:00“Night People” by Deafheaven (ft. Chelsea Wolfe) // Music Video Premiere<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-orig-height="304" data-orig-width="540" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLdeDlgKjtYU%26feature%3Dyoutu.be"><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LdeDlgKjtYU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="540"></iframe></p></figure>
<p>“Night People” (feat. <a href="http://chelseawolfe.net" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a>) by <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> from the album ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love,’ available now<br><br>Video by Ben Chisolm</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955842018-08-01T10:17:15-07:002020-01-13T11:15:30-08:00Deafheaven + DIIV US Tour Announcement<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="2000" data-orig-width="2000"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/3cb016253bd55ec5a1bb21bb9d69b041/tumblr_inline_pcrc2rWyBD1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> + <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/diiv" target="_blank">DIIV</a> have announced co-headlining US tour dates:<br><br>OCT 20 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress <br>OCT 21 Albuquerque, NM @ Sister <br>OCT 22 El Paso, TX @ Low Brow Palace <br>OCT 23 San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger<br> OCT 25 Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall <br>OCT 26 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club<br> OCT 27 Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall<br>OCT 28 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge<br> OCT 30 Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage<br> OCT 31 Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall<br>NOV 01 Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Artspace<br> NOV 02 Providence, RI @ Fête Ballroom <br>NOV 03 Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt <br>NOV 04 Pittsburgh, PA @ Spirit<br> NOV 06 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop<br>NOV 07 Cincinnati, OH @ The Ballroom at the Taft Theatre<br>NOV 09 Champaign, IL @ Canopy Club<br> NOV 10 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme <br>NOV 11 Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon <br>NOV 13 Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep<br>NOV 15 Reno, NV @ Jub Jub’s<br>NOV 16 Fresno, CA @ Strummer’s<br>NOV 17 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst<br><br>TICKETS: <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a> / <a href="http://diiv.net/shows" target="_blank">diiv.net/shows</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955852018-07-26T14:44:46-07:002020-01-13T11:15:30-08:00Deafheaven Live At Brooklyn Steel // Consequence Of Sound<figure data-orig-height="108" data-orig-width="238"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequenceofsound.net" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/b2512fd9adc17996d54ae02e014f952f/tumblr_inline_pchtp8uTWp1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/07/live-review-deafheaven-brooklyn-steel-7-24/" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/1e7686e3ccf8af5cd382f7bfba11f480/tumblr_inline_pchtp9DULS1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/240d680e5cd75fd36a60cdfcc1d4fe23/tumblr_inline_pchtp9HB4k1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p>Full article with photo gallery via <a href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/07/live-review-deafheaven-brooklyn-steel-7-24/" target="_blank">Consequence Of Sound</a><br><br>Setting The Stage: It takes a lot to get folks in New York City out to a concert, with the myriad of things to do any given night and dozens of competing shows across the city. So packing an 1,800 cap venue like Brooklyn Steel is a feat in and of itself, but that’s exactly what <a href="https://consequenceofsound.net/artist/deafheaven/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> did on Tuesday night.</p><!-- more -->
<p>Arriving at Brooklyn Steel, the crowd was a mix of devoted metalheads and indie-minded hipsters, t-shirts tucked in and tote bags in hand. It’s clear that the band’s wide appeal beyond just the metal community is in full swing. Ultimately, the band is one of many gateways for those who’d never otherwise be exposed — more than just a black metal band but not completely distanced from it either.</p>
<p>With the recent release of their fourth full-length album, <a href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/07/album-review-deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love/" target="_blank">Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</a>, Deafheaven have never sounded more comfortable and confident in their skin — all seemingly disjointed elements making that much more sense in the context of their songs and exploring new sonic territory with dream inducing piano, slide guitar, and chorus-like vocal elements. Lyrically, the album takes on more a hopeful tenacity, blending vivid imagery with life-affirming mantra that’s hard won with the band’s tumultuous years on the road.</p>
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<p>Taking The Stage: As the stage lights dimmed, Deafheaven burst into one of the strongest cuts off OCHL, “Honeycomb”. Custom-made Dunable guitars in hand, they roared with caustic tremolo picking that’s equal parts Burzum and My Bloody Valentine. Vocalist George Clarke even busted out the tambourine during the song’s classic-rock guitar solos, tying to the central ethos of the band’s roots in DIY punk rock and their uncompromising sonic vision that says: “Don’t tell us what kind of band we can and cannot be.”</p>
<p>For “Honeycomb”, guitarist Shiv Mehra used an envelope filter on the post rock leaning passages, while Clarke moved around with an elf-like stage presence, his greased mop of long hair flailing clouds of sweat on the front row. For “Canary Yellow”, their big single off OCHL, bassist Chris Johnson and Mehra contributed vocals that worked like a choir against the tortured skyward screeches of Clarke’s vocals.</p>
<p>Naturally, they revisited the past, and on 2015 single “Brought to the Water”, the band transitioned from black metal darkness to melancholically hopeful passages, reminiscent of Red House Painters or even Hum. (Is it weird to say both?) It was an obvious crowd pleaser and a standout of the band’s catalogue. Shortly after, the band dove into “Worthless Animal”, the closing track on OCHL, in which fans could catch a smile from guitarist and principle songwriter Kerry McCoy.</p>
<p>That One Song: The encore started with the piano and slide guitar of OCHL album opener “You Without End”, the spotlight firmly planted on McCoy manning the keys. The spoken-word passage played as a backing track, corny as it it could easily be, until Mehra kicked in with a solo that could arguably match up to the ostentatious heights of Queen.</p>
<p>A Perfect Finish: Closing with “Dream House”, the song that introduced the non-metal world to Deafheaven, the room flew into a push-pit frenzy, fans rushing past each other, clamoring towards the stage as Clarke dove into the crowd. It was a succinct way to end a night that did everything live music is supposed to do: make you feel completely weightless and closer together.</p>
<p>To seal the night, the band offered a final bow as Johnson triumphantly held his bass above his head. It was warranted as the band ended one of the biggest headlining shows of a career that’s now solidified at new heights — and only growing.</p>
<p>Opening Acts: NYC industrial metal act <a href="https://consequenceofsound.net/artist/uniform/" target="_blank">Uniform</a> kicked off the evening, blazing through their 30-minute set with crushing guitar tones and Converge-esque frenetic energy, giving way to dark industrial dirges complete with triggered drums and billowing, slapback delay-laden vocals.</p>
<p>Directly supporting Deafheaven was Los Angeles based band <a href="https://consequenceofsound.net/artist/drab-majesty/" target="_blank">Drab Majesty</a>, who took the stage donned in matching alien-like outfits, sunglasses, blond wigs and all. Their cosmic, synth driven, post punk songs had the atmospheric touch of ’80s new wave, providing a stark contrast to the pummeling nature of Uniform’s set. Deafheaven have a history of bringing varied support acts on tours, which speaks to the different sonic worlds they inhabit.</p>
<p>Deafheaven Setlist:<br>Honeycomb<br>Canary Yellow<br>Sunbather<br>Brought To The Water<br>Worthless Animal<br>Encore:<br>You Without End<br>From The Kettle Onto The Coil<br>Dream House</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955862018-07-16T11:27:23-07:002020-01-13T11:15:30-08:00Deafheaven Interview // HBO VICE – 7:30pm EDT<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="86" data-orig-width="585"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/topic/vice-news-tonight" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/65d389841df27e242b85aa5d9c6cae41/tumblr_inline_pbz27wVU651r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/f2d9d6f281625268f5b50e07776c84de/tumblr_inline_pbz1s8BDSS1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
<p>Tune in to HBO for <a href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/topic/vice-news-tonight" target="_blank">VICE News</a> and see George Clarke and Kerry McCoy from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/deafheaven/?fref=mentions" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> being interviewed about their new album. - Airs Tonight 7/16 at 7:30EST</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955872018-07-13T11:41:40-07:002020-01-13T11:15:31-08:00'Ordinary Corrupt Human Love' // Press<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 1.4em;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/c2c0efb1f084afa15689bd3617edf849/tumblr_inline_pbth5hf2P81r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></strong><br><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/d6eb8aa6ec690c567fe61964045309a7/tumblr_inline_pbth1ko2ao1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><span class="font_small">Deafheaven – Press Photo – Credit Corinne Shiavone [<a contents="hi-res download" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.anti.com/media/press/deafheaven_press_photo.jpg" target="_blank">hi-res download</a>]</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">DEAFHEAVEN’S NEW ALBUM ‘ORDINARY CORRUPT HUMAN LOVE’: OUT NOW</span></strong><br><br><em>"Rife with twinkling, twisting guitars that build into a head-banging crunch." </em>– <strong>Rolling Stone</strong><br><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/6a552ea46405a0e94814e3ff356ae354/tumblr_inline_pbtharnRQd1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“Deafheaven's most confounding record and necessarily its most emotionally impressionistic, free to be interpreted in whatever way the listener needs.” </em>– <strong>NPR </strong><br><strong><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/3577f3b78b6e57dbc0567c1f0f08c0eb/tumblr_inline_pbthgnKqL51r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"Human Love thrives in the moments where the extraordinary and the commonplace collide and become indistinguishable. In search of something quietly universal, Deafheaven can’t help but notice the tiny miracle in each breath."</em><br>– <strong>Pitchfork (8.5/10, Best New Music) <br><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/690d1b3ee0582f83b97edabd94ab85ca/tumblr_inline_pbthhvBAjJ1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" /></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“A beautiful, epic piece.” </em>–<strong> Decibel (8/10) </strong><br><strong><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/39950a72c517fe57232e9094db61c0e6/tumblr_inline_pbthiz1Fv11r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><em>“Sublime atmospheric beauty lingers over everything like a haze.”</em> – <strong>Stereogum (Album of the Week) </strong><br><strong><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/b0a73e15caa93de5a604598b8b43e0bc/tumblr_inline_pbthk5vLZ31r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></strong></p><!-- more -->
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“A masterwork of dynamic range.” </em>– <strong>Consequence of Sound (A-) </strong><br><strong><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/a4944a06137c0984b7f3e877d90ef526/tumblr_inline_pbthlqiXhP1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"Starts out relatively calm (by Deafheaven standards) before ascending into total chaos, oscillating between the two extremes." </em>– <strong>The Fader </strong><br><strong><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/289835a21281b084fe50afa4e9d0bde4/tumblr_inline_pbthmwGQmc1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"...the record certainly offers a rewarding journey for any listener."</em> – <strong>The Independent </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“Ordinary Corrupt Human Love takes the strengths of its predecessors and refines them even further, which results in a dynamic emotional and musical experience that previous Deafheaven records came close to achieving, but never quite like this.” </em><br>– <strong>Pop Matters (9/10) </strong><br><strong><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/cf88d593731daefa33c71d0aac00eaad/tumblr_inline_pbthozYOgm1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“the band on the top of its game, that has mastered the way to manipulate and express its raw and intimate emotions” </em><br>–<strong> New Noise Magazine [FR] (Album of the Month) </strong><br><strong><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/450241c33340de3cbd8a6593192e79cc/tumblr_inline_pbthv6IW9q1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“…a feeling of unbridled liberation truly does animate the record, particularly when Deafheaven explores fresh, potentially treacherous sonic territory.”</em> –<strong> UPROXX </strong><br><strong><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/1d890e3d1d500bac1b9ea296b53e9446/tumblr_inline_pbthyf42t71r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"Opening with an airy and melodic vibe, the track soon explodes into perfectly controlled hard rock chaos." </em>– <strong>Paste Magazine</strong><br><br><strong><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/dc7dc1a40c15ab907e6bb5fcfc428c1a/tumblr_inline_pbthzjyxto1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"A mixture of the band’s patented shoegaze and black metal hybrid, with some elements of ’90s alt-rock”</em> – <strong>Treble Zine</strong><br><br> <img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/a12b8d63e82844b6610fbe5742f447e8/tumblr_inline_pbti1js1vt1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"Guttural carnage slowly before throwing you into the mosh"</em> – <strong>SPIN Magazine </strong><br><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/0da550b43943a353e6e337f966cc8452/tumblr_inline_pbti2kif7I1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"Deafheaven refuse to settle for a scene or a sound, but rather open themselves up to textures and combinations that defy simple categorization. Music is their joy, their tool and their medium, and heaviness is just one thread in the process.”<br>– <strong>Metal Sucks (4/5) </strong></em><br><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/d71bac72443a18dc0fd5f5c019c9f51f/tumblr_inline_pbtic0cH8p1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"This frightening and captivating new creation is going to get the band out of the shadows once and for all” (..) there’s a strong contrast between the mild, almost psychedelic moments of calm and the pure savagery. The whole thing is perfectly coherent (..) No make-up, no bullshit, just music” </em>– <strong>MyRock [FR] (Album of the Month) </strong><br><strong><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/f03729c14abfb97501fe32d5b90694c0/tumblr_inline_pbticorCNy1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“Deafheaven haven’t softened up — they’re at their most confident, their most focused, their most open— and Ordinary is the masterwork they’ve been reaching towards.”</em> – <strong>Vinyl Me Please</strong><br><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/45bf8f765576893f2800619745d239d2/tumblr_inline_pbtidfZ4cr1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
<p>(download doc <a contents="here" data-link-label="deafheaven-ochl-press.docx" data-link-type="file" href="https://deafheaven.com/files/344428/deafheaven-ochl-press.docx" target="_self">here</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955882018-07-13T11:01:04-07:002020-01-13T11:15:31-08:00‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ // Best New Music on Pitchfork<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="332" data-orig-width="942"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love/" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/50decce83f71e336ce19c0bd1fb9402a/tumblr_inline_pbtggt3XQW1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p>by Sam Sodomsky via <a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love/" target="_blank">Pitchfork</a></p>
<h2>The most extreme thing about Deafheaven’s remarkable fourth album is how subdued it sounds. It suggests devastation without placing you at the center of it.</h2>
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<p><br><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>’s music is not made for the everyday. No two of their four records sound quite alike, but their mood is immediately identifiable. It’s a place where serious subjects—love and loss, emotional apocalypse, existence—are amplified like sunlight through a magnifying glass. They make a kaleidoscope out of heavy music’s most introspective corners: The tortured shrieks and blast beats of black metal ripple through shoegaze’s immersive guitar tones, all building with the skyward patience of starry-eyed post-rock. You don’t put these records on casually.</p>
<p>Given their penchant for grand gestures, the most extreme thing about Ordinary Corrupt Human Loveis how subdued it sounds. It’s the first release from the Los Angeles-based quintet that feels more like a collection of songs than one unbroken piece, and it exposes shades of their work that have primarily been kept to the peripheries. The slow, dramatic opener “You Without End” blooms from muted piano and slide guitar, instruments that lend a mournful touch to their typically explosive melodies. Other songs incorporate clean singing in contrast to vocalist George Clarke’s characteristic howl. “Night People,” with lead vocals from goth-folk singer-songwriter <a href="http://chelseawolfe.net" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a> and multi-instrumentalist Ben Chisholm, is their most spectral and fragile recording to date. This music suggests devastation without placing you at the center of it.</p>
<p>Over the past few years, Deafheaven have discussed hitting various personal lows in the wake of 2015’s restless and intense <a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21022-new-bermuda/" target="_blank">New Bermuda</a>, citing depression, creative fatigue, and substance abuse. Bassist Stephen Clark quit the band once the tour was over. Guitarist Kerry McCoy got sober. Taking a more metaphorical refuge, Clarke became interested in candid photography, collaborating with artist <a href="http://www.smogdesign.com/nick/" target="_blank">Nick Steinhardt</a> to create stark portraits like Sean Stout’s photograph that graces Human Love’s cover. “I told him I didn’t want anything extraordinary,” he <a href="https://www.stereogum.com/featured/deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love-interview/" target="_blank">explained</a> about the collaborative visual project. “Just people in their everyday routine.”</p>
<p>This shift in perspective, from the vast to the ordinary, is the point. On Human Love, Deafheaven tell unglamorous stories, examining intimate scenes that go down when no one is watching. “I’m reluctant to stay sad” goes an early lyric, and the record follows suit, as dark moods roll by like faraway clouds. Clarke’s piercing voice continues to evoke the highest reaches of human pain, yet he’s grown more adept at exposing subtler melancholy. In the surging, dreamlike “<a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/deafheaven-honeycomb/" target="_blank">Honeycomb</a>,” he writes like a goth beat poet surveying the city: Words like “geese,” “mariachi,” and “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar" target="_blank">Cortázar</a>” have never been sung with such brutality.</p>
<p>The band matches Clarke in all his passing visions. They’ve become as expressive in their slowcore balladry (“Near”) as their more bracing epics (the duel-guitar-laden second half of “Worthless Animal”). Their best songs, like centerpiece “Canary Yellow,” explore all these various modes in ragged, epiphanic cycles. While peers like <a href="https://pitchfork.com/artists/30997-sannhet/" target="_blank">Sannhet</a> have grown more airtight with each new album, Deafheaven still love letting their seams show: Drop the needle at any point on Human Love, and you might hear a completely different band—one aiming for arenas, or mosh pits, or the soundtrack of a climactic makeout scene in a prestige television show. Five years removed from their landmark <a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18060-deafheaven-sunbather/" target="_blank">Sunbather</a>, Deafheaven have never seemed less interested in being fashionable—as a result, they sound newly content.</p>
<p>In its hour-long runtime, Human Love unfolds as an even-handed showing of Deafheaven’s strengths. Like Sunbather and New Bermuda, it’s marked by fleeting moments of sheer beauty. Many of these arrive thanks to McCoy’s guitar playing, a direct and intuitive line of communication that complements Clarke’s illegible emotion. Some of his best riffs are scattered throughout “Glint,” a song that evolves magnificently as Clarke intertwines visions of marital bliss with fantasies of self-destruction. It’s an instant addition to their canon of showstoppers, walking the tightrope of extreme music and radio-friendly ’90s alt-rock without sinking into the cheesy, histrionic center of that Venn diagram. That they sound less interested in risking that fate only makes their successes feel more triumphant.</p>
<p>There have always been two ways to hear Deafheaven’s music. There’s the micro approach, which involves dissecting the band’s influences and navigating their records like a mixtape without a tracklist. (What’s that familiar melody? What emotion are they trying to express? What genre is this?) On Human Love, they recall the atmospheres of a wide variety of bands without explicitly copping their styles: Touchstones like <a href="https://pitchfork.com/artists/4105-slowdive/" target="_blank">Slowdive</a>, <a href="https://pitchfork.com/artists/3838-the-smashing-pumpkins/" target="_blank">the Smashing Pumpkins</a>, and <a href="https://pitchfork.com/artists/4065-the-smiths/" target="_blank">the Smiths</a> are all suggested at various points within this music. Like watching a magic show backstage, looking for these references can draw admiration as much as disillusionment at how it all comes together.</p>
<p>The other angle to admire Deafheaven is more macro—which particularly benefits this album—as you stand back and surrender to the squall. Human Loveis Deafheaven’s subtlest, prettiest music, and it aims for a different kind of transcendence. For all the influences their music conjures, you’d never mistake these songs for any other band. The record’s title is taken from Graham Greene’s 1951 novel The End of the Affair, words spoken by a narrator who is uncommonly torn between love and hate. In the place of his all-consuming obsessions, he longs for something benign and ignorable to ponder on the way to work—the type of fantasies he imagines occupying the mind of more contented people. It’s a common dream, though, for some of us, it’s unrealistic. Human Love thrives in the moments where the extraordinary and the commonplace collide and become indistinguishable. In search of something quietly universal, Deafheaven can’t help but notice the tiny miracle in each breath.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955892018-07-13T10:46:12-07:002020-01-13T11:15:31-08:00‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ .. Out Today<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="954" data-orig-width="960"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/55fa5abe990f84df0fc71152ea5195bc/tumblr_inline_pbtfx9Hp9g1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
<p>It is July 13, 2018 and <i>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</i> is officially available everywhere where music is sold or streamed. Thank you for listening.<br><br>Listen on <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/ordinary-corrupt-human-love/1369445231?mt=1&app=music" target="_blank">Apple Music</a> // <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2iA7rzpQsOfAPkfH4Ekp7f?si=GRcK_yHXRDuJmM35kB0tdA" target="_blank">Spotify</a> // <a href="https://tidal.com/album/90263086" target="_blank">Tidal</a> // <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Corrupt-Human-Love-Deafheaven/dp/B07BZNC872/ref=sr_1_1?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1531456243&sr=1-1-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=ordinary%20corrupt%20human%20love" target="_blank">Amazon Music</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955902018-07-12T14:47:42-07:002020-01-13T11:15:31-08:00Deafheaven Tour Photos // REVOLVER<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="137" data-orig-width="1091"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/deafheaven-drab-majesty-uniform-see-dramatic-photos-tour-kickoff-show" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/0a55a37173f3c82af3cdc16b9b7df645/tumblr_inline_pbrwcyj01b1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/e834550a8481573f326f813942ea6c1e/tumblr_inline_pbrwem7IKC1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/dc4016c20d7672f95415943e39d7e783/tumblr_inline_pbrwe8Exg91r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p>photography by SEAN STOUT<br><br>Last night (July 11th) in Phoenix, Arizona, <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/tags/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> launched their North American headlining tour in support of their <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/review-deafheavens-ordinary-corrupt-human-love-no-fucks-given-triumph" target="_blank">excellent new album</a> Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (which is due out tomorrow, July 13th). The polarizing genre-defying quintet are joined by the eclectic lineup of dark wave makeup mavens Drab Majesty and NYC industrial misanthropes <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/tags/uniform" target="_blank">Uniform</a> on the run, as well as by photographer, videographer and Revolver contributor <a href="http://www.seanfstout.com/" target="_blank">Sean Stout</a>, who is documenting the cross-country trek. Below, see his evocative photos of the kick-off date’s pre-show mundanity and ultimate high drama.</p><!-- more -->
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<p>(via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/deafheaven-drab-majesty-uniform-see-dramatic-photos-tour-kickoff-show" target="_blank">Revolver</a>)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955912018-07-10T14:23:11-07:002020-01-13T11:15:31-08:00Album of the Week: Deafheaven ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ // Stereogum<figure data-orig-height="39" data-orig-width="250"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2004671/deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love-review/franchises/album-of-the-week/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/9361a980239d5adb026e0bc4c7616b6a/tumblr_inline_pbo5vil5a11r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/d05ecc18a2991131c13527ddb9792d6b/tumblr_inline_pbo5xjtIGs1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
<p>Feature by Chris DeVille via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2004671/deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love-review/franchises/album-of-the-week/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">Stereogum</a><br><br>After the soothing sound of the ocean tide, the first instrument you hear on <i>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</i> is a piano. Soon its somber neoclassical arpeggios are intertwining with the yearning slide guitar that has marked many of the most pleasant interludes on previous Deafheaven tracks, and before long the song has bloomed into an elegant suite not unlike the second half of “Layla.” A loosely swaying drumbeat lifts the music to a low cruising altitude. A woman’s voice low in the mix reads poetry about a transformative twilight stroll, evoking smoke-blinded eyes and geese “shrieking into what was left of the evening.” It all builds up so naturally and gradually that when Kerry McCoy’s guitar goes whipping upward into “November Rain” theatrics and George Clarke’s harsh black metal growl finally enters the frame, they feel of a piece with the beauty surrounding them — clouds that ominously gather for some thunderclaps before dispersing without a storm.</p><!-- more -->
<p>The downpour eventually does roll in on “You Without End,” but even at the peak of its fury it never approaches the blistering intensity that has historically introduced a Deafheaven album. Consider it a thesis statement for Ordinary Corrupt Human Love. Although unmistakably the work of the band that gave us twin masterpieces Sunbather and New Bermuda — with help from producer Jack Shirley, their very own George Martin figure — these seven tracks err on the side of Deafheaven’s most accessible impulses. Sublime atmospheric beauty lingers over everything like a haze. Gnarly classic rock riffs rip across the chaos as if beamed in from FM radio. Clarke and his bandmates actually sing a few times, and gorgeously so. It’s the prettiest and least metal album yet from a band sometimes maligned for being too pretty and not metal enough.<br><br>Among skeptics, the rap against Deafheaven has always been that they’re a token fashion accessory for indie poseurs who know nothing about metal. This is at least partially true; as an indie poseur who knows nothing about metal, I’ve been a devoted Deafheaven fan ever since Sunbather fulfilled the promise of debut Roads To Judah and gave them their big crossover moment five years ago. Where many of their peers and influences have not connected with me, this group’s fusion of black metal, post-rock, and shoegaze triggered a violent euphoria in the depths of my soul. Deafheaven satisfied a hunger I didn’t know I had for grippingly visceral yet blindingly beautiful heavy rock music. The scene politics around them are as meaningless to me as the music itself is meaningful. Many of my fellow dilettantes felt the same way, but so did quite a few lifelong metal zealots: Who cares what you call it when it rules this hard?<br><br>Deafheaven, however, seemed to pay at least some heed to the authenticity police. Their first album after becoming media darlings, 2015’s New Bermuda, wasn’t a straightforward black metal release by any means, but it edged closer to that polarity. The dreamy, poppy qualities that gave Deafheaven entry into the critical mainstream were riding shotgun, conceding the driver’s seat to absolute combustible brutality. New Bermuda was louder and harsher than the already loud, harsh Sunbather, less like being overtaken by a wave of magnificent translucent destruction and more like being viciously beaten by an army of invaders. Whether this was a purposeful response to the backlash was unclear — and fortunately New Bermuda was brain-fryingly spectacular regardless of motive — but the album struck me as a band working hard to show off its metal bonafides.</p>
<p>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love swings hard in the opposite direction — or rather, at times it swings quite gently and gracefully. Rather than the ennui of Sunbather or the foreboding of New Bermuda, this is an album about love and intimacy and nature and epiphany. It sounds like the natural creative runoff from the placid, bougie LA life described in <a href="https://www.stereogum.com/featured/deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love-interview/" target="_blank">our recent cover story</a>, the healing aftermath following years of hard living. Which is not to say every song forgoes Deafheaven’s signature heaven-collapsing-into-hell bombast the way “You Without End” does. Advance singles “Honeycomb” and “Canary Yellow” plus “Glint” add up to more than half the album’s run time, and all of them find this band doing what they do best, crafting grandiose genre-agnostic symphonies that build to peaks of ecstatic celestial bombardment. All the other elements of this band’s sound feel so much more monumental when leading up to an onslaught of blast beats, gleaming tremolo noise, and shrill indecipherable shrieking.</p>
<p>Yet even those songs in the classic Deafheaven mold add new details to the formula, be it the group chant that courses through the end of “Canary Yellow” or the Camaro-jamming Thin Lizzy breakdown in “Honeycomb” that regularly moves me to gleeful air-guitar outbursts. It’s clear Deafheaven are pushing not to repeat themselves and to continue expanding their arsenal. Sometimes, as on “Near” and “Night People,” that amounts to a disarmament. These are songs on which the band never revs up beyond a baseline shoegaze drift and Clarke trades his usual rasp for conventional melodic singing, in the latter case accompanied by Chelsea Wolfe. His voice is deep and maudlin, accentuating the drama in entirely new ways — not least of which the ability to make out what he’s singing about without the aid of a lyrics sheet. (Some of the album’s more impressionistic lyrics — say, “I have wondered about the language of flowers/ And you, elaborate mosaic, greeting me,” or “And alabaster lips unseal/ So I may recall the soft timbre of whisper in its stillness” — are better left obscured by screaming, when they can embody whatever meaning you want them to.)</p>
<p>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is bookended by two songs that split the difference between your usual Deafheaven cacophony and those decidedly scaled-back ballads. It begins with the aforementioned “You Without End,” the expansively pretty overture that has drawn more than one comparison to Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. And it concludes with “Worthless Animal,” a 10-minute post-metal epic that just builds and builds and builds, like the soundtrack to the raddest flight simulator of all time. As Clarke barks out more surrealist gobbledygook about “the ladies cradling streams of buttermilk current” and such, his bandmates rise skyward, vigorously careen through turbulence, and eventually soar out into the great unknown, presumably to discover another chapter of the Deafheaven story. In the meantime, we’ve got this one, presenting masters of tumult giving peace a chance, still capable of demolishing you but sometimes content to let beauty escape into the world unscathed.</p>
<p>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is out 7/13 on Anti-. Pre-order it <a href="https://deafheaven.com/stores" target="_blank">here</a> and stream it <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/07/05/625292101/first-listen-deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-orig-height="304" data-orig-width="540" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fw5eQuhBfDE0"><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w5eQuhBfDE0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="540"></iframe></p></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955922018-07-09T15:31:13-07:002020-01-13T11:15:31-08:00Deafheaven on the cover of KERRANG!<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="960" data-orig-width="703"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/4fd0ba4baf0dbb7f5a82175eec4a362c/tumblr_inline_pbmehuM6rQ1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<p>New issue of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kerrangmagazine/" target="_blank">Kerrang!</a> out July 11th</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955932018-07-09T10:30:59-07:002020-01-13T11:15:31-08:00Ordinary Corrupt Human Love // Q Magazine Review<figure data-orig-height="90" data-orig-width="299"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/b430a2a47f4107e22798626cc11dd0a1/tumblr_inline_pbm0m38yNo1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><br><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/c02e676eed77bd89b4c68b5cf3dd0229/tumblr_inline_pbm0kraCPK1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955942018-07-05T22:02:18-07:002020-01-13T11:15:31-08:00‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ Review + Q&A // KERRANG!<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="383" data-orig-width="1136"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/1623a69eb3310a4745f5cd25b923c588/tumblr_inline_pbfhunE4OF1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/dae2133337cc5757bce90badee5c5e6e/tumblr_inline_pbfhrkdZ4w1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure><!-- more -->
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<p>New tour date: AUG 15 Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post<br>Visit <a contents="deafheaven.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a> for full tour info</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955962018-07-05T07:34:58-07:002020-01-13T11:15:32-08:00First Listen: Deafheaven, 'Ordinary Corrupt Human Love' // Streaming on NPR<figure data-orig-height="42" data-orig-width="119"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.npr.org/2018/07/05/625292101/first-listen-deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/68520390bae8b3fd46d9ee27df629b5d/tumblr_inline_pbem6zME311qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/b12300489dc5f1da0fdfbc30d753b602/tumblr_inline_pbem72bbDc1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/0d350e6cfae8cac05bcb2b11620d8960/tumblr_inline_pbe7mvKJL41qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p>Deafheaven’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love comes out July 13.<br>Corinne Shiavone/Courtesy of the artist<br><br>First Listen via <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/07/05/625292101/first-listen-deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love" target="_blank">NPR</a></p><!-- more -->
<p>People do not have passive reactions to or moderate opinions about <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>. For the better part of the last decade, the California quintet has overlaid the bleak screech of black metal with layers of neon, giving the infamous form’s harsh vibes a sudden sense of romantic longing. For some listeners, the band’s first three albums — <a href="https://www.spin.com/2013/06/deafheaven-sunbather-deathwish-inc/" target="_blank">particularly 2013’s Sunbather</a>, a vivid breakthrough and an exhalation of pure feeling — still cause hearts to race, senses to tingle; for others, those same albums epitomize the perceived post-millennial trend of young, hip, urban intellectuals aiming to salvage the spirited rush of black metal from the strictures of its scene and the barbarism of its past. Punchlines or saviors, champions or charlatans, leather-gloved posers or earnest bleeding hearts: Deafheaven has become one of its generation’s most divisive bands.</p>
<p>On Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, the band’s first album in three years, Deafheaven leans more fully than ever before into those elements that inspire alternate outrage and obsession. For their last record, 2015’s pugnacious New Bermuda, Deafheaven seemed to have toughened up, to have tightened the screws on its metallic bulwark. But they begin here with “You Without End,” a soft piece framed by major piano chords, a twinkling slide guitar, and field recordings of the breeze on the beach. Actress Nadia Kury stoically reads from <a href="http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/oakland-noir/" target="_blank">a short story about Oakland</a>. Deafheaven’s screamer, George Clarke, is left to weave his usual throat exfoliations around piano, drums, and an electric guitar that arc skyward. Unapologetically theatric and gestural, the opener climaxes in a solo so big and bright you’ll think you’ve stumbled into “We Are the Champions.”</p>
<p>Elsewhere, there is a featherbed shoegaze ballad (“Near”), a gently gothic anthem led by the singer <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://sargenthouse.com/chelsea-wolfe" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a> (“Night People”), and a 12-minute tirade that occasionally conjures the guitar whiplash of Built to Spill and ends with a full-band chant about a lover’s blood (“Canary Yellow”). If you’ve mocked Deafheaven in the past, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love does not care to meet you in the middle.</p>
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<p>Make no mistake, though: Black metal remains Deafheaven’s musical core, forming the backbones of the four songs that break the 10-minute mark here. Deafheaven simply spends less time fitting outside influences inside that frame, instead allowing them to stand proudly on their own; it is a definitive “Sure, whatever” response to any charges of posturing. To wit, the album’s most ferocious bit of black metal, “Honeycomb,” periodically swivels into bridges and solos that sound suitable for an early Foo Fighters hit. The song dissolves into an extended dusk of chiming guitars and marching drums, its twilit smear of sound made for an Explosions in the Sky renaissance. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is often willfully cheesy, with the same sort of open-hearted accessibility that made something like Friday Night Lights a television hit. The record’s delirious, even messy mix of genres emphasizes that central point: This is Deafheaven’s most honest record to date, guided by the delightful sense that its makers are through being cool or trying to fit in anywhere at all.</p>
<p>There’s another advance here that may require more effort than a passive listen to discern, especially if the serrated vocals of black metal are not your lingua franca: Clarke has coiled his songwriting into loaded little verses, trimming his once-sprawling sentimentality or obvious conclusions into an economic series of poignant images and provocative koans. “When a fawn stumbles into the raids / honeydew high and deep in afterglow / Mind swarming on purple sand verbena / I forgive its delusion,” he writes during “Worthless Animal,” a finale that finds a second life in a sudden death. And in the wondrous “Glint,” a love letter for someone he has long since lost to time, he offers, “The midnight blue of your calmness, like evening chamomile, peppermint, eyes as morning rosewater.” The best of Ordinary Corrupt Human Love suggests Elizabeth Bishop, the American poet who used foggy valleys and storm-battered coasts to ask questions about how our soft bodies make it so long in this hard world. For a band with the gall to call Argentine novelist Julio Cortázar by name or lift a phrase from a Graham Greene landmark for its album title, it’s a major achievement — even if you require liner notes to appreciate it.</p>
<p>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love begins in the city, first on the streets of Oakland, where a passing flock of geese fit into the teeming cityscape, and then rushing through a tunnel in search of a “sphere of ever-growing light.” The album ends an hour later in the woods, surrounded by the stillness of nature, where a passing fawn makes for a moment that changes at least two lives. That tension—between immersion and escape, between past and present, between life and death—is the thread connecting these seven songs, tightened by a band that always seems to be searching for a more resonant way to underscore Clarke’s lyrics, no matter the musical shape they take. This, then, is Deafheaven’s most confounding record and necessarily its most emotionally impressionistic, free to be interpreted in whatever way the listener needs. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is an album for falling in love or for coping with its loss, for moving ahead or falling behind, for feeling inspired and energized or for coping via commiseration. It is, true to Deafheaven form, not a record for passive reactions.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955972018-06-27T12:16:43-07:002020-01-13T11:15:32-08:00Deafheaven Cover Story // Visions Magazine<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="451" data-orig-width="336"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/296a72bb3a872998cedc70a034e3a35c/tumblr_inline_pazxdn8Jua1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
<p>Deafheaven are the cover story in the new issue of <a href="https://www.visions.de/" target="_blank">Visions Magazine</a> out of Germany.<br>Don’t miss the band on tour in Europe this Fall. See all dates <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955982018-06-12T10:21:24-07:002020-01-13T11:15:32-08:00Hear New Track // “Canary Yellow”<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="w5eQuhBfDE0" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/w5eQuhBfDE0/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w5eQuhBfDE0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="280" width="520" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>Hear “Canary Yellow” from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>’s upcoming album “Ordinary Corrupt Human Love” out July 13, 2018 on <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fantirecords%2F%3Ffref%3Dmentions&t=ZTE1ZjA2YzA2ZDA0MGM4YTg5YjZjYTQ4YmJlZDAwZDFmZjFjYjAyYyw5aGFXWVdxVg%3D%3D&b=t%3AAVOszEDegrRTV2r9QHuhFA&p=http%3A%2F%2Fdfhvn.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F174824858277%2Fhear-canary-yellow-from-the-upcoming-album" target="_blank">Anti Records</a><br>Visit <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fl.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252FDeafheaven.com%252F%26h%3DATPbHSxdOOKHEMbMkJ2KlPs7-KDLmEgsSozwHDt6K2VoNT7zlS_zFtu9YCklT0ma40poSvG_-dgD1a1owFWdvUpvxr6UOJm4QISLDxrFwjveLOQ3YAU1seE5cXDrkQ6HK69NN7oLvuk&t=YTc5MmJlMDQ3NGM0ZDFmOWVmMDY3OGZkMjNlZjI1OWViNmM5MGIzOCw5aGFXWVdxVg%3D%3D&b=t%3AAVOszEDegrRTV2r9QHuhFA&p=http%3A%2F%2Fdfhvn.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F174824858277%2Fhear-canary-yellow-from-the-upcoming-album" target="_blank">Deafheaven.com</a> for tour dates and pre-order information.</p><!-- more -->
<p><strong>N. AMERICA with Drab Majesty & Uniform supporting </strong><br>JUL 11 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom <br>JUL 13 Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar N’ Grill <br>JUL 14 Austin, TX @ The Mohawk <br>JUL 15 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall <br>JUL 17 Orlando, FL @ The Social <br>JUL 18 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade <br>JUL 19 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle <br>JUL 20 Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry <br>JUL 21 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club <br>JUL 22 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer <br>JUL 24 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel <br>JUL 25 Boston, MA @ Royale <br>JUL 26 Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount <br>JUL 27 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House <br>JUL 28 Detroit, MI @ El Club <br>JUL 30 Chicago, IL @ Metro also w/ MONO (Japan) <br>JUL 31 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall <br>AUG 01 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center <br>AUG 03 St. Louis, MO @ The Ready Room <br>AUG 04 Lawrence, KS @ The Granada <br>AUG 05 Denver, CO @ The Oriental Theater <br>AUG 07 Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall <br>AUG 08 Boise, ID @ Neurolux <br>AUG 10 Seattle, WA @ The Neptune Theatre <br>AUG 11 Vancouver, BC @ The Imperial <br>AUG 12 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom <br>AUG 14 San Francisco, CA @ August Hall <br>AUG 17 San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick <br>AUG 18 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern </p>
<p><strong>EU/UK with Inter Arma supporting </strong><br>SEP 13 Warsaw, PL @ Hybrydy <br>SEP 14 Poznan, PL @ U Bazyla <br>SEP 15 Dresden, DE @ Beatpol <br>SEP 17 Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik <br>SEP 18 Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller <br>SEP 19 Stockholm, SE @ Kraken <br>SEP 20 Copenhagen, DK @ Vega <br>SEP 22 Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso <br>SEP 23 Esch Alzette, LU @ Rockhal <br>SEP 25 Antwerp, BE @ Trix <br>SEP 26 Koln, DE @ Essigfabrik <br>SEP 27 Berlin, DE @ Bi Nuu <br>SEP 28 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez <br>SEP 30 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece <br>OCT 01 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla <br>OCT 02 Glasgow, UK @ Art School <br>OCT 03 Leeds, UK @ Stylus <br>OCT 05 London, UK @ ULU <br>OCT 06 Nijmegen, NL @ Soulcrusher Festival <br>OCT 07 Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie <br>OCT 09 Munich, DE @ Feierwerk <br>OCT 10 Winterthur, CH @ Salzhaus <br>OCT 11 Milan, IT @ Legend <br>OCT 12 Bologna, IT @ TPO <br>OCT 13 Zagreb, HR @ Mochvara <br>OCT 14 Vienna, AT @ Arena</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60955992018-06-08T10:51:27-07:002020-01-13T11:15:32-08:00Deafheaven 2018 EU/UK Tour<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="960" data-orig-width="678"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/4764b9d5d0004c16055ea5028b31257a/tumblr_inline_pa0mwvH9gR1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/deafheaven/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be touring the EU/UK following dates in the US.<br>Tickets available at <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdeafheaven.com%2F&h=ATPyhAnd996on65frxsFsX3pEOPyL3_Qeg6tG_zD13_58fp1zxxhpZ2AZIWdhclIYKMYv6P4vi9cGHfSmupYsLoaUncDdOneAD_Qwav0cjbdLZcJe5OgOZ2axQ" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a><br><br>All shows w. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/INTERARMA/" target="_blank">INTER ARMA</a><br>SEP 13 Warsaw, PL @ Hybrydy<br>SEP 14 Poznan, PL @ U Bazyla<br>SEP 15 Dresden, DE @ Beatpol<br>SEP 17 Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik<br>SEP 18 Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller<br>SEP 19 Stockholm, SE @ Kraken<br>SEP 20 Copenhagen, DK @ Vega<br>SEP 22 Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso<br>SEP 23 Esch Alzette, LU @ Rockhal<br>SEP 25 Antwerp, BE @ Trix<br>SEP 26 Koln, DE @ Essigfabrik<br>SEP 27 Berlin, DE @ Bi Nuu<br>SEP 28 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez<br>SEP 30 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece<br>OCT 01 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla<br>OCT 02 Glasgow, UK @ Classic Grand<br>OCT 03 Leeds, UK @ Stylus<br>OCT 05 London, UK @ ULU<br>OCT 06 Nijmegen, NL @ Soulcrusher Festival<br>OCT 07 Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie<br>OCT 09 Munich, DE @ Feierwerk<br>OCT 10 Winterthur, CH @ Salzhaus<br>OCT 11 Milan, IT @ Legend<br>OCT 12 Bologna, IT @ TPO<br>OCT 13 Zagreb, HR @ Mochvara<br>OCT 14 Vienna, AT @ Arena</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956012018-06-07T12:03:21-07:002020-01-13T11:15:32-08:00A Day In LA With Deafheaven // Stereogum<figure data-orig-height="39" data-orig-width="250"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/9361a980239d5adb026e0bc4c7616b6a/tumblr_inline_p9yv9icJnR1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/featured/deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love-interview/" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/3284192e82c175b06d1fc5d3fc93f391/tumblr_inline_p9yv8fL0jb1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><br><span class="font_xl"><strong>Loud Love<i> </i>: A Day In LA With <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a></strong></span></p></figure>
<h2><span class="font_small">The California screamers open up about real life, baby ducks, and ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’</span></h2>
<p>Full article by Larry Fitzmaurice via <a href="https://www.stereogum.com/featured/deafheaven-ordinary-corrupt-human-love-interview/" target="_blank">Stereogum</a></p><!-- more -->
<p>Everyone has to grow up eventually — even ducklings. “Look, dude — the baby ducklings!” Deafheaven guitarist Kerry McCoy stops as we’re mid-conversation, pointing out a plump of web-footed friends on a small rolling pitch alongside the walking path of Los Angeles’ Echo Park.</p>
<p>“I know! They’re getting big,” the band’s howling lead singer George Clarke marvels, as the two stop to briefly ponder the not-quite-grown, no-longer-young fowl squatting and waddling on the grass.</p>
<p>“I saw them the other day, too,” says McCoy.</p>
<p>“They were more yellow before,” Clarke explains with a level of attentiveness that would make one think he raised the ducklings himself.</p>
<p>I’m here to observe what Clarke describes to me as “what a normal day for us is like,” as Deafheaven luxuriate in the relative calm before the busyness of touring and promo that will accompany the release of their fourth album, <i>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</i> (out July 13 via ANTI-). These days, Clarke and McCoy are sticklers for routine — and as they recount their regular goings-on to me, it’s slightly adorable that these longtime friends’ day-to-day approach bears close similarity: wake up around 7 in the morning, hit the gym, run some errands, meet up in the park for a bit, and watch a movie or an episode of <i>Billions</i> before crashing out. Both spend part of their day caring for others: Clarke for his grandfather who currently lives with him, and McCoy for a few persistently hungry cats. “I have to stay out until 6 or 7 PM, otherwise they meow until they get food,” he mock-complains with a grin.</p>
<p>Earlier in the day, Clarke and I hit up the Echo Lake outpost of crunchy Cali natural-food chain Lessen’s, as he dumps a variety of salad-bar ingredients — corn, beets, kale, shredded cabbage and peppers, and a heaping helping of steamed veggies, if you’re looking to take on the Deafheaven Diet — into a container. We walk over to the sprawling Echo Park and Clarke unfurls a sizable blanket, festooned with the album art for the band’s 2013 star-making LP <i>Sunbather</i>, before stripping to a white tank-top and laying out belly-down to nosh while we chat about the latest mixtape from Oakland rapper All Black. McCoy joins us soon after along with former member Stephen Clark, who stoically sips from a bottle of water and sucks down a few cigs while the trio are quite literally sunbathing under the LA rays.</p>
<p>All it takes is one listen to <i>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</i> to deduct that this period of respite is well-earned. Since their alluring 2011 debut <i>Roads To Judah</i>, the band’s dark-arts alchemy of death metal’s frigid rush, shoegaze’s impressionistic swarm, and the emotional catharsis of post-rock has somehow only grown more epic with every release. That’s even more true with their latest record, which at times recalls <i>Mellon Collie</i>-era Smashing Pumpkins and Sunny Day Real Estate’s <i>Diary</i> in its ultra-bright melodic sweep. There are female vocals present, courtesy of West Coast occult-rocker Chelsea Wolfe — as well as actual <i>singing</i>, as Clarke shows off a deeper vocal register beyond his signature burned-out bark.</p>
<p>The personal boundary-pushing and overall prettiness of <i>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</i> doesn’t so much suggest a newer, shinier Deafheaven as it does a natural progression (or a full realization, even) of the genre-blending hard rock sound they’ve spent most of the decade refining. As tempting as it might be to refer to the album as Deafheaven’s “mature” turn, there’s still a youthful passion that courses through it like a lit match dropped into dry brush — but that doesn’t mean the quintet haven’t gone through some serious personal changes in the interim between 2015’s <i>New Bermuda</i> and now (which marks, to date, the longest gap between Deafheaven records).</p>
<p>“We were 24 when <i>Sunbather</i> came out,” Clarke reflects while discussing the intense emotions and personal strain the band’s been through since that record’s release. “We were still sleeping on floors when we were home, but the rest of the time we were on tour with idle hands and free cash.” He pauses for a second and chuckles ruefully. “Some people are smart — but we decided not to be.”</p>
<hr><p>Before their current residence in LA (Clarke and McCoy have lived in the city for about four years now) and Deafheaven’s teeth-cutting Bay Area days, the pair spent their adolescence scrapping about in the central California suburbs of Modesto. “It was normal,” McCoy describes their respective upbringings, “but it’s all relative. I’m sure Bill Gates’ kids have seen some shit, too.” But he’s quick to note that the relative mundanity of their upbringing also made for a normalization of the intolerance the young punks experienced growing up, too: “I’d just accepted that the way the world went was seeing a giant truck with a Confederate flag drive by, calling me a fag.” (In the middle of this parkside recollection, Clarke interrupts to point out something decidedly <i>not</i> normal: a shirtless pedestrian sporting a full-chest Monster energy drink tattoo. “Check out how lit this tattoo is,” he giggles, as we briefly debate its authenticity.)</p>
<p>When he was 15, McCoy’s father took him to a protest against the Iraq War, and he wore a white armband to school afterwards, which resulted in him getting “destroyed” by his classmates. “We recently went to the March For Our Lives,” Clarke mentions, “and I think it’s really cool that kids these days — even if they’re not 100% informed on stuff — are really making an effort to be. Comparatively, there was no one [in high school] thinking about anything else other than the direct narrative you were given in this small town.”</p>
<p>Music had been in both of their lives from an early age — McCoy’s father once worked as a music journalist, and some of Clarke’s earliest memories include leafing through CD booklets with his mother — and the outsider feeling both of them shared only further deepened their sonic interests. “When you’re living in the Central Valley and you’re into ‘alternative’ things, it forces you further into the hole you’re digging for yourself,” Clarke explains. “You’re already a loser with acne, and now you’re painting your nails for a Misfits show,” McCoy follows up with a chuckle. His first band was a punky high school outfit called The Confused, which self-distributed a CD called <i>What The Hell</i> that everyone in his social circle thought “sucked.” Clarke’s inaugural musical foray was in a band called Fear And Faith Alike that, in his words, “was very 2002 metalcore.”</p>
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<p>Clarke and McCoy first became friends when the latter saw “this fool” (Clarke) sitting outside in the rain during high school, decked out in fishnet arm sleeves, a Slayer T-shirt, and a white backpack covered with pentagrams and band names scrawled in Bic. They stayed close as the former bounced around high schools, returning to Modesto after barely graduating in San Jose; after a few failed attempts at forming post-high school bands, the two formed Deafheaven in 2009 after McCoy joined Clarke to share a $500/month apartment in the Upper Haight area of San Francisco.</p>
<p>Deafheaven began as a pretty much anonymous project, to the point where the pair created a Facebook page for the band that essentially positioned it as a one-man act. “We didn’t tell anyone we grew up with about it,” Clarke explains. “We knew if we told people it was us, everyone would be like ‘Fuck off.'” In 2010, they recorded a demo with Bay Area producer Jack Shirley for the cost of $500, a sum which Clarke and McCoy (who were scrambling to even make monthly rent) struggled to pay back for six months.</p>
<p>“This man’s patience is endless,” Clarke speaks admirably about Shirley, whom McCoy refers to as “the Ian McKaye of the West Coast” and “like a straight-edge Marine”; he’s produced every Deafheaven record since. “They were broke beyond broke,” recalls Shirley, whose work with Deafheaven has led him to record acts like Wolves In The Throne Room and Jeff Rosenstock. “It wasn’t a huge deal, though. I try to be patient in those situations, and I’m glad I didn’t [let money get in the way], because it would’ve severed my ties with a band that I have a great relationship with now.”</p>
<p>After the demo made the rounds online, Deafheaven expanded to a full-band lineup and signed to Converge frontman Jacob Bannon’s Deathwish Inc. label, who released <i>Roads To Judah</i> and <i>Sunbather</i> — the latter of which received a profile-raising critical response that metal and “heavy” music in general typically doesn’t enjoy. “We went from a band that nobody really gave a fuck about, to … not the world’s biggest band, but a <i>thing</i>!” McCoy exclaims. “I had an apartment, I moved to LA, I got a girlfriend — life got kind of big.”</p>
<p>The success Deafheaven enjoyed following <i>Sunbather</i>’s release was, for a band on their level, a bit dizzying. Their fanbase spanned kindred spirits like Mono and Explosions In The Sky to rapper Danny Brown and Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins. On the other hand, the band found themselves unwittingly receiving the indie-TMZ treatment after a Swedish blogger spotted them hanging out at the VIP area of Gothenburg’s Way Out West festival with a Sub Pop representative (full disclosure: I was also present for said hang), ginning up a post shortly after speculating about the band’s potential next career moves — a surprise to the folks back at Deathwish. “I felt so bad,” Clarke says in a tone of sincerity about the accidental reveal.</p>
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<p>Combined with the extensive post-<i>Sunbather</i> touring schedule, the increased attention on Deafheaven — as well as the pressures of writing and recording the band’s next album, which they’d committed to within a tight time frame under new label home ANTI- — was starting to take its toll on everyone involved. “All this touring and great stuff was fun and exciting, but it blows up your personality with regards to things you have when you become middle-class,” McCoy states. “And you have habits that blow up with that.”</p>
<p>As work on <i>New Bermuda</i> progressed, the pressure of following up their big breakthrough began to wear on the band — hard. Shirley states that, as a “habitually sober” person, he didn’t witness any dysfunction in the recording studio; but McCoy describes the ways in which Deafheaven’s members dealt with the situation as “unhealthy,” and he and Clarke started to literally lose sleep over the prospect of what would come next. “I’d wake up in the middle of the night thinking that everyone was mad at me because the record sucked,” says McCoy, “and we’d all have to go back to Whole Foods — everyone was laughing at us.”</p>
<p>Various substances were on-hand and frequently present during this time — a product of bad habits never dropped and exacerbated by the party-hardy temporary lifestyle that touring afforded. “You’d be like, ‘Well, I gotta be in the practice space for five hours today — better bring two 40’s,'” Clarke remembers. “When you’re touring for five years, your body degrades,” explains guitarist Shiv Mehra, who joined the band along with drummer Daniel Tracy while <i>Sunbather</i> was being recorded. “Drinking doesn’t help.”</p>
<p>Clarke recalls a show in Sao Paulo on the band’s first South American tour supporting <i>New Bermuda</i> as a colliding point for the band’s substance use and personal strain. “It should’ve been insane,” he recalls with a touch of regret, “But everyone was backstage burnt that the booze wasn’t there yet.”</p>
<p>“We were all just sitting there staring at our phones, waiting for whoever — or whatever — to show up,” McCoy adds. “Our entire world wants to come backstage and be the guy to hang out with you, and they <i>know</i> there’s a certain way to do that.”</p>
<p>“We were all still bothered by each other from touring,” Clark, who possesses a quiet yet thoughtful demeanor, states. “We didn’t have any time off from each other for <i>years</i>.” Following <i>New Bermuda</i>’s tour cycle — a period of time he says “quite literally ruined his life” — he chose to leave the band and was replaced by current bassist Chris Johnson, but still remains close with everyone.</p>
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<p>“I didn’t handle having money well,” Clark asserts with straightforward conviction. “It was so easy to party, and I was never much of a partier — so I was all over the world having fun, with no longevity in mind. It all came crashing down.”</p>
<p>“It was a dark and bad experience,” McCoy states plainly on the time period surrounding <i>New Bermuda</i>. By the end of the album cycle, everyone was exhausted, and the mere act of being in the band had turned into drudgery.</p>
<p>“It stopped being fun,” Clarke states on his view towards the band at that point. “It became a chore.”</p>
<p>I ask if there was ever a point during this period of time in which he thought Deafheaven would cease to exist. Later, when I relay his answer to others in the band, they’re quick to note it was an exaggeration, but it’s a rough reply regardless: “I kind of thought someone would die,” says Clarke. We’re not gonna break up because we don’t have anything else, but something drastic or scary happening was within the realm of possibility. If anything would’ve taken us down, it would’ve been … tragic.”</p>
<p>When I press on if there were any specific close calls that took place, the three demur, nervously laugh, and murmur to themselves, “Maybe — not really,” declining to elaborate. “When you’re fuckin’ around, you’re fuckin’ around,” Clarke says with an uneasy chuckle.</p>
<p>Clarke quickly follows up: “When you have a problem, you have a problem.”</p>
<hr><p>Work on <i>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</i> informally began in late 2016 around a single piano riff McCoy had been toying around with, but much of the album was written and recorded from October of last year until this past February. Deafheaven camped out in a cluster of Oakland homes and, after an informal jam session during the first day of recording, found that the time off did them good.</p>
<p>“We finally dealt with all the stuff that made <i>New Bermuda</i> so dark — and when we did, we realized that all that other stuff was junk,” McCoy passionately describes. “When we all got in a room together, I was like, ‘This was the juice of life right here.'”</p>
<p>“It was like we’d been holding our breath for three years, finally let it out, took another one, and said ‘Everything’s gonna be OK,'” Clarke adds.</p>
<p>In truth, there was still a ways to go. To this day, Deafheaven’s members describe themselves as living “healthier” than before, but McCoy is the only band member who’s completely sober, a decision he made during recording late last year after an extended struggle with drug addiction. It’s a sensitive topic for him to discuss, and the details he’s willing to offer regarding his path to sobriety are scant — but he makes it unmistakably clear that things could not go on the way they were for much longer.</p>
<p>“I’d come to a point where I was done being out there,” he explains, “And I was willing to try anything to get off it.” McCoy reached out to a friend, who helped put him on the path to recovery; he’s been sober since late 2017. “My favorite thing in the world was to play guitar,” he states, “And for a long time, I forgot that. Ever since I made this decision, my life has gotten immeasurably better.”</p>
<p>Casting aside the past was essential for not just McCoy, but the entirety of Deafheaven to move forwards after the fraught period of time they were trying to leave behind. “I don’t think anyone who worked on <i>New Bermuda</i> wanted to make another record that sounded like <i>New Bermuda</i>,” Clarke states, who goes on to describe <i>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love</i> as the sound of “people enjoying what they’re doing.” If the aesthetic of the new album reflects the emotions of the people who recorded it, then the lyrical content zooms in on the world around them — the splendor and sameness of peoples’ everyday lives.</p>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="488" data-orig-width="1032" style=""><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/4f96ba425aed121bc1adcc2cad956e48/tumblr_inline_p9yvivkZ4h1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><i><small><span class="font_small">CREDIT: </span></small><span class="font_small">Gari Askew II / Stereogum</span></i></p></figure>
<p>The universal, explicitly humanistic focus was developed after Clarke began collaborating with photographer Nick Steinhardt to, in his words, “photograph people in their natural habitat.” “I told him I didn’t want anything extraordinary — just people in their everyday routine, looking at a snapshot of someone in their day and just drinking it in,” he explains. The album’s cover features an anonymous woman in Los Angeles’ Civic Center area, her scarf blowing in front of her face; the inlay art features a child holding out his hand to his mother as he prepares to cross the street.</p>
<p>McCoy describes the album cover as “a potential alternate version” of the iconic album art for Radiohead’s <i>The Bends</i>, and Clarke cites the tinted-hue portraiture of Belle And Sebastian’s visual art as a parallel — both comparisons serving as reminders that, despite their roots in heavy music, their palettes span far beyond what genre purists might come to expect.</p>
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<p>And if Deafheaven’s genre-agnostic approach seemed polarizing around the time of <i>Sunbather</i>, it seems weirdly prescient now. In a way, the 29-year-old McCoy and Clarke are indicative of the landscape-flattening streaming generation, in a good way. Sure, it’s easy to bemoan the age of the algorithm and the fluctuating state of discovery for budding music fans in the digital age. But it’s even easier to forget that discovering “good” music used to possess a distinct social element not far off from joining the football team in high school: Are the indie kids any different than the jocks if they still bristle at people joining their lunch table?</p>
<p>For Deafheaven’s and younger generations, discovering new music is easier than ever, and if you’re willing to turn discovery into creativity as they have been, the possibilities are endless. And anyway, even though Deafheaven’s earlier work was sometimes overshadowed by the band’s perpetual and ineffective battle with the metal scene, the band’s members have since learned to hang with the genre misconceptions. “My girlfriend sent me a screenshot about how ‘Honeycomb’ has a punk section — that’s textbook Oasis!” McCoy says with an easygoing laugh that speaks to a greater truth when it comes to getting older. Sometimes it’s easier to just let old grudges go.</p>
<hr><p>Despite the cloudy forecast, it’s a bit brighter of a day than we’re expecting. With the threat of sunburn fast approaching, we pack up the blanket, take a leisurely walk around the park, and head to the 826 Time Travel Mart. The Mart’s a funky Sunset Blvd. spot funded by the Dave Eggers-founded nonprofit 826, featuring arch, kitschy items ranging from giant dinosaur eggs to a powdered concoction called “robot milk” — but McCoy’s less invested in the temporally-out-of-whack wares on display than he is in the tutoring courses being offered in the next room of the nonprofit-funded space.</p>
<p>An employee explains the programs offered as McCoy listens intently, and when Clarke returns from grabbing a coffee nearby he does similarly. At first blush, the thoughtfulness and social investment that the pair show during my time with them might seem <i>too</i> fitting of a narrative for a band trying to straighten up and fly right — but such character traits often come with growing up, too.</p>
<p>“Nikki Sixx was 27 when shit got really bad and he tried to clean up for the first time,” Clarke points out as our time comes to a close, before McCoy has to go check on the cats and Clarke’s grandfather needs help getting his computer fixed. “We reached that age too. We want to take what we do seriously and have a career — and to eliminate the things that get in the way of that. If you don’t die at 27, you can do a <i>lot</i>of shit.”</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956032018-05-29T10:17:37-07:002020-01-13T11:15:32-08:00Deafheaven - "You Without End" (Preview)<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-orig-height="304" data-orig-width="540" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FMfVueEFtzGI"><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MfVueEFtzGI?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="540"></iframe></p></figure>
<p>An excerpt from the upcoming album “Ordinary Corrupt Human Love” coming out on July 13, 2018 on Anti Records // Pre-order <a href="https://deafheaven.com/stores" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956042018-05-17T11:07:59-07:002020-01-13T11:15:32-08:00Night Shift with Deafheaven // NTS Radio<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="2000" data-orig-width="2000" style=""><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.nts.live/shows/diamondstein/episodes/night-shift-w-diamondstein-deafheaven-15th-may-2018" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/14289e0c9788245a760086207caa7ea0/tumblr_inline_p8vwxh7Ic51r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p>NTS Radio joined by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/deafheaven/?fref=mentions" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> for a special edition of Night Shift.<br>Listen <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.nts.live/shows/diamondstein/episodes/night-shift-w-diamondstein-deafheaven-15th-may-2018" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956052018-05-09T10:20:37-07:002020-01-13T11:15:32-08:00Deafheaven - "Near" (Preview)<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="CTgXkdVh8oM" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/CTgXkdVh8oM/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CTgXkdVh8oM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="304" width="540" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>From the album, “Ordinary Corrupt Human Love” out on July 13, 2018 on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/antirecords/?fref=mentions" target="_blank">Anti Records</a><br>Visit <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deafheaven.com/stores" target="_blank">Deafheaven.com</a> for pre-order</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956062018-04-18T13:12:35-07:002020-01-13T11:15:32-08:00With 'Honeycomb,' Deafheaven Matches Its Expansive Promise // NPR<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="393" data-orig-width="700"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/04/18/603179702/with-honeycomb-deafheaven-matches-its-expansive-promise" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/f91d1d6b1f80b5d9d459a623d08ff221/tumblr_inline_p7ed71oqaS1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></figure>
<p>Full feature by Lars Gotrich via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/04/18/603179702/with-honeycomb-deafheaven-matches-its-expansive-promise" target="_blank">NPR</a></p>
<p>The secret of the pearl’s beauty is secretion: Layers and layers of calcium carbonate and conchiolin form over a microscopic intruder in a process intended principally to protect the mollusk’s internal domain, but also produces a gift for the patient pearl fisher. <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> has spent eight years layering its exquisite and extreme sound, its eureka moment of gauzy black metal most realized on Sunbather and adventuring beyond with 2015’s New Bermuda. It’s the latter that reached more ears, but sometimes felt unformed in its sonic array — still something to behold, but not quite ready to be broken open.</p><!-- more -->
<p>The first single from the metal band’s fourth album, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, offers a gift for the patient Deafheaven fan. The first four minutes of “Honeycomb” will feel familiar, as cascades of blissful and furious riffing erupt over euphoric blast beats and George Clarke opines on the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar with his characteristically piercing roar. But then, “Honeycomb” breaks open.</p>
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<p>Where Deafheaven once lept into its far-reaching influences with wild abandon, here the band considers the triumphant arena-rock of Smashing Pumpkins and the introspective repetition of Red House Painters with equal weight. Kerry McCoy, ever the thoughtful guitarist, sounds most at home in these solos, ditching the pyrotechnics of New Bermuda for melodic lines that conform to the song’s natural wave. Its 12-minute running time may seem superfluous, in need of an editor, but “Honeycomb” stretches out into its corners with a knowing wisdom, slowly building Deafheaven’s metallic expanse.</p>
<p>Deafheaven starts a <a href="https://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">U.S. tour</a> in July. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love comes out July 13 via <a href="https://deafheaven.com/stores" target="_blank">Anti- Records</a>. Track list below:</p>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="303" data-orig-width="644"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/04/18/603179702/with-honeycomb-deafheaven-matches-its-expansive-promise" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/4e88efbf8aa2f28f5a3c85ce6009d171/tumblr_inline_p7edb2mu581qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956072018-04-18T09:14:29-07:002020-01-13T11:15:32-08:00Deafheaven “Honeycomb” // Best New Track on Pitchfork<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="436" data-orig-width="691"><p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/deafheaven-honeycomb/" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/4252aa6b69cc983535bbd0a6d9990655/tumblr_inline_p7e2dobXpt1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" /></a></p>
<p>Feature by Jayson Greene via <a contents="Pitchfork" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/deafheaven-honeycomb/" target="_blank">Pitchfork</a></p></figure>
<p>“Honeycomb,” <a href="https://pitchfork.com/artists/30011-deafheaven/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>’s first new song since 2015, offers the band’s fans no surprises. From its opening seconds, it sounds as if the shoegaze/black metal outfit has been screaming uninterrupted behind some thick, soundproof curtain ever since we left them. This may be for the best; if you’ve worked up a sound this oceanic, you might as well luxuriate in it for a good long while. And so on “Honeycomb,” they do just that.</p><!-- more -->
<p>For 11 minutes, the song flies weightlessly down its well-paved path without hitting a single bump: The guitars still move from major to minor in shuddering bursts, George Clarke’s shredded vocals still peel away from the music as if to escape it. In the long, dreamy outro, in the chiming guitars and light tambourines (which could be from a folk-rock record), we are still given a vision of the electric guitar as a holy instrument, firing deep into the imagination. Deafheaven aim us toward a vanishing point only they see, a nexus where all guitar music melts together in an ecstatic blur. If they seem to be repeating themselves somewhat, maybe it’s because we’re still not there.</p>
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<p>JUL 11 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom<br>JUL 13 Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar N’ Grill<br>JUL 14 Austin, TX @ The Mohawk<br>JUL 15 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall<br>JUL 17 Orlando, FL @ The Social<br>JUL 18 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade<br>JUL 19 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle<br>JUL 20 Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry<br>JUL 21 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club<br>JUL 22 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer<br>JUL 24 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel<br>JUL 25 Boston, MA @ Royale<br>JUL 26 Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount<br>JUL 27 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House<br>JUL 28 Detroit, MI @ El Club<br>JUL 30 Chicago, IL @ Metro w/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/monoofjapan/?fref=mentions" target="_blank">MONO</a><br>JUL 31 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall<br>AUG 01 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center<br>AUG 03 St. Louis, MO @ The Ready Room<br>AUG 04 Lawrence, KS @ The Granada<br>AUG 05 Denver, CO @ The Oriental Theater<br>AUG 07 Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall<br>AUG 08 Boise, ID @ Neurolux<br>AUG 10 Seattle, WA @ The Neptune Theatre<br>AUG 11 Vancouver, BC @ The Imperial<br>AUG 12 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom<br>AUG 14 San Francisco, CA @ August Hall<br>AUG 17 San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick<br>AUG 18 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern</p>
<p>All Dates with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/drabmajesty/" target="_blank">Drab Majesty</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/uniformnewyork/" target="_blank">Uniform</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956092018-04-17T10:28:12-07:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Deafheaven’s new song, “Honeycomb”<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-orig-height="304" data-orig-width="540" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQU8g0XNyHRw"><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QU8g0XNyHRw?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="540"></iframe></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>’s new song, “Honeycomb”.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956102018-01-30T16:39:39-08:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Deafheaven Ready New Album for 2018 Release // Pitchfork<figure data-orig-height="36" data-orig-width="142"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/04afb1f503fcc4d29aebcc5cc3f295ce/tumblr_inline_p3e9lkBjAW1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Deafheaven Ready New Album for 2018 Release</h2>
<p style="text-align: center;">The follow-up to 2015’s New Bermuda is due later this year</p>
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<p><i>Photo courtesy of Deafheaven</i></p>
<p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> are making their next moves. The metal band posted a photo on their social media platforms of the members recording in a studio with the caption “2018.” See the photo below. Deafheaven’s representatives have confirmed with Pitchfork that the band are currently working on a new album at 25th St. Recording in Oakland with their frequent collaborator, producer Jack Shirley. They’re “expecting” to release the album sometime later this year via <a href="http://www.anti.com/" target="_blank">Anti-</a>. The upcoming record follows the band’s 2015 album <a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21022-new-bermuda/" target="_blank">New Bermuda</a>. Last year, Deafheaven’s George Clarke contributed to a “Lost at Sea” <a href="https://pitchfork.com/news/72993-chelsea-wolfe-deafheavens-george-clark-remix-youth-code-to-benefit-planned-parenthood-listen/" target="_blank">remix</a> with Youth Code and Chelsea Wolfe to support Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>Full article via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pitchfork.com/news/deafheaven-ready-new-album-for-2018-release/" target="_blank">Pitchfork</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956112017-07-26T14:35:20-07:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00‘Sunbather’ named most critically acclaimed album of 2013 // Business Insider<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="144" data-orig-width="342"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/best-albums-of-the-2000s-2017-7/#2013-deafheaven-sunbather-14" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/6b9c88ab49b9b88cace31fff1b127197/tumblr_inline_otpvvoqrB11r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/best-albums-of-the-2000s-2017-7/#2013-deafheaven-sunbather-14" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/5ccb4851e24b27da43b1bca1a8fb29d0/tumblr_inline_otpvv7Ko3Q1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/55c0ada72df443f09d01e14710b3f207/tumblr_inline_otpvvdROns1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/best-albums-of-the-2000s-2017-7/#2013-deafheaven-sunbather-14" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/d1a3adc13582148051e2c13ab5b542e7/tumblr_inline_otpvvwe56i1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p>‘Sunbather’ by <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> is amongst incredible company on ‘The Best Album Of Every Year Since 2000” list. Full article via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/best-albums-of-the-2000s-2017-7/#2013-deafheaven-sunbather-14" target="_blank">Business Insider. </a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956122017-07-19T10:48:32-07:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Deafheaven Announce Shows With Danzig<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1567" data-orig-width="1080"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/36e02c3c6945f51704c00d04ded54fcb/tumblr_inline_otcmotLf4X1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="https://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be playing three shows alongside Danzig and Vamps. Dates Below.</p>
<p>SEP 22 - San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre<br>SEP 23 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl<br>SEP 25 - Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee</p>
<p>Ticket links coming soon.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956132017-06-21T12:24:58-07:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Deafheaven on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-w486923/deafheaven-sunbather-2013-w486968" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/18be3c64520be6c3f3e4d849633a745fb98e5535/original/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-12-13-32-pm.png?1498072598" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/d7df30283feaa0821a711ad77d10c12271c79980/original/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-12-13-44-pm.png?1498072599" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/bd2f75e144796038444da015afbeb4143337c31d/original/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-12-14-16-pm.png?1498072598" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-w486923/deafheaven-sunbather-2013-w486968" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/e055838df71d0afeb15b63c2fd592ce59a24ef3e/original/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-12-20-33-pm.png?1498072866" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><a href="https://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> guitarist Kerry McCoy and singer George Clarke grew up together in Modesto, California – they met in high school when McCoy spotted Clarke wearing a Slayer T-shirt, while Clarke noticed McCoy was wearing a Dead Kennedys patch. Naturally, they had to start a band. That blend of influences has made Deafheaven one of the most polarizing and controversial metal bands of recent years. As McCoy put it, they claim “this triangle of extreme music, experimental music and very sad indie rock. That’s what we were into.” The San Francisco band blew up with their second album Sunbather, the 2013 breakthrough that defined their expansive style of black metal. In fiercely emotional tracks like “Dream House” and “The Pecan Tree,” they weave in elements of post-punk indie noise bands like Mogwai, along with shoegaze elders like My Bloody Valentine or Slowdive. “Sunbather musically and lyrically sums up what we were thinking; it’s very hopeful and bright and fast and energetic,” McCoy said. “Lyrically, it’s very yearning.” And it sounds like nothing else, though Deafheaven make no apologies for that. As McCoy told Rolling Stone, “That mixture of influences has kind of always been our thing, much to some people’s annoyance." R.S.</p>
<p>Via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-w486923/deafheaven-sunbather-2013-w486968" target="_blank">Rolling Stone</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956142017-05-09T11:23:45-07:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Choice Set of Day one: Deafheaven // Invisible Oranges<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="226" data-orig-width="756"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.invisibleoranges.com/roadburn-2017-day-one/#photogallery-4=8" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/bb8fdd4043493a46efd67aa1f1d954fd/tumblr_inline_opp6n68U3s1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/76e0f3865c8be54ffa66a1b3245b5c5e/tumblr_inline_opp6nnxIE31qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/a2525856d707236b39fc8397c3486efe/tumblr_inline_opp6ntTU101qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p><a href="https://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank"><b>Deafheaven. </b></a>The complaints I’ve heard over the years about Deafheaven run the gamut from too emo, too contrived, not true enough, etc. They are a polarizing band, but I’m entirely convinced this comes from attempts to peg them as something they aren’t. The shoegaze-y, effect-laden weight of Deafheaven’s sound can hardly be categorized as black metal alone. Tonight, vocalist George Clarke’s schizophrenic movements were the focal point, fluctuating more extremely than ever between manic orchestra conductor and serpent-like seductor. Stinging guitars and merciless drumming cut through the auditorium like a knife.</p>
<p>A palpable post-Deafheaven buzz continued into the wee hours. The night swirled into a maze reunions with old friends, clinking glasses and excitement for the three days to come.</p><!-- more -->
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<p>Full article at <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.invisibleoranges.com/roadburn-2017-day-one/#photogallery-4=8" target="_blank">Invisible Oranges.</a></p>
<p>Photos courtesy of <a href="http://dianalungu.com/" target="_blank">Diana Lungu.</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956152017-05-09T10:00:44-07:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Deafheaven Add Mexico Dates w/ MONO<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="3300" data-orig-width="3300"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/6b43c7701df577349a416852e0b79fea/tumblr_inline_opp305h1br1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
<p><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fsargenthouse.com%2Fdeafheaven&t=NzYzMTk0Y2JiZTNhNmU5M2RjNzcxNDRlYWFlMmFhNmQyZWI1NjUyYyxBelY2TFVnOA%3D%3D&b=t%3AAVOszEDegrRTV2r9QHuhFA&p=http%3A%2F%2Fdfhvn.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F158779632030%2Fdeafheaven-adds-dates-to-europe-and-north-america&m=1" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> has added two Mexico dates with MONO to their ongoing European and North America tour. See below for a full list of announced shows. Tickets available <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fdeafheaven.com%2Fshows&t=MTg1YWQyOTZjNDcxMDRkMmFhZGM3NTI3NWNjNzdiMzcxMGVlNDAwYSxBelY2TFVnOA%3D%3D&b=t%3AAVOszEDegrRTV2r9QHuhFA&p=http%3A%2F%2Fdfhvn.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F158779632030%2Fdeafheaven-adds-dates-to-europe-and-north-america&m=1" target="_blank">HERE. </a></p>
<p><b>DEAFHEAVEN LIVE 2017</b></p>
<p>May 16 Niagara Falls, NY @ Rapids Theatre #<br>May 17 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage A #<br>May 18 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme<br>May 19 Toronto, ON @ The Garrison<br>May 20 Hamilton, ON @ Club Absinthe<br>May 21 Columbus, OH @ Rock on the Range<br>May 26 Silverado, CA @ Blackest of Black Fest</p>
<p># w <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gojira-music.com%2F&t=MzA2YzgwZGU0ZmY0ZGVjZWRmMGRkZGI5MDQ3NWVlZTViOTA3NmY3YyxBelY2TFVnOA%3D%3D&b=t%3AAVOszEDegrRTV2r9QHuhFA&p=http%3A%2F%2Fdfhvn.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F158779632030%2Fdeafheaven-adds-dates-to-europe-and-north-america&m=1" target="_blank">Gojira</a> and <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fcodeorangetoth.com%2F&t=OTUyOGNkZjM0YTYxZjYxMmM5NjYyNTc1ZjMwMzE0NzllZmQ4NzcyZSxBelY2TFVnOA%3D%3D&b=t%3AAVOszEDegrRTV2r9QHuhFA&p=http%3A%2F%2Fdfhvn.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F158779632030%2Fdeafheaven-adds-dates-to-europe-and-north-america&m=1" target="_blank">Code Orange</a></p>
<p>June 17 Clisson, FR @ Hellfest 2017<br>June 19 Lausanne, CH @ Le Romandie<br>June 20 Zurich, CH @ Bogen F<br>June 21 Milan, IT @ Circolo Magnolia - Solo Macello Fest<br>June 24 Madrid, ES @ Download Fest<br>June 30 Guadalajara, MX @ Foro Independencia +<br>July 1 Mexico City, MX @ El Plaza Condesa +</p>
<p>+w MONO</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956162017-04-17T11:23:12-07:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Deafheaven Guest On ‘Records In My Life’ // Northern Transmissions<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="270" data-orig-width="636"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.northerntransmissions.com/news/deafheaven-guest-on-records-in-my-life/" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/3accbb1f09f4d374b3a1ea2f2aeb6e2e/tumblr_inline_ookfzo5Tq41qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/d4456c31b5e00836f6b9c3d79a167439/tumblr_inline_ookg0kIYd21qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gr9aCGRs0ic?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="540"></iframe></p></figure>
<p>We met with George Clarke, lead singer of the band <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>, while we were in Boise, Idaho for Treefort Fest 2017. George kindly shared with us some important albums, that influenced his and the band’s sound, as well as offering a couple surprising records for us to check out! Some of his favourite albums include titles by Simon And Garfunkel, Slayer, and Philip Glass.</p>
<p>Deafhaven, play April 20th in Tilburg, Netherlands. The band’s latest release New Bermuda, is now out on Anti Records.</p>
<p>Via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.northerntransmissions.com/news/deafheaven-guest-on-records-in-my-life/" target="_blank">Northern Transmissions.</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956172017-03-24T09:00:42-07:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Deafheaven adds dates to Europe and North America<p><a href="https://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven%3Cfigure" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/04181d05c87c65cc275fde88959028cc/tumblr_inline_onam6svo1w1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> has added dates in European and North America around their performances at Roadburn, Hellfest, Rock on the Range, and more. See below for a full list of announced shows. Tickets available <a href="http://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">HERE. </a></p>
<p><b>DEAFHEAVEN LIVE 2017</b><br>Apr 20 Tilburg, NE @ Roadburn Festival *<br>Apr 21 London, UK @ Koko<br>Apr 22 Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club *<br>Apr 23 Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke’s<br>Apr 24 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla<br>Apr 25 Birmingham, UK @ 02 Institute<br>Apr 26 Cardiff, UK @ Tramshed<br>Apr 28 Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof<br>Apr 29 Meerhout, BE @ Groezrock Festival *<br>May 01 Prague, CZ @ Lucerna Music Bar<br>May 02 Berlin, DE @ Bi Nuu<br>May 03 Leipzig, DE @ Taubchenthal<br>May 05 Copenhagen, DK @ A Colossal Weekend *<br>May 06 Krems, AT @ Donau Festival *</p>
<p>* w/o <a href="https://www.facebook.com/youthcodeforever/" target="_blank">Youth Code</a><br><br>May 16 Niagara Falls, NY @ Rapids Theatre #<br>May 17 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage A #<br>May 18 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme<br>May 19 Toronto, ON @ The Garrison +<br>May 20 Hamilton, ON @ Club Absinthe +<br>May 21 Columbus, OH @ Rock on the Range</p>
<p># w <a href="http://www.gojira-music.com/" target="_blank">Gojira</a> and <a href="http://codeorangetoth.com/" target="_blank">Code Orange</a><br>+w <a contents="Big Brave" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bigbrave.bandcamp.com">Big Brave</a><br><br>June 17 Clisson, FR @ Hellfest 2017<br>June 19 Lausanne, CH @ Le Romandie<br>June 20 Zurich, CH @ Bogen F<br>June 21 Milan, IT @ Circolo Magnolia - Solo Macello Fest<br>June 24 Madrid, ES @ Download Fest</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956182017-03-22T17:13:58-07:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00DEAFHEAVEN Rig Rundown // Premier Guitar<p> </p>
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<p>Rig Rundown via <a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/" target="_blank">Premier Guitar</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956192017-03-07T15:49:02-08:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Interview with RBMA Radio<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="194" data-orig-width="1334"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/03/deafheaven-interview?linkId=35217638" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/26eee74bb3915fccec77e0089ae4876e/tumblr_inline_omgxyzkNUX1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/2ee502caf3b4058a9670d8bb735a62ca/tumblr_inline_omgxzhwRlS1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/eb6518fc7efd1739eb6c25df04858bec/tumblr_inline_omgy07BRV81qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p>After growing up together in Modesto, California as self-professed bratty metal upstarts, vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy moved to San Francisco in 2010 and formed <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>, a band whose contrasting mixture of metal and post-rock has made them both a success story and a curiosity for critics and fans alike. After recording their four-track demo, the duo became a five-piece band, signed up to Deathwish Inc. for their debut album Roads To Judah and took their strange new sound on the road.</p><!-- more -->
<p>After the strains of touring led the three new recruits to leave, McCoy and Clarke released their second LP, Sunbather, in 2013, a watershed release for the band with its lush shoegaze and even pop-leaning elements. Their third LP, New Bermuda, came in 2015, on Epitaph sister label ANTI. Rotating new band members in recent years, Deafheaven’s reputation for physically intense live shows and a “fuck you” attitude to metal convention has seen them contemporarily aligned with the new “North American Black Metal” sound (alongside groups such as Wolves In The Throne Room and <a href="http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2012/07/liturgy-hunter-hunt-hendrix-interview" target="_blank">Liturgy</a>) – an innovative blend of black metal vocals and suspenseful, cathartic ambience. In this condensed excerpt from their <a href="https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/fireside-chat/episodes/deafheaven" target="_blank">Fireside Chat</a> with <a href="http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/author/frosty" target="_blank">Frosty</a> on Red Bull Radio, McCoy and Clarke spoke about the band’s rapid success, the trials of touring and preserving their 20s through Deafheaven’s three albums.</p>
<h2>Growing Up in Modesto</h2>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>There’s an equidistant triangle between Modesto, Sacramento and San Francisco – they’re each about 90 miles from each other. While Sacramento and San Francisco are great places to live and grow up, Modesto, not so much. It’s part of Northern California, but as a culture it’s what’s known as a “bedroom community.” It’s a place that’s got bad pollution, but the rent is really cheap and it’s close enough to the Bay Area, so people will commute to work jobs there for higher wages and then come back home to Modesto at night. I think because it’s not actually in the Bay Area, or not actually part of a major city – I don’t want to slack off people who live in Modesto – but it sort of has a redneck vibe.</p>
<p>GEORGE CLARKE</p>
<p>It’s still a small town, even though there was a lot of cultural influence, especially in the punk scene, coming from the Bay at the time. To its credit, there was a decent amount of our kind of people living in Modesto, but the goal was always to get out after high school. San Francisco was the city where everyone hoped to leave for.</p>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>I remember the exact day George and I met, somewhere in the middle of 9th grade. He had just moved up from Bakersfield to Modesto. It was a rainy day, everyone was huddled underneath the awnings, but being the typical moody metal teenager that he was, he was sitting in the open rain by himself in a <a href="https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/fireside-chat/episodes/slayer" target="_blank">Slayer</a> t-shirt. I was way into punk at the time, Slayer was the only metal band that I liked. I saw him and went up to him and was like, “Cool Slayer shirt.” He saw my Dead Kennedys patch. We complimented each other and started hanging out.</p>
<h2>Finding Fans</h2>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>The whole shoegaze/black metal, or post-black metal thing, was being done ten years before we were a band. We just started doing it and found people coming to our shows wearing Planning for Burial shirts, or kids that were into <a href="https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/main-stage/episodes/mount-eerie-live-at-primavera-sound-2013" target="_blank">Mount Eerie</a> really liked us. We were still an insanely small band at this time, like, could not get a hundred people to come see us. It was those kids who really had their ear to the ground on that kind of thing. From early on, I think most of them have stuck with us.</p>
<p>GEORGE CLARKE</p>
<p>Because we came from that same world. It was pockets of people that were into blogspot and weird lo-fi MediaFire records from 15 years ago that archived these things. This blogosphere is where we found our first broad audience.</p>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>The people that inhabit this triangle of extreme music, experimental music and very sad indie rock. That was what we were into. At that time, in 2010-11, we were listening to a lot of shoegaze, like Chapterhouse, <a href="https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/fireside-chat/episodes/swervedriver" target="_blank">Swervedriver</a>, <a href="https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/fireside-chat/episodes/slowdive" target="_blank">Slowdive</a>, My Bloody Valentine, and a lot of post-rock. A lot of Mount Eerie, a lot of Microphones. Grouper. That whole reverbed-out, almost to a noisy experimental state, of sad, desperate acoustic singer-songwriter stuff. There was some beauty in it.</p>
<h2>The Rise of Caligula</h2>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>Bands can’t really be a democracy. For us, it’s never worked. Everyone can contribute ideas, everyone can have their input, everybody brings riffs to the table, but at the end of the day there has to be somebody who has a clear vision of the way that things are going to go. That’s the way Deafheaven works. That’s what was wrong with [the band] <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/3314634-Rise-Of-Caligula" target="_blank">Rise of Caligula</a>. It all came together in this big jumbled soup where nothing really sounded like anything at all. We all worked so hard on it and it was so hard to be in that band because nobody gave a fuck. When we started Deafheaven people just instantly started liking it. This was before Facebook had pages for bands. We had a personal profile, literally “Deaf Heaven,” first and last name, and added all the cool metal people of the Bay Area. We got a bunch of messages back like, “Who the hell is this?”</p>
<p>GEORGE CLARKE</p>
<p>We would just never respond and keep it really cold.</p>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>We posted our demo, just like, “Here’s the band.” It would come up in people’s Facebook feed. It sort of worked. People would listen to it and we’d get another message like, “Who is this? This is really good.” We started getting show offers. It was like, “Oh. It’s not this nonstop uphill battle of getting people to like your band. If people like it, they’re going to like it from the very beginning.” We had this lineup all of a sudden and started playing shows. [George] had a Bandcamp linked to our email, so we’d get these emails that said “Jonathan from Flinzer has bought your record demo for this much,” or whatever. We got one that said “Tre at <a href="https://deathwishinc.com/" target="_blank">Deathwish Inc.</a> has bought your album demo for $5.” We were like, “Dude, what the fuck is this?” The next day it was like, “<a href="https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/fireside-chat/episodes/converge" target="_blank">Jacob Bannon</a> at Deathwish Inc. has bought your album demo for $5.”</p>
<p>GEORGE CLARKE</p>
<p>The next thing I really remember is I was at school, in between classes, and Tre [McCarthy] called my phone. I was walking around campus and we were kind of just talking shit, getting to know each other. He wanted to know a lot about the band. He was like “Oh, thank God you sound like a nice guy and you guys look normal, I thought you guys were going to look like total weirdos.”</p>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>I remember I worked at Ben & Jerry’s on Haight and Ashbury and I was like, “Can I take my lunch early? I’m getting a call.” [George] said, “Deathwish wants to put our record out.” I was like, “Man, we’ve played like eight shows and this is already happening?”</p>
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<h2>Trials of Touring</h2>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>We do our first European tour with Heirophant in February 2012, which is a dream come true, even though it’s freezing and we’re sharing a van with nine people. It’s literally the best time we ever had. We come home from that, do a four-day tour with Whirl out to South by Southwest, and a two week tour with Alcest out to the East Coast, and a show playing with Converge in Rhode Island. Then we fly out to Prague and do six weeks with Russian Circles in Europe, after just doing Europe in February. Three-and-a-half straight months of touring.</p>
<p>GEORGE CLARKE</p>
<p>It breaks you down way more than you think it’s going to.</p>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>Before we tour with Russian Circles, Trevor [Deschryver], our first drummer, quits. We find Corey in San Diego to fill in for that. Nick from Whirl kind of drops out, and Joey from Whirl kind of fills in for him on those tours. We come home from that and we have a new drummer, we have a fill-in guitarist who’s kind of down, but not really, and we have a bassist, Derek [Prine], who at this point is losing steam.</p>
<p>GEORGE CLARKE</p>
<p>Derek was putting so much money into the band because he was the only one that really could.</p>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>He was the only that had money this whole time. At this point he’s realizing that he’s not really that comfortable. We love going on tour because when we come home, we’re sleeping in a living room and we’re eating on food stamps. Derek has his own house in Oakland, has a girlfriend there, has this great life, comfortable job, lots of money. We get home in May, and Derek winds up doing his own thing. Corey does his own thing, and me and George kind of just sit in a room for five months writing guitar stuff. I have this loop station, I start working on stuff. It’s going well because we’ve had so much time to sit there and play guitar that there’s all these riffs that I have saved up. These riffs wind up becoming Sunbather, essentially.</p>
<p>Sunbather musically and lyrically sums up what we were thinking; it’s very hopeful and bright and fast and energetic. Lyrically, it’s very yearning. It’s us having gotten a taste of how fun international touring is, we’re now friends with people who are in successful bands, their job is their band. We see all these guys, we’re playing all these big shows and it’s fun, then we got to come back home to working at Whole Foods and sleeping in a corner. We still have a record deal and could be a lot worse off. We’re living in San Francisco, single, young. But what that record is about is wanting to get that last push. “We’re almost there, can we just get that?” That’s what that record signifies. The record came out June ’13. We were at home literally on the iPad that my mom got me for my birthday, watching Sunbather blow up and get Best New Music on NPR, everybody talking about us and every outlet having an opinion about it.</p>
<p>GEORGE CLARKE</p>
<p>I stopped doing this a long time ago, but this is the time where you’d Twitter search yourself, you know? You can see all these things coming up and keep in mind, in 2013, when Pitchfork and NPR were covering metal, they were covering Agalloch, they were covering Yob. These were the bands that we wanted to be in arena with. We had come from these weirdo pockets. At the time, to be a metal band featured on a website like this, where there’s only a select few writers advocating for it, was a huge deal.</p>
<h2>The Sunbather Effect</h2>
<p>KERRY MCCOY</p>
<p>Because Sunbather was an insanely successful record that everybody loves, you have this terrible stressful conundrum of, we don’t want to write the same record over again, and we want this next record to be heavier, but are people going to fuck with it? Are they going to not like it? We have so much less time to do this and we want the songs to be shorter. There are all these things going into it and it winds up just being this nightmare. George and I are waking up in the middle of the night with night terrors about the record failing. Long story short, we hammer out New Bermuda. It’s the longest time we ever take to record, I think a total of 12 days, which is still shorter than a lot of people. We put it out and people like it, again. I don’t know… Not what we expected.</p>
<p>GEORGE CLARKE</p>
<p>New Bermuda is weird for me. I love everything that we’ve done, it’s a very important record. I think, lyrically, it’ll end up being the one that’s the most personal to me, but it reminds me of that time when we were writing it, and so it always just feels like, “What would have happened if we had more time?” I know whatever we do next, New Bermuda will feel like an in-between. I also think that those three records, Roads To Judah, Sunbather and New Bermuda, serve as a time, and whatever happens after that trio will always be grouped together. That’s me from age 20 to age 26, performing the records throughout until I’m 29. Those three records will be my 20s. Whatever we do next I think will feel very apart from those three albums.</p>
<p>By <a href="http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/author/frosty" target="_blank">Frosty</a> on March 7, 2017</p>
<p><a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/03/deafheaven-interview?linkId=35217638" target="_blank">(via Red Bull Music Academy)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956202017-03-06T13:52:00-08:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Interview with Deafheaven’s Dan Tracy // Modern Drummer Magazine<figure data-orig-height="60" data-orig-width="240"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.moderndrummer.com/2017/03/dan-tracy-tour-deafheaven/" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/2c182e892d0b409617d585e92f683dcd/tumblr_inline_omexv8SIYR1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_m justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.moderndrummer.com/2017/03/dan-tracy-tour-deafheaven/" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/795d414ebd54de9071ca5681e9e05c57/tumblr_inline_omexvpmC4F1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_l justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/e5ec53373c268ae06766782067e6394e/tumblr_inline_omexw8VFHt1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_l justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p><i>by Willie Rose via <a contents="Modern Drummer" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.moderndrummer.com/2017/03/dan-tracy-tour-deafheaven/" target="_blank">Modern Drummer</a><br>photo by Liam Christopher</i></p>
<p>Metal and shoegaze genre slashers <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> are currently ripping across the country on a tour that lasts through late March. The band, powered by blast-beat maniac Daniel Tracy, first saw breakout success with its 2013 release Sunbather before tracking the well-received 2015 follow-up, New Bermuda. Here Modern Drummer Online asks Tracy about building the brutal wall of sound he creates each night with the band, Deafheaven’s plans for 2017, and more.</p><!-- more -->
<p><b>MD</b>: How do you develop speed around the drumset?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: Developing speed on the set is all about the hours you put into it. The idea is to push yourself beyond your previous limit. Sit down and play single rolls until you physically can’t anymore. Then start it all over again.</p>
<p><b>MD</b>: Who are your influences and favorite drummers?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: I read an interview with Dave Lombardo of Slayer when I was a kid, where he described his balls-to-the-wall speed mentality behind the kit. It made a huge impression on me. Pete Sandoval of Morbid Angel is a total machine who introduced me to mechanical, ultra-technical blast beats. And Trym [Torson] from Emperor has always been my favorite black-metal drummer. He has a jazzy, “open” feel to a blast beat, using a single kick while incorporating closed hi-hat hits and inventive ride patterns.</p>
<p><b>MD</b>: Are there any parts in Deafheaven’s material that you can say you’ve taken from these players?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: Deafheaven uses a lot of extended blast sections that owe quite a lot to early-’90s black metal greats such as Emperor and Mayhem.</p>
<p><b>MD</b>: Some of your parts seem to create such an intense wall of sound followed by periods of melodic calm. Is there any concept behind this tension and release?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: Deafheaven’s song structures are built around extreme dynamics and compelling transitions. So, from a drum perspective, it’s about knowing when to overplay and when to hold back and let the melody shine. If anything, I try to match the riffs as well as possible to create a cohesive feel within the entire instrumentation.</p>
<p><b>MD</b>: Deafheaven’s set seems physically demanding. Do you have a warmup routine?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: I actually don’t typically warm up before a set, although I’ve been incorporating wrist stretches to loosen up the muscles beforehand.</p>
<p><b>MD</b>: How do you prepare for a tour in which you’re playing at a high level of intensity every day?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: While Deafheaven is between tours, our guitarist Shiv Mehra and I play in our band Creepers, which keeps me behind a kit all year and ensures that I’m prepared for anything that might come up. Creepers released an album titled Lush in 2014, and we have plans for a full-length in 2017.</p>
<p><b>MD</b>: Did you take lessons growing up? And how did you start playing?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: I started playing drums when I was eleven. I began on a snare and eventually moved on to a set when I was twelve. I took lessons at a local music store in the California East Bay for a couple of months, but I grew tired of the snare-centric beginning stages. So I branched off and started recreating Pantera and Metallica songs in my garage.</p>
<p><b>MD</b>: Are there any challenges to being on the road for extended periods of time?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: Being on the road as much as we have the past several years has been the most amazing experience of my life—as well as the most trying. I’m lucky to have bandmates that I consider close friends, which makes the whole experience much more adventurous and enjoyable. It’s all about finding the balance between road life and maintaining an ounce of normalcy back home.</p>
<p><b>MD</b>: In the past, it seems like some outlets have applied certain labels to the band, or have tried to define your sound. Do you care about labels or think you need to fit into any specific genre?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: I think the whole idea of needing to apply a genre name to a band is relatively new. Consider “metal” tours from twenty years ago. They would have completely different-sounding bands on the bill, because that’s what people wanted. Who wants to go watch the same band four times in a row? Variety is key to discovering new concepts you wouldn’t have otherwise. Isn’t that the point of being a musician or artist?</p>
<p><b>MD</b>: Besides the current tour, what does Deafheaven have planned next?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: We have a busy year ahead of us including tours, festivals, and writing new material. We’ll continue to keep a strong work ethic well into 2017.</p>
<p><b>MD</b>: Can you describe your setup?</p>
<p><b>Daniel</b>: I use a Tama Starclassic birch/bubinga three-piece kit with an S.L.P. Dynamic Bronze snare, Tama Roadpro hardware with an Iron Cobra double pedal, and Istanbul Xist series cymbals: 14″ hi-hats, a 19″ crash, a 20″ ride, and a 22″ ride. I like to play a slimmed-down set to keep my fills inventive without relying on extra pieces and frills.</p>
<p><a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.moderndrummer.com/2017/03/dan-tracy-tour-deafheaven/" target="_blank">(via Modern Drummer)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956212017-03-02T13:01:16-08:002020-01-13T11:15:33-08:00Deafheaven // Fireside Chat with RBMA Radio on March 7th<figure data-orig-height="80" data-orig-width="107"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/fireside-chat/episodes/deafheaven" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/e61b75e570f4c686cbc6cd5d1aa597a1/tumblr_inline_om7fwqYAb91qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/204f8670ac389fa21f221de2923bfea5/tumblr_inline_om7fy8tC551qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
<p><a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/fireside-chat/episodes/deafheaven" target="_blank">Premiered Tuesday, March 7th at 6:00 AM PST</a></p>
<p>In the sunshine of California, <a href="https://deafheaven.com/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> have created a style of ambient black metal that has both captured the imagination and divided the opinion of American rock fandom.</p>
<p>After growing up in Modesto, California together as self-professed bratty metal upstarts, vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy moved to San Francisco in 2010 and formed Deafheaven, a band whose contrasting mixture of metal and post rock has made them both a success story and a curiosity for critics and fans alike. After recording their four-track demo, the duo became a five-piece band, signed up to <a href="https://deathwishinc.com/" target="_blank">Deathwish Inc</a> for their debut album <a href="https://deafheavens.bandcamp.com/album/roads-to-judah" target="_blank">Roads To Judah</a> and took their strange new sound on the road. After the strains of touring led the three new recruits to leave, McCoy and Clarke released their second LP, <a href="https://deafheavens.bandcamp.com/album/sunbather" target="_blank">Sunbather</a>, in 2013, a watershed release for the band for its lush shoegaze and even pop-leaning elements, and their third LP, <a href="https://deafheavens.bandcamp.com/album/new-bermuda" target="_blank">New Bermuda</a>, in 2015, on <a href="http://epitaph.com/" target="_blank">Epitaph</a> sister label <a href="http://www.anti.com/" target="_blank">ANTI</a>. Rotating new bands members in recent years, Deafheaven’s reputation for physically intense live shows and a “fuck you” attitude to metal convention has seen them contemporarily aligned with the new “North American Black Metal” sound (alongside groups such as Wolves In The Throne Room and Liturgy) – an innovative blend of black metal vocals and suspenseful, cathartic ambience.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956222017-02-15T11:04:04-08:002020-01-13T11:15:34-08:00Deafheaven Announce US Dates with Gojira & Code Orange<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="800" data-orig-width="800"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/c34f4b1f1c73817cbb22664eb0a3bc5f/tumblr_inline_olfillaYhD1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will join <a href="http://gojira-music.com" target="_blank">Gojira</a> and <a href="http://codeorangetoth.com" target="_blank">Code Orange</a> for three US dates in May. See below for a full list of US and European dates. </p>
<p><b>DEAFHEAVEN // THIS WILL DESTROY YOU // EMMA RUTH RUNDLE 2017</b><br>Feb 23 San Francisco, CA –The Independent (Noise Pop) - SOLD OUT<br>Feb 24 San Francisco, CA –The Independent (Noise Pop)<br>Feb 26 Las Vegas, NV – The Bunkhouse Saloon<br>Feb 28 Albuquerque, NM – Sister<br>Mar 02 Austin, TX – The Mohawk<br>Mar 03 Dallas, TX – Trees<br>Mar 04 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Studio<br>Mar 05 New Orleans, LA – The Republic NOLA<br>Mar 06 Birmingham, AL - Saturn (No TWDY on show)<br>Mar 07 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade<br>Mar 08 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge<br>Mar 10 Charlotte, NC – The Underground<br>Mar 11 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry<br>Mar 12 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Sound Stage<br>Mar 13 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts<br>Mar 14 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw<br>Mar 15 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club<br>Mar 17 Detroit, MI – Shelter at St. Andrew’s Hall<br>Mar 18 Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theater<br>Mar 19 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall<br>Mar 20 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line<br>Mar 21 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room<br>Mar 23 Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall<br>Mar 24 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge<br>Mar 25 Boise, ID - Treefort Music Festival*<br>Mar 26 Seattle, WA – Neumo’s<br>Mar 27 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall</p>
<p><b>DEAFHEAVEN UK/EU SPRING 2017</b><br>Apr 20 Tilburg, NE @ Roadburn Festival <br>Apr 21 London, UK @ Koko *<br>Apr 22 Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club<br>Apr 23 Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke’s *<br>Apr 24 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla *<br>Apr 25 Birmingham, UK @ 02 Institute *<br>Apr 26 Cardiff, UK @ Tramshed *<br>Apr 28 Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof *<br>Apr 29 Meerhout, BE @ Groezrock Festival<br>May 01 Prague, CZ @ Lucerna Music Bar *<br>May 02 Berlin, DE @ Binuu *<br>May 03 Leipzig, DE @ Taubchenthal *<br>May 05 Copenhagen, DK @ A Colossal Weekend<br>May 06 Krems, AT @ Donau Festival<br>* w. Youth Code</p>
<p><b>GOJIRA // DEAFHEAVEN // CODE ORANGE 2017</b><br>May 16 Niagara Falls, NY - Rapids Theatre<br>May 17 Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE<br>May 18 Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme+<br>+w/o Gojira and Code Orange</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956232017-01-30T11:50:43-08:002020-01-13T11:15:34-08:00George Clarke Of Deafheaven // The Creative Independent Discussion<figure data-orig-height="156" data-orig-width="250"><p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/george-clarke-on-slowing-down/" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/eb13e1171fe0280b32c1858dde7c41b2/tumblr_inline_oklyyxwXf41qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/george-clarke-on-slowing-down/" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/bb3787f9ef4b3f3d9ba37247cce11529/tumblr_inline_oklyz6QkWw1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p>I just finished rereading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, and have been revisiting a lot of that Lost Generation 1920s and ’30s writing. I like that The Sun Also Rises is separated into three books. Really, in the first book, nothing even happens. It’s interesting, but it’s simple and very slowed down. That got me thinking about how there’s a need for that part of life to be enhanced and focused on today. Things move so fast.</p>
<p>Technology at the tips of your fingers has made it admirable to just slow down and think about the way things smell, think about the way your feet feel when you’re walking, to observe people when they don’t think that you’re looking at them, and to just really take it all in. Absorbing life. It’s important to appreciate your feelings, because things happen so rapidly.</p><!-- more -->
<p>I’m also thinking about media—the curation of media and the overall curation of misery and how that’s really jammed down people’s throats everywhere you turn. That’s maybe a part of why, these days, fantasy is so popular with people. People connect with the fantastical because it’s this need for something greater than the media experience around you.</p>
<p>I’ve become more immersed in the fantastical. Everything I’ve been writing recently is, outside of the band. Short poems, most of which have a fantastical aspect to them. I like to imagine the characters that I write about being uplifted or torn down by the distorted reality around them. And I need to have no references to any current media or political climate. For me, writing is partially an escape from those things. While I think it’s important to be informed, I often come out the other end of reading political issues and opinions with a heavy malaise.</p>
<p>Things move so fast: you have a tragedy that’s forgotten in five days because it’s replaced by another tragedy. You don’t have time to process the idea of how horrific something was. There are a million articles written about a tragedy within the first 24 hours, but to really sit down with it and… Say, you were writing about it for a publication, to really sit down with these families and really soak up how terrible it is, you’re unable to because, again, things move so fast. A lot of time, you end up with these these shallow takes on things. Motivations, misinformation, misunderstandings. But if it’s not reported on immediately, you lose viewership. Everything is immediate because social media, etc, requires that it is.</p>
<p>And we allow it because a part of us loves it. People are attracted to horror. I don’t watch a lot of TV, but I’d been watching the conventions and because of that, MSNBC or whatever was left on afterward in the background and I noticed all this misery repeated and repeated… and it wore me down. It wears me out. I feel like my psyche is drained, so I need to go outside. I need to sit in the park. I need to look at the colors of flowers. There are all these little things.</p>
<p>I was glad I reread that book. It’s written as if it was a simpler time, yet it wasn’t. People were still going through all the same things. There was tragedy everywhere, but he slows down and focuses on four or five relationships he has and he dissects them, understands them, and understands people better. I really need that.</p>
<p>I was reading how Hemingway was 27 when this got published. Me, being 27, I was like… There are so many correlations between that book and things I feel in my life, this sort of listlessness, in a sense. There’s so much feeling going on in the book: it’s post-war, no one wants to care about anything. Relationships are fragile and no one is committed to anyone. Maybe that’s the negative part of feeling overwhelmed by media and the world around you in general. The eventual want of detachment in all aspects of life?</p>
<p>Regardless, I can incorporate all of this into creativity. For me, it’s important to be creative with the idea of slowness in mind because a lot of what I write is focused on details in situations, descriptive emotions from myself and others. But that’s only because that’s the kind of writing I like to read. It’s important for me to read about the dissection of emotions to hopefully get a clearer view on whatever situation is presented.</p>
<p>No matter what, you can always find moments of pause. It helps that I live alone. When I’m home, I spend a lot of time alone. I guess that allows me to be contemplative. I find those moments on tour, too. In either situation, when I have the opportunity, there’s something to be said about appreciating nature and its necessity for contemplation. Whether this is hikes alone or drives through rural areas, it possesses the stillness to allow reflection.</p>
<p>I’ve never really written about nature necessarily. That’s never been my thing. I’ve always been more into people, but I think that the idea of isolation can be very important to art. That’s something that black metal pushed that I always liked. I think that was an agenda they pushed because they came from a place of hate and contempt for the world, which I don’t have, but I do like the idea of isolation. I do like the idea of being alone with your thoughts, and being pensive, mulling ideas over.</p>
<p>For me, it’s just going on walks by myself. I’ve been doing this lately, I go on a walk or I’ll walk my dog and leave my phone at home. And it’s been really weird! Because I look around and find that I’m like everyone else. I’m always staring at a screen. I’m part of the problem, you know?</p>
<p>Via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/george-clarke-on-slowing-down/" target="_blank">The Creative Independent</a>. </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956242017-01-19T13:35:41-08:002020-01-13T11:15:34-08:00Deafheaven Interview // Metal Assault<figure data-orig-height="250" data-orig-width="250"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://metalassault.com/Interviews/2017/01/19/in-conversation-with-deafheaven-vocalist-george-clarke/#more-5908" target="_blank"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/5e0972d8f53af04e48c185e5ebc29be8/tumblr_inline_ok1qafk2Tn1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></figure>
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<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be heading out on a full US tour in February and March. All dates listed <a href="http://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">here</a>. Metal Assault recently sat down with Deafheaven vocalist George Clarke. Read the interview below.</p>
<p>Formed in 2010 and based out of San Francisco, California, Deafheaven is described as post-metal, shoegaze metal, atmospheric black metal or “blackgaze”, but genre tags aside, they are only rising further in heights of popularity, first catapulting into widespread success and acclaim with their 2013 sophomore effort ‘Sunbather’ and continuing to move in the right direction with the subsequent full-length release ‘New Bermuda’ in 2015. In 2017, they are set for tours across North America and Europe, but as a special treat for LA fans, on January 12th and 13th, they took over the Echoplex for two sold-out shows. Our man Jason Williams was on site for night #1, and before the show, sat down with vocalist George Clarke for a chat about all things Deafheaven. Enjoy the conversation below:</p><!-- more -->
<p><b>It’s a rather cloudy and pouring rain atmosphere for tonight’s event. First gig of one of your first smaller tours of 2017, sold out tonight and tomorrow at the Echoplex. How are you and the band feeling?</b></p>
<p>I feel great! You’re right, the weather is perfect for the occasion. We have a really good bill, both nights. Tonight it’ll be Health, Wife, and Chasms. FYF is representing the show and kind enough to curate the whole thing. So we got to pick the bands, Angel City made a “Sunbather” beer, which will be on tap tonight. It’s good vibes all around.</p>
<p><b>Not too long ago, Los Angeles had a crazy night of shows, including Deafheaven opening for Ghost two nights sold out at The Wiltern. Gorguts at The Roxy, And Opeth playing not too far either, all in the same night. For your show, how was the Ghost experience, considering the surging popularity they’ve gained, as well as playing in front of a larger and different type of audience?</b></p>
<p>It was great! The audience was really receptive, we had a blast. The Wiltern is a venue that I’ve wanted to play for a long time, and we thank them for inviting us. The whole experience was really good, but I was sad that I missed the Gorguts show, but that happens a lot when you’re touring around. It was a pretty crazy night for metal all around, right?</p>
<p><b>Speaking of the shows with Ghost, with all of the doors your band has really been able to open recently, especially considering the style of metal you play. Fans dub it as “Post Metal” or “Extreme Shoegaze Black Metal”, just a lot of labels the band seems to be associated with. With that said, I truly believe Deafheaven has a rather more bold, and especially unique sound, not withstanding your 2013 release ‘Sunbather’ really taking everybody by storm, and enabling the band to be the biggest it’s ever been. You don’t hear extreme metal bands being asked to play Coachella or the Los Angeles FYF Fest. Talk about the writing process for ‘Sunbather’, and also, did you ever believe that the band would be pushed to this new level from this record’s release and reception?</b></p>
<p>Absolutely not. I don’t think that when you’re writing an album, at any point, do you feel like this is going to be the one that breaks you through. I think that you are mostly hopeful you end up satisfying yourself, and your second hope is that other people will enjoy it. I can’t have imagined what ended up happening with this record, and you’re right, we got a lot of opportunity, and had a lot of doors open for us because of it, and you know, the record was cool. It was Kerry (McCoy, guitarist) and I working on it for the most part. I remember Kerry being very stressed (laughs), and we brought Dan (Tracy, drummer) in the last month before we recorded it, put some drums behind it, and it all came together pretty naturally. To think about what it’s done for us, to call it remarkable, in my life, I feel that would be quite the understatement. It literally changed everything for us.</p>
<p><b>I wouldn’t describe Deafheaven to be considered “commercial” in really any way, despite the ongoing success touring and similar events. With ‘Sunbather’, your first record ‘Road to Judah’ as well as the newest release ‘New Bermuda’, what do you think has resonated most that has turned people into fans?</b></p>
<p>It’s hard to say, but I know that from our end, and on all of our records, and going back to ‘Sunbather’ specifically, we put a lot of heart into that record. We put a lot of heart into our music, and a lot of heart into our live show. And I think that we’re a very hard working band, and I think that we try and be as gracious and appreciative as possible, and people really connect with all of that. I believe there’s a great deal of humanity in our band, and am thankful for that.</p>
<p><b>With ‘New Bermuda’, was there any pressure since ‘Sunbather’ in terms of the expectancy of the fans, record label, the members of the band themselves, to really step up musically and increase the bar to another level?</b></p>
<p>I think that the pressure came from not wanting to repeat the same record. I think that given the success of ‘Sunbather’, it would have been very easy to aim for that again. So we kind of did everything that we could, to not do that, and the culmination of that mindset became New Bermuda. So there’s definitely that, but of course there’s pressure. We switched record labels, now onto a larger record label this time around, and we knew there was going to be a lot of exposure, right off the bat, which we did not anticipate for the release of ‘Sunbather’. So all in all, yeah, there were some shoes to be filled, and when it’s your own shoe, that’s a bizarre place to be. But like I said earlier, you just have to be honest about what you’re doing, thoughtful, and give it your best.</p>
<p><b>Most know that Kerry and yourself formed Deafheaven. Is it safe to say that he’s in charge of the music department, and you are for the lyrics?</b></p>
<p>He writes the music, I write the lyrics. He shows me ideas, and we discuss a lot, and I tell him about themes on the record. When it comes to writing an album, we have a lot of dialogue. We’re always talking about things we want to do, where we see the band, topics we want to discuss, our albums, our vision, the whole thing is all discussed. But when it comes down to execution, yeah, I’ll do the lyrics and themes, handle the artwork, and Kerry handles all the music.</p>
<p><b>Where do you find the lyrical content within yourself, given the personal abstract, interpretative side of the words that make them rather unique? Where do you look inside yourself for inspiration of your writing?</b></p>
<p>All of our albums are purely autobiographical. I just write about things that are going with me at the time. A lot of them are in very real time, and I don’t really know aside of that. I’ve always considered the Deafheaven lyrical concept as a very “selfish” thing, in that, I don’t know how people will interpret the lyrics, or how they will connect to it. I’m very happy that they do, on a certain level. But everything is very self-centered. And I don’t mean for it to be embraced widely, necessarily. But it’s cool that it is, and it’s cool when people find something in the lyrics, that they can attribute to their own experience.</p>
<p><b>One of the smaller differences between the last two albums is that in ‘Sunbather’ there were small instrumental pieces between songs, “Irresistible” for example, while the new record, it’s just 5 full length songs. Another example would be the bluesy style guitar solo in the song ‘Baby Blue’. Talk about the writing process for ‘New Bermuda’, specifically the music, and what challenges as songwriters and musicians, did you feel for this one?</b></p>
<p>The biggest challenge, was just to write something that wasn’t like ‘Sunbather’. That’s more of what I meant, with the lack of interludes. This album is set up differently, we didn’t want to do the song-interlude-song-interlude thing. We wanted to cut a lot of what we consider to be the “fat”, and all of our music is always going to be expansive to a certain degree, but we wanted to write a record that was more on a straight line. And we wanted to write a record that was really riff orientated, and take some of the atmosphere out and place it with catchy melody and things like that. So that was a goal, and I guess that’s it. Those were all the different things.</p>
<p><b>Mentioning earlier about opening up for Ghost, playing in front of a grand amount of people and huge venues, it’s really difficult for local metal bands, and even mid-tier level bands too, to tour in North America. To be able to get it right and to establish yourself is not easy. What have you noticed touring that you believe would help and assist the scene? And any advice to starting bands that you are assured is solid help to take?</b></p>
<p>I don’t know, what it’s going to take overall, for people to open up to extreme metal more, to make touring more profitable. What I do know is that, if this is want you want to do, and this is what you’re passionate about, the best thing you can do is just hit the ground running. If you start out, and you’ve booked your own tours, and prepare to eat shit, and meet people along the way, and establish relationships, make connections, and don’t take breaks, learn to live poor, and you struggle and suffer, and if you’re lucky enough, you will not have to do that one day. Unfortunately most people aren’t that lucky. But it’s all in your attitude. Some of the worst tours we ever did, the most stressful or impoverished, were some of the most fun. And you have to just keep your eye on the prize, and you have to be joyful about the fact that you are doing something that you love, in a world where people are often put in positions of doing things they don’t love, or don’t feel passionate about.</p>
<p><b>My last question, after this tour, there’ll be another North American tour, and then I believe you’re in Europe shortly after. Can you talk about these next two tours coming up, and what’s next for the rest of the year?</b></p>
<p>Yeah, we have some great tours lined up. We leave late next month, I believe the first date is February 23rd in San Francisco. We’re touring with This Will Destroy You, and Emma Ruth Rundle, who are both opening up the tour, phenomenal acts, very much looking forward to that one. And then shortly after, we’re going to Europe, having Youth Code open, which I’m also very excited about. All those bands are friends, so the Spring is just touring with friends, and anytime we get to do that, that’s always the best. And then after that, some festivals and stuff, I think hopefully in the middle of summer, we’re going to take some time off and think about writing a new album. Probably have something out in the first half of 2018.</p>
<p>Via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://metalassault.com/Interviews/2017/01/19/in-conversation-with-deafheaven-vocalist-george-clarke/#more-5908" target="_blank">Metal Assault</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956252017-01-10T14:14:31-08:002020-01-13T11:15:35-08:00Low ticket warning on Deafheaven US 2017 spring tour<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="2550" data-orig-width="1650"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/fd25dc468671ef6d6904b13559a0d75c/tumblr_inline_ojkz6lR6fU1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<p>Tickets for <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven’s</a> spring performances are going fast. The band has just announced an additional San Francisco date after both Los Angeles shows and the first San Francisco show have sold out.</p>
<p>See an updated list of shows below. Tickets and info available <a href="http://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
<p>Jan 12 Los Angeles, CA – The Echoplex w/ HEALTH - SOLD OUT<br>Jan 13 Los Angeles, CA – The Echoplex w/ HEALTH - SOLD OUT</p>
<p>DEAFHEAVEN, THIS WILL DESTROY YOU, EMMA RUTH RUNDLE<br>Feb 23 San Francisco, CA –The Independent (Noise Pop) - SOLD OUT<br>Feb 24 San Francisco, CA –The Independent (Noise Pop)<br>Feb 26 Las Vegas, NV – The Bunkhouse Saloon<br>Feb 28 Albuquerque, NM – Sister<br>Mar 02 Austin, TX – The Mohawk<br>Mar 03 Dallas, TX – Trees<br>Mar 04 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Studio<br>Mar 05 New Orleans, LA – The Republic NOLA<br>Mar 06 Birmingham, AL - Saturn (No TWDY on show)<br>Mar 07 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade<br>Mar 08 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge<br>Mar 10 Charlotte, NC – The Underground<br>Mar 11 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry<br>Mar 12 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Sound Stage<br>Mar 13 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts<br>Mar 14 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw<br>Mar 15 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club<br>Mar 17 Detroit, MI – Shelter at St. Andrew’s Hall<br>Mar 18 Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theater<br>Mar 19 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall<br>Mar 20 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line<br>Mar 21 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room<br>Mar 23 Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall<br>Mar 24 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge<br>Mar 25 Boise, ID - Treefort Music Festival<br>Mar 26 Seattle, WA – Neumo’s<br>Mar 27 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956262016-12-09T10:28:52-08:002020-01-13T11:15:35-08:00Deafheaven Announce 2017 European Dates<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="5031" data-orig-width="3579"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/4a9d2dec957f2d3c3452057656d84274/tumblr_inline_ohxk9tMn6e1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be heading to Europe April and May 2017 with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/youthcodeforever/" target="_blank">Youth Code</a>. Tickets will be on sale soon.</p>
<p><b>DEAFHEAVEN UK/EU SPRING 2017</b><br>Apr 20 Tilburg, NE @ Roadburn Festival <br>Apr 21 London, UK @ Koko *<br>Apr 22 Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club<br>Apr 23 Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke’s *<br>Apr 24 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla *<br>Apr 25 Birmingham, UK @ 02 Institute *<br>Apr 26 Cardiff, UK @ Tramshed *<br>Apr 28 Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof *<br>Apr 29 Meerhout, BE @ Groezrock Festival<br>May 01 Prague, CZ @ Lucerna Music Bar *<br>May 02 Berlin, DE @ Binuu *<br>May 03 Leipzig, DE @ Taubchenthal *<br>May 05 Copenhagen, DK @ A Colossal Weekend<br>May 06 Krems, AT @ Donau Festival</p>
<p>* w. Youth Code</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956272016-12-01T16:40:59-08:002020-01-13T11:15:35-08:00Deafheaven Announces Spring US Tour<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1669" data-orig-width="1080"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/fd25dc468671ef6d6904b13559a0d75c/tumblr_inline_ohd80j3fW21rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be heading on a U.S. with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> and <a href="http://thiswilldestroyyou.net" target="_blank">This Will Destroy You</a>. Dates listed below. Tickets will be on sale Friday, December 2. </p>
<p><b>DEAFHEAVEN // THIS WILL DESTROY YOU // EMMA RUTH RUNDLE 2017</b><br>Feb 23 San Francisco, CA –The Independent (Noise Pop)<br>Feb 26 Las Vegas, NV – The Bunkhouse Saloon<br>Feb 28 Albuquerque, NM – Sister<br>Mar 02 Austin, TX – The Mohawk<br>Mar 03 Dallas, TX – Trees<br>Mar 04 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Studio<br>Mar 05 New Orleans, LA – The Republic NOLA<br>Mar 07 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade<br>Mar 08 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge<br>Mar 10 Charlotte, NC – The Underground<br>Mar 11 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry<br>Mar 12 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Sound Stage<br>Mar 13 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts <br>Mar 14 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw<br>Mar 15 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club<br>Mar 17 Detroit, MI – Shelter at St. Andrew’s Hall<br>Mar 18 Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theater<br>Mar 19 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall<br>Mar 20 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line<br>Mar 21 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room<br>Mar 23 Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall<br>Mar 24 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge<br>Mar 25 Boise, ID – Treefort Fest<br>Mar 26 Seattle, WA – Neumos<br>Mar 27 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956282016-11-16T12:39:19-08:002020-01-13T11:15:35-08:00Deafheaven Announce 2nd Show At The Echoplex<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="2292" data-orig-width="2292"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/f60cd8f31a63a7d566056938ecb81f6f/tumblr_inline_ogr4osHqlM1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> announce a 2nd show at the Echoplex in Los Angeles on January 13th. Both nights will be with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/healthnoise" target="_blank">HEALTH</a> opening. Tickets on sale now. More information at <a href="http://fyfpresents.com" target="_blank">FYF Presents</a>. </p>
<p>They’ve also been added to Noise Pop Festival at the Independent in San Francisco on February, 23, 2017 with <a href="http://thiswilldestroyyou.net" target="_blank">This Will Destroy You</a> and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 18 - <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1383799?utm_medium=459899" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956292016-11-14T10:11:47-08:002020-01-13T11:15:35-08:00Deafheaven To Play Noise Pop Fest<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="690" data-orig-width="690"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/18bf32f9dd6471f388425c44f0c052b0738cc2fe/original/noise-pop.jpg?1479169640" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></figure>
<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be playing Noise Pop Fest at the Independent in San Fransisco on February 23, 2017. They’ll be joined by <a href="http://thiswilldestroyyou.net" target="_blank">This Will Destroy You</a> and <a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>.</p>
<p>Tickets go on sale Friday and will be available <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1383799?utm_medium=459899" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956302016-10-26T13:48:01-07:002020-01-13T11:15:35-08:00Deafheaven Announce First Show of 2017<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1280" data-orig-width="1280"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://67.media.tumblr.com/21e0a3359a371e0dcdc02a5bff0e3b22/tumblr_inline_ofo9otkc2o1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
<p>Deafheaven’s first show of 2017 will be in Los Angeles at the Echoplex on January 12. Tickets go on sale on October 28 and will be available for purchase <a href="https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1373739" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>They will be on a co-headling tour with Carcass next month - see full list of dates below </p>
<p><b>Deafheaven Co-headline tour with Carcass, Inter Arma opening </b><br>Nov 6 San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger*<br>Nov 7 Baton Rouge, LA @ The Varsity Theatre <br>Nov 9 Birmingham, AL @ Iron City <br>Nov 10 Jacksonville, FL @ 1904 Music Hall <br>Nov 11 Saint Petersburg, FL @ The State Theatre <br>Nov 12 Miami, FL @ Churchill’s**<br>Nov 14 Wilmington, NC @ Ziggy’s by the Sea <br>Nov 15 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel <br>Nov 17 Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony <br>Nov 18 Reading, PA @ Reverb <br>Nov 19 Providence, RI @ Fete Ballroom <br>Nov 20 Patchogue, NY @ The Emporium <br>Nov 21 Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance Theatre <br>Nov 22 Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theatre <br>Nov 23 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theatre and Ballroom <br>Nov 24 Kitchener, ON @ Dallas <br>Nov 25 Valparaiso, IN @ Big Shots <br>Nov 26 Columbia, MO @ Blue Note <br>Nov 27 Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre<br><br>*w/o Carcass and Inter Arma<br>**w/o Carcass</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956312016-08-22T08:26:46-07:002020-01-13T11:15:36-08:00Deafheaven Co-Headline tour with Carcass + Inter Arma<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="3300" data-orig-width="2400"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://67.media.tumblr.com/d2819c449f85b7fd307d847968bd1d83/tumblr_inline_ocbhg6Xjbr1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
<p>Deafheaven adds a co-headline tour with Carcass to their tour schedule.<br>Tickets for these shows go on sale Friday, Aug 26th. Details posted at <a href="http://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">deafheaven.com/shows</a></p>
<p><b>DEAFHEAVEN TOUR DATES 2016</b><br>Sep 24 Portland, OR @ Dante’s Live - NW Heshfest<br>Sep 27 Tucson, AZ @ Tucson Arena w/ Slipknot<br>Sep 28 El Paso, TX @ EP County Coliseum w/ Slipknot<br>Sep 30 Oklahoma City, Ok @ Chesapeake Center w/ Slipknot<br>Oct 15 Joshua Tree, CA @ Desert Daze<br>Oct 16 San Francisco, CA @ Treasure Island<br>Oct 20 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern w/ Ghost - SOLD OUT<br>Oct 21 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern w/ Ghost<br>Oct 22 Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival<br>Oct 23 Arcata, CA @ Humboldt University<br> </p>
<p><b>Deafheaven Co-headline tour with Carcass, Inter Arma opening</b><br>Nov 7 Baton Rouge, LA @ The Varsity Theatre<br>Nov 9 Birmingham, AL @ Iron City<br>Nov 10 Jacksonville, FL @ 1904 Music Hall<br>Nov 11 Saint Petersburg, FL @ The State Theatre<br>Nov 14 Wilmington, NC @ Ziggy’s by the Sea<br>Nov 15 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel<br>Nov 17 Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony<br>Nov 18 Reading, PA @ Reverb<br>Nov 19 Providence, RI @ Fete Ballroom<br>Nov 20 Patchogue, NY @ The Emporium<br>Nov 21 Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance Theatre<br>Nov 22 Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theatre<br>Nov 23 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theatre and Ballroom<br>Nov 24 Kitchener, ON @ Dallas<br>Nov 25 Valparaiso, IN @ Big Shots<br>Nov 26 Columbia, MO @ Blue Note<br>Nov 27 Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956322016-04-25T09:08:48-07:002020-01-13T11:15:36-08:00South American Tour Announced<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="5031" data-orig-width="3579"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/d54952ed3756506aa5f9a537b5b319b36811b8e4/original/dfhvn-2016tour-sudamerica-layered-f.jpg?1462226994" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></figure>
<p><a href="http://facebook.com/deafheaven/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will head over to South America this Summer. See all tour dates and details at <a href="http://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://handsometours.com/tours/deafheaven/" target="_blank">AUSTRALIA</a><br>Jun 2 Sydney @ <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fvividlive.sydneyoperahouse.com%2F&t=NDAyNjU0OTdiNWQ5YjMxMTU5NjM1MWJmMGQyYjM5ZjEwOWI1YWM0NCxXOW5aNHZqag%3D" target="_blank">Vivid Live / Sydney Opera House </a><br>Jun 3 Melbourne @ Corner Hotel<br>Jun 4 Brisbane @ Crowbar<br>Jun 6 Perth @ Rosemount Hotel<br><br>SUMMER 2016<br>June 25 Calgary, AB @ <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/edit/www.sledisland.com" target="_blank">Sled Island Festival</a><br>Jul 04 Bogota, Colombia @ <a href="http://www.rockalparque.gov.co/" target="_blank">Rock Al Parque Festival </a><br>Jul 06 Lima, Peru @ Sargento Pimienta<br>Jul 08 Santiago, Chile @ Espacia San Diego<br>Jul 09 Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Club Araoz<br>Jul 10 Sao Paulo, Brasil @ Clash Club<br>Jul 16 Chicago, IL @ <a href="http://chicagoopenair.com/" target="_blank">Chicago Open Air</a><br>Jul 22-24 Niigata, <a href="http://www.fujirockfestival.com" target="_blank">Japan @ Fuji Rock Festival</a><br>Aug 12 Eau Claire, WI @ <a href="http://eauxclaires.com/lineup" target="_blank">Eaux Claires</a><br>Aug 13-14 Atlanta, GA @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1060502887327938/" target="_blank">Wrecking Ball ATL</a><br>Aug 20 Trondheim, Norway @ <a href="http://www.pstereo.no/english/" target="_blank">PStereo Festival</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956332016-04-13T16:14:47-07:002020-01-13T11:15:36-08:00Live Nation Interview with Deafheaven<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/ea1417e194422add168d7afec826b123c30a3f23/medium/screen-shot-2016-04-13-at-4-08-50-pm.png?0" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/b1f559aed8690aff76ef8d31d4058ceda8e5997e/original/screen-shot-2016-04-13-at-2-53-55-pm.png?0" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Written by Jeremy D. Larson / Photography by Kristen Cofer </em> </p>
<p><br><em>Earlier this year, black metal aesthetes Deafheaven jumped on a tour with two of the biggest names in metal: thrash gods Anthrax and blackened titans Lamb of God. Frontman George Clarke talked with writer Jeremy Larson about what he and the rest of Deafheaven learned while touring with these heavyweights, and in anticipation of Deafheaven's appearance at this year's Coachella festival, here is their discussion edited and condensed for clarity. </em>—Larry Fitzmaurice, Executive Editor </p>
<p><strong>So how was the tour? </strong><br><br>I had an almost surprisingly good time. Typically, Deafheaven does just headlining tours. We've found it hard to play with larger metal bands because we're either too this or too that, so when we got the opportunity to do this tour I figured, "Why not?" I heard that [Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe] really enjoyed our record and put himself out there to ask us to do it. That was very flattering, so we agreed. It was pretty intimidating at first, though. All these guys know each other, and we're the new jacks. You're dealing with a large crew and a lot of professionals. No one cares about you or knows who you are. [Laughs] But all the bands were really nice. The guys in Anthrax were warm and welcoming, and so were Lamb of God. Everyone went out of their way to hang out and make sure that we were comfortable—even when they didn't need to. </p>
<p>The crowds were more challenging. They're not our audience, per se, so we really have to win them over. Initially, it was pretty difficult. We have a certain style that just wasn't translating. I learned that very quickly when the audience would scream at us. [Laughs] I talked with Randy and he was like, "You gotta put yourself out there and be as interactive as possible. These people are here to have a good time—for some of them, it's their only concert of the year—so you have to indulge them." So I started engaging the audience a lot more and "breaking character" to be like a normal person, and it worked really well. After that, we held our own.</p>
<p><strong>Was it hard becoming more of a crowd-interactive band? </strong><br><br>Yeah, I had to embrace some things which I admittedly felt kinda silly about at first but grew comfortable doing—lots of fist pumps and calling people "motherfucker." [Laughs] That's the biggest thing I learned from this tour: people really like getting called a motherfucker. I shouted out the other bands a lot, too—people love that. If I could see that the audience was completely uninterested, all I'd have to do is yell, "Who's up for Anthrax?" And we'd immediately win them back. When we finished the tour in LA, all of our friends and family came out, and afterwards they were laughing and saying, "That is nothing I've seen you guys do before." </p><!-- more -->
<p><strong>Did you struggle to fill out a bigger stage than usual? </strong><br><br>No, actually, quite the opposite. We were incredibly restricted for the most part, because Lamb of God had a really large LED screen setup, CO2 tanks everywhere, and a massive drum set—and Anthrax were set up in front of them with a huge drum set and props. By the time we set up, we were pushed almost completely to the front of the stage. Most nights, there was a little bit of room for me to tiptoe in front of the drum set to get to the other side of the stage, but it was challenging because space was more limited than usual. You have to work harder because you can't move around so much. </p>
<p><strong>Did you find a new appreciation for these bands you toured with?</strong> <br><br>Anthrax and Lamb of God both have incredible energy. You wouldn't think that they'd been doing this for thirty years. They really mean it—there's so much sincerity and integrity. Everyone's working from sun up till sun down. They're truly passionate about metal and its culture, and they're all very positive people. Everyone was in the zone, loving what they do and appreciating it every day. Above anything else, I learned that you can be a lifer in this world and it can totally work out for you. Certain nights, there were so many people in the audience, and I was like, "Wow, this really means something to someone, and that's cool."</p>
<p><strong>Do you hope to be a lifer too? </strong><br><br>It's hard to say where we'll be in 20 years—I can't even tell you where we'll be in five. I'm absolutely not afraid of continuing to garner new fans and play larger venues than we've played before, though. That's exciting and it gives the audience more opportunities to see a fantastic show. When you have that kind of funding behind you, you can create something that's really spectacular. If we were still playing the clubs that we're playing now, that would be great, too—but I would not be opposed to being at a bigger level, either. It's a level that's a lot crazier than the stuff we do. </p>
<p><strong>Was there a show from this tour that was particularly memorable? </strong><br><br>The first night of the tour was Pittsburgh. We didn't know what the audience was gonna be like, and I had heard that it was a tough crowd, so I went out there with a little apprehension, and people could tell that I was nervous. I've never been called a pussy so many times in my life. Some guy got right in front of me and yelled, "Get off the stage, you fucking frat boy pussy." I was like, "Damn, frat boy? I don't look like that, do I?" I was a little shaken up afterwards, like, "Damn, I really hope it's not like this every night." But it wasn't.<br><br>via <a contents="LNTV" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://lntv.com/en_us/article/deafheaven-interview-2016" target="_blank">LNTV</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956342016-03-30T11:56:05-07:002020-01-13T11:15:36-08:00Deafheaven Announce Fuji Rock<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="960" data-orig-width="680"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/8d56202f2cc4678d30b1a16af5747e49/tumblr_inline_o4v8acKOnL1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>
<p>Deafheaven are playing this year’s <a href="http://www.fujirockfestival.com" target="_blank">Fuji Rock Festival </a>in Niigata Japan.<br>Go <a href="http://www.deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">HERE </a>for all ticket links and details. All upcoming tour dates below.</p>
<p>DEAFHEAVEN EU 2016<br>Mar 31, Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik<br>Apr 1, Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez</p>
<p>AMERICA<br>Apr 17, Indio, CA @ <a href="https://www.coachella.com/" target="_blank">Coachella Music & Arts Festival</a>- SOLD OUT<br>Apr 21, San Diego, CA @ The Casbah w/ <a href="https://youthcode.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Youth Code</a><br>Apr 24, Indio, CA @ <a href="https://www.coachella.com/" target="_blank">Coachella Music & Arts Festival</a> -SOLD OUT</p>
<p>AUSTRALIA<br>Jun 2, Sydney @ <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fvividlive.sydneyoperahouse.com%2F&t=NDAyNjU0OTdiNWQ5YjMxMTU5NjM1MWJmMGQyYjM5ZjEwOWI1YWM0NCxXOW5aNHZqag%3D" target="_blank">Vivid Live / Sydney Opera House </a><br>Jun 3, Melbourne @ Corner Hotel<br>Jun 4, Brisbane @ Crowbar<br>Jun 6, Perth @ Rosemount Hotel<br><br>SUMMER FESTIVALS (More TBA)<br>June 25 Calgary, AB @ <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/edit/www.sledisland.com" target="_blank">Sled Island Festival</a><br>Jul 16 Chicago, IL @ <a href="http://chicagoopenair.com/" target="_blank">Chicago Open Air</a><br>Jul 22-24 Niigata, <a href="http://www.fujirockfestival.com" target="_blank">Japan @ Fuji Rock Festival</a><br>Aug 12 Eau Claire, WI @ <a href="http://eauxclaires.com/lineup" target="_blank">Eaux Claires</a><br>Aug 13-14 Atlanta, GA @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1060502887327938/" target="_blank">Wrecking Ball ATL</a><br>Aug 20 Trondheim, Norway @ <a href="http://www.pstereo.no/english/" target="_blank">PStereo Festival</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956352016-03-22T11:51:21-07:002020-01-13T11:15:36-08:00DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCE WRECKING BALL<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="2832" data-orig-width="4256"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/0bae20d922fe12b9963d57fd5c6f9947/tumblr_inline_o4eyzjteuL1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
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<p><a href="http://www.deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> have been announced to play <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1060502887327938/" target="_blank">Wrecking Ball </a>Fest in Atlanta this August. Tickets are on sale Friday, April 1st at 10am EST. Go <a href="http://www.deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">HERE</a> for tickets and links to all upcoming shows. </p>
<p>DEAFHEAVEN EU 2016<br>Mar 31, Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik<br>Apr 1, Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez</p>
<p>AMERICA<br>Apr 17, Indio, CA @ <a href="https://www.coachella.com/" target="_blank">Coachella Music & Arts Festival</a>- SOLD OUT<br>Apr 21, San Diego, CA @ The Casbah w/ <a href="https://youthcode.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Youth Code</a><br>Apr 24, Indio, CA @ <a href="https://www.coachella.com/" target="_blank">Coachella Music & Arts Festival</a> -SOLD OUT</p>
<p>AUSTRALIA<br>Jun 2, Sydney @ <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fvividlive.sydneyoperahouse.com%2F&t=NDAyNjU0OTdiNWQ5YjMxMTU5NjM1MWJmMGQyYjM5ZjEwOWI1YWM0NCxXOW5aNHZqag%3D" target="_blank">Vivid Live / Sydney Opera House </a><br>Jun 3, Melbourne @ Corner Hotel<br>Jun 4, Brisbane @ Crowbar<br>Jun 6, Perth @ Rosemount Hotel<br><br>SUMMER FESTIVALS (More TBA)<br>June 25 Calgary, AB @ <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/edit/www.sledisland.com" target="_blank">Sled Island Festival</a><br>Jul 16 Chicago, IL @ <a href="http://chicagoopenair.com/" target="_blank">Chicago Open Air</a><br>Jul 22-24 Niigata, <a contents="Japan @ Fuji Rock Festival" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.fujirockfestival.com" target="_blank">Japan @ Fuji Rock Festival</a><br>Aug 12 Eau Claire, WI @ <a href="http://eauxclaires.com/lineup" target="_blank">Eaux Claires</a><br>Aug 13-14 Atlanta, GA @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1060502887327938/" target="_blank">Wrecking Ball ATL</a><br>Aug 20 Trondheim, Norway @ <a href="http://www.pstereo.no/english/" target="_blank">PStereo Festival</a><br> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956362016-03-21T13:34:04-07:002020-01-13T11:15:36-08:00Deafheaven in London @ Heaven [photoset]<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/995bda54d8c141fb80174164d5727fc4/tumblr_o4ep4s8GxJ1r7hlzao5_500.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/08bbb70d8894df926dc6a6169e1b96e8/tumblr_o4ep4s8GxJ1r7hlzao3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/d6a8d9499d444abf2b2e91c2c47b00aa/tumblr_o4ep4s8GxJ1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/0a09d690eb309e4f8b9c185445377a5b/tumblr_o4ep4s8GxJ1r7hlzao2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/64c764352d5f0751968deb2b3c90b3f5/tumblr_o4ep4s8GxJ1r7hlzao4_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <p><a href="http://www.thefourohfive.com" target="_blank">The 405</a>′s <a href="http://www.siamakamini.com" target="_blank">Siamak Amini</a> captured <a href="http://www.deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> at their recent London show at Heaven.</p>
<p>To see the complete photoset, click <a href="http://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/behind-the-scenes-with-deafheaven-in-heaven-145?utm_content=buffer33cd9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956372016-03-18T22:14:43-07:002020-01-13T11:15:36-08:00Stockholm, SE
March 18, 2016 (at Debaser Medis)<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/2117146432a0ccdc131a5cbaaf6ecd9f/tumblr_o49t8jroRb1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Stockholm, SE <br>
March 18, 2016 (at Debaser Medis)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956382016-03-18T07:00:36-07:002020-01-13T11:15:36-08:00Deafheaven photographed in Bristol, UK by Steve Sweet for the...<img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/c0578d3cf25f804a64cfd869ffcfe3a6/tumblr_o45xc5L8Nc1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> George Clarke<br><br> <img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/46ec24059825cef6a89e464d67b5a531/tumblr_o45xc5L8Nc1r7hlzao2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> Kerry McCoy<br><br> <img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/79e296b8fc07367866be35802281fdd8/tumblr_o45xc5L8Nc1r7hlzao3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> Daniel Tracy<br><br> <img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/f6dcebeff9a0dbc5e71ac84f8db480a0/tumblr_o45xc5L8Nc1r7hlzao4_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> Stephen Lee Clark<br><br> <img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/14d4abb07b516668075884ee4cd4a9ca/tumblr_o45xc5L8Nc1r7hlzao5_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> Shiv Mehra<br><br> <p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> photographed in Bristol, UK by Steve Sweet for the series “<a href="http://www.eleventhlight.com/galleries/projects/where-did-you-sleep-last-night/" target="_blank">Where Did You Sleep Last Night</a>” <br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956392016-03-16T18:42:42-07:002020-01-13T11:15:36-08:00DEAFHEAVEN Australia 2016<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1131" data-orig-width="800"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/140ef983e7834ce500cabaf1880b87e6/tumblr_inline_o45in1v1pc1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
<p><a href="http://www.deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be performing at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Vivid Live series and then will headline 3 additional shows in Australia in June. For ticket information and details go<a href="http://www.deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank"> </a>here<a href="http://handsometours.com/tours/deafheaven/" target="_blank">.</a></p>
<p>June 2nd, Sydney @ <a href="http://vividlive.sydneyoperahouse.com/" target="_blank">Vivid Live / Sydney Opera House </a><br>June 3rd, Melbourne @ Corner Hotel<br>June 4th, Brisbane @ Crowbar<br>June 6th, Perth @ Rosemount Hotel</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956402016-03-15T07:34:09-07:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00London, UK March 14, 2016<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/89638be5362c2f53176e9fa62cc911b2/tumblr_o434gxVt2u1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <p>London, UK<br>March 14, 2016 ? @nicholasasayers (at Heaven Charing Cross)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956412016-03-15T07:33:55-07:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00London, UK March 14, 2016<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/30c861ff3ca1b550b0c9a9667dc3df74/tumblr_o434gjRh0H1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <p>London, UK<br>March 14, 2016 ? @nicholasasayers (at London Charring Cross)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956422016-03-14T17:31:59-07:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00Stream Deafheaven’s In-Studio Set For BBC Radio 1’s ‘The Rock Show’<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="350" data-orig-width="830"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/27b16799f0fc60c0bf94e92403d50879/tumblr_inline_o4219x9ctq1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>
<p><b><a href="http://www.deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a></b> recorded an in-studio set at <b>Maida Vale</b> on March 11th that aired on the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/f4ccf6c5-ad41-4f8f-bb9e-6e2c6ad23302" target="_blank"><b>BBC Radio 1</b>‘s ‘</a><b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/f4ccf6c5-ad41-4f8f-bb9e-6e2c6ad23302" target="_blank">Rock Show With Daniel P Carte</a>r</b>‘ over the weekend. You can now stream it online below. Songs performed include:</p>
<p>“<b>Brought To The Water</b>”<br>“<b>Gifts For The Earth</b>”<br>“<b>Baby Blue</b>”<br>“<b>Come Back</b>”</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mlfx1/player" width="400"></iframe></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956432016-03-09T15:26:26-08:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00Amsterdam, NL
March 9, 2016 (at Paradiso Amsterdam)<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/f63ba270145ef0bc2bfc4b07d60dfd16/tumblr_o3sp42GIac1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Amsterdam, NL<br>
March 9, 2016 (at Paradiso Amsterdam)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956442016-03-09T11:57:38-08:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00Deafheaven to Play BBC Radio 1 Live Session<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="71" data-orig-width="829"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/fa73549d82ce1c62fc997ce27e30a043/tumblr_inline_o3sdwyDcpQ1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
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<p>In case you missed our recent <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bbcradio1/">BBC Radio 1</a> on Daniel P Carter's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/radio1rockshow/">Radio 1 Rock Show</a> you can stream it in full <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/f4ccf6c5-ad41-4f8f-bb9e-6e2c6ad23302">HERE.</a></p>
<p>We are on tour now in Europe / UK with Myrkur, all info posted <a href="https://deafheaven.com/blogs/www.deafheaven.com/shows">HERE.</a></p>
<p>D E A F H E A V E N // M Y R K U R<br>Mar 12 Manchester, UK @ Cosmosis Festival *<br>Mar 13 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece - SOLD OUT<br>Mar 14 London, UK @ Heaven<br>Mar 15 Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique<br>Mar 17 Copenhagen, DK @ Amager Bio<br>Mar 18 Stockholm, SE @ Debaser Medis<br>Mar 19 Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene<br>Mar 20 Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik<br>Mar 22 Hamburg, DE @ Uebel Gefaehrlich<br>Mar 23 Koln @ Gebauede9<br>Mar 24 Berlin @ Musik & Frieden<br>Mar 25 Dresden, DE @ Beatpol<br>Mar 26 Schijndel, NL @ Paaspop Festival *<br>Mar 28 Vienna, AT @ ARENA WIEN<br>Mar 30 Munich, DE @ Feierwerk<br>Mar 31 Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik<br>April 1 Karlsruhe, DE @ jubez<br>* Myrkur not playing. </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956452016-03-09T09:01:48-08:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00Barcelona, ES
March 2, 2016
? @edkofuzz<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/cba3b4e2e68c1e16d481ba260e304846/tumblr_o3s7b0bpqj1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Barcelona, ES <br>
March 2, 2016<br>
? @edkofuzz</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956462016-03-09T09:01:31-08:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00Lisboa, Portugal
March 4, 2016<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/bab64bd299d2d4f5a4edc540f1410bff/tumblr_o3s7ajgrEs1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Lisboa, Portugal<br>
March 4, 2016</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956472016-03-09T09:01:04-08:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00Paris, FR
March 8, 2016 (at Le Trabendo)<img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/76bcfe839809eccaeea29379288820a4/tumblr_o3s79sxXO31r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Paris, FR <br>
March 8, 2016 (at Le Trabendo)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956482016-03-07T11:24:44-08:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00Total Guitar Interview with Kerry McCoy<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="261" data-orig-width="785"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/2b3a86a62e0b93a9930a37356dc78b4a/tumblr_inline_o3onpuCAum1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="80" data-orig-width="776"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/2e2fc58c58c13a271270891f5430e831/tumblr_inline_o3onz2mNpv1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="408" data-orig-width="729" style=""><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/7faaf6cf712576d39ad9830a5cb89fe5/tumblr_inline_o3ont5OVFg1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><b>Are Deafheaven the genre-bending antidote to heavy metal’s conservatism? We meet their chief songwriter and guitarist Kerry McCoy to talk black metal, Johnny Marr and why their critics have got them wrong.</b></p><p>What is metal? Or more precisely, who is metal? Of all the genres, metal fans seem the most fractious in our digital age; many duking it out in wars of words online as they seek to question the credentials of emerging talent. Korn, Trivium and Bring Me The Horizon are just a few who have gone the through the same hazing process; their heavy/authentic credentials doubted by metal traditionalists.</p><p>One such band, is San Francisco’s Deafheaven, “It’s a weird thing, because I understand that we’re not for everyone,” reasons guitarist Kerry McCoy with a calm sincerity. “The type of person that wants to listen to Blasphemy, Bathory and Venom… we’re not going to be for them, and that’s fine. The thing that I don’t like is when people seem to want to enforce these rules. For me that’s boring.”</p><p>Kerry’s band aren’t just getting people talking by rattling their cages. Metal debate aside, Deafheaven’s records are genuinely exciting propositions that draw fans from all genres; a swirling, progressive pot of extremes with blast beats, co-founder George Clarke’s impassioned screams, and Kerry’s blend of intense metal picking, otherworldly shoegaze, dreamy alternative rock… even Oasis influences. And they’ve had a horde of supporters and critics desperate to pin a tag on them as a result; everything from blackgaze to hipster metal.</p><p>Latest album, New Bermuda, is further proof this is far from a flash in the pan scenario. And while Kerry is the first to admit his band aren’t the first to combine some of their disparate influences, his band are certainly making uniquely powerful musical statements with them. Kerry’s open-minded approach to tone and composition is a huge part of that. But firstly, let’s pick things up again with him about this whole ‘metal’ brouhaha…</p><!-- more --><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="442" data-orig-width="793"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/af30f8e8d040174cdc863f4e8c443f8c/tumblr_inline_o3oo07xuQk1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><b>There seems to be a lot of discussion online about what Deafheaven are…</b></p><p>“It’s the reason we don’t call ourselves a black metal band, because we’re not. We’re influenced by it, but we don’t have the ethos, the aesthetic or really the sound of one at this point, because there are way too many other influences in our sound. And that’s not just from the post-rock thing either, we have influences from alternative rock, Slayer and early Metallica.</p><p>“The thing that I’ve found in playing festivals and meeting people is a lot of the stuff with people having a very conservative view of metal, most of that comes from fans and people outside of it, not from the people in these metal bands. We met the dudes from Pig Destroyer the other week, and they were telling us that they and Cattle Decapitation love our record. And they are grind bands.</p><p>“Or when we toured with Justin Broderick from Godflesh; the people who make music and love metal, they get what we’re doing and that we’re not trying to personally offend anyone or bastardise the genre. I find that the people commenting, they’re the ones that have the issue because they have more to prove; it’s their identity. The guys in the bands are usually into whatever is interesting to them.”</p><p><b>There was a hugely positive response to your previous record, Sunbather - did you have a clear idea of where you wanted to head next with this record?</b></p><p>“Yes, and the thing with this record, because of the big splash Sunbather made, is that it was a constant battle of not getting too caught up in my head about it. But a big goal on this record for me, and the band as a whole, was to consciously move away from the shoegaze and post-black metal thing. They’re great genres but the whole crescendo and reverb/delay thing has been kind of done to death.</p><p>“While there’s still elements of that on the record, it was a conscious decision to trim the fat and make it riffier. Be a lot heavier and when we have the clean parts, make them more Smashing Pumpkins or Wilcoesque; where’s there’s riffs and hooks instead of being super spacey.”</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="446" data-orig-width="797"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/c220f4e700e0dc678f9f77748ae5741f/tumblr_inline_o3oo25P4KR1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><b>Did playing punk when you first started out on guitar have an impact on your style now?</b></p><p>“I grew up on the outskirts of the Bay Area and at that time it was a lot of the late 90s/ early 2000s Gilman scene; AFI, Nerve Agents… all that type of stuff. I was really into that stuff and being into that before I got into metal, it influenced the sense of melody and high energy.</p><p>“The harmonised elements - they use a lot of octaves, a lot of dramatic chord progressions and have a way of doing that build and release thing. Anyone who likes our band will notice pretty much everything has a blast beat in it [somewhere], because I like really catchy high-energy fast parts; that’s a big thing for me.”<br></p><p><b>When did British guitar influences such as Kevin Shields and Johnny Marr come in?</b></p><p>“When I was 16. We used to drive from California to Colorado every summer for two weeks to visit my grandparents and uncle Kevin, who was kind of the hippy of the family. He saw I had a Cure shirt and was getting into punk when I was about 15, 16. He burned me The Smiths’ Louder Than Bombs and I was so stoked, I loved it.</p><p>“I’ve loved The Smiths since then. And when George was 16 I got him The Smiths greatest hits for his birthday. And I remember him telling me, and this is true of a lot of people with The Smiths and Morrissey, he didn’t get it at first. Then he slowly got how great that stuff is. But in terms of British music; The Smiths, Oasis, The Cure, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses… all that stuff is great to me.”</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="443" data-orig-width="799" style=""><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/e6f4763d5d956bce8d026df4d31e5a91/tumblr_inline_o3oo5lQkf81qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><b>Was the fusing of metal and alternative music together a conscious idea?</b></p><p>“Yes it was. But this is another thing we always get hate for on the internet, all these people talking about how other people have done this, and we’re stealing this blah, blah, blah.</p><p>“That’s the thing, the moment when I realised we could have shoegaze- and post-rock-influenced stuff with black metal was when I heard other bands doing it. I heard Lantlôs from Germany, ColdWorld and then Alcest and all the French bands.</p><p>“I remember Fell Voices and the early Ash Borer stuff, and it being an interesting thing to me. Because I was in post-rock bands when I was in high school and I’ve always been interested in melody. I would write music like that, as well as metal. So to me it was just kind of a natural thing.</p><p>“Our old band broke up and we had nothing to do so the idea was a band that was all the kinds of music that I really like, but I’ll try to put it together as seamlessly as possible. Our whole thing was to never be afraid to do something; if it feels like it works to us then we won’t concentrate on what’s ‘not allowed’.</p><p>“If I want to write a riff that has a blast beat behind it but it has a major chord, we’ll do that if it works. There was never one moment when I thought, ‘we can do this’, but there was a gradual realisation. There’s no reason why I can’t put this Cranberries part after this blast beat.”</p><p><iframe width="500" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TTNOLFiZbDQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p><b>One thing that you seem to be refining on New Bermuda is transitioning, often between minor and major, without feeling jarring. Did it come from experimentation?</b></p><p>“With me, there’s two things I love about good songwriting. Obviously, there’s a good chord progression or a lead that just fits perfectly and gives you the peanut butter and chocolate moment. Then there’s the transitions. I love it when bands have great riffs, but if all you’re doing is riff-stacking - when there will be a great riff that will ring out, and then the other riff will start…</p><p>“I prefer it when bands can build something, and seamlessly go from one thing to another. It’s something I’ve worked hard on for a long time - the transitions and bridges between riffs, building tension and creating movement instead of just stacking riffs.”</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="444" data-orig-width="790" style=""><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/d89818d049d896e843d9a091d8439de5/tumblr_inline_o3oo8oUXll1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><b>Baby Blue sounds like a key song for the band on this record, in the way it seems to combine a number of your influences…</b></p><p>“For me that was a weird thing because a lot of that happened in the practice space instead of happening at home. I’ve had that three-chord progression at the beginning since Sunbather and just hadn’t used them, and they weren’t in that arpeggiated pattern. They were going to be an interlude on Sunbather but I didn’t use them. So I took that and added a phaser to it.</p><p>“My idea was that if you could take Johnny Marr and put him in Rush for a second, that was my idea for that intro. Then that part before it kicks in, for me that’s Russian Circles, and I love that band. When it does kick in, that’s essentially my ode to this old Bay Area screamo band called Funeral Diner. And we just wanted to do this big heavy mid-tempo thing, dirge-y yet melodic. Then the end is a total homage to Slayer.</p><p>“So I guess it’s a key track but we love all the songs on this record. We’ve always just done what we want to do, if it works we’ll do it. Not to say we’re super crazy for that but it was wanting to combine all those influences on one song.”</p><p><b>There’s also some Metallica in that melodic wah solo too?</b></p><p>“That’s just a part of this record of trying to incorporate classic era Hammett, like Ride The Lightning. Obviously I’m not as fast or technically able as that guy. But the whole record has that, there’s Hetfield-style riffing, or my take on it. I don’t think I went too overboard with the solos but when I want to put one in, for me it’s usually Hammett and Mustaine’s [contributions] to Kill ’Em All, that’s what I’ve been really into recently.”</p><p><b>Do you think there is common ground between post-rock and black metal guitar?</b><br></p><p>“Absolutely. Because of the way the band started with myself, a lot of the way I write is taking a rhythm riff and then trying to see if I can play some kind of lead at the same time as playing a rhythm. Which is why a lot of the chords are kind of weird.</p><p>“I’ve always been of the opinion that the only thing that separates genres with riffs is what you do with them. If you take a Cranberries riff and you put it through a Burzum production, at that tempo and stretch the riff out, you can totally write a black metal song with that riff. It’s an E minor riff that’s simple, sad and atmospheric.</p><p>“To me it’s simple, I don’t understand why more people don’t get that. You can take an At The Gates riff, delay it and put a bunch of reverb on it and make it into a very dark post-rock song. You can do the same with a post-rock song and turn it into thrash metal or whatever. That’s the key to our band; riffs are riffs, but the context you put them in determines the genre.”</p><p>by <a href="http://www.musicradar.com/author/rob-laing" target="_blank">Rob Laing</a> (Total Guitar)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956492016-02-13T07:20:05-08:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00When @drandallblythe joins you on Dream House.
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<p>Video @sargenthouse (at The Hollywood Palladium)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956502016-02-12T21:34:45-08:002020-01-13T11:15:37-08:00Show 21- Los Angeles, CA
2/12/16
photo by @lcs.media (at The...<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/8a0bff1725b99af8ce12b0748e1abc3a/tumblr_o2h0txPjAt1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 21- Los Angeles, CA <br>
2/12/16 <br>
photo by @lcs.media (at The Hollywood Palladium)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956512016-02-12T21:34:37-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Show 21- Los Angeles, CA
2/12/16
photo by @lcs.media (at The...<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/4f51ada09669f30f96de1bc628ff7390/tumblr_o2h0tpMQmN1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 21- Los Angeles, CA <br>
2/12/16 <br>
photo by @lcs.media (at The Hollywood Palladium)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956522016-02-12T21:34:27-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Show 21- Los Angeles, CA
2/12/16
photo by @lcs.media (at The...<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/f236ac77ffbdcdb7d14125c1d88058f1/tumblr_o2h0tf0uEX1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 21- Los Angeles, CA <br>
2/12/16 <br>
photo by @lcs.media (at The Hollywood Palladium)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956532016-02-09T10:31:38-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Show 18 - Austin, TX
2/8/16
photo by @lcs.media (at ACL Live)<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/7e2ceca3ad8bf4f39d0f9da15f22c2b0/tumblr_o2am4qIiS31r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 18 - Austin, TX<br>
2/8/16 <br>
photo by @lcs.media (at ACL Live)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956542016-02-09T10:24:38-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Show 18 - Austin, TX
2/8/16
photo by @soundcheckmagazine (at...<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/c8e4d3b66f47ae1c49031b3374a9ade0/tumblr_o2alt2Q5GF1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 18 - Austin, TX<br>
2/8/16 <br>
photo by @soundcheckmagazine (at ACL Live)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956552016-02-09T10:22:50-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Show 18 - Austin, TX
2/8/16
photo by @lcs.media (at ACL Live)<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/141e94946968acc0c96be7883521d6b7/tumblr_o2alq2lTWo1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 18 - Austin, TX<br>
2/8/16 <br>
photo by @lcs.media (at ACL Live)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956562016-02-05T20:54:30-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Show 16 - Dallas, TX 2/5/16 <div style="text-align: center;">
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<p style="text-align: center;">Show 16 - Dallas, TX<br>2/5/16<br>photo by @lcs.media (at The Bomb Factory)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956572016-01-31T18:12:16-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Show 13-Grand Rapids, MI 1/31/16 <div style="text-align: center;">
<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/60e5126abedd6745663bc52b7b734bb9/tumblr_o1ujggPp2E1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" /><p><br><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/a6de5e3a0d74599e3b225f46cb392a977f1eca93/original/tumblr-o1ujhlmb731r7hlzao1-500.jpg?1454297220" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Show 13-Grand Rapids, MI<br>1/31/16<br>photo by @lcs.media (at The Orbit Room)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956582016-01-31T10:23:23-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Deafheaven & Myrkur
European Tour 2016
All info at...<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/9178a9e8df46a08f9b730e1c9de3138e/tumblr_o1txqzFRVR1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Deafheaven & Myrkur <br>
European Tour 2016 <br>
All info at Deafheaven.com</p>
<p>Mar 2 Barcelona, ES @ Apolo<br>
Mar 3 Madrid, ES @ Shoko<br>
Mar 4 Lisbon, PT @ RCA Club<br>
Mar 5 Porto, PT @ Hard Club<br>
Mar 8 Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo<br>
Mar 9 Amsterdam @ Paradiso<br>
Mar 12 Manchester, UK @ Cosmosis Festival*<br>
Mar 13 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece<br>
Mar 14 London, UK @ Heaven<br>
Mar 15 Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique<br>
Mar 17 Copenhagen, DK @ Amager Bio<br>
Mar 18 Stockholm, SE @ Debaser Medis<br>
Mar 19 Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene<br>
Mar 20 Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik<br>
Mar 22 Hamburg, DE @ Uebel Gefaehrlich<br>
Mar 23 Koln @ Gebauede9<br>
Mar 24 Berlin @ Musik & Frieden<br>
Mar 25 Dresden, DE @ Beatpol<br>
Mar 26 Schijndel, NL @ Paaspop Festival *<br>
Mar 28 Vienna, AT @ Arena<br>
Mar 30 Munich, DE @ Feierwerk<br>
Mar 31 Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik<br>
April 1 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez <br>
Myrkur not playing on *</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956592016-01-31T09:55:21-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Show 12 - Chicago, IL 1/30/16 <div style="text-align: center;">
<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/b5fe551af616bac82693b291428d4e80/tumblr_o1twg9eDOo1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_l justify_inline border_" /><br><br><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/5d4bea6f2c11997e8cfe3c46bc98a1ccba9e7d37/original/tumblr-o1twg0c26q1r7hlzao1-500.jpg?1454278611" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158485/7d2f2bd2a9ba8b67d5a9e54857f2e958bf76e4dc/original/tumblr-o1twfq3ule1r7hlzao1-500.jpg?1454278613" class="size_l justify_center border_" />
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<p style="text-align: center;">Show 12 - Chicago, IL<br>1/30/16<br>photo by @lcs.media (at Aragon Ballroom)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956602016-01-29T16:39:45-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Songs Illustrated: "Gifts for the Earth" by Becky Cloonan<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="107" data-orig-width="746"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/081610beac6b0ddf041002a0e7792078/tumblr_inline_o1qp2ywBOO1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="356" data-orig-width="633" style=""><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/56ab3a31679916bb1ec6102676d67f00/tumblr_inline_o1qp4cTko81qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>In <i><a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/tag/songs+illustrated" target="_blank">Songs Illustrated</a></i>, we enlist our favorite comic book artists and cartoonists to translate songs into sequential art.</p><p>Black metal pioneers <a href="http://www.deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> has spent half a decade exploring the contrast between euphoric washes of ethereal noise and relentless tidal waves of barbed metal glory. Blurs of serrated guitar, heart attack percussion and George Clarke’s sandpaper rasp have pushed the group into a new space that straddles traditional Scandinavian chaos with something much less definable. That hybrid intensity reached a new apex with 2015’s “New Bermuda,” an album that seamlessly gallops along assaulting guitar lines and tear-jerk adagio piano outros with equal conviction. And don’t get us started on the live shows.</p><p><iframe width="500" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RILjn853QFA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p>In our latest <i>Songs Illustrated</i>, <a href="http://www.beckycloonan.net/#about" target="_blank">writer and illustrator</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Cloonan" target="_blank">Becky Cloonan</a></b> channels eight-and-a-half-minute album closer, “Gifts for the Earth,” into a visual elegy of haunting beauty with an insidious core—which couldn’t be more appropriate. Cloonan currently co-writes the eerie underside of Batman’s stomping grounds in Gotham Academy as well as the cosmic horror slow burn of Southern Cross. Here, she harkens back to the brutal, lonely lament of works like her self-published one-shots <i>Wolves, Demeter and The Mire</i> as well as her stint on writer Brian Wood’s viking epic, Northlanders.</p><p>Deafheaven is currently <a href="http://www.deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">on tour </a>and Ms. Cloonan is currently prepping her new ongoing <i>Punisher</i> run at Marvel.</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="3389" data-orig-width="700"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/94fb8811d8f922dfbb4fbebaed1c4704/tumblr_inline_o1qpi3Vxwr1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956612016-01-28T19:00:16-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Show 10 - Royal Oak, MI
1/28/16
photo by @lcs.media (at Royal...<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/8ca7f6aaece7995379c2f6781ad6956d/tumblr_o1p1oguXHq1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 10 - Royal Oak, MI <br>
1/28/16 <br>
photo by @lcs.media (at Royal Oak Music Theatre)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956622016-01-28T18:59:28-08:002020-01-13T11:15:38-08:00Show 10 - Royal Oak, MI
1/28/16
photo by @lcs.media (at Royal...<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/225918ed63c9fb47a03fee7ef42bfea8/tumblr_o1p1n4sQRm1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 10 - Royal Oak, MI <br>
1/28/16 <br>
photo by @lcs.media (at Royal Oak Music Theatre)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956632016-01-28T18:58:15-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00Show 10 - Royal Oak, MI
1/28/16
photo by @lcs.media (at Royal...<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/fe8f015d15cc522ef1ab0c8751e42f8e/tumblr_o1p1l3829Z1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 10 - Royal Oak, MI <br>
1/28/16 <br>
photo by @lcs.media (at Royal Oak Music Theatre)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956642016-01-28T18:56:11-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00Show 9 - Columbus, OH
1/27/16
photo by @lcs.media (at Ace of...<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/d9149d6eed3403d26c51b1803e1984a0/tumblr_o1p1hnr9g11r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 9 - Columbus, OH<br>
1/27/16 <br>
photo by @lcs.media (at Ace of Cups)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956652016-01-25T21:07:27-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00Show 7 - New York, NY
1/25/16
photo by @lcs.media (at...<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/017a823a54e1f1daa69068a5fee60c0a/tumblr_o1jnkfeimW1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Show 7 - New York, NY<br>
1/25/16 <br>
photo by @lcs.media (at Hammerstein Ballroom)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956662016-01-25T20:38:37-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00Show 7 - New York, NY1/25/16<div style="text-align: center;">
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<p style="text-align: center;">Show 7 - New York, NY<br>1/25/16<br>photo by @lcs.media (at Hammerstein Ballroom)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956672016-01-22T10:53:09-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00Changes made due to weather for these shows with Lamb Of God ,...<img src="https://56.media.tumblr.com/9322fccbd1db4e66f01f86e16c83e410/tumblr_o1db4lltrj1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Changes made due to weather for these shows with Lamb Of God , Anthrax & Power Trip are as follows:<br></p><p>NORFOLK, VA - Tonight 1/22 the show has been MOVED to The Norva (All tickets from previous venue are valid) <br></p><p>
NEW YORK, NY - Saturday 1/23 show is now being moved to MONDAY 1/25 all tickets will be honored at Hammerstein Ballroom. <br></p><p>This photo by @drandallblythe</p><p><br></p><p>All updates can be seen at: deafheaven.com/shows<br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956682016-01-22T08:44:33-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00The show Tonight 1/22 with @lambofgod @anthrax and @powertriptx...<img src="https://56.media.tumblr.com/091b1acbd595789a12f106c27950f0d2/tumblr_o1d569OzxC1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>The show Tonight 1/22 with @lambofgod @anthrax and @powertriptx is still ON - but it has been moved to the venue NorVa @thenorva - all tickets & will call will be honored there.
NY show update is coming.. Photo by @drandallblythe </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956692016-01-21T12:44:36-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00Show 5 - Nashville, TN1/20/16<div style="text-align: center;">
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<p style="text-align: center;">Show 5 - Nashville, TN<br>1/20/16<br>photo by @lcs.media</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956702016-01-21T10:00:53-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00To anyone still waiting for their vinyl orders- our deepest...<img src="https://56.media.tumblr.com/cb8bc8d73c623e8d83ad466edb081369/tumblr_o1be1hVtHK1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>To anyone still waiting for their vinyl orders- our deepest apologies to you. Here is information from @antirecords about the status of the situation. <br>
Also to answer the question about Yellow deluxe vinyl, they were limited to a pressing of 1k of which Kings Road had 500 to sell - their copies are Sold Out and the band now has the other 500 at their own stores @hellomerch and @awesomedistro UK they are ready to ship immediately</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956712016-01-19T21:20:43-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00Show 4 - Atlanta,GA 1/19/16<img src="https://56.media.tumblr.com/1ade88abcc23b3e60ed35dfb0f23f6bb/tumblr_o18k6jtTRP1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_l justify_inline border_" /><div style="text-align: center;">
<br>Show 4 - Atlanta,GA 1/19/16<br>The Tabernacle<br>photo by @lcs.media</div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br>George and @drandallblythe <br>Backstage In Atlanta,GA <br>1/19/16 @ Tabernacle <br>photo by @lcs.media (at Tabernacle Atlanta)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956722016-01-18T19:20:57-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00Deafheaven are playing 2 headline shows with Power Trip coming...<img src="https://56.media.tumblr.com/749753f5517a15a8309481bfd17f2d90/tumblr_o16jyxqxgL1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> are playing 2 headline shows with Power Trip coming up in Charlotte, NC on 1/21 and in Columbus, OH on 1/27.</p>
<p>Ticket links and info for all shows are posted at: <a href="http://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">http://deafheaven.com/shows</a></p>
<p>Our US Tour with Lamb Of God, Anthrax & Power Trip continues:<br>Jan 19 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle<br>Jan 20 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works<br>Jan 21 Charlotte, NC @ The Neighborhood Theater **<br>Jan 22 Norfolk, VA @ Constant Convocation Center<br>Jan 23 New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom - SOLD OUT<br>Jan 24 Wallingford, CT @ Toyota Presents Oakdale<br>Jan 26 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom<br>Jan 27 Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups ** (Early Doors) SOLD OUT<br>Jan 28 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre<br>Jan 29 Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room @ Old National<br>Jan 30 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom<br>Jan 31 Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room<br>Feb 2 Kansas City, MO @ The Midland<br>Feb 4 Houston, TX @ Revention Music Center<br>Feb 5 Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory<br>Feb 6 Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Pavilion<br>Feb 8 Austin, TX @ ACL Live @ Moody Theater<br>Feb 9 Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom<br>Feb 11 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl<br>Feb 12 Los Angeles, CA @ The Palladium</p>
<p>** = Deafheaven & Power Trip only</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956732016-01-18T18:41:42-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00Show 3 - Silver Spring, MD 1/17/16 <div>
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<p> </p><br><br><br> Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956752016-01-17T08:22:22-08:002020-01-13T11:15:39-08:00Show 1 - Pittsburgh, PA 1/15/16 <div style="text-align: center;">
<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/7a12e60d0418d6fb73cb58ed6bb70d7e/tumblr_o13utaqEUg1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_l justify_inline border_" /><br>Day 1 - Pittsburgh, PA<br>1/15/16 - George Clarke - Backstage photo by <a contents="@drandallblythe" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://instagram.com/drandallblythe" target="_blank">@drandallblythe</a> (at Stage AE)<br><br> <img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/5485739f099d539daa844cfd0211e331/tumblr_o13utpq3yF1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_l justify_inline border_none" alt="" /><br>Show 1 - Pittsburgh, PA<br>1/15/16 Kerry McCoy - photo by @lcs.media (at Stage AE)</div>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956762016-01-05T13:02:39-08:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00Deafheaven to Play Coachella 2016 + adds Headline Dates to Upcoming North American Tour<p> </p>
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<p>Deafheaven has just been announced to play <a href="https://www.coachella.com/lineup/" target="_blank">Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival</a> on both Sundays (April 17 & April 24)</p>
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<p>Deafheaven is about to start their US tour with Lamb of God, Anthrax, and Power Trip next week and will be headlining two shows w/ Power Trip in Charlotte, NC and Columbus, OH. For all show/ticket details click <a href="http://www.deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </p>
<p><b>Lamb of God, Anthrax, Deafheaven, Power Trip 2016</b><br>Fri/Jan-15 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE (Indoor)<br>Sat/Jan-16 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory - Sold Out<br>Sun/Jan-17 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring<br>Tue/Jan-19 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle<br>Wed/Jan-20 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works<br>Thu/Jan-21 Charlotte, NC @ The Neighborhood Theatre<b>*</b><br>Fri/Jan-22 Norfolk, VA @ Constant Convocation Center<br>Sat/Jan-23 New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom<br>Sun/Jan-24 Wallingford, CT @ Toyota Presents Oakdale<br>Tue/Jan-26 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom<br>Wed/Jan-27 Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups<b>*</b><br>Thu/Jan-28 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre<br>Fri/Jan-29 Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room at Old National Centre<br>Sat/Jan-30 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom<br>Sun/Jan-31 Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room<br>Tue/Feb-02 Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland<br>Thu/Feb-04 Houston, TX @ Revention Music Center<br>Fri/Feb-05 Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory<br>Sat/Feb-06 Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Pavilion <br>Mon/Feb-08 Austin, TX @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater<br>Tue/Feb-09 Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom<br>Thu/Feb-11 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl<br>Fri/Feb-12 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium</p>
<p><b>*</b>Headline show w/Power Trip as support</p>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="498" data-orig-width="500"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/69fad4df110aeca02fa5e0d367994998/tumblr_inline_o0hyxjpww01r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956772015-12-21T18:13:50-08:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00SPIN Magazine Names Deafheaven BAND OF THE YEAR 2015<figure data-orig-width="500" data-orig-height="134" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/05842c1cd27003eff7d887aed4c38aca/tumblr_inline_nzqjd3czoR1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1189" data-orig-height="529" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/0480adb61add6a230e1bc3b5caf99d2d/tumblr_inline_nzqjdnwEqo1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="897" data-orig-height="218" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/07f1c6d15ad27a32dde09f43432ad2de/tumblr_inline_nzqjdlG7j21qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><i>written by Andy O’Connor<br>photos by Trent Maxwell for SPIN</i></p><p>I really wish Deafheaven would have destroyed the Beverly. It would’ve been a defeat for the development that’s sucking the life out of music locales everywhere, it would’ve affirmed their status as the ultimate metal wrecking force, and it would’ve shown that they don’t tread lightly. Metal shouldn’t tread lightly.</p><p>It’s November and I’m with the band in Austin while they’re soundchecking for their gig at the Mohawk, the first of two Texas shows I’ll spend with the quintet. The Mohawk is a popular mid-sized outdoor venue where anyone who’s got a decent publicist plays — mostly indie, though there’s increasingly more hip-hop and metal, as those genres have had difficulty finding stable homes in Texas. Across the street from the venue is the Death Star in our backyard: the Beverly condos, the reason outdoor weeknight shows have to end so f**king early (before 11 should be considered too early). Every performance at the Mohawk is a fight against gentrification, against stripping the heart of a city — a fight for the legitimacy of live music itself.</p><!-- more --><p>This isn’t lost on the band. <i>New Bermuda</i>, Deafheaven’s third record and their first for Anti-, was born of confusion surrounding new opportunities, unprecedented ascendance, and changing realities in the midst of it all. By 2014, vocalist George Clarke, guitarist Kerry McCoy, and bassist Stephen Lee Clark all relocated to Los Angeles, after the rent in San Francisco became too much to bear; drummer Dan Tracy and guitarist Shiv Mehra are holding on to their rent-controlled apartments, but most of the units surrounding them are now hotel rooms. At the same time, the group was being flown around to festivals all over the world, performing in countries they’d never played in, and establishing some sense of solvency in an industry where it’s damn near impossible to do such — all thanks to their breakthrough with 2013’s stunning <i>Sunbather</i>. Much of <i>Bermuda</i> is centered around the turmoil from this period.</p><p>“When you’re on tour, everything has purpose,” Clarke says. “You wake up, everything is tightly scheduled, you are giving people entertainment, you are receiving pleasure from that. Life is going 100 miles an hour. And when you go home, a lot of that drops out, and I was feeling this strain from really going, going, going, and stopping… I was getting bored, I was losing focus, we weren’t writing music, we weren’t really doing anything. It led to this sort of depression — when that happens, you take it out on people. While professionally, we were reaching huge highs, when I was at home, I was venting my frustration with not knowing what to do.”</p><iframe width="500" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PLoGU6l88QA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><p>Deafheaven’s melding of longform black metal, Britpop, and shoegaze (they’re not the first band to be considered “blackgaze,” but they set off the fuse for many other bands) has always been conducive to self-flagellating introspection, and <i>Bermuda</i> — one of <i>SPIN</i>’s picks for the <a href="http://www.spin.com/featured/the-50-best-albums-of-2015/" target="_blank">50 Best Albums of 2015</a> — is no exception. And while their latest is a shorter record than <i>Sunbather</i>, they’ve found they can say more with less, without giving themselves over to punkish run times. This is largely because Clark, Mehra, and Tracy have become integral pieces in their own right. McCoy’s songwriting remains ironclad and Clarke’s screeching vocals are unquestionable, but bonding with Clark, Mehra, and Tracy — who all joined as touring members in 2013 — has finally translated their live strength on record. (Tracy also played on <i>Sunbather</i>, though he was not an official member until later.) Next to the core of Clarke and McCoy, the other three have been the longest-standing members of the band’s previously rotating lineup.</p><p>And after five years of self-sacrifice and dedicated touring, Deafheaven’s place is secure; their hustle matches the fury of their music. Watching their recent shows in Texas, the band was obviously a couple evolutionary stages ahead of how they used to play, especially when they first came around during South By Southwest in 2011, making their Austin debut at the BrooklynVegan day party at the old Emo’s on 6th street. At the time, Deafheaven only had a demo to their name, and if that didn’t make them an outlier amongst more established acts like Yob, Kvelertak, and KEN Mode, their presentation certainly did. Admittedly, the first time I looked at them, I thought, “Who the f**k are these guys?” Clarke and then-bassist Derek Prine were too coifed for their own good, McCoy had a pronounced rat-tail, and then-guitarist Nick Bassett had a Danzig parody shirt for <a href="http://www.hellfishfamily.com" target="_blank">Hellfish</a>.</p><p>My assumptions couldn’t have been more ill-conceived — Deafheaven didn’t let their lack of sleep stop them from giving one of the most exhilarating performances of the entire fest. Amongst the seemingly trillions of young and inexperienced bands who claimed they have something to prove at SXSW, only Deafheaven’s carried that weight. Their performance not only won skeptics like myself over, but gave us a glimpse into the behemoth they would become.</p><figure data-orig-width="723" data-orig-height="243" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/1193b58a5f2e9bb429899926768750e2/tumblr_inline_nzqjndsFYl1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>Another pivotal moment for the band at that SXSW conference was the Profound Lore showcase, at the now-deceased Lovejoy’s. Profound Lore’s founder, Chris Bruni, has an eye for ahead-of-the-curve metal; Pallbearer, another metal group who’ve found crossover success while maintaining a pummeling heaviness, are on the label. Deafheaven were never on Profound Lore, but they easily could have been: Bruni admitted that their rawness showed at his showcase, and despite that, he still saw the glowing headlines and glossy shoots in the band’s future.</p><p>“I knew that they had that drive and ambition to tour as much as possible, and knew they were committed to working hard, while just doing their thing,” Bruni says. “And already being familiar with their music, I had that feeling that something was going to come of this.”</p><p>Clarke recognizes the performance as an early milestone; still, he admits that they had a lot of growing to do. He would scream without care for mic placement, and he didn’t exude the charisma he’s swimming in now. They were loud, but that had more to do with the intimacy of Lovejoy’s.</p><p>“We were really just trying our hardest, but if I saw that band play today, I’d probably go <i>hmph hmph</i>,” Clarke says, with a subtly displeased grin.</p><figure data-orig-width="1140" data-orig-height="497" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/0209052ec1c3847723d5cf854804c6b7/tumblr_inline_nzqjtdDlzw1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>Every insider was an outsider at one point. You’ve seen the pictures of the band with Danny Brown, Cannibal Corpse’s George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, Abbath from Immortal, and Conor Oberst; they may know a good photo opp, but they’re not scenesters. At that Profound Lore showcase, Clarke and the rest of the band felt like interlopers within a metal community whose members have raised each other up for so long. Stevie Floyd, who at the time was the guitarist and vocalist in Portland-via-Florida doom-metal duo Dark Castle, approached a “beet-red and sweating” Clarke and complimented the band’s performance. “That was one of the first times I felt like we’re starting to get integrated into this whole thing,” Clarke says. “[Right away], she made me feel really comfortable,” he says.</p><p>Deafheaven’s association with Deathwish, the hardcore label run by Converge frontman Jacob Bannon, put them on a circuit of DIY houses and underground hardcore avenues. To think of them playing in the pit is odd now, but at one point, it was fairly common for them to be literally on the same level as the audience. Tre McCarthy, Deathwish’s co-founder, found them how you find talent in this era — word of Internet. That in and of itself isn’t exactly remarkable, but McCarthy’s pure elation when he found the band’s first demo was. In a way, he anticipated what a cinematic force the band would become, inspired by a particularly evocative climax in the demo’s “Libertine Dissolves.”</p><p>“Scenes from a movie started playing out in my mind,” McCarthy recalls. “It’s something that I feel corny even saying, but the music just created these powerful images in my head. That’s what compelled me to want to work with them.”</p><p><iframe width="500" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d4tyCchDlhM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p>McCarthy didn’t get bogged down by the debate over what genre Deafheaven is or isn’t. When asked if it was difficult to market Deafheaven because they were unlike anything on Deathwish, he simply states: “It wasn’t difficult because despite any subgenre nitpickery, it was aggressive.” And that aggressiveness — not in just their sound, but in how much they were really committed to making Deafheaven work — gave McCarthy a sense that <i>Sunbather</i>, the band’s second album and follow-up to their lightly acclaimed debut, 2011’s <i>Roads to Judah</i>, would be a milestone for both the band and the label.</p><p>“I went out to the Atomic Garden while they were recording <i>Sunbather</i>,” McCarthy recalls. “I walked in while Kerry was recording and I remember thinking, ‘That’s the best thing I’ve ever heard.’ Then a few minutes later he did another part, and I thought, “Nope, that is the best thing I’ve ever heard!’”</p><p>The band is grateful that Deathwish put them on and acknowledge the role it played in their career liftoff. At the same time, they have mixed feelings about the period of their career that they spent on the label. McCoy in particular tired of it quickly.</p><p>“This sounds s**tty, and I don’t mean to say I didn’t like playing hardcore shows, but I didn’t like playing with hardcore bands,” he says. “I was kind of waiting for the moment where we would be able to be big enough to not have to do that anymore, and I’m kind of glad we’re not.”</p><p>Even for Clark, Tracy, and Mehra, the limitations of that sphere became immediately apparent: As much as DIY can be a brand of unity, it can also be a stranglehold if you can’t always adhere to “it is how it is.”</p><p>“We pay so much attention to our tones and sound and listening to each other, it’s kind of hard when you’re playing DIY places,” Mehra says.</p><iframe width="500" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6it-7KIzjmM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><p>Their rise, and the reaction around it, brings about one of the most infuriating positions frequently taken about them: Deafheaven’s biggest fans and loudest detractors view the band through the lens of subverting metal, as if they’re in opposition to metal. The much-needed truth is this: Deafheaven are a bona fide metal band. Yes, like Metallica and Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, all of your heroes, my heroes, and their heroes. What they all share is the ability to take the realization that you’re born into a world actively against you, and draw power, not hopelessness, from that. Deafheaven’s slant may be more personal, but it’s no less potent. They are heavily influenced by black metal — in fact, quick shoutout to Weakling, who pretty much spawned the Bay Area black metal scene — but they are swift to point out they are not a black-metal band. This isn’t to say that black-metal bands can’t match or aspire to their emotional range; Deafheaven are just too broad to be considered just that.</p><p>“People have sort of created this narrative about us… because we don’t dress in a traditional metal fashion, all of a sudden we’re consciously being against it — that’s not the case whatsoever,” Clarke says. “And because we do a tour with No Joy or something, it’s like, ‘Oh, they’re purposely doing this to f**k with people.’ That’s not the case. That’s just a band I like and I also like metal bands and we do tours with both. At the end of the day, we’re a metal band, we always have been, we never denied any root in that.”</p><p>That flexibility helps them expand their audience. They don’t necessarily feel the need to be the representatives of metal at non-metal fests — or for the non-metal public at large — but they’re up for the challenge.“I feel lucky that we’re not shoveled into only-metal fests,” Clark says. “I feel hella lucky we can play with [post-industrial group] Factory Floor and s**t like that.”</p><p>And really, why would you try to argue that they’re not a metal band? Watching them in Dallas and Austin, the Emperor-like majesty of “From the Kettle Onto the Coil” becomes even more obvious. <i>Bermuda</i> is anchored by moments embodying the band’s roots, like the thrashy breaks of “Luna” and the Kirk Hammett worship of “Baby Blue.” The album’s dark tone makes their black-metal sections hit even harder: They’ve never sounded more ferocious than they do on the first three minutes of “Come Back.” Even a chiming (in places) song like “Earth” has the hard-edged appeal of the most accessible bits from <i>Headbanger’s Ball </i>— or the heavier end of <i>120 Minutes</i>. The common denominator is that all of these songs draw strength from fear and uncertainty (a key line from “Baby Blue” is “God had sent my calamity into a deep space / From which, not even in dreams, could I ever imagine my escape”), and hasn’t the best metal always done that? How much different is it from the Cold War fears of ‘80s thrash bands, or the embrace of death’s inevitability that the Florida scene engaged in during the late ‘80s and early ‘90s? Deafheaven are not tourists, even if some of the people who dig them are.</p><figure data-orig-width="1171" data-orig-height="495" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/71b3b831852af5e51f6b9e1ad0238e06/tumblr_inline_nzql7zNiG21qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>I’ve seen Deafheaven live several times. They embody what it is to be a live metal band now, even if they don’t exactly resemble the leather-clad acts of yore. Clarke redefines metal flamboyance, going out into the crowd and blessing the kids with preacher-style gestures, twirling hands to symbolize both “go f**king crazy!” and the delicacy that’s so vital to Deafheaven’s music. If anyone matches Clarke’s intensity on stage, it’s Tracy: Rather than going to pure extroversion like Clarke does, Tracy captivates with old-fashioned virtuosity, showcasing the physical dexterity that’s become a huge foundation for the band. McCoy, Clark, and Mehra prefer to keep it cool, almost unaware of the storm they’re creating. They let the melodies do the talking, and with Clarke taking the helm as the leader, McCoy doesn’t need to ham it up Scorpions-style anytime soon.</p><p>If there’s one point that could be described as the peak of the band’s live hysteria, it’s the breakdown of <i>Bermuda</i>’s “Luna.” It draws from the post-rock school of loud crescendos, but Deafheaven put some doomy muscle behind it, making it into one of their heaviest passages to date. This is where crowd-surfers get the most air time, where even the most jaded hesher will bang the head that normally does not. When you hear that song, and that part specifically, it awakes the same rush as when Bruce Dickinson yells, “<i>SCREAM FOR ME!,</i>” or when Metallica go into the closing salvo of “One,” or when Slayer play those first chords in “Raining Blood.” It is an experience of bonding and power you can only really understand if you’re a headbanger, and Deafheaven have made it translatable for others.</p><p>Of all the misguided press the band’s gotten, the most infuriating was a<i> </i><a href="http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/deafheaven-both-shone-and-disappointed-at-revolution-live-6424481" target="_blank"><i>New Times Broward-Palm Beach</i> review</a> that implied Clarke may have had some neo-fascist leanings because of his live presentation. He indirectly commented on this while discussing the relationship between him and the audience.</p><p>“It’s not so much dictator and audience, it’s more communal — I’m giving you everything, and you’re giving me everything back, having a moment together,” he says. “A lot of the time, I’ll focus on one person — grab their hand, stare each other eye to eye and in that moment, I realize we’re both embracing everything that’s going on. I’m not doing this to control, I’m doing this to embrace.”</p><figure data-orig-width="869" data-orig-height="305" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/85611e366408fc4b847695ff6dcbc236/tumblr_inline_nzqlclHxX71qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>What bothers Clarke more than any derision he’s heard is when he sees Deafheaven being used as someone’s token metal band. “You’re one of the many reasons why Nuclear War Now! won’t shut the f**k up about us,” McCoy half-jokingly says of genre tourists, referring to the metal label’s closed-minded forum. (Just search “Deafheaven” in there and prepare for the worst.) He isn’t all that concerned with a rogue metal forum’s opinion, though, conceding with a little pride: “We are, pretty much, the most accessible extreme metal band around right now.”</p><p>And much like fellow 2015 genre-dilettante favorites, Kamasi Washington and Oneohtrix Point Never, they are simply too powerful to not at least instill some curiosity. Deafheaven have crossed over to people who aren’t into Blasphemy and Sacrófago; but that doesn’t make them pop at all. Beneath all the leather and denim and bluster and nerdery, we all have day-to-day existential worries that we dwell on but rarely speak about. Deafheaven tap into that while still holding true to the transformative, bigger-than-life power that metal’s always been the best at conveying. Metal came to prominence as an outlet for disaffected youth in the ‘80s, and while it doesn’t hold the stake it once did, it’s still an incredibly affirming style of music for anyone who has trouble navigating mainstream society. Deafheaven are for the disaffected youth of now.</p><p>Still, if you were never into metal before you picked up a copy of <i>Sunbather</i> or <i>Bermuda</i>, Clarke is happy to be your first.</p><p>“I think it’s more flattering than not to be someone’s first experience that lets them into a world that has nurtured me since I was a young teen,” he says. “At some point, that person’s gonna get tired of our record, and maybe when that happens, they’ll listen to [earlier metal].”</p><p>People I’ve talked to about Deafheaven always mention how hard the band worked to get to where they are. And if they share one thing with the Second Wave of Black Metal — pivotal ‘90s Norwegian bands like Mayhem and Burzum — that they’re always compared to, it’s that they all came from seemingly ideal places that have their own issues. Deafheaven’s Norway was the Bay Area, where it’s increasingly expensive to get by. It’s a liberal bohemia — for the right price, and artists can almost never afford that. Both times I go out with the band after their Texas shows, Clarke pulls me aside and stresses to me that him and McCoy once lived in their car, that they used to have to “spange” — for those of you who’ve never had the displeasure of meeting crusties, it’s short for “spare some change” — out on the road, that they gave up everything to make this happen.</p><p>When Clarke opens up to me in these post-show conversations, it illuminates the vast gulf between where Deafheaven came from and where they are now. Earlier in the night, they asked me where a good goth club was. “Elysium!” I immediately shouted. It’s a place that’s stuck in the ‘90s, down to the guy who bought us Jäger shots, and that’s exactly what the band wanted. In Dallas, we all share beers and watch recaps of Ronda Rousey’s loss to Holly Holm at Off the Record, a beer bar that also features a small record store inside. Sipping brew at a spot that doubles as a vinyl shop is peak #peak, the term Twitter personality and public intellectual Desus Nice uses to describe unbearable whiteness, and it’s also how Deafheaven is sometimes negatively viewed. If you think Clarke’s band is easy listening, that doesn’t bother him. But mistake him for a trust-fund kid and you’ll catch those hands.</p><p>Do they ever think about quitting?</p><p>“Only on Sunday when football’s on,” jokes Clark, who’s more often than not seen playing in a Raiders shirt.</p><p>“Kerry and I were always like, ‘We’re gonna get through this, there’s options, we’re gonna find a way,’” Clarke says.</p><p>“Even when we were starting,” McCoy says, “there were bands that were bands for ten years that were just getting to the part where we were at in a year, so you can’t take it for granted.”</p><p>Deafheaven still have far to travel in support of <i>New Bermuda</i>. They are opening for Lamb of God and Anthrax on their upcoming tour, their most anticipated yet. (In true Ozzfest style, they are getting a bus for once, whereas previously they’ve had vans.) Clarke says he’s practicing his “beer-dodging” skills for this tour. Yeah, there’ll be hecklers. But there’s something to be said for sticking to your own community and enriching that soil — and there’s also something to be said for wanting to break out and aspire to something bigger, to spread your gospel elsewhere. I listen to metal because it actively lacks commercial appeal and intimidates people; Deafheaven don’t threaten that at all. Rather, they allow people to join in the darkness, convince them that it’s for them too. And that’s why they’re the most fearless band going forth right now, and why I’m proud to call then just a f**king metal band.</p><p>“It’s not about turning the genre on its head, but giving it a little breathing room and adjusting slightly,” Clarke says backstage in Dallas, in the midst of nearly deafening chatter. “For me it’s more just bending things, it’s stretching. Taking an idea and manipulating it, that’s all we’ve ever done. I do feel we have our identity and our own way of writing songs, but I don’t think we’re deconstructing and rearranging. We’re more creating our own vibe, our own element.” They shouldn’t tread lightly, so they don’t.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956782015-12-21T17:05:53-08:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00New Bermuda // Year End Re-Cap<figure data-orig-width="900" data-orig-height="900" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/f02f432d9138c66b979223408803cd7e/tumblr_inline_nzf068IaCQ1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>Since its October release, Deafheaven’s <i><a href="http://www.deafheaven.com/new-bermuda" target="_blank">New Bermuda</a></i> has been included in many major “Best Of” and “End of the Year” lists. </p><h2>See what people are saying about the album below.</h2><figure data-orig-width="767" data-orig-height="205" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/f985d011942c55ecda6f3827fd28c31b/tumblr_inline_nzf04xIP0l1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="573" data-orig-height="121" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/b707927c4f54dfa037062d0ce4b32c04/tumblr_inline_nzf05esHej1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><b>BEST METAL ALBUM</b> // “There are few success stories as unexpected or deserved as Deafheaven’s crossover to mainstream audiences. Since they arrived with their 2011 debut, <i>Roads to Judah</i> — a self-serious, shoegaze-leaning middle finger held aloft in the general direction of the metal establishment — guitarist Kerry McCoy and vocalist George Clarke have been slowly turning black metal light. Where others drop like dead weight into the void of isolation and self-centeredness, Clarke and McCoy look out into the world on the wings of hang-glider guitar lines, and vocal squelches that feel more like the natural chaos of a storm cloud than the bitter discontentedness that has lined the genre’s history.</p><p><i>New Bermuda</i> is a vast chasm, darker than their blissed breakthrough <i>Sunbather</i>, but it soars all the more transcendent because of it. The ten-minute masterwork “Luna” floats by on a series of guitar riffs that start like nocturnal emissions from R.E.M.’s deep slumber — sexy and otherworldly offerings from somewhere beyond the the alt-’80s grave. Clarke’s fixations aim toward hope (there’s not much of it), love (ditto), and the cosmic disappointment that comes at those previous realizations. But his brutalist, clipped vocals only aid the dreamy atmosphere — even when the whipping songs feel nightmarish, there’s a surreality that gives New Bermuda its optimistic float. Others have attempted, and likely will continue to attempt, to come for their place in the clouds above black metal’s more terrestrial realms, but New Bermuda’s further proof that no one can reach them.” -<a href="http://www.spin.com/2015/12/the-20-best-metal-albums-of-2015/" target="_blank">SPIN</a></p><p><b>BEST ALBUMS OF 2015</b> // “Like the Replacements, Deafheaven just make what comes out of them and they don’t ask why. Lyrically, lead bellower George Clarke fries his larynx despairing in classic antisocial ways (“My world closes its eyes to / Sex and laughter”) in addition to more paranoid, almost domestic maladies (“Confined to a house that never remains clean”). But sonically, New Bermuda is black metal’s very own version of the ‘Mats’ Let It Be, as unexpectedly jangly as it is isometrically fearsome, and a little bit country. “ - <a href="http://www.spin.com/featured/the-50-best-albums-of-2015/" target="_blank">SPIN</a></p><figure data-orig-width="1200" data-orig-height="275" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/1ce753e6032a87acafba0f8056fb4e62/tumblr_inline_nzf4w7eAlB1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“In 2013, experimental black metal band Deafheaven scored big with Sunbather, which juxtaposed savage blastbeats, blur-of-noise guitars and glass-gargling vocals with effects-laden shoegazer textures. With their third album, New Bermuda, they expand their sonic spectrum in both extremes. Bleak, desperate and at times suffocating, the songs are peppered with the rapid chugs and tumbling beats of Slayer and the multifaceted guitar work of early Metallica. At the same time, Deafheaven incorporate their lengthy compositions with lazy, loping guitar lines reminiscent of “Luna” and melancholy reveries redolent of the Cure and Red House Painters. But no matter how often or abruptly Deafheaven shift gears, each passage flows into the next, giving New Bermuda the type of cinematic majesty that inspires both reflective beard scratching and high-velocity headbanging.“ - <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-metal-albums-of-2015-20151210/deafheaven-new-bermuda-20151209" target="_blank">Rolling Stone</a></p><figure data-orig-width="741" data-orig-height="83" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/7049784bb9389e6f3ae5e8a125254808/tumblr_inline_nzgvi9rFQ81r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><b>BEST METAL ALBUM OF 2015 (#1)</b> // Somehow, the Los Angeles band made an album that’s even better than their classic-seeming <i>Sunbather</i>. New Bermuda’s heavy parts are heavier, the quiet moments prettier, the push and pull of its overall sequencing perfect. It’s the first proper full-length recording from a lineup that’s been touring together for the past couple of years, and they really gel here, each player striving to reach their limit. The album is moving, romantic, and powerful, and sounds great in a large room or when you’re just lost in your own head. - <a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9772-the-best-metal-albums-of-2015/1/" target="_blank">Pitchfork</a></p><p><b>50 BEST ALBUMS OF 2015</b> // “<i>New Bermuda</i>’s five songs are howled tales of sickness and health, alternating stories of lost ambition with frantic fever dreams. The gut-wrenching noise that spills forth from lead singer’s George Clarke’s throat transcends its tone of shrieking menace, his lines filled with unsettlingly beautiful imagery: man’s passion being carried off "by some lonely driver in a line of fluorescent light,” humanity’s “ugliness stretching toward the chandelier.” But Deafheaven don’t just rattle off romanticist tropes, and the narrative power of <i>New Bermuda</i> has a strength that’s independent of its lyrics. They illustrate and expound upon the words with huge shifts in dynamic range, from the sublime crescendoes at the heart of “Luna” or cross-genre experiments like the post-rock meeting gritty thrash on “Baby Blue”. The result is a crushing, concise, and unexpectedly celebratory journey, the sweet, molten earth to Sunbather’s ghostly air.” - <a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9764-the-50-best-albums-of-2015/3/" target="_blank">Pitchfork</a><br></p><p><b>STAFF LISTS </b><br>From its eloquent, tortured narratives to its numerous stylistic experiments, every square inch of <i>New Bermuda</i> brims with suspenseful, sublime soundscapes that retain their awesome might no matter how many times you listen. - <a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9772-the-best-metal-albums-of-2015/2/" target="_blank">Zoe Camp</a></p><p><i>New Bermuda</i> is Deafheaven’s most metal record yet, and not just because of its darker cover, or the fact that Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra throw in some serious mosh riffs on “Baby Blue” and “Come Back”. This is metal modernized, metal that understands it’s healthy to be vulnerable, that exposure can strengthen the core ethos of integrity against all odds. Frontman George Clarke uses his power to draw you in and bond in a way that you and him only comprehend, a classic metal sort of bonding without trampling on the graves of the ‘80s. The seed they planted way back in 2011 has finally sprouted into the fully formed beast it was destined to be. - <a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9772-the-best-metal-albums-of-2015/2/" target="_blank">Andy O’Connor</a></p><!-- more --><figure data-orig-width="733" data-orig-height="125" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/4f108f1f0a644914667d747aeb3a74e2/tumblr_inline_nzf2w7RVxo1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><b>TOP METAL ALBUMS OF 2015</b> // “Where Deafheaven could have very easily ridden into this year upon the coattails of their massive 2013 success, <i>Sunbather</i>, they instead presented its antithesis. Rougher around the edges and more existential than wishful, <i>New Bermuda</i> is Deafheaven maintaining their peak form, fearlessly exploring new urban terrains lyrically from the inside looking outwards and sonically presenting a much heavier idea of themselves. The result is a welcome and thought-provoking interpretation and thankfully not just <i>Sunbather 2</i>.” - <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/12/the-top-25-metal-albums-of-2015/5/" target="_blank">Consequence of Sound</a></p><p><b>TOP ALBUMS OF 2015</b> // “Deafheaven keep getting mentioned in lists of best metal bands for people who don’t like metal, but <i>New Bermuda</i> proves that the San Francisco outfit are in it to expand the genre, not reach outside of it. Many non-listeners assume that the metal world is entirely driven by darkness, all grit, grime, and sludge. <i>Sunbather</i> was such a crossover because it used its post-metal and shoegaze tendencies to bring out some of the prettier shades of black in the genre’s palette, gloriously soaring through the sky. There’s some more of that soupy quality to the follow-up, but there’s as much swampy depth here as there is ethereal beauty.” - <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/12/top-50-albums-of-2015/3/" target="_blank">Consequence of Sound</a></p><figure data-orig-width="539" data-orig-height="90" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/80ddf86f422f990cf0e1024046c26fbb/tumblr_inline_nzf37sbUbP1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><b>BEST ALBUMS OF 2015</b> // “Like metal’s best-ever albums — from Master Of Reality to Appetite For Destruction to Blackwater Park to Marrow Of The Spirit — <i>New Bermuda</i> embraces the genre’s primary elements while expanding beyond them as though they were merely dollops of paint on a palette rather than lines in which to color. <i>New Bermuda</i> is not paying tribute to anyone, not seeking any particular approval. It is a distinct, decisive, masterful work of art. It doesn’t exist to be admired, however; it exists to elevate you, to astonish you, to envelop you. For Deafheaven, <i>New Bermuda</i> is a triumph. For you, though, <i>New Bermuda</i> is a gift.” - <a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1845609/the-50-best-albums-of-2015/franchises/2015-in-review/5/" target="_blank">Stereogum</a></p><p><b>BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2015</b> // “There aren’t many albums in the world that I love as much as this one. I treasure this thing. Just knowing that I have it with me all the time, on my phone and in my life, leaves me with this unreasonable feeling of solace and satisfaction.” - <a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1846829/the-50-best-metal-albums-of-2015/franchises/2015-in-review/5/" target="_blank">Stereogum</a></p><figure data-orig-width="567" data-orig-height="105" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/162ec21076b6a54087ab7c935a6a04ae/tumblr_inline_nzf1g1TS441r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><b>JEREMY ULREY’S TOP ALBUM OF 2015</b> // “Metal fans as a whole could stand to get a little less dogmatic about what should and shouldn’t qualify as “true” metal or not, but unlike sophomore LP Sunbather there isn’t much handwringing to be had in that regard with Deafheaven’s latest, <i>New Bermuda</i>. Sure, the shoegaze affectations are still there, but this time they work more in service of the band’s unorthodox take on black metal. I’ve never entirely understand why shoegaze wasn’t an adequate analogue to traditional black metal’s atmospheric tendencies, but either way Deafheaven have deftly sidestepped any intimation that their current effort isn’t emphatically metal, even if it doesn’t happen to be the kind that suits you. For those of us with the ears and open mind to appreciate this shit, however, the only qualm about <i>New Bermuda</i>’s inclusion is the predictable inevitability that we’re repping an album that everyone else is likely to slot highly as well. Fuck it. They’ve earned it.” - <a href="http://www.metalinjection.net/lists/best-of-2015/jeremys-top-10-albums-of-2015" target="_blank">Metal Injection</a></p><p><b>GREG KENNELTY’S TOP 15 ALBUMS OF 2015</b> // “Coming off the heels of <i>Sunbather</i>, and given the interviews where the band’s members talked about its next record being much darker, I expected <i>Sunbather II: 2evil4u</i>. Instead, I got a record that genuinely feels like the sounds of falling apart and finding yourself again. <i>New Bermuda</i> relies less on a wall of sound and more on individual parts sitting in just the right places in the mix, giving the record a huge, spacey sound. Extraneous instrumentation is just as present as ever, with church bells, acoustic guitars, slide guitar, field recordings, timpanis, but they feel less like sideshow features and more a part of the bigger, bleaker picture.” - <a href="http://www.metalinjection.net/lists/best-of-2015/gregs-top-15-albums-of-2015" target="_blank">Metal Injection</a></p><p><b>DANIEL CORDOVA’S TOP 15 METAL ALBUMS OF 2015</b> // “I honestly tried to ignore this record initially. <i>Sunbather</i> was good, but it didn’t totally have me in love with the band like everyone else seemed to be. <i>New Bermuda</i> has more straight up metal which I appreciate, however it also has equal parts indie loveliness. As a fan of both pretty indie and post/atmospheric black metal, it became impossible not to fall for this one.” - <a href="http://www.metalinjection.net/lists/best-of-2015/daniels-top-15-albums-of-2015" target="_blank">Metal Injection</a></p><figure data-orig-width="1111" data-orig-height="136" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/f23693fa585df0eb19457f25b675b222/tumblr_inline_nzf5ihsLpA1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“<i>New Bermuda</i> balances on a razor’s edge separating heavenly beauty and hellish darkness. Based in Los Angeles but formed in San Francisco, the quintet built an extreme five-song album whose shortest track exceeds eight minutes. Sheets of guitar recall the shimmering distortion of My Bloody Valentine’s noisy Brit-pop, while double bass-kick drums and vocalist George Clarke’s guttural grunts suggest Norwegian black metal. Harsh, yes, but also a long overdue metallic construct forged for a new era.” -<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-ca-ms-best-pop-music-roberts-20151213-story.html" target="_blank"> LA Times</a></p><figure data-orig-width="652" data-orig-height="101" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/49970946630afabe0e572287c7e9998b/tumblr_inline_nzf0vbHzAX1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><b>BEST METAL ALBUM OF 2015</b> // “It seemed impossible. Deafheaven’s 2013 album <i>Sunbather</i> was such a grand achievement—a defining statement—that surpassing it simply wouldn’t happen. At least not so soon. And yet that’s exactly what the Bay Area black metal group did with their third album, <i>New Bermuda</i>. On some level, it’s an album that continues what they started with its predecessor, its 47 minutes comprising an emotionally taxing mixture of black metal and shoegaze (and post-rock and screamo…) that no other band has balanced so nimbly and so elegantly. But New Bermuda is also a great step forward for Deafheaven, whose compositions have grown tighter, and whose extremes have been pushed even farther this time around.” - <a href="http://www.treblezine.com/26567-best-metal-albums-of-2015/" target="_blank">Treblezine</a></p><p><b>BEST ALBUMS OF 2015</b> // “New Bermuda is littered with moments that feel revelatory: The triumphant riff that erupts three minutes into “Brought to the Water”; the dreamy post-punk chug that opens “Gifts for the Earth”; the thrash-metal gallop that begins “Luna”; the breathtaking, slide-driven outro to “Come Back.” It’s almost like bearing witness to the existence of magic before your very ears. But really, that would sell short the labor and vision that goes into an album such as this. Deafheaven understand the nuances and intricacies of composition intimately, each climax arriving at the moment when it’s needed most, and every comedown happening just as the last ounce of cathartic energy is spent.” - <a href="http://www.treblezine.com/26771-50-best-albums-of-2015/5/" target="_blank">Treblezine</a></p><figure data-orig-width="747" data-orig-height="85" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/2777c0bdccc5a8a84439edb4b898a759/tumblr_inline_nzf18iTbPv1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“Ever since Deafheaven broke out with 2013’s excellent <i>Sunbather</i>, music fans and critics have devoted an enormous amount of time to arguing about whether the San Francisco five-piece qualifies as a metal band or not. Deafheaven’s newest offering New Bermuda will only add fuel to the fire. The album contains some of Deafheaven’s most traditionally metal riffs (such as the Slayer-esque opening riff to “Brought to the Water”) but also some uncharacteristically soft material (like the calming, acoustic guitar-laden outro of “Gifts for the Earth”). But who really cares if Deafheaven is a metal outfit? Any band this kick-ass deserves attention, no matter what genre it plays.” - <a href="http://oberlinreview.org/9339/arts/the-oberlin-reviews-top-25-albums-of-2015/" target="_blank">The Oberlin Review</a></p><figure data-orig-width="751" data-orig-height="122" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/0332188b1884497973888be07684fc7b/tumblr_inline_nzf25sbnko1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“Since the release of their polarizing 2013 album Sunbather, Deafheaven have relocated to Los Angeles from the Bay Area and on New Bermuda, doubled-down on their majestic blend of blistering black metal and gorgeous shoegaze, a combination that enraged some closed-minded metalheads and endeared them to those with more adventurous ears. The balance of darkness (George Clarke’s guttural shrieks and grunts) and light (Kerry McCoy’s soaring guitar solos) have cemented Deafheaven as a truly special act in the heavy metal genre.” - <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/music/the-10-best-heavy-metal-albums-of-2015-6343646" target="_blank">LA Weekly</a></p><figure data-orig-width="550" data-orig-height="90" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/ceb5885120ea94fe90272c1fe4d0bacd/tumblr_inline_nzf2ea5zGD1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“Black and beautiful, shrill and shimmering, tortured and confident, <i>New Bermuda</i> is 46 minutes of shattered glass as well as the cold comfort of rain against a windshield. Excruciatingly harsh vocals are shades of the message conveyed, just as guitars often shift from loud to soft, swirl into beautiful curls and howl back into ear-wrenching roars. <i>New Bermuda</i> is more consistent, more refined and spreads the brilliance as well as the burn across all five of its tracks. Black metal’s bitter elements are muted but present, yet it’s the grandeur of the album that frames George Clarke’s lyrics about disappointment and disenchantment. No devils are worshiped here except for those that reside within.” - <a href="http://heavymetal.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/October-2015-Best-Heavy-Metal-Albums.htm" target="_blank">About.com</a><br></p><figure data-orig-width="537" data-orig-height="50" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/704550d6d93c49a178b47d9fe62fb897/tumblr_inline_nzf2ky8Trk1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“With only five songs, “<i>New Bermuda</i>” clocks in at just over 45 minutes but covers nearly twice as much ground as that short runtime would lead you to believe. Highlights “Luna” and “Come Back” burn so brightly they both inevitably burst into a glistening smolder of ashes dancing in the air like drunken fireflies. It’s a musical juxtaposition rarely displayed by any band, and as of right now, nobody does it better than Deafheaven.” - <a href="http://newsok.com/the-oklahomans-top-10-albums-of-the-year/article/5464430/3" target="_blank">News OK</a></p><figure data-orig-width="1201" data-orig-height="348" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/a2570c7634147b62da48baec465c70fa/tumblr_inline_nzf58caGhs1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“If the more lush and gorgeous passages of the astonishing <i>Sunbather</i> gave a clue that Deafheaven would eventually abandon the metal tip, <i>New Bermuda </i>was proof that we had it the wrong way round. Calm moments were still scattered amongst the storm on the group’s new album (the mid-section of “Brought On The Water,” the lovely second half of “Come Back,” etc.), but an even more intense ferocity could be found at its core. The drumming was relentless, George Clarke’s voice harsher, and guitarist Kerry McCoy brought much thrashier elements into the mix to give the album some real punch.<br>The result? A worthy successor to one of the decade’s most unlikely breakthrough albums, a middle finger to the “Are they even metal?” crowd, and further evidence that although they might not be the only great band creating this sort of music (Bosse-De-Nage and Vattnet Viskar both released superb albums this year), Deafheaven is the biggest, a band attracting all comers to music they might never have approached before. They remain trailblazers.” - <a href="http://lamusicblog.com/2015/12/news/top-50-albums-of-2015/" target="_blank">LA Music Blog </a><br></p><figure data-orig-width="963" data-orig-height="158" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/58c980b0a253534a81403488afcafaf1/tumblr_inline_nzf5pkFeoR1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“Though bands have been routinely fusing metal aesthetics with shoegaze dynamics and post-rock’s larger-than-life scope for decades, Deafheaven’s 2013 album, <i>Sunbather</i>, won considerable acclaim for how seamlessly it blended the three, simultaneously becoming the most lauded and despised metal album in recent memory upon its release, notably drawing the ire of both the Bay Area DIY scene—which had served as the group’s initial launching point—and the international metal community. <i>New Bermuda</i> finds Deafheaven as dynamic and wildly ambitious as ever, weaving gorgeous, almost pastoral instrumental passages in between some of the very heaviest music the band ever cut to tape, even as it wears its influences a bit too clearly on its sleeves, liberally cribbing from Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s “Sleep” for the opening guitar figure of “Come Back.” The end result, though, is a staggering masterpiece, one that’s quite possibly the finest American metal album since Neurosis’ <i>Through Silver In Blood</i>.” - <a href="http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2015/10/27/essential-new-music-deafheavens-new-bermuda/" target="_blank">Magnet Magazine</a><br></p><h2>
<i>Best</i> <i>Song</i> Reviews</h2><figure data-orig-width="767" data-orig-height="205" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/f985d011942c55ecda6f3827fd28c31b/tumblr_inline_nzf6trPV4q1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“The longest entry on a record dominated by shape-shifting epics, the ten-minute “Luna” typifies Deafheaven’s devastating and gorgeous <i>New Bermuda</i>. Opening with teeth-gnashing guitar and blood-curdling screams, the track builds and swells, spiraling furiously within itself until it settles, about two-thirds of the way through, into a doleful intermission. Then, the crashing denouement; frontman George Clarke continues to sacrifice his throat with lyrics that are tough to make out unless you read along — except for one word, the source of his inner strife, parsable only because he’s howling it over and over: “suburbia.” Welcome to <i>Bermuda</i>.” - <a href="http://www.spin.com/2015/11/the-101-best-songs-of-2015/" target="_blank">SPIN</a></p><figure data-orig-width="539" data-orig-height="90" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/80ddf86f422f990cf0e1024046c26fbb/tumblr_inline_nzf67wpEx81r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><b>“Luna” Staff Favorite Songs 2015</b> // “For the first time in what feels like a decade, albums meant more to me than singles this year. So many songs captured my imagination, but usually in the context of excellent tracks piling up into a transcendent whole. Even in that macro state of mind, certain micro moments seized my psyche … that breathless upward guitar spiral that bursts out of “Luna” for a few precious seconds before plunging back into hell.” - <a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1847608/stereogums-80-favorite-songs-of-2015/franchises/2015-in-review/" target="_blank">Stereogum</a></p><figure data-orig-width="624" data-orig-height="116" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/f5ced7ea6f79f26f69b01eaa5a182cf6/tumblr_inline_nzf6mlhVTq1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“The eight-plus minutes of “Brought to the Water”‘s blackgaze meets contemporary piano ballad rings in Deafheaven’s 2015 genre-bender release, <i>New Bermuda</i>. A turbulent metal intro fades into an emotional, brief, contemporary piano piece, sounding as natural as how autumn flows into winter. Simply arranged, roughly a third of “Brought to the Water” carries some of black metal’s core tenets forward: dissonant, raspy vocals and a bleak outlook courtesy George Clarke; loud, adynamic, distorted guitars; and Dan Tracy’s “d beat” blastbeat drums. The soundscape’s ideas flow subtly and logically. <i>Sunbather</i>, Deafheaven’s previous release, generated controversy and debate as it propelled the nascent genre to the forefront. Subsuming the caustic bleakness of black metal and post-rock with the distorted, dreamlike carriage of shoegaze, and the melodic appeal of pop, the innovative blackgaze is able to switch directions in an instant. The music presents a challenging, invigorating listen, especially for a fan of the many flavors of heavy metal. With <i>New Bermuda</i>, Deafheaven has proven that its follow-up effort is as equally strong as its breakout album. “Brought to the Water” has helped cement the band’s place as a genre forerunner, and as a creator to watch.” - <a href="http://www.popmatters.com/feature/the-90-best-songs-of-2015/P2/" target="_blank">Popmatters</a></p><figure data-orig-width="652" data-orig-height="101" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/49970946630afabe0e572287c7e9998b/tumblr_inline_nzf5x5OCN31r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><b>TOP SONGS OF 2015 (Brought to the Water)</b> // “<i>New Bermuda</i>’s opening track “Brought to the Water” opens with atmospheric fanfare, only to burst into a massive chug, as if to dramatically answer the question of whether Deafheaven would be able to live up to the album’s much-hyped predecessor <i>Sunbather</i>. That album had the more cynical among the metal community questioning if they were metal at all, much less black metal. While the black metal part is debatable in certain instances, they’ve transcended the debate entirely.” - <a href="http://www.treblezine.com/26846-top-50-songs-of-2015/5/" target="_blank">Treblezine</a></p><p><b>TOP SONGS OF 2015 (Gifts for the Earth) </b>// “Leave it to Deafheaven to feature prominent tambourine on one of the best black metal tracks of 2015. For a band that’s been passed off by more ‘kvlt’ metal listeners as a genre-mashing gimmick, the genre-bending quintet switch up their influences with an admirable frequency. But on “Gifts for the Earth,” they out do even themselves, launching into a pulsing, indie-rock inspired riff, with just a touch of blackened atmosphere. For a second, it feels as if a different band has taken over entirely, until George Clarke breaks in, his perfect, goblin-like vocals setting the tone for the rest of the song. Clarke, along with his band, then take us through their first ABAB song structure, narrating a peaceful, long-awaited death with relative calm before erupting into an explosive climax. The song’s true catharsis, though, comes at the end, with an Oasis-inspired outro that ends New Bermuda—a rather emotionally taxing record—with a feeling of morbid tranquility, echoed in Clarke’s parting words: <i>Then further downward so that I can rest/ Cocooned by the heat of the ocean floor/ In the dark, my flesh to disintegrate into consumption for the earth.”</i><a href="http://www.treblezine.com/26846-top-50-songs-of-2015/4/" target="_blank"> - Treblezine</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956792015-12-16T12:51:49-08:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00Pitchfork Podcast Interview<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="926" data-orig-width="1560"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/6119f5387372eb2b5dc2fa004309321a/tumblr_inline_nzgxwoJAkA1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
<p><a href="http://pitchfork.com/artists/30011-deafheaven/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> frontman George Clarke is an unconventional singer. To start, he doesn’t sing. His vocals are pure exorcisms. He screams, growls, and scratches away at his throat as if he was descended from another species. And yet the effect of these outbursts is utterly human: People pay to see Clarke enact an extremity of emotion. His onstage demeanor has always struck me as highly performative. Dressed in all-black, Clarke dramatically sinks his face into his hands, waves his arms about like an orchestra conductor, and removes his gloves to lick his fingers. His expressions demolish the archetype of the hyper-masculine metal singer, as he confronts heavy topics that most of us just bury.</p>
<p>For this conversation, I met with Clarke in Brooklyn the day before Deafheaven played their biggest sold-out headlining show to date, at Manhattan’s Webster Hall. We discussed the art and literature that have inspired his lyrics, his onstage choreography, and what it means to relive your most lowest moments in front of strangers every night.</p>
<p>Click the button below to download the podcast interview, plus some exclusive photos and a special episode of Deafheaven bassist Stephen Lee Clark’s on-tour podcast series “TalkFoolRadio”, which was recorded specifically for inclusion with this installment of This Is How We Do It.</p>
<p><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/podcasts/9781-this-is-how-we-do-it-deafheaven/" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD HERE ON PITCHFORK</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956802015-11-25T11:19:41-08:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00Free Show in Santiago, Chile // Dec. 9<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="960" data-orig-width="728"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/6767af532c317801a2dfa5d972e84a51/tumblr_inline_nydx82iq6f1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>
<p><b>CONVERSE RUBBER TRACKS LIVE SANTIAGO<br>DEAFHEAVEN<br>BAGUAL<br>DECEMBER 9th<br>BLONDIE, ALAMEDA 2879<br>SANTIAGO – CHILE</b></p>
<p>For more info click <a href="http://www.converse-music.com/rubbertrackslive/santiago-deafheaven/" target="_blank">HERE.</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956812015-11-23T10:35:11-08:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00Deafheaven announced on US Lamb of God Tour<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="3900" data-orig-width="2550"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/5a50c3c30524318680fc29b87b6306b5/tumblr_inline_nya62tXcSX1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>
<p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/powertripTX/" target="_blank">Power Trip</a> have just been announced as the support on the <a href="https://www.lamb-of-god.com/" target="_blank">Lamb of God</a> and <a href="http://anthrax.com/" target="_blank">Anthrax</a> US Tour. All ticket links and details can be found <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Shows" data-link-type="page" href="https://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">HERE</a><br> </p>
<p><b>Lamb of God, Anthrax, Deafheaven, Power Trip 2016</b><br>Fri/Jan-15 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE (Indoor)<br>Sat/Jan-16 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory - SOLD OUT<br>Sun/Jan-17 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring<br>Tue/Jan-19 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle<br>Wed/Jan-20 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works<br>Thur/Jan-21 Charlotte, NC @ The Neighborhood Theater (Deafheaven & Powertrip only)<br>Fri/Jan-22 Norfolk, VA @ Constant Convocation Center<br>Sat/Jan-23 New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom<br>Sun/Jan-24 Wallingford, CT @ Toyota Presents Oakdale<br>Tue/Jan-26 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom<br>Wed/Jan-27 Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups (Deafheaven & Powertrip only) Early Show<br>Thu/Jan-28 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre<br>Fri/Jan-29 Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room at Old National Centre<br>Sat/Jan-30 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom<br>Sun/Jan-31 Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room<br>Tue/Feb-02 Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland<br>Thu/Feb-04 Houston, TX @ Revention Music Center<br>Fri/Feb-05 Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory<br>Sat/Feb-06 Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Pavilion <br>Mon/Feb-08 Austin, TX @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater<br>Tue/Feb-09 Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom<br>Thu/Feb-11 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl<br>Fri/Feb-12 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956822015-11-21T13:40:00-08:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00Los Angeles live show review // Consequence Of Sound<p><figure data-orig-height="146" data-orig-width="250"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/48c77c8f01c1cd391f290a7c5690f8f8/tumblr_inline_nyae7iJKQv1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="538" data-orig-width="807"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/0e6a68966de0b03338156da96f8e3fce/tumblr_inline_nyae8x4W2I1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="152" data-orig-width="905"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/11f9feb14118ecb7571d7f9e0674fe22/tumblr_inline_nyae9tLAnu1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="72" data-orig-width="859"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/2e7c12cf43fefbbbd94d90048ec4993d/tumblr_inline_nyaeaeYqby1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p>There is a fortunate truth that occurs at a <a href="http://deafheaven.com/">Deafheaven</a> show. All the intellectualizing that surrounds the progressive metal band, including ideas of where they fit into the black metal community or whether their songs are watered down to appeal to fans usually turned off by extreme music, disintegrates within immersion. Such debates are better suited for Twitter rants than for real-world experience, and Deafheaven’s live presentation is a reminder of how big of a bubble the internet can create around us. Some bands demand to be seen and heard rather than talked about, and Deafheaven is a prime example.</p><p>It didn’t take long into their Friday set at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, their first of two nights, for the band to stomp their boots down and shine some light as to why they have found relative success. Screeching frontman George Clarke stands over his audience with his chest puffed out, his chin up, and his arms either pointed toward the rafters or reaching out for the hands of his fans. He likes touching and likes being touched, seeing the band’s many gentle moments as an opportunity to connect eyes with a crowd-surfer, to feel the audience’s sweat, and to encourage all to “get closer,” which comes across as both a figurative and literal request.</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="537" data-orig-width="806"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/c5edabe1abf9361762906e0674dca5f0/tumblr_inline_nyaec9sIpf1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p></p><p>It all reminds more of a hardcore show than a metal one in both its emotional release and its energy, embracing pretty moments so that when the music pummels, and it often does, the juxtaposition isn’t just sharp; it’s salient. With guitarist Kerry McCoy continually sticking his hand into the song’s wet cement and tireless drummer Daniel Tracy able to seamlessly shift between gears, the 10-minute songs don’t merely request the crowd’s attention. They command it.</p><p></p><p>It all might seem like lofty praise to bestow on the young band, whose recent <a href="http://deafheaven.com/new-bermuda">New Bermuda</a> picked right up where 2013’s excellent <a href="http://deafheaven.com/sunbather">Sunbather</a> left off. But there’s a reason that Deafheaven have proved so divisive, why they have seen so many feel the need to take a stand on whether the band is pushing the limits of genre or dulling its edges. Both live and on record, they are looking for reactions, doing everything within the power of music to elicit them. And hopefully, by being very good, they can serve as both conversation starters and enders.</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="537" data-orig-width="806"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/438bed4222c4c600c07f0acd535d928f/tumblr_inline_nyaee3Lzz21qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/11/live-review-deafheaven-at-west-hollywoods-the-roxy-theatre-1120/">SEE MORE PHOTOS AT CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND</a></p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="498" data-orig-width="807"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/694f9d967c9b2be1521317ecfe7219dc/tumblr_inline_nyaeggEcy51qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956832015-11-18T17:40:12-08:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00Exclusive Deafheaven Interview/Takeover on SiriusXM Liquid Metal<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="374" data-orig-width="798"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/1e5db16707f2ee5970d8e0f85f499b01/tumblr_inline_ny1g8hKJJS1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="540" data-orig-width="960" style=""><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/fd1033d927a0dc51b1a5e598d2a98a04/tumblr_inline_ny1g9uBgeV1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Tune in for the upcoming <a href="http://www.deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> Interview & Guest DJ Takeover on <a href="http://www.siriusxm.com/liquidmetal" target="_blank">SiriusXM Liquid Metal</a> show on Channel 40 <br>Thurs Nov 19 @ 4pm ET /1 PST <br>Fri Nov 20 @ 8pm ET / 5 PST<br>Sat Nov 21 @ 2pm ET / 11am PST<br>Sun Nov 22 @ 9pm ET / 6 PST</p><p>Sirius XM Liquid Metal host <a href="https://twitter.com/whatsintheb0x" target="_blank">Shawn</a>, recently caught up w/ Shiv, George, Kerry and Dan of DEAFHEAVEN to talk about the release of their brand new album “New Bermuda” out NOW! The guys talk about their unique sound, intense live shows and even share a special moment w/ Puff Daddy! During the interview, Deafheaven take over Liquid Metal as guest DJ’s playing some of their favorite songs from Morbid Angel, Metallica, Type O Negative and MORE!!</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956842015-11-11T13:21:29-08:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00Premier Guitar feat. Kerry McCoy<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="94" data-orig-width="786" style=""><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/781b766086af5cab94fd39aa82b44318/tumblr_inline_nxo50ycFZy1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="592" data-orig-width="652"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/585ae460014fa268ed87e2e648b475d4/tumblr_inline_nxo547OPnI1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://www.deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> is one of those bands that defies categorization. Part shoegaze, part black metal, part sonic annihilation, their music is a mix of ear-bleeding chaos, balls-to-the-wall riffage, poignant sensitivity, and quiet. A strange cross between Slayer, My Bloody Valentine, and the Smiths, Deafheaven makes these disparate influences sound obvious and natural.</p><p>The mad scientist, founding guitarist, and principle songwriter behind Deafheaven is Kerry McCoy. Hailing from Modesto, California, McCoy started playing guitar when he was 11. “My dad got a guitar when I was in fifth grade,” he says. “He had a really shitty beginner guitar, and then he got a new one and gave me his old one.” McCoy upgraded to a Squier Strat in seventh grade, and as he got older he got more serious about music, playing in bands and eventually discovering one of his formative influences, the Dead Kennedys. “I literally was such a nerd about it that I saved up my lunch money for two months to buy seven Dead Kennedys shirts—so I could wear one every single day of the week.”</p><!-- more --><p>According to McCoy, the Gilman scene—the Berkeley, California, punk movement that spawned bands like Green Day, Operation Ivy, and Rancid—spilled over into Modesto in the early 2000s, when he was a teenager. “Modesto is close to the Bay Area,” he explains, “and because of that there were a lot of people from the East Bay or South Bay that wound up moving to Modesto. That whole AFI-, Nerve Agents-type of punk and hardcore that I came up in was there. Early on, that whole scene influenced my sense of melody and songwriting.”</p><p>Given Deafheaven’s mélange of styles, it goes without saying that McCoy was into other music as well, including heavy metal. That’s what led to his friendship with George Clarke, Deafheaven’s future lead singer. “I complimented George on his Slayer shirt,” McCoy says. “That’s actually what helped us become friends.”</p><p>After a few fits and starts, the pair launched Deafheaven in 2010. They released their first album, Roads to Judah, in 2011, but hit the big time in 2013 with the release of Sunbather. The album was a critical triumph and an endless topic of conversation: Fans, critics, trolls, and others argued the virtues—or lack thereof—of Deafheaven’s incorrigible mash-up of incongruous genres and styles. But easy to categorize or not, the band toured, grew their fan base, and became a force to be reckoned with. They also settled into their current lineup of McCoy and Clarke plus guitarist Shiv Mehra, bassist Stephen Clark, and drummer Daniel Tracy. Their new album, New Bermuda, finds the band growing, healthy, and working together. “This record was possible because there were four other heads in the room helping,” McCoy says.</p><h2>“Deep tuning does not make you heavy. What makes you heavy are dynamics and tone and syncopation.”</h2><p>PG sat down with McCoy to talk about pedals, crafting killer tones, his idiosyncratic songwriting style, and how pop-rock outfit Goo Goo Dolls has been—at the very least—subliminally influential.</p><p><b>How did you get into metal?</b><br>I was 14, and right before I met George, my friend who was the drummer in the band I played in gave me a CD of Slayer’s Reign in Blood. I never had an older brother or anybody to show me metal. All the metal I knew about was bands like Slipknot and Korn. I hated all that stuff and I hated the kids at school that wore their shirts. But then my friend burned me that Slayer CD and I thought, “Whoa, this is killer. This is not stupid sounding. This is sick and tight—and it’s dark.”</p><p><b>When you started playing guitar, did you get into pedals and effects right away?</b><br>Not seriously until this band. I never really had anything. I was in a couple post-rock bands when I was in high school—nothing that ever did anything—and I was really broke for a long time. The bands that I played in before this were grind-type gnarly stuff. When George and I started this band, we wrote the songs on an acoustic guitar and then borrowed equipment at the studio to put our demo together. Nick [Bassett] from [Bay Area shoegaze outfit] Whirr was in our band in the early stages, and he showed me a few things. But that’s why A) I am not a huge gear guy and B) I am not a big pedal guy. I manage to know enough about them now to not be an idiot, but I’ve always put a bigger emphasis on songwriting than on gear.</p><p><b>That’s interesting, because pedals are such an integral part of your sound. </b><br>Well yeah, they totally are—though 90 percent of that is delay and reverb. When it’s not, it’s essentially chorus, phaser, or a wah. It’s not anything breaking the bank.</p><p><b>When you compose with effects, they often cause you to play differently. But you usually compose on acoustic, then add effects later.</b><br>Early on that is what I did most of the time. It is so much more important to have a song that, when you play it on acoustic, still holds its merit as opposed to if you take away the effects, it is not really doing anything. If you have a song that’s good, it’ll be good on anything. If you have a song that is completely dependent on a certain delay bouncing a certain way, to me that’s kind of a crutch.</p><p>At the same time though, I am not an idiot when it comes to effects. I know how to do the Kevin Shields reverse-reverb thing on the blue Electro-Harmonix Memory Man and that is totally an effect that—when I use it—completely changes the sound of the guitar. But for the most part, effects are just there to enhance what’s already written.</p><p><b>You have a DigiTech JamMan on your pedalboard—do you do live looping during your shows?</b><br>No, I don’t. I got the idea from Mike [Sullivan] from Russian Circles. Mike has a bunch of really subtle sounds—just ambient noises—already on his JamMan that he runs everything through. While the guitar is fading out, he hits that JamMan and plays a sample of his guitar making some crazy noise or a synth doing something weird. It seamlessly flows in and out. I do the diet, little-kid version of that: I’ve programmed the interludes that were on our last record—19 or so little loops of various piano or noises or guitar or synth or spoken-word stuff or whatever—into the JamMan, and I run that through the PA. When the band is fading out I hit that and it gives us something to play while we’re tuning up, drinking beer, wiping ourselves off, and preparing for the next 12-minute thing.</p><p><b>Your songs don’t follow the typical verse-chorus-verse formula—they are much more symphonic.</b><br>A lot of that—even when I break that rule—comes from when I was younger and we were starting the band. I was trying to write stuff and not repeat riffs—and if I did repeat a riff, I would repeat it and then take it in a different direction. I was taking elements from each genre that I liked and applying them to my own whim. I would like this part from black metal, but I didn’t like it enough to repeat it 24 times—like, five minutes of this droning riff going on and on. We are the ADD black metal band. We play a riff four times and then throw it away. I like the buildups and a lot of the drama in post rock. I like how it takes you through these movements.</p><p>My big focus is on two things: hooks and transitions. A hook is not like your typical pop hook. A hook is anything that is syncopated, memorable, rhythmic, melodic—whatever your definition of melodic is—a part that you’ve written that you can’t get out of your head because it is so cool sounding. That is my emphasis. I want each part to be memorable. You know when it’s right, you know when a part is good: You get that feeling where it hits you in the gut and you’re, like, “Whoa. Where did that come from?” I told myself I would never let any riff pass by that didn’t do that to me. By doing that I made myself my hardest critic and inadvertently turned myself into a bit of a mess—a bit of a neurotic asshole who it’s hard to be in the band with sometimes. But in doing that I’ve tried to keep the quality of the riffs as high as possible. The other thing is transitions. For example, if you’re going to change keys, find a way to get to that next key. For me, a lot of times it’s days and days of grasping in the dark for that one note.</p><p>My songwriting pretty much comes from that: Not wanting to bore anybody. Wanting each riff to be as memorable and cool as the last—or even better. Wanting to make sure that each transition, regardless of what part or genre we’re going into, is going to be seamless. I think the result of that—at least what me and George get from it—is that a lot of the times we’ll write these songs, we’ll listen to them when they’re done, and we’ll get to the end of the song and be like, “God, I forget how it started. It is almost in a completely different place.” That’s a cool thing to me.</p><h2>“It’s some weird fluke from the early ’80s when everybody was starting to buy Jacksons. I guess Gibson wanted to try to compete with the dive-bomb market,” says Deafheaven’s Kerry McCoy of his old Les Paul. The guitar is completely stock except for the removal of its locking nut.</h2><p><b>Do you keep a library of riffs that you can go back to and cull from?</b><br>I did at one point. That was before <i>Sunbather</i>, but that album pretty much exhausted all of those. That was part of what was so stressful about <i>New Bermuda</i>. We had been on tour for a year and a half—which was how long it took to write <i>Sunbather</i>—and then we got back and had four months to write the follow up. I hadn’t had time to sit down and fill that bucket back up with riffs. There were little somethings—ideas we had worked on on the road—but it is very hard to do that when you’re on the road. I was scraping the very bottom of that riff bucket I have in my brain, so a lot of <i>New Bermuda</i> was jamming in a very stressful environment and coming up with stuff. The problem with doing that is that you instantly question yourself, “Is this actually good or am I just stressed and wanting to finish writing the song?” But I am definitely happy with the final product.</p><p><b>Let’s talk a little more about transitions. The new album has a lot of contrasts: You’ll follow something bombastic and massive with something really beautiful. Jimmy Page has been quoted as saying he put the mellower songs on the Zeppelin albums because they made the heavy songs sound even heavier. Is that your thinking too?</b><br>I agree with that wholeheartedly. Some of the heaviest riffs in the world were written by Metallica in standard tuning. Deep tuning does not make you heavy. What makes you heavy are dynamics and tone and syncopation. A lot of these guys start at drop B, throw a Boss HM-2 [Heavy Metal distortion] on there, and then their big thing is slowing down the tempo, and then slowing down the tempo some more, and then a big drop out—and then another slowdown. If you start at 10, you have nowhere to go from there. If you have nowhere to go, 10 eventually becomes one. To me, the stuff on the new record that is heavy wouldn’t be heavy if it wasn’t followed up or preceded by some 4AD[-style] spacey slowcore stuff. [Ed. note: U.K. label 4AD is the home of indie bands such as the National, Bon Iver, and Deerhunter.]</p><p><b>You have a few solos on the album, but not many. </b><br>Absolutely not. We tried to emphasize that side of ourselves as much as was tasteful. It’s so fun to do that stuff—I would never claim to be Kirk Hammett or anything—but sometimes you’ve just got to let your inner wah-wah out.</p><p><b>Do you feel the guitar’s role is more atmospheric—to create colors and textures?</b><br>On past releases it was definitely more atmospheric, more for that airy quality. But on this record I tried to ground it as much as possible—I tried to make it much more of a riff machine and way less of an ethereal, ton-of-reverb, ton-of-delay thing. I put chugging and power chords in there to get back to your classic Hetfield-style stuff—but my take on that, obviously.</p><p><b>The beginning of “Luna” is a good example of that.</b><br>Exactly.</p><p><b>How did you create those tones—is that your 6505?</b><br>No. We didn’t use Peaveys on this record, that’s what I use live. Each guitar track is tracked twice, so it is four guitars total. Me and Shiv alternated between a 50-watt Top Hat Emplexador—which is essentially just a modded JCM800 with a little bit more nuts on it—and then an Orange Rockerverb 100, I believe. It’s [producer] Jack Shirley’s other amp. I can’t remember exactly. Shiv and I are each playing a rhythm guitar [track] and a lead. And we’re alternating both of our parts on both of those amps.</p><p><b>What music would your fans be surprised to know you listen to—like, are you a closet Taylor Swift fan?</b><br>No. I do really like the Goo Goo Dolls, though. They were a big influence on <i>Sunbather</i>. When we were writing that I was listening to Dizzy Up the Girl a bunch!</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="476" data-orig-width="626"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/3edd4fe6bb3c4aa6debdd785b7af9286/tumblr_inline_nxo5rdH1PN1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><b>THE DUNABLES OF DEAFHEAVEN</b><br>Kerry McCoy’s main guitar at present is a custom Dunable Moonflower built by Sacha Dunable—who also plays guitar in L.A. prog-metal outfit Intronaut. “We did this tour with Intronaut,” McCoy explains, “and it was really long and none of us were having that much fun. We became buds, and they kept us sane.” Following the tour, Dunable built McCoy’s instrument, which features a walnut body with a wenge fretboard and maple binding. It has just one knob—volume—and a Kahler tremolo unit sans locking nut.</p><p>“I never really have a problem with it,” McCoy says of the locking-trem design that first became a popular alternative to the Floyd Rose in the 1980s. “I’m not Kerry King [of Slayer, also a Kahler user]—I’m not holding up the guitar by the Kahler! I’m just using it for the Kevin Shields [My Bloody Valentine] stuff. It’s never gone drastically out of tune.”</p><p>McCoy’s Moonflower took the place of a rare blue Les Paul he used to favor. “Whenever people who know about guitars see it they’re, like, ‘I’ve never seen a Les Paul that color—and I’ve never seen one with a Kahler!’” But neither of these unusual features was a modification. “It’s some weird fluke from the early ’80s when everybody was starting to buy Jacksons. I guess Gibson wanted to try to compete with the dive-bomb market.”</p><p>Deafheaven co-guitarist Shiv Mehra also plays a Dunable. It has a Jaguar-style walnut body, a mahogany neck like the one on Dunable Moonflower models, a Gibson Burstbucker 2 in the bridge position, and a Fender single-coil in the neck position. “Shiv said, ‘I want mine silver—and I want the pickguard to be clear,’” McCoy laughs. “I was like, ‘God, you just want a guitar that looks like you do a shit ton of blow!’ It’s awesome.”</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956852015-10-30T01:28:14-07:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00EU/UK Tour announced for March 2016<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="2105" data-orig-width="1489"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/4f56b2b8d912bb508fead7733ce42fcd/tumblr_inline_nx0yarnabL1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>
<p>Just announced for March 2016,<a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank"> Deafheaven</a> will head overseas in support of their album<b><i> New Bermuda.</i></b> Opening all the shows will be<a href="https://www.facebook.com/myrkurmyrkur/" target="_blank"> Myrkur.</a></p>
<p>Deafheaven are currently on a headline N. American tour that continues through late November with Envy and Tribulation as support. See all shows details and ticket links at<a href="http://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank"> deafheaven.com/shows</a></p>
<p><b>Deafheaven & Myrkur Tour 2016</b><br>Mar 2 Barcelona, ES @ Apolo<br>Mar 3 Madrid, ES @ Shoko<br>Mar 4 Lisbon, PT @ RCA Club<br>Mar 5 Porto, PT @ Hard Club<br>Mar 8 Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo<br>Mar 9 Amsterdam @ Paradiso<br>Mar 12 Manchester, UK @ Cosmosis Festival*<br>Mar 13 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece<br>Mar 14 London, UK @ Heaven<br>Mar 15 Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique<br>Mar 17 Copenhagen, DK @ Amager Bio<br>Mar 18 Stockholm, SE @ Debaser Medis<br>Mar 19 Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene<br>Mar 20 Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik<br>Mar 22 Hamburg, DE @ Uebel Gefaehrlich<br>Mar 23 Koln @ Gebauede9<br>Mar 24 Berlin @ Musik & Frieden<br>Mar 25 Dresden, DE @ Beatpol<br>Mar 26 Schijndel, NL @ Paaspop Festival *<br>Mar 28 Vienna, AT @ Arena<br>Mar 30 Munich, DE @ Feierwerk<br>Mar 31 Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik<br>April 1 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez<br><br><a href="http://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank"><i>* Myrkur not on show</i></a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956862015-10-22T17:42:53-07:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00The Guardian // Interview with George Clarke<p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="150" data-orig-width="630"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/94a0bcd4450d9e9aa5851dc545216c6e/tumblr_inline_nwndeu826x1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="370" data-orig-width="570"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/6edc6dae5c10d139a0459c5d3183db54/tumblr_inline_nwndfdOb6i1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="246" data-orig-width="613"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/fe1324f2646d6b1ef33784dc7973c60b/tumblr_inline_nwndf0XrpD1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p>Dressed in sweat-slicked black button-down shirt and resembling some dashing fallen preacher who has misplaced his dog collar, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/25/deafheaven-review-roaring-love-for-us-black-metal-populists" target="_blank">George Clarke blows a giddy, sincere, theatrical kiss</a> to the moshpit oozing and writhing at his feet, a gesture of stageplay worthy of Freddie Mercury himself. His band <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> are, however, several fathoms heavier than Queen ever were; the blitz of their guitars sounds like dragons’ breath scorching the Earth, while Clarke’s anguished howls often suggest livestock travelling through the final stages of an abattoir, albeit in a good way.</p><p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>’s roots lie in that most extreme of heavy metal subsects, black metal, but they eschew the genre-defining uniform of corpse-paint and their lyrics have no truck with satanism; their assault of blast beats and unsettling screams, meanwhile, is adulterated with swooning passages of poignant noise that owe more to My Bloody Valentine and Mogwai than Mercyful Fate. Such tinkering with the formula has won Deafheaven praise beyond the black metal realms – outlets as mainstream as National Public Radio in the US, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork raved about their second full-length album <i>Sunbather</i>, which Metacritic dubbed 2013’s “best-reviewed album” – but also earned scorn from purists.</p><p>“People who are worried about the way we look have a lot of growing up to do,” says Clarke, with a sigh. It’s the afternoon before the gig, and he’s gazing over rain-soaked London and getting philosophical about the haters. Still, he can understand the tribalism that drives some to declare his band “false metal”. Extreme music offered Clarke a community and a culture as he was growing up. “I was raised on this stuff,” he says. “I know my shit.”</p><!-- more --><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="368" data-orig-width="565"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/0fac80465c6113864573426e249251df/tumblr_inline_nwndnzfhGq1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>His parents split up when he was young and he was brought up by his mother, who, he says, “raised me on good music – Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead”. They moved to Modesto, California, when he was 14, and he joined his new high school mid-semester. “There were, like, six punks in the whole student body,” he remembers, an experience he likens to TV’s Freaks And Geeks, “but way worse”. Still, among those six punk kids, Clarke discovered his future creative foil, Kerry McCoy. “We found each other easily: he had a jean jacket with a Dead Kennedys patch, and I was wearing a Slayer shirt. He introduced me to all the other punks and they used to smoke cigarettes in the park after school. I was immediately with the bad kids, and that’s where I fit.” Clarke had attended his first concert two years earlier – Pantera, supported by Slayer, Static-X and Morbid Angel. “Before that show, I didn’t know there was anything more extreme than Korn or Deftones. And when that door opened, I just wanted more of it, I wanted to see how far down the rabbit hole it went.” He got into thrash metal, then death metal, and finally black metal. “I would see gruesome sleeve art and think, I’m gonna buy this,” he says, laughing.</p><p><iframe src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:album:2e4xOasRFhJn4x2MBM5pdu" frameborder="0" width="431" height="511"></iframe></p><p>Soon he was making music of his own; much of it, by his own admission, was terrible. But Deafheaven, the second band he’d formed with McCoy, was different. They drew upon black metal, but recognised that this music, seemingly so fierce on the surface, possessed an unlikely tenderness and grace. “The chord progressions are very orchestral, there’s a lot of grandiose beauty,” Clarke says. “And what drew us initially to American black metal like Ludicra and Velvet Cacoon was the constant blastbeat [the high-speed drums that are the genre’s signature], which can be really hypnotic – you can write a 10-minute song to it, and it feels like no time has passed.” The pair alloyed this black metal roar with post-rock influences, though Clarke’s keen to add that they “weren’t the first to experiment with that by any means – we’d listened to bands like Alcest and Wolves in the Throne Room who were progressing the genre.”</p><p>McCoy composed most of the music; the lyrics were Clarke’s lookout, and again they diverged from the genre blueprint. “We discussed the lyrical approach early on,” says Clarke. “I told Kerry, ‘It’s great to have this powerful music, but I want to bring something further to it, and I want it to be autobiographical, to be extremely personal.’ I might as well give all of myself to the listener; otherwise, they might feel cheated, and I might, too. Kerry’s guitar-playing is very emotional, so it lends itself to that.”</p><p>From their 2011 debut album, <i>Roads to Judah</i>, onwards, Deafheaven’s lyrics have been unflinchingly honest, and sometimes harrowingly autobiographical; that album even included an instrumental to which Clarke added a recording of McCoy buying drugs from his dealer. “<i>Roads To Judah</i> was about, uh, free living, and being young in the city and getting into too much all the time, and it taking its toll on you – physically, mentally, everything. We moved from this small town to San Francisco, life was fast, and anything put in front of our face, we would do it. We took a lot of drugs. That’s really what the record is about – this lifestyle impacted on me in so many ways, not all positive. Some of it real negative.”</p><p>As the albums have progressed, so Clarke has probed deeper inside himself. <i>Sunbather</i> closed with The Pecan Tree, examining the dysfunction that drove Clarke’s bad habits, substance abuse issues passed from father to son. “I was recognising that I felt bad and wanted to do better. I feel trapped in my lifestyle. All the records have been about dissecting my often conflicted mind.” Their latest album, <i>New Bermuda</i>, explores themes of maturity and dissatisfaction. “You think its going to be paradise, and then you get swallowed up by real life,” says Clarke of the group’s darkest, heaviest and most beautiful record yet.</p><p>While it’s hard to decipher exactly the words Clarke is singing unless you have the lyric sheet to hand (“I like that people need to investigate it,” he says, “it makes the experience more immersive”), Deafheaven’s emotional impact is undeniable. Tonight’s encore sees Clarke wade into the pit and silently mouth the words to Dream House while pointing at his heart. If at times this music ceases to resemble metal, none of it rings false.</p><p>“It’s interesting to open doors for people,” Clarke says, of bringing black metal to new audiences that might balk at the purist stuff. “There’s a humanity to our lyrics, people can see through to the bigger picture. Deafheaven isn’t about fitting some narrow definition of what black metal should be, it’s emotional, giving music for anyone willing to open their ears to it, and that’s our only agenda.”</p><p><i>New Bermuda is out now on Anti-.</i></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956872015-10-21T11:37:16-07:002020-01-13T11:15:40-08:00NPR music // Interview with George Clarke<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="367" data-orig-width="1236"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/ba438e91688c031dac7ed605c22ad352/tumblr_inline_nwl10p2XtT1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="68" data-orig-width="748"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/6664858f572182ec4e25a30124c93a9f/tumblr_inline_nwl10t0nas1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="441" data-orig-width="666"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/18eb7c124d1f98e2effa9179dd080be5/tumblr_inline_nwl112oigR1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><h2><i>George Clarke (second from right) says that before Deafheaven began making its third album, New Bermuda, “The only real place to go was down.’</i></h2><p>After releasing one of heavy metal’s most polarizing and celebrated albums in years <a href="https://deafheavens.bandcamp.com/album/sunbather" target="_blank">with 2013’s <i>Sunbather</i></a>, <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/142890332/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> faced a question familiar to those bands who’ve managed to capture that rarest kind of success: What happens now? Maintaining the creative trajectory that had won them adulation from critics and listeners presented enough of a challenge by itself. Combine it with the fact that the San Francisco-based black metal hybrid group presents an aesthetic challenge to a genre where high value is ironically placed on conformity, and the tension that could have easily crippled the group before writing even the first note of its third album,<i> <a href="https://deafheavens.bandcamp.com/album/new-bermuda" target="_blank">New Bermuda</a></i>, the conflict instead worked to tremendous effect.</p><p>At just over 45 minutes, <i>New Bermuda</i> is a thematic reality check on its predecessor’s starry-eyed daydream. The hopeful aspirations and desperate grasps for the seemingly unreachable threaded throughout <i>Sunbather</i> are grounded with quick and unforgiving intensity within the first few minutes of <i>New Bermuda</i>’s opening track, "Brought to the Water.” But just as <i>Sunbather</i> at once infuriated and captivated the gaping maw of heavy metal traditionalists with its so-called “bastardization” of black metal, shoegaze and post-rock, <i>New Bermuda</i> further explores those uninhibited musical constructs, resulting in a kind of cynical vulnerability much darker than anything else the band has created so far.</p><p>On <i>New Bermuda</i>, Clarke screams his disenchanted rage against the backdrop of guitarist Kerry McCoy’s Godspeed You! Black Emperor–meets-Johnny Marr guitar playing. Contrasting Clarke and McCoy’s tandem agonized melodic digressions, Daniel Tracy (drums), Stephen Clark (bass) and Shiv Mehra (guitar) roar with an unhinged dissonant furor. As difficult a task as it can be to drown out the hypercritical noise that naturally follows when traditions are overturned, <i>New Bermuda</i> answers potential challenges with an conviction far more engaging than the reactionary skepticism it has received. In a recent conversation, Clarke was reserved but — as his songwriting tendencies indicate — disarmingly vulnerable and honest as he discussed <i>New Bermuda</i> and the significance of moving the album beyond its predecessor.</p><!-- more --><p><b>Lyrically speaking, Sunbather evoked a sense of longing or passion for something out of reach. That narrative has shifted significantly with <i>New Bermuda</i>, starting with the very first track, “Brought to the Water.” Was that thematic move something you felt happening with the album early on?</b></p><p>The difference between <i>Sunbather</i> and <i>New Bermuda</i> for me is that with <i>Sunbather</i> there’s a certain sense of sweet hopefulness to it. <i>New Bermuda</i> is much more set in reality. The premise of <i>New Bermuda</i> in a lot of ways is about me moving from San Francisco to Los Angeles where I thought there was going to be a lot of opportunity: I’m living with my girlfriend for the first time. We get a dog, and we have this little family. There are all these things that I want from my move to Los Angeles. I finally have some of those things that I’ve been working for. With <i>Sunbather</i> it was about putting things in action — getting an apartment and not being homeless and other things.</p><p>What I found was really a sense of false promise where I’d built something up in my head so much the only real place to go was down, and I think I did. It was my first real experience in being an adult. All of a sudden I’m paying bills, and I’m walking the dog, and I’m buying a car, and I’m doing these things that, honestly, I feel are kind of mundane in a certain way. I got really depressed over the idea. The relationship between my girlfriend and I changed a lot as well. It matured, but not in all the ways that I wanted it to. I thought that we sort of lost something in the move. “Brought to the Water” deals with that in a way. When your romantic relationship dynamic changes so does your sexual one and so does your level of happiness, and they fluctuate more. I felt at the time that we had stopped loving each other when we started this new life. It was really disheartening, and it kind of began my bout of depression that’s lasted a while. I wanted the idea of suffocating and drowning in my own decisions to begin the record and sort of lay it out as plainly as possible.</p><p><b>That idea definitely folds into the second track “Luna,” though the atmosphere and lyrics of the song take on a more resentful tone. Is that something you felt naturally occurring within the lyrics?</b></p><p>We’ve never really written from a bitter standpoint, I don’t think. If anything, it’s been vulnerable and at times very helpless but not bitter. This is the only time that I’ve really expressed anger in lyrics. Whereas “Brought to the Water” definitely has moments of being direct when it comes to Los Angeles, “Luna” is fully in it. When I first moved here it was hotter than hell. My girlfriend would go to work, and I would just sit at home twiddling my thumbs bored. I just became so frustrated. I remember thinking, “I know so many people in L.A., and I’m going to have friends here. It’s going to be a great party all of the time.” It really wasn’t like that. I experienced a lot of loneliness and a lot of confinement. You think of L.A., and you think palm trees and the ocean and all that, but it’s just like this barren, bleak, beige existence. I just looked out over the small part of the city I can see from my house and was totally let down by that. That song is, in the funniest way to put it, kind of just me being overblown with frustration and having no outlet.</p><p><b>Which makes sense because that kind of misanthropic frustration pretty much underscores the entire album and not just lyrically but with the compositions as well.</b></p><p>I think the music definitely reflects it. I think a big part of this too was that we were touring so much. When you’re on tour, your life is 100 miles per hour. You wake up and your whole day is scheduled. You’ve got to be in the van at this time, onstage at this time and so on. It’s always fast-paced. But when you get back, life continues at home. Everything slows down dramatically. You have to re-position yourself into normal society. For the first couple of months after we moved here, I was gone a lot. I didn’t have these opportunities to meet friends or anything, and it’s because we were gone so often. So when I got home I was frustrated. My two lives were very different from one another. Of course when I reflect on a lot of these feelings, it can come off as being a bit petty. I can imagine my dad, who had a kid and owned a house, worked a 40-hour a week job when he was my age, saying something like “Suck it up.” [Laughs.] But to be honest, being 26, this is my first real time where I’ve been an adult. The whole thing came as a shock, I guess you could say.</p><p><b>“Baby Blue” certainly takes that vulnerability to a surreal place with its narrative that evokes this kind of regeneration or rebirth. What was the starting point for you writing those lyrics specifically?</b></p><p>It was partially written when I had woken up in the middle of the night in a sweat. When I’m really stressed or I have a lot on my mind that happens a lot. I’m a really poor sleeper. It’s kind of a letter to my girlfriend, in a way where I’m apologizing for the things I had done in our old life. Again, it’s going back to relocating and having that be a reason for a new beginning. It’s me apologizing for the things that made our old life unhappy and wishing and hoping that I can be absolved of those things. Once we started our new life together and being trapped with those faults and really having to digest them and analyze the things that I had done and why I had made the mistakes that I did. With the line “In the pocket of yesteryear where faults have fallen to some,” it’s like I’m in her pocket, you know. With “I begged not to carry the corpse,” that’s just me carrying the corpse of myself, eventually. I have to let this weight off. I don’t want to feel like a stranger to her. I want to be there, open and honest. I want “to feel the gravel beneath my knees. I want to wake up in a home,” which is what that song really centers around. The last line is weird because I wrote this when we were already living in L.A. I had all these feelings, and I was kind of reflecting on what I wanted to say. I wanted to be like “Please, I’m tired of being separate in this guilt. I’ve done so many things to make our lives better, and I want to start anew with you.” A line like “God had sent my calamity into a deep space from which not even in dreams could I ever imagine my escape,” goes back to waking up from my sleep. I can’t even dream to get away from this. I have to accept the fate of my reality. To me it’s like someone trying to make sense of it all while being really depressed over the sense that it makes.</p><p><b>Now, “Come Back” seems anomalous in the context of the other tracks. It’s incredibly personal but acerbically so. What’s the story there?</b></p><p>It deals with someone very close to me that overdosed a couple of times in the last year, and I felt was struggling a lot with drug use, and it was hard to see sometimes. I had to help out sometimes. I realized a lot if it is very literal. This person, you know when they OD’d, we were carrying them. I remember I was carrying them into the street, and it was raining. So you have the line: “Drug onto the street and onto the soaking steps, again and again” and “All this debris through static lungs, seeping, lingering into every pore,” where in a way it becomes this person’s being. If you ever see someone who’s fully f***** up like that and they have this pained expression, it’s a lot like just being dragged out into the water. And I’m at fault to a degree for this as well. I cared very deeply for this person and everyone else cared and were like “Man, you know I really want [him] to change,” but nobody really did anything. People just sat and sort of watched the degradation. I thought to myself “Well if people did help… would anything happen? If these people did reach out, would the person accept their help?” I honestly didn’t believe that they would. That’s where, “I imagined the overcome and fell to my knees before the endless truth of instability and futility” comes from and then, “Now I know,” where like, I realized that maybe you don’t want help and maybe you’re just going to continue this way.</p><p><b>“Gifts For The Earth” seems almost like a convergence of everything the album has said. What was that conclusion of sorts something that was deliberate as far as its placement in the tracklist?</b></p><p>Yeah, I wanted that to be the last track because it is acceptance, in a weird way. When I wrote all of the lyrics to this record, it was a very low point, which was strange because we were having so many highs. There were so many high points that were happening in my professional life, but it was also me being at the absolute lowest. It’s accepting of all of these things that are wrong and instead of doing something about it, instead of being active in fixing it, I kind of want to be babied. I want to be cradled. I want it to end. I just don’t want to go out quietly, you know? It’s also the first time I’ve written in a fictional sense, which was fun but also a bit challenging. It’s me using Death as a mother figure with her just carrying me down and ending it peacefully. It’s just a take on acceptance and not wanting to fight anymore. Just wanting it to be quietly over.</p><p><b>With “Gifts For The Earth” it seems like you’re confronting your own disillusionment but also suggesting the idea of hope as well. It’s a departure musically speaking for you guys but also comes back to themes that are familiar from <i>Sunbather</i>.</b></p><p>It’s a huge desire to be content. The whole record deals with being discontent[ed]. I’m fighting for understanding of why I feel the things I feel and fighting for acceptance of the way I feel, hoping that in accepting it maybe I can learn how to cope. “Gifts For The Earth” is really about giving up on all of that. Sometimes it’s so much nicer to take the easy road, and in this case I would definitely consider this the easy road. Musically it’s definitely a departure. It ends on this listless sort of airy guitar lead and the piano comes in floating away. I think that’s one of the reasons we have this habit of ending on tape outs. That’s what it feels like to me. <i>Sunbather</i> felt that way too. It’s in a sense just sort of fading away.</p><p><i>photo by Kristin Cofer<br></i><i>words by Jonathan Dick</i></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956882015-10-06T13:22:02-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00PAPER MAGAZINE // Deafheaven Feature<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="118" data-orig-width="690"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/10340c62e91dce4588b4fe03b7bdc47e/tumblr_inline_nvtdiizBKh1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="579" data-orig-width="668"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/1c9e0817e50b1515d56d90136f31f762/tumblr_inline_nvtdiraHRQ1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>When Deafheaven released <i>Sunbather</i> in 2013, the reviews were rapturous, with critics praising the group for their imaginative blend of shoegazey guitar tones, post-rock dynamics and death metal-brutality. It was the most lauded heavy album in recent years, topping critics lists at <i>Pitchfork</i>, <i>Stereogum</i> and so forth. But the backlash, as laid out recently by <i>Stereogum</i>’s Michael Nelson, was swift and unkind. Plenty of metal diehards don’t like getting indie chocolate in their peanut butter, after all.</p><p>Frontman George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy were determined not to let the reactions to <i>Sunbather</i>, on both sides of the spectrum, influence how they approached the follow-up. Instead, they reconfirmed their commitment to both sides of the art-metal equation with <i>New Bermuda</i>, an album that manages to be both even heavier and more exploratory than its predecessor. Since the release of <i>Sunbather</i>, Deafheaven has moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles, solidified into a stable unit (including drummer Daniel Tracy, bassist Stephen Clark and guitarist Shiv Mehra) and signed to Anti-, but throughout the changes, they remain committed to doing things their way. We talked with Clarke about dealing with the sudden attention, staying focused and the importance of the Cranberries on their sound.</p><!-- more --><p><b>So tell me, how did the band approach New Bermuda as opposed to Sunbather?</b></p><p>Musically, because <i>Sunbather</i> took off in a way that we didn’t really expect, it made it more personally challenging, because we didn’t want to write the same record again. I think when you garner a certain amount of attention for the sound that you’re creating, it’s easy to fall into that pit and just try to make a sequel to the album that got you popular. So I think there was a conscious decision to move away from that sound a little bit and incorporate a few influences and just move in what we consider to be a different creative and a little more interesting direction.</p><p><b>It’s funny, because this album simultaneously pulls from older forms of heavy metal while incorporating even more non-metal influences. It’s like you got heavier and also less metal at the same time.</b></p><p>Yeah, when I hear the record, I think it sounds bigger on both spectrums. I think definitely the heavier side of things is heavier, it’s faster than what we previously had been doing. It’s more riff focused and a lot more metallic than our last record. But the softer side of things has evolved a lot also. I think we wanted to not really focus on the ethereal aspect and the dreamy aspect of shoegazing and focus more on tight songwriting, melodic hooks, and basically try to write things that are catchier. So instead of taking a lot from say, My Bloody Valentine, this time around we really focused on the Oasis influence and the Low influence, and there’s even parts that are reminiscent of maybe a Wilco record or something. It’s just kind of enhanced in both directions and I think that we expanded our sound quite a bit this time through.</p><p><b>When <i>Sunbather</i> came out, a lot of the reaction was people saying “finally someone’s doing something new with this sound,” but at the exact same time, some people were like, “what is this hipster shit? This isn’t metal.” Were you surprised at the crazy polarized reaction you received?</b></p><p>Yeah, I was. I mean, I was surprised people gave it that much attention, to be honest. You don’t really expect that kind of thing going into writing a record or recording it or even releasing it when you’re a band our size and doing what we do. So yeah, it was really interesting. It was odd to see how strongly people felt, whether it was positive or negative. I think that was the most surprising part, honestly. People really started feeling deeply about what we were doing on both ends of the spectrum.</p><p><b>When this sort of reaction happens, does it make it difficult to keep the creative process just for the band and not get caught up in trying to appease the haters?</b></p><p>Actually, no. I don’t think so. We’ve always done what we want to do visually and musically. I don’t really think about outside opinions when it comes to writing music. Deafheaven is a very selfish thing, and the band has always been very self-serving. It comes natural to ignore everyone around us.<br></p><p><b>Even with good reviews, sometimes artists fall into the trap of, “oh no, critics thought we were cool last time, but what about this time?” For a lot of people, it’s tough to get this type of stuff out of their head.</b></p><p>Yeah, I think we’ve definitely had discussions about it. Like, “well, what if people don’t like it like they did the last album?” But ultimately, you have to be happy about what you’re doing and you have to believe in what you’re doing and you have to not compromise. And I think that as long as you do that, you can come out satisfied regardless of critical reception.</p><p><b>Speaking of the creative process, how does it work in your band? Does Kerry write all the music and then send it to you?</b></p><p>He does, yeah. I mean a lot of the skeleton comes from Kerry and he brings it to Dan. And a lot of the time, Kerry and Dan flesh out the song before anyone can have their input. Then he teaches the rest of the guys the song and from there, when we start jamming on it and playing it over and over, ideas start formulating. Shiv will have an idea for a guitar lead or Steven will have an idea for a transition using bass. Typically, it starts with Kerry and Dan.</p><p><b>Now, do you and Kerry talk a lot about things before he starts writing, or do you just kind of react to things they give you?</b></p><p>All the time. Kerry and I talk everyday no matter what. But especially when it comes to writing. Yeah, a lot of ideas are discussed. Even in terms of just listening to records like, “Man, I’ve been listening to this record a lot lately. It’d be cool if we did something like this.” I remember that specifically when we were writing “The Pecan Tree” on <i>Sunbather</i>, Kerry was listening to a lot of Cranberries and he was like, “Yeah, I’d like to do this sort of like… it might take on sort of a Cranberries thing” and I was like, “yeah, that would be cool.” And that’s actually how a lot of that song got written, the last half of it. We’re just hanging out listening to records going, “Oh yeah, that would be kind of neat.” And also, there’s more conscious in-depth conversations where if I want to take this direction and I think it would be smarter and more interesting if we presented ourselves in this sort of way. And this time around, that definitely showed itself with the thrash influence and I think Kerry was listening to, we both were, a lot more of the metal that we grew up on and just revisiting old classics. And we thought that if we could take some of these elements and utilize them in a way that would fit our band, it would be cool. And I guess that was part of the objective.</p><p><b>Are there any particular influences or artists that you guys disagree on?</b></p><p>I mean, not extremely. We have pretty similar tastes. I think on any given day, say, I’ll listen to a Morbid Angel album a little bit more and he’ll listen to like a Smiths album a little bit more. But we both like the Smiths and we both like Morbid Angel. There’s no strong differences between us, especially when it comes to influences on the band, we’re always on the same page.</p><p><b>How long have you two known each other?</b></p><p>I’ve known Kerry for almost 13 years, we’ve been friends since we were 14.</p><p><b>How did you meet?</b></p><p>We met in freshman year of high school. I moved to Modesto, where he was already living, in the middle of the semester, and there was like only a handful of kids who were into punk and metal, so we found each other pretty quickly.<br></p><p><b>Since you’ve known each other for so long, does it get difficult for the other guys in the band to get on your wavelength and not be intimidated by how close you two are?</b></p><p>I mean, we went through a lot of different people. It takes time to find the right people and we had a bit of a process with that. We were sort of a revolving door of members for a while so by the time we settled on the guys that we have now, those relationships were very strong. So I don’t think they’ve ever felt weird, because we’re all close to each other. Stephen, we were friends with a couple of years before he joined the band and Dan and Shiv have been really good friends, they’re kind of like me and Kerry, they’ve been really good friends since freshman year of high school also. So no, the dynamic wasn’t really that strange. It took a while to find people that we meshed really well with, but we definitely found them.</p><p><b>For a while, all of the press about the band focused on you and Kerry. You both did all of the interviews and were the only two in the photos. Do you now view the band as a stable unit, or are you and Kerry comfortable with the idea of you both being the only stable members of the band and everyone else comes and goes as they please?</b></p><p>I view the band as a very stable unit. It’s difficult because, you’re right, our band has been built on this idea of Kerry and I for so long that even when I do press for this record and stuff, a lot of the focus is still on the two of us and people will use outdated photos of just the two of us and stuff like that. I’ve definitely been working to skew that and to really let people know that on this record, it’s a full-band effort. We’ve been playing with these guys since 2013. They’re very much solidified and Deafheaven is the five of us.</p><p><b>Your band is in a really interesting position. I think it does annoy some people that there is this mentality around you that “if you’re an indie rock guy, or you like a lot of different types of music and you don’t have the time to be into every single obscure metal subgenre there is, you can just listen to Deafheaven and you’re fine.” I don’t think it’s anything to you consciously perpetuated, it’s just an angle that people have on your band, for good or for ill.</b></p><p>Yeah, I mean, I’ve found ourselves in that position. I’ve always felt that if you were a fan of Explosions in the Sky or something and you heard our band and you liked the post-rock elements in our music and then you warmed-up to the more aggressive side of things and that’s how you came to like aggressive music to begin with, I don’t think that’s a negative thing. I think it’s always interesting to see how people find music and how people expand their horizons and if we’re a band that allows people to do that, then I think that’s positive.<br></p><p><b>Now as far as the negative reactions that you get, are they mostly online or do people ever come up to you at shows or festivals and have opinions?</b></p><p>No. We’ve never had face-to-face confrontation with anyone. People on occasion will come to our shows and want to talk about the music and that’s fine. But for any outward hate, no, that’s definitely reserved for the online community.</p><p><b>When Sunbather came out, did you notice that you were getting a new crowd?</b></p><p>Yeah, absolutely. Well, it was growing and we still had the same core crowd that was with us from the beginning and it just expanded from there. Instead of just seeing people that are into metal and hardcore primarily, now we had this sort of broadened indie audience as well. But the core audience never really left. It’s a really mixed bag and it’s good to see that. It’s good to look out into a crowd and not see the same type of person. I like the diversity of it.</p><p><b>What do you think people are getting out of your music?</b></p><p>I don’t know, fully. I think different people connect to what we’re doing in different ways and I’ve always just wanted to maintain that from my standpoint, we’ll always be a very naked artist. We’re very open and we’re very honest about everything. And I would hope that if anything, people connected to that. And perhaps a few do. Overall, I can’t really say. People like things in different ways and music means different things to different people. But I would hope that they would take away that we just are a very honest, open group of people that write about real life and our reactions to it.</p><p><b>For the new album, the first song you wrote was, “Brought to the Water,” right?</b></p><p>I think the first song that came together was “Brought to the Water.” But all of our music is always written in pieces and the pieces are written over a long period of time and eventually when it comes to forming, we’re like, “okay, we need to sit down and really start putting these ideas together because we really want to start recording an album,” then we take all these riffs that we’ve worked on in pieces and do that. I think the actual first part of the record that was ever written was the second half of “Come Back” when it goes into the slide guitar melody, we wrote that a long time ago. We usually do soundcheck with it on tour and stuff like that. So we’ve had that in our pocket for a while. But yeah, I guess everything put together, the first track would’ve been “Brought to the Water.”<br></p><p><b>Now how did that one come about and what did it mean to you and why do you think it was kind that kicked off the journey of the album?</b></p><p>When Kerry and I were discussing this sort of thrash influence, he wrote that triplet kind of chugging riff with the high-hat build-up, and it was just cool. And the first riff sort of became the style, just sort of really dark, slow chord progression while the drums blast behind it. I think it’s just that pace. After we wrote that beginning part, I think everyone was like, “okay.” We had discussed sort of taking on these different influences and now that we can really hear what they sound like in the context of our music, it’s what we want to go forward with. I think that first minute-and-a-half sort of set a blueprint for the album and it definitely sets the mood up. And then lyrically, as well. The lyrics deal with my life in the last year and a lot of the changes I’d been going through and a lot of the growing up that I had to do and it’s been sort of my real introduction into adulthood, in a way that they could be used to exemplify the overall theme of the album. Just with all these things, it just sort of felt like it should be the first track and the first thing we come out with so we can really let people know, “this is the basis for the new sound of the new album”.</p><p><b>It’s interesting listening to it, because there are less pretty parts that build into heavy parts and there’s a lot more of like, “here’s a really heavy guitar riff but at the same time, we can kind of hear this sort of distorted jangly kind of pretty thing also happening in the background.” It seems like you’re doing a lot more things at once.</b></p><p>Yeah, I would agree with that too. There’s also in the first riff of “Come Back,” what we do is the same kind of thing, this sort of underlying melody that plays throughout. And that’s really just because of Kerry, that’s just how his style has sort of evolved. One thing that we really wanted to do with this record was to fit a lot more into a tighter space. While <i>Sunbather</i> is around 60 minutes and <i>New Bermuda</i> is only around 45, I think that <i>New Bermuda</i> has a lot more content crammed into it. I think it’s definitely much more of a fuller sound.</p><p><b>The title <i>New Bermuda</i> brings to mind images of feeling lost and not really know where you’re at. Is there a reason you chose that title?</b></p><p>Yeah, the idea was my move from San Francisco to LA, actually, and all these sort of life transitions that I experienced in the course of the move. So LA is sort of my <i>New Bermuda</i>. It’s something that I had had built into my head for some reason, it was more affordable but it was more lively, there as so much going on. I knew a lot of people from Los Angeles who were very passionate about what they did. It was sort of this new beginning, this sort of paradise in my head. And nothing is paradise. There’s a lot of real life reality that surrounds getting your own place and living with your girlfriend and your romantic relationship changes. When you live with someone, your whole romantic dynamic changes. These are things I don’t know if I was necessarily prepared for, things I kind of had to weather through. Basically, the experience overall wasn’t everything that I hoped it would be - it was sort of this idea of false promise. I built up all of this expectation in my head that the only thing left to do was to be let down by it. So I got really depressed by it and I wrote a record about it and I think it kind of analyze what I was feeling and reconcile those kinds of feelings.</p><p><b>So this interview is for PAPER, so obviously, I’m going to ask you a fashion question, are you ready for it?</b></p><p>Shoot.</p><p><b>Tell me about these <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=deafheaven+leather+gloves&safe=off&biw=1901&bih=805&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMIr9Gun6GuyAIVT6yACh0dRwtN&dpr=1#imgrc=fFrtEPPOrMnPTM%3A" target="_blank">fancy leather gloves</a> you’ve been wearing onstage.</b></p><p>The gloves. (laughs) The gloves got a lot of attention. I didn’t really think that was gonna happen. Very early on, we used a lot of fetish imagery. We did a mixtape for Actual Pain that featured some of this fetish imagery. And we had some other design work and it was just something that I was interested in and I thought that it looked very menacing and interesting and sort of threw a weird wrench in our visual presentation. I didn’t really think anything about it beyond that. People really picked up on that in a much stronger way than I thought they would. But it was fun for the time. It just added another little exciting element, I guess.</p><p><b>While writing about one of your shows last year, The New Yorker said you looked like “an angry yoga teacher.” What’s your response to that?</b></p><p>(laughs) I think it’s one of the better ones I’ve heard. People will naturally have their own take on what we do, and I can find humor in pretty much every example.</p><p><b>I think it was meant as a compliment.</b></p><p>Oh, I’m sure. It doesn’t sound offensive to me at all. I’m not at all bothered by it. I’ve heard much, much, much worse.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956892015-10-01T12:06:52-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00Best New Music // Pitchfork gives New Bermuda 9/10<figure data-orig-width="1280" data-orig-height="259" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/f463bef791630ad3fd9151b7e3fe532a/tumblr_inline_nvjyiiIsLw1r4656p_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="654" data-orig-height="317" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/b83b448621dc7e6e3f87a21a02d600cf/tumblr_inline_nvjxx1zSHW1r4656p_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>Nothing about the band Deafheaven makes literal sense, starting with their place in the world. They are a black metal-<i>ish</i> band, but black metal fans either hate them or engage in constant, spirited discussions about why they don’t. Their breakout, 2013’s <i><a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18060-deafheaven-sunbather/" target="_blank">Sunbather</a></i>, took basic notions about black metal and shoegaze from their first album <i>Roads to Judah</i> and airlifted them into a rarefied emotional realm where track lengths dissolved into the whole along with straightforward interpretations: George Clarke’s lyrics compressed earthbound experiences—depression, material envy, struggles for purpose— into wild, leaping abstractions about love, oceans of light, tears. This was music that yearned palpably to leap across distances, closing gaps like a firing synapse.</p><p><i>New Bermuda</i>, if anything, is more overwhelming than <i>Sunbather</i>. The roiling peaks of that album—say, “<a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15379-deafheaven-dreamhouse/" target="_blank">Dreamhouse</a>” or “The Pecan Tree”—are the resting temperature of this one. They have shaped a suite of songs into one pliable and massive 47-minute arc, one that is as easy to separate into distinct quadrants as the stream from a fire hydrant. Clarke still screams euphoniously, leaning into long vowel sounds and open tones so that phrases like “on the smokey tin it melts again and again” function as color more than as thought. (You could never discern the words without the aid of a lyric sheet, anyway.) They are a band that works best in colors, as the titles of the albums and the salmon color of <i>Sunbather</i>’s cover attest: On <i>New Bermuda</i>, they revisit an ecstatic sound world that resembles, as Clarke puts it on opening song “<a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17629-deafheaven-brought-to-the-water/" target="_blank">Brought to the Water</a>”, “a multiverse of fuchsia and light.”</p><!-- more --><p>Having discovered this multiverse, <i>New Bermuda</i> finds them shaping it. The album is shorter and more compressed than <i>Sunbather</i>, and doesn’t telescope into “loud” and “quiet” sections quite as clearly. There is still a nauseous sort of beauty to their chord voicings: the lurches into minor key on “Luna” feel as heavy as their swings back into major, like the motion of a great, creaking iron gate. The second half of the “fuchsia and light” lyric is "surrenders to blackness now,” and if Deafheaven’s music at its best represents a brilliant collision of beauty and despair, the battle feels pitched at higher stakes than it did on <i>Sunbather</i>. Clarke’s voice is sharper and mixed lower, clawing at the smooth walls of the music like something wretched trying to escape a pit.</p><p>The lyrics suggest that this confining space might resemble the sort of manicured suburban prison that <i>Sunbather</i> was set inside: "There is no ocean for me. There is no glamour. Only the mirage of water ascending from the asphalt. I gaze at it from the oven of my home. Confined to a house that never remains clean,” runs a passage from “Luna”. But listening to Deafheaven, you don’t feel the particulars of this dilemma any more than you notice the pebbles of a gravel driveway from the window of an airplane. The music acts as an incinerator for any malaise you bring to it. It is a warm blur of noise, and fans of many different kinds of moody sensual guitar musics can close their eyes and place themselves inside it: If you have at any point worn a Deftones, Cure, My Bloody Valentine, or an Explosions in the Sky t-shirt, there is room for you inside here.</p><p>But Deafheaven reach further and further on this album: The drowsily sliding guitars on the long coda to “<a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17680-deafheaven-come-back/" target="_blank">Come Back</a>” conjure the easy warmth of Built to Spill. An organ wells up as the guitars fade, like something Ira Kaplan would do on a Yo La Tengo record. The thick palm-muted chugging on the beginning of “Luna” is reminiscent of the Slayer of <i>Seasons of the Abyss</i>. The undistorted downstrokes on “Gifts for the Earth” are a visitation from Joy Division, while the flagrant wah-pedal abusing guitar solo on “Baby Blue” is pure <i>Load</i>-era Kirk Hammett. </p><p>All of these references, which bring together many bands that wouldn’t normally have much to do with one another, points to something dreamlike and uncanny in Deafheaven’s grand sound. At a moment when guitar-centric music feels less central to the conversation, and great indie-rock bands have retreated into hardy local scenes, Deafheaven play like a beautiful, abstracted dream of guitar music’s transportive power. The year’s most jolting guitar-centered rock records have reimagined the guitar’s place in the constellation slightly—on <a href="http://pitchfork.com/artists/28673-tame-impala/" target="_blank">Tame Impala</a>’s <i><a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20578-currents/" target="_blank">Currents</a></i>, the guitar glimmers distantly at us from beneath a glass, darkly—a distant shape moving beneath the larger, more legible shapes of the compressed drums and programmed synths. On Kurt Vile’s b’lieve i’m going down, it is part of a general out-of-time way of life, a devotion to anachronism and lived-in symbols that keeps the confusion of the outside world at bay.</p><p>Deafheaven, meanwhile, unabashedly treat the roar of electric guitars as a holy experience. But they have earned their sense of awe, and you can see audiences returning it tenfold in their live performances. The transcendence their music gazes towards has a long spiritual lineage. To wit: I pulled my earbuds out while listening to <i>New Bermuda</i> this morning in a store where Boston’s ”<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm_-sW4Vktw" target="_blank">More Than A Feeling</a>“ was playing. The transition was seamless. They were aiming at the same horizon spot, made for the moment when you begin dreaming.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956902015-09-30T11:00:33-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00New Bermuda #1 Album of the Month for VISIONS Magazine (Germany)<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="693" data-orig-width="527"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/765e55d3a11b9afbf13d992193951b62/tumblr_inline_nvi47tV6G31qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
<p><i>New Bermuda</i> is the album of the week on <a href="http://www.visions.de" target="_blank">VISIONS</a> website, and #1 Album Of The Month in <a href="http://www.visions.de/magazin" target="_blank">VISIONS</a> with Deafheaven on the cover of the print issue.</p><!-- more -->
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="675" data-orig-width="499"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/0ce93fbdb8224fb80fef6658562109c1/tumblr_inline_nvi3zwQX6a1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956912015-09-24T08:12:40-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00First Listen: New Bermuda<p><figure data-orig-width="205" data-orig-height="73"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/781fbc7b14a5fbef4283f3652bde1650/tumblr_inline_nv6sv8YJqZ1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="778" data-orig-height="51" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/6281bf584eea1008f42615cdb8d83577/tumblr_inline_nv6sucHUdi1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="800" data-orig-height="450" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/b98cff60f24ad8395fa70f11ae2e2662/tumblr_inline_nv6svf7JAG1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p><br><iframe src="http://www.npr.org/player/embed/441531170/441538386" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>After a series of traumatic psychological tests of his loyalty and honesty, a mad scientist tells a young boy in Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, “Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted.”<p>“What happened?”</p><p>“He lived happily ever after.”</p><!-- more --><p>Cue
the strings, perhaps, but also the dread of responsibility; of
expectation and whatever else comes with suddenly getting everything you
wanted. After a story that goes from poverty and desperation to 2013’s
legit metal crossover Sunbather, this is where the members of <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/142890332/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> find themselves on their third album. The band could have just as easily turned in more uplifting, shoegaze-y black metal as Sunbather II and called it a day. But New Bermuda
is a resounding rebuttal to complacency, entrenched in darker and
decidedly classic metal moves, with a seeking spirit that rages.</p><p>Deafheaven wastes no time establishing the record’s sound and themes, as “<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/08/18/432728738/vikings-choice-deafheaven-brought-to-the-water" target="_blank">Brought To The Water</a>”
thrashes with frantic urgency and vocalist George Clarke roars, “Where
has my passion gone?” For three minutes, it’s the most straightforwardly
black-metal track of the band’s career, as guitarist Kerry McCoy
channels <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/15394766/the-smashing-pumpkins" target="_blank">Billy Corgan</a>’s
ugly string bends over the gauzy midpoint. But Deafheaven can’t help
but pretty up a dirty thing, as it all lifts to a dreamy pop melody in a
major key, complete with piano coda. “Luna” follows suit with a nasty
riff jammed between blast beats, and a somewhat awkward band dropout
that follows a guitar solo to each section, but it’s redeemed by
shimmering guitar work and Daniel Tracy’s choice, melodic drumming.</p><p>But it’s the back half of New Bermuda
where the band steps out of its aggressive-to-pretty comfort zone and
really throws itself against the wall. The mid-tempo centerpiece “Baby
Blue” is a hypnotic Red House Painters sad jam that turns into a slo-mo <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/15730259/metallica" target="_blank">Metallica</a>
ballad, complete with wah-wah solo. Clarke’s closing line even evokes
James Hetfield at his most desperate: “God had sent my calamity into a
deep space from which not even in dreams could I ever imagine my
escape.” If that mix of styles isn’t strange enough, doomy South Of Heaven-era Slayer somehow sets “Come Back” up for a <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/15164119/wilco" target="_blank">Wilco</a>-inspired slide guitar and a languid exit that takes a page out of Starflyer 59’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYx60pkXOQA" target="_blank">lounge-gaze phase</a>.</p><p>Still,
“Gifts For The Earth” is where Deafheaven really raises the stakes. For
two minutes, guitarists Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra pulse clean-toned
power chords with the rhythmic urgency of <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/17078924/mewithoutyou" target="_blank">mewithoutYou</a>’s “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtxxGnOoctw" target="_blank">January 1979</a>.”
But where that song drives the melody in start-stop sing-song, “Gifts”
breaks down in a samurai-slicing riff worthy of its dramatic build as
Clarke hisses, “I imagine the end” in a reptilian sneer. McCoy has said
that the melodic climax pays <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/deafheaven-on-trying-to-top-sunbather-and-prove-their-metal-20150825" target="_blank">homage to Oasis</a>,
but it’s more “Hey Jude” than “Champagne Supernova.” (Go ahead, insert
your own na-na-nas where necessary, and piss off the Gallagher brothers
once more with a Beatles comparison.) It’s Deafheaven at its most
electric and exploratory — a place of discovery for a band that isn’t
afraid to expose its roots and find genuine expressions within them.</p> - Lars Gotrich for NPRSargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956922015-09-22T14:36:52-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00Treble Zine Interviews Deafheaven’s George Clarke<figure data-orig-width="527" data-orig-height="139" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/370353e631f3750a55ff2e5697de9822/tumblr_inline_nv3jq8n0G11r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="461" data-orig-height="413" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/bd9c5fd3b03d6bbcb57e053c387e1a32/tumblr_inline_nv3jqgJnAC1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>An odd thing happens when a relatively obscure artist is put under the spotlight. Out of the blue, every decision a musician makes—musical or otherwise—becomes part of an all-inclusive narrative. The more attention a band receives, the more weight each aesthetic decision seems to carry.</p><p>This effect only multiplies when an artist comes from the often insular world of extreme music, like black metal genre-benders <a href="http://www.deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> do. It’s not often that a band so dark and heavy is showered with acclaim by both Pitchfork and Rolling Stone. But that’s exactly where Deafheaven found themselves after their sophomore effort <i><a href="http://www.treblezine.com/reviews/deafheaven-sunbather/" target="_blank">Sunbather</a></i> landed as one of the most critically acclaimed records of 2013—<a href="http://www.treblezine.com/top-50-albums-of-2013/" target="_blank">including here</a>—thanks to its mellifluous mixture of beautiful textures and metal’s raw power. Their unique blend was almost unanimously embraced by crossover audiences, but received a polarized response from those deeply embedded in the metal underground.</p><p>“I’ll be completely frank, it was really strange,” vocalist/lyricist George Clarke recalls in a phone interview. “We worked hard on it but you can’t really expect a response like that.”</p><p>The success of <i>Sunbather</i> changed the band’s life. Though the hardships of touring had once cut Deafheaven down to a creative duo of Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy, they were again a fully operational five-piece. They toured the world and wrote together as quintet, and also had a greater understanding of where they stood, musically, and how high they could set their ambitions.</p><!-- more --><p>Before their breakthrough, Clarke had been living with his girlfriend and a handful of friends, sleeping on the floor in a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco. But with the city’s cost of living growing more and more expensive and a handful of friendships and business connections brewing in Los Angeles, he made the move down south. Living in a comfortable home with his partner, a dog and stable income, Clarke felt like an adult for the first time. He finally had a life he’d been dreaming of. (Note: The applicable irony of Sunbather opener “<a href="https://soundcloud.com/adhocfm/deafheaven-dream-house" target="_blank">Dreamhouse</a>” doesn’t escape me.)</p><p>These changes—the new home, the new city, the new life—came for Clarke at the same time as Deafheaven’s amped up touring schedule and press cycle in support of <i>Sunbather</i>, and it wasn’t long before he started feeling like he was living a double life. “I found it difficult, at first, to reconcile both of those lifestyles and all of the emotions that kind of get intertwined with living that life,” he says. That difficulty turned to frustration, which led to depression. “I found the whole thing to be suffocating and I felt like I couldn’t escape.”</p><iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216926257&color=ff5500" width="100%" height="166" frameborder="no"></iframe><p></p><p>It’s from that emotional standoff—the crossroads between success and depression—that Clarke’s writing and performance on Deafheaven’s third LP was born. Whereas <i>Sunbather</i> found Clarke daydreaming about dream houses and escaping a difficult youth, <i>New Bermuda</i> (the band’s first for <a href="http://www.anti.com" target="_blank">Anti</a>), in his words, “is much more about reality and the much more mundane aspects of adulthood.” It’s a record that juxtaposes brutal, triumphant thrash with crushing moments of defeat and misery, and serves as a perfect platform for Clarke’s surrealist poetry to reach new heights.</p><p>Clarke contributes the most consistently harsh element to Deafheaven’s music in the form of his crushing hiss. While part of the band’s signature sound comes from its instrumental flexibility—easily transitioning from crushing blast-beats to beautiful passages that sound as if they belonged on a Sigur Rós record—Clarke’s unwavering black metal croak is just as crucial to the formula’s success. His presence is often that of a poetic goblin, adding an element of dark intrigue to even the most delicate of compositions.</p><p>Part of what makes Clarke such a pivotal and polarizing figure in the metal world is his ability to deliver intimate, introspective lines with a driving ferocity and the five tracks on <i>New Bermuda</i> are a case study in that careful balance between brutality and sentimentality. A track like “Luna” kicks off with one of the band’s most pummelling riffs to date, but narrates Clarke’s experience feeling alienated in his new home city: “That’s just about sitting in my house and thinking about how I was so excited to live in Los Angeles, and now I just absolutely hate it.”</p><p><i>New Bermuda</i>’s instrumentals have also shifted a recognizable degree away from the long, shoegaze-leaning exploits on Sunbather. The band digs back through their roots to rediscover classic albums by acts like Slayer, Metallica, Low, Wilco and Red House Painters, and yearning for a more riff-driven sound than the more ethereal guitar work they had focused on before. As the band began to write the new tracks, the heavier, black metal moments became a bit more thrash-inspired, while the quieter moments began to lean closer to slowcore and ‘90s indie rock than shoegaze. And while it’s easy to construct the narrative that Deafheaven worked hard to prove to the more kvlt-minded in the extreme music community that they are truly a metal band, Clarke presents the changes as a much more natural transition.</p><p>“People were calling us the originator of this sound, the melding of [black metal and shoegaze]—which I never believed,” Clarke explains. “We’re influenced by a lot of bands who were mixing metal and shoegaze influence beforehand… So I think that we kind of subconsciously drifted from that a bit on this record.</p><p>“It’s just tighter,” he continues. “We wanted a record that was a bit more concise and not so dreamy; but not changing the band we are, because we’re always going to to sound the way we sound.”</p><p>To craft the sound on <i>New Bermuda</i>, Deafheaven returned to Atomic Garden to work with Jack Shirley, who produced <i>Sunbather</i>, as well as the band’s excellent debut Roads to Judah. While the band certainly had an opportunity to enter the studio with some iconic names in the industry, they ultimately decided to return to where they feel the most comfortable experimenting and working together. Clarke says that the band feared a ‘big name’ would have led to unnecessary pressure shadowing over the band’s work environment. But “with Jack, none of that exists. It’s just like working with your friend—your friend who’s a very good sound engineer.”</p><figure data-orig-width="658" data-orig-height="658" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/3ecaf24c7d09cccdc127b4e233a315b1/tumblr_inline_nv3jvmvCXC1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Their decision to stay with Shirley also reflects a sense of respect and loyalty Deafheaven seem to hold dear. They’ve endured tough times as a band—from being a young, hungry metal act to adjusting to a new life and polarized reception from the metal world they come from. “If you really want it, you figure out a way to get out of it,” Clarke says. “You keep climbing and you work hard and you take on opportunity and you appreciate what’s given to you.”</p><p>Clarke has some thoughts on that polarized reception and the overarching narrative surrounding Deafheaven’s success, too.</p><p>“If they want the metal band and you’re that metal band, and you’re afraid of what people will think because of that—don’t [be afraid],” he says, in reference to the band’s heightened presence in non-metal media and festivals. “There is such a broad world out there filled with so many good people… Don’t be afraid to say yes.</p><p>“And once you say yes, work hard.”</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956932015-09-17T11:49:54-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00Pitchfork names “Come Back” Best New Track<p><figure data-orig-width="1280" data-orig-height="259" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/f463bef791630ad3fd9151b7e3fe532a/tumblr_inline_nuu4135czO1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="668" data-orig-height="328" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/2d2c9a3231cdb6f6cb2ebc92cc62ae14/tumblr_inline_nuu45p9sSJ1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p>Questions about the placement of <a href="http://deafheaven.com/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> on the metal spectrum have been discussed to shreds. They are generally moot when it comes to songs as sprawling and intricate as “Come Back”, the second single from their upcoming album, <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/60538-deafheaven-detail-new-album-new-bermuda/" target="_blank"><i>New Bermuda</i></a>. The nine-minute track opens with crystalline guitar work backed up against a wall of nasty noise, all fangs and claws, which rattles and hisses until it breaks open roughly halfway through. At this point, the reptilian evolves into the birdlike, the fluttering melody of blissed-out chorus and delay alighting here, then there, all dazzling color and massive wingspan.</p><p>“Come Back” is Deafheaven at their best, ambitious and atmospheric and exploratory. With so much attention, both praise and vitriol, focused in their direction following the success of <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18060-deafheaven-sunbather/" target="_blank"><i>Sunbather</i></a>, they’ve found themselves <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/deafheaven-on-trying-to-top-sunbather-and-prove-their-metal-20150825?page=2" target="_blank">trying to figure out</a> how to craft a new album that truly represents them as musicians at this time and place. “Come Back” is a genuinely beautiful song, even when it’s “ugly” and blistering and noisy, and it shows the care and attention Deafheaven have taken to let songs grow into their organic form through production. It’s a confident and mature move for a band that’s found its stride.</p><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FoMDw5A2eGOU"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oMDw5A2eGOU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMDw5A2eGOU" target="_blank">(via Pitchfork)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956942015-09-15T17:34:37-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00Come Back<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="4256" data-orig-width="2832"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/144a5e8cd4cfee11ab9e97b089b2173d/tumblr_inline_nuqutgjDYF1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“I imagined the overcome and fell to my knees before the endless truth of instability and futility. Now I know”</p><figure data-url="https://safe.txmblr.com/svc/embed/inline/%3Ciframe%20id%3D%22youtube_iframe%22%20src%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FoMDw5A2eGOU%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26amp%3Benablejsapi%3D1%26amp%3Borigin%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fsafe.txmblr.com%26amp%3Bwmode%3Dopaque%22%20frameborder%3D%220%22%20height%3D%22304%22%20width%3D%22540%22%3E%3C%2Fiframe%3E?w=540&h=304" data-orig-height="304" data-orig-width="540" data-provider="youtube" class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full"><iframe id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oMDw5A2eGOU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" height="304" width="540"></iframe></figure>
photo above taken by Nick Sayers - London, UK - August 24, 2015Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956952015-09-11T13:37:29-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00DIY Magazine - October 2015<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="300" data-orig-width="300"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/5b470140bd54c91d12c97d0063717054/tumblr_inline_nuj59dfIKc1r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>
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<p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/edit/deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> are featured in the October 2015 issue of DIY Magazine on news stands now. Photo by Kristin Cofer.</p>
<p>Don’t miss Deafheaven on tour starting October 15th - <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/edit/deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">See ALL dates here</a><a contents="See ALL dates here." data-link-label="Shows" data-link-type="page" href="https://deafheaven.com/shows" target="_blank">.</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956962015-08-25T18:34:09-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00Rolling Stone Feature <figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="424" data-orig-width="2000"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/23d2bc711b3314dd8bb386680e3e3322/tumblr_inline_ntnwvdO6Ic1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
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<p>“It’s been a pretty crazy journey getting to the point that we’re at now,” says <a href="http://deafheaven.com/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> vocalist George Clarke. “And now we’re really in the eye of the storm, and it's… interesting.”</p>
<p>Less than three years ago, Clarke and Deafheaven guitarist Kerry McCoy were scratching out an impoverished existence in San Francisco’s Mission District, where they lived on food stamps and shared a tiny apartment with six other roommates. Deafheaven’s debut album, 2011’s <i><a href="http://deafheaven.com/roads-to-judah" target="_blank">Roads to Judah</a></i>, had garnered some critical acclaim for its boundary-pushing blend of black metal, shoegaze and post-rock; but a rough year on the road supporting the record had left Clarke and McCoy destitute, and caused the other three members of the band to jump ship.</p>
<p>Rather than pack it in themselves, Clarke and McCoy found some new accomplices (drummer Dan Tracy, bassist Stephen Lee Clark, and guitarist Shiv Mehra) and poured their hopes and frustrations into <a href="http://deafheaven.com/sunbather" target="_blank">Sunbather</a>, an album that changed everything for them. The record not only was “the best-reviewed major album of 2013,” according to Metacritic, due to its many accolades — which included <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-metal-albums-of-2013-20131211/deafheaven-sunbather-19691231" target="_blank">the top spot</a> on Rolling Stone’s <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-metal-albums-of-2013-20131211" target="_blank">20 Best Metal Albums of the year list</a> — but also unexpectedly resulted in sold-out club dates and choice slots at festivals in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Asia.</p>
<p>The success of Sunbather enabled Clarke and McCoy to move to Los Angeles — “In San Francisco, we kind of realized we were paying more money to have less fun,” McCoy laughs — and enjoy a more somewhat more comfortable standard of living. But it also meant that the band had to get cracking on the next album shortly after wrapping up their final Sunbather dates.</p>
<p>“We’d been touring for a year and a half,” McCoy explains. “I literally only had like one or two new songs sketched out, and we had like four or five months to get this record written and into the studio. We’ve just got done releasing the biggest record of our lives, which took me a year and a half to write; and now I’m writing the follow-up to that in a third of the time, knowing that it’s going to get, like, four times the attention. That’s a lot of pressure,” he laughs.</p>
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<p>Under the gun to craft a follow-up to Sunbather, Deafheaven spent much of this spring holed up in rehearsals, before heading to Palo Alto’s Atomic Garden Recording and 25th Street Recording in Oakland to lay down tracks with producer Jack Shirley, who’d also been behind the boards for their previous two albums. “We did our last two records at Atomic Garden,” says Clarke, “but 25th Street has a really large drum room. We wanted to focus more on drum production for this record, so Jack suggested that we do all the drum tracks there.” “There was a lot of second-guessing because of the time crunch,” adds McCoy. “It was like, ‘Am I actually happy with this part? Or do I just want to be done writing for the day? Does this really work, or are we actually rushing through this?’”</p>
<p>Despite — or perhaps because of — the stress of the looming deadlines, the recording sessions resulted in <a href="http://deafheaven.com/new-bermuda" target="_blank">New Bermuda</a>, a stunning, five-track edifice of thundering sound that takes the expansive sonic attack of Sunbather to a darker, more metallic place, while also working some unexpected classic rock touches into the mix.</p>
<p>“That mixture of influences has kind of always been our thing, much to some peoples’ annoyance,” laughs McCoy. “But a lot of this record is us being like, 'Look, we are a metal band. We do a lot of other stuff, but we can solo; we can have some Slayer riffs in there. There was a lot of, 'Hey, what if we throw some traditional thrash metal stuff in here, but just make it our own?’ And I think it worked really well.”</p>
<p>McCoy, who writes Deafheaven’s music, cites Morbid Angel and Kill 'Em All–era Metallica as some of the main musical influences behind New Bermuda. But there are also moments throughout the album — like the gorgeous piano outro of the opening epic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLoGU6l88QA" target="_blank">“Brought to the Water”</a> or the Michael Schenker–esque wah-wah solo break on “Baby Blue” — that are clearly rooted in classic and/or alternative rock.</p>
<p>“I was definitely trying to distance myself from the whole shoegaze thing and go more towards alternative rock,” he says, “which is why there’s the Oasis homage at the end of 'Gifts for the Earth,’ and some of the songs have more of a slow-core vibe — like, my take on Low or Red House Painters. There’s even like a Wilco slide guitar-y thing on 'Come Back.’ Not so much reverb and spacey-ness, which in my opinion is being beaten to death currently, but more of an emphasis on hooks, riffs and real melodies.”</p>
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<p>Though Clarke says that his lyrics aren’t directly influenced by McCoy’s music, his words mesh perfectly with the sense of tension and urgency imparted by the band on New Bermuda. The bleakness of his current lyrical perspective, he explains, stems from the realization that, after dreaming of success and stability for years, he’d actually created new stresses and anxieties for himself by achieving those things.</p>
<p>“Whereas Sunbather sort of had this hopeful, dreamlike feeling to it, New Bermuda is definitely more steeped in reality,” he says. “It has more to do with the idea of facing yourself, questioning what it was that you wanted in the first place, and dealing with complacency…</p>
<p>”'New Bermuda’ is the destination that you’re getting towards,“ he continues. "It’s basically sort of a play on the [Bermuda] Triangle — it’s like, you’re traveling to this place, and you think this is what you want, and you think this is where everything is going to be good. And before that happens, you’re swallowed up by the realities of life, the day-to-day.”</p>
<p>Still, Clarke insists, he’s far from displeased with Deafheaven’s graduation to bigger stages and larger audiences. “One thing that I don’t want to get misconstrued is the notion of my constant unhappiness,” he says. “I feel incredibly fortunate to be in the position that we’re in. I feel like we have worked incredibly hard, but we’ve also been lucky, and I really appreciate that. It’s just that, sometimes, I feel… It’s hard to explain, but it’s a sort of trapped feeling. And it’s also like, we’re in the middle of our career, and I’m afraid to lose it — and afraid of what comes next.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/deafheaven-on-trying-to-top-sunbather-and-prove-their-metal-20150825" target="_blank">(via Rolling Stone)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956972015-08-18T09:59:04-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00Brought To Water<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="203" data-orig-width="1000"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://pitchfork.com/news/60829-deafheaven-share-brought-to-the-water/" target="_blank"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/0474e0b58a4e9baa7dd5658829e5b77e/tumblr_inline_nsbdh841T81r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_none" alt="" /></a></figure>
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<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="871" data-orig-width="680"><a contents="image" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://pitchfork.com/news/60829-deafheaven-share-brought-to-the-water/" target="_blank"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/8d68d3c5a2f870071b871ceb35b84bd9/tumblr_inline_ntaf4yNogX1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></figure><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216926257&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956982015-08-04T09:16:34-07:002020-01-13T11:15:41-08:00Deafheaven Fall N. American Tour announced<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="2000" data-orig-width="2000"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/4eceaa45de6af1d00222c1706e349bc1/tumblr_inline_nske84SDaU1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><b><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/new/deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a></b> announced last week that their next album <b><i>New Bermuda</i></b> would arrive on October 2, 2015 via <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/new/anti.com/artists/deafheaven" target="_blank">ANTI- </a>records, and today we can confirm their headlining North American tour in support of that album will begin October 15 in San Diego and end with two nights in a row in Los Angeles on November 21st. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tribulationofficial" target="_blank">Tribulation</a> will be support on all tour dates and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/envyOfficial.jpn" target="_blank">Envy</a> will also join the bill from October 30 - November 7th. <b><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/new/deafheaven.com" target="_blank"><br></a></b></p><p>There are still few shows left this Summer to play before the fall tour begins including: <br>Aug 22 Bristol, UK - ArcTangent Festival <br>Aug 24 London, UK - <a href="http://scala.co.uk/events/deafheaven/" target="_blank">Scala</a> w/ <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/new/marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a> supporting</p><p><b>Deafheaven , Envy, Tribulation Tour 2015</b><br>Oct 15 San Diego, CA – The Casbah<br>Oct 16 Pomona, CA – The Glass House<br>Oct 17 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore<br>Oct 19 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom<br>Oct 20 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre<br>Oct 21 Seattle, WA – Neumos<br>Oct 23 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge<br>Oct 24 Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall<br>Oct 25 Lawrence, KS – The Granada<br>Oct 26 St. Louis, MO – The Ready Room<br>Oct 28 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line<br>Oct 29 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon<br>Oct 30 Chicago, IL – Metro*<br>Oct 31 Detroit, MI – Shelter at St. Andrews*<br>Nov 01 Toronto, ON – Opera House*<br>Nov 02 Montreal, QB - Club Soda*<br>Nov 03 Boston, MA – Royale*<br>Nov 05 New York, NY – Webster Hall*<br>Nov 06 Washington, DC – The Howard Theatre*<br>Nov 07 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer*<br>Nov 08 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle<br>Nov 10 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade – Downstairs<br>Nov 11 Orlando, FL – The Social<br>Nov 13 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Studio<br>Nov 14 Austin, TX – Mohawk<br>Nov 15 Dallas, TX – Trees<br>Nov 17 Albuquerque, NM – Sister ^^<br>Nov 18 Phoenix. AZ – Crescent Ballroom<br>Nov 20 Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy<br>Nov 21 Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy</p><p><b>* with Envy & Tribulation <br>^^ with Yob & Tribulation<br></b></p><p><b>All tour dates, details and pre-order information can be found on <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a></b></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60956992015-07-28T11:32:44-07:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00Deafheaven Detail New Album “New Bermuda”<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="203" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/0474e0b58a4e9baa7dd5658829e5b77e/tumblr_inline_nsbdh841T81r3j6b4_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="658" data-orig-width="658"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/3ecaf24c7d09cccdc127b4e233a315b1/tumblr_inline_nsbdhf4W5o1r3j6b4_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> have revealed the full details of their <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/60535-deafheaven-announce-new-album/" target="_blank">new album</a>, the follow-up to 2013’s <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18060-deafheaven-sunbather/" target="_blank">Sunbather.</a> It’s titled <a href="http://kingsroadmerch.com/deafheaven/region/" target="_blank">New Bermuda</a> and is out October 2 via <a href="http://www.anti.com" target="_blank">Anti-</a>. That’s the tracklist below, along with the teaser video. Above, find the album art, featuring an oil painting by Allison Schulnik.<br><br>The album was recorded live to tape in Oakland (at 25th Street Recording) and Palo Alto (at Atomic Garden Recording) with longtime producer Jack Shirley.<br></p><p>Frontman George Clarke said in a statement that the concept of “New Bermuda” is meant to describe “a new destination in life, a nebulous point of arrival, and an unknown future where things get swallowed up and dragged into darkness.” <br><br>New Bermuda:<br>01 Brought to the Water<br>02 Luna<br>03 Baby Blue<br>04 Come Back<br>05 Gifts for the Earth</p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/952-KAXOQqg" width="500" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe><p></p><p><a href="http://kingsroadmerch.com/deafheaven/" target="_blank">PRE-ORDER ‘NEW BERMUDA’ HERE</a></p><p>via <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/60538-deafheaven-detail-new-album-new-bermuda/" target="_blank">Pitchfork</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957002015-07-27T12:15:16-07:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00LP3 2015<figure data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F952-KAXOQqg" data-orig-height="304" data-orig-width="540" data-provider="youtube" class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/952-KAXOQqg?feature=oembed" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" width="540"></iframe></figure><p>October 2015. <br></p><p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a><br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957012015-07-26T13:51:25-07:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00Deafheaven news will be coming. If you would like to stay...<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/3cb8e1b119892d92c548ff35835f95fd/tumblr_ns44g8SD461qblyljo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/0ac5faea40f09ddcdf2f84b74d177ee8/tumblr_ns44g8SD461qblyljo2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> http://deafheaven.com<br><br> <p>Deafheaven news will be coming. If you would like to stay informed make sure to go sign up at <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">deafheaven.com</a> <br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957022015-04-10T11:41:49-07:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00LP3 photos by Lukas Hodge.<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/6fb6aeccb40c61a029234c87809d2271/tumblr_nmlt9pv9vt1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/a0afd9471430e7aab67acabb132bede4/tumblr_nmlt9pv9vt1r7hlzao2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/44c3702b9b4ae89986eedbd38d302129/tumblr_nmlt9pv9vt1r7hlzao3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><p>LP3 </p><p>photos by Lukas Hodge.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957032014-12-17T22:30:53-08:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00reidhaithcock:
2014 Recap: Deafheaven, The Sinclair, June,...<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/948a419c0a517dd08049c4d8b04ca707/tumblr_nga2yvTBGO1qa31wyo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/c7cc505717191af39ebc0cc416c20c9c/tumblr_nga2yvTBGO1qa31wyo2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/b720429846babb066b7abd73688cfab6/tumblr_nga2yvTBGO1qa31wyo3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://reidhaithcock.tumblr.com/post/105459166112/2014-recap-deafheaven-the-sinclair-june-2014" target="_blank">reidhaithcock</a>:</p>
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<p>2014 Recap: Deafheaven, The Sinclair, June, 2014</p>
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<p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be playing the first <a href="http://www.observatoryoc.com/event/Indigo-Music-Festival-Day-One" target="_blank">night of Indigo Fest </a>on January 31st in Santa Ana, CA at <a href="http://www.observatoryoc.com/" target="_blank">The Observatory</a>. See information on both nights lineups <a href="http://www.observatoryoc.com/event/Indigo-Music-Festival-Two-Day-Pass" target="_blank">HERE</a> as well as ticket information for single day passes or <a href="http://www.observatoryoc.com/event/Indigo-Music-Festival-Two-Day-Pass" target="_blank">two day passes</a> - on sale Friday 12/19. <br><br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957052014-12-01T17:14:16-08:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00Deafheaven will play their last three shows of 2014 in the...<img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/eaf806c2f3bff4cd8468d54bfbf4adb6/tumblr_nfkn8n0ar91ql4vkno3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/db48dcdd2140a9f7e2fd0680ba476add/tumblr_nfkn8n0ar91ql4vkno5_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/66a7b76b4663fae44bdb22a80474bc84/tumblr_nfkn8n0ar91ql4vkno6_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/929dea4b26604fc1d551365dae46a642/tumblr_nfkn8n0ar91ql4vkno7_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/1c012b658546f617b7de6692b7535596/tumblr_nfkn8n0ar91ql4vkno4_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/f18f22403a34bdbe1e365aa5bf3b3719/tumblr_nfkn8n0ar91ql4vkno8_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/10aab80e0958579977bee2b921e45a19/tumblr_nfkn8n0ar91ql4vkno10_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/3efc1d2d50fddbfb9844260f8e91144d/tumblr_nfkn8n0ar91ql4vkno1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/44c6e8db801727b44ac31f7d1dc786ea/tumblr_nfkn8n0ar91ql4vkno2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/7b6f2ffe20fa3cceb4354e8850a1a579/tumblr_nfkn8n0ar91ql4vkno9_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><p>Deafheaven will play their last three shows of 2014 in the Pacific North West starting Tuesday, December 2nd in Portland and December 3rd in Seattle both these shows are only $3 w/ RSVP courtesy of Red Bull Sound Select series (click on ticket links below for info). Then on December 4th they will play Vancouver, BC. All photos above by Nick DiNatale - taken on November 21, 2014 in Cambridge, MA at The Sinclair.</p>
<script src="https://widget.bandsintown.com/javascripts/bit_widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script><p><a class="bit-widget-initializer" href="https://www.bandsintown.com/deafheaven" data-artist="deafheaven" target="_blank">deafheaven Tour Dates</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957062014-11-14T16:52:32-08:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00Deafheaven at Fun Fun Fun Fest on the Black Stage in Austin, TX...<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/1e362c3226260c9e8f0d63b4001e0ad1/tumblr_nf22fk9IZQ1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/12530e85d1079213a986c1b381b47a44/tumblr_nf22fk9IZQ1r7hlzao2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/f7db763d6ea4f51fa653da2f277be881/tumblr_nf22fk9IZQ1r7hlzao3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/b439100b46dcab197562bd2fd37d7681/tumblr_nf22fk9IZQ1r7hlzao4_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/0afc1a58405ae0d903cf695e3a93530f/tumblr_nf22fk9IZQ1r7hlzao5_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/431f2593b645204ad9ca855edca15495/tumblr_nf22fk9IZQ1r7hlzao6_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/c7fddaf91adaf791b1f21a3a7b3906b7/tumblr_nf22fk9IZQ1r7hlzao7_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/190780b1c580c2a3335b48cfe883b92b/tumblr_nf22fk9IZQ1r7hlzao8_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/713505d17bf640ec9c3af78ddcb2b424/tumblr_nf22fk9IZQ1r7hlzao9_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> at Fun Fun Fun Fest on the Black Stage in Austin, TX on November 9, 2014. All photos by <a href="http://thefarmfamily.com" target="_blank">Lukas Hodge</a> - see full set at <a href="http://thefarmfamily.com" target="_blank">TheFarmFamily.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957072014-11-14T16:38:12-08:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00Deafheaven announce PNW Shows in December 2014 <p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will be playing three more FREE Shows on the East Coast coming up - all these dates are sold out but keep an eye out the day or two before shows as <a href="https://twitter.com/Converse" target="_blank">Converse Rubber Tracks</a> may release another 100 seats in each city. The band has also just announced three more shows in December up in the Pacific North West. Both the <a href="https://www.redbullsoundselect.com/events/2014/12/red-bull-sound-select-presents-portland" target="_blank">Portland</a> & <a href="https://www.redbullsoundselect.com/events/2014/12/red-bull-sound-select-presents-seattle" target="_blank">Seattle</a> dates are only $3 w/ RSVP via Red Bull Sound Select. <br><a href="https://www.redbullsoundselect.com/events/2014/12/red-bull-sound-select-presents-seattle" target="_blank"><img src="https://33.media.tumblr.com/ed879659c753fcd09bcc349d512cfe9b/tumblr_inline_nf21o88lI71r3j6b4.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p>
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<script src="https://widget.bandsintown.com/javascripts/bit_widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script><p><a class="bit-widget-initializer" href="https://www.bandsintown.com/Deafheaven" data-artist="Deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven Tour Dates</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957082014-10-28T11:18:00-07:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00Deafheaven will play 5 Free Shows on Converse's Rubber Tracks Live Tour <p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/3615b8cb6bfbd36b917baace30108628/tumblr_inline_ne624keJ3m1r3j6b4.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p>
<p>The second <span class="h">Converse Rubber Tracks Live Tour was just announced</span> with <span class="h"><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> as the headliner</span>. <br><br>The tour kicks off in Deafheaven’s hometown of San Francisco, CA on Wednesday, November 5 and follows with visits to Los Angeles (Nov. 6), Brooklyn (Nov. 19), Boston (Nov. 20) and Toronto (Nov. 21). The tour will coincide with Converse Rubber Tracks “pop-up” recording studios in each of these markets and is part of several ongoing opportunities for emerging artists to unleash their creative spirit. <br><br>All tickets for the Converse Rubber Tracks Live Tour are FREE and will be available on October 29 at Noon (EST). See below for links to reserve tickets. - Please note day of show ticket holders will still be first come first serve. <br><br><strong>DEAFHEAVEN FREE CONVERSE SHOWS</strong><br>11/5 San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel w/ Wove<br>11/6 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex w/ Haunted Summer<br>11/19 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg w/ Beast Patrol<br>11/20 Boston, MA @ The Sinclair w/ The New Highway Hymnal<br>11/21 Toronto, ON @ Adelaide Hall w/ Programm<br><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/deafheaven/shows" target="_blank"><strong>SEE ALL DEAFHEAVEN SHOWS & DETAILS W/ TICKET LINKS FOR EACH HERE</strong> </a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957092014-09-04T16:38:13-07:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00Deafheaven photos above by Matt Draper for Impose Magazine taken...<img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/8db8996418498298b0b600d9d1a980e2/tumblr_nbe4vo968f1r7hlzao1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/5390cb74e742a0686f6ae31eb9bd67c6/tumblr_nbe4vo968f1r7hlzao2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/d903c261a457f1d35ade0874db2b0ad8/tumblr_nbe4vo968f1r7hlzao3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/360fb352c1390fc025ed9f734d24b795/tumblr_nbe4vo968f1r7hlzao4_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/07dacd84af611d07d19c181bf22e12dc/tumblr_nbe4vo968f1r7hlzao5_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/5e99d458009f3230dfce0d8b1cb156df/tumblr_nbe4vo968f1r7hlzao6_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/fc6c5e83c29103de952b247789567d1d/tumblr_nbe4vo968f1r7hlzao7_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/43c7f63ac1876a9ae6ba492715e0841a/tumblr_nbe4vo968f1r7hlzao8_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> photos above by <strong>Matt Draper</strong> for <a href="http://www.imposemagazine.com/photos/fyf-fest-2014#52" target="_blank">Impose Magazine</a> taken at <a href="http://fyffest.com/" target="_blank">FYF Festival</a> in Los Angeles, CA on August 24, 2014. <br><br>Deafheaven will depart soon for their headline run in N. America starting on Sept 13th with festival plays including <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uyjyazaubybeagauqaiaybj/click.php" target="_blank">Basilica Festival</a> in Hudson, NY, <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uybsaaaubybeaaauqagaybj/click.php" target="_blank">Downtown Festival</a> in Minneapolis, <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uybuacaubybeakauqataybj/click.php" target="_blank">Midpoint Music Festival</a> in Cincinnati, <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uybearaubybeazauqanaybj/click.php" target="_blank">Pygmalion Festival</a> in Central Illinois, and <a href="http://via2014.com/" target="_blank">Via Festival</a> in Pittsburgh with club shows with No Joy and Indian Handcrafts in between. Their extensive tour schedule continues into October for <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uybmanaubybeaoauqalaybj/click.php" target="_blank">Corona Capital</a> (Deafheaven’s first ever appearance in Mexico) and <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uybjataubybeadauqakaybj/click.php" target="_blank">Fun Fun Fun Fest</a> in November.<br><br><strong><a href="http://artistdata.com/deafheaven/shows" target="_blank">SEE ALL DEAFHEAVEN SHOWS & DETAILS HERE </a></strong><br><br><strong>DEAFHEAVEN LIVE 2014</strong><br>09/13 Hudson, NY @ <a href="http://basilicasoundscape.com/" target="_blank">Basilica Sound Scape 14</a> <br>09/14 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg # <strong>- SOLD OUT</strong><br>09/16 Hamden, CT @ Ballroom at the Outer Space #<br>09/17 Pawtucket, RI @ The Met Cafe #<br>09/18 Buffalo, NY @ Traff Music Hall #<br>09/19 Toronto, ON @ Opera House #<br>09/20 Montreal, QC @ Il Motore #<br>09/21 Burlington, VT @ Showcase Lounge #^<br>09/23 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar #^<br>09/24 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop #^<br>9/26 Minneapolis, MN @ <a href="http://thedowntownfestival.com/msp/" target="_blank">Downtown Festival @ Skyway Theater</a> **<br>9/27 Cincinnati, OH @ <a href="http://mpmf.com/" target="_blank">Midpoint Music Festival</a><br>9/28 Urbana, IL @ <a href="http://www.thepygmalionfestival.com/schedule/" target="_blank">Pygmalion Music Festival</a><br>10/01 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme<br>10/02 Pittsburgh, PA @ <a href="http://via2014.com/" target="_blank">Via Festival</a><br>10/03 Amityville, NY @ Revolution Bar & Music Hall<br>10/11 Mexico City, Mexico @ <a href="http://www.coronacapital.com.mx/en/" target="_blank">Corona Capital Festival</a><br>11/09 Austin, TX @ <a href="http://funfunfunfest.com/" target="_blank">Fun Fun Fun Fest</a><br> <br># w/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nojoymusic" target="_blank">No Joy </a>& <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Indian_Handcrafts" target="_blank">Indian Handcrafts</a><br>#^ w/ No Joy<br>** w/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/russiancirclesmusic" target="_blank">Russian Circles</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theatlasmothband" target="_blank">The Atlas Moth</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957102014-09-04T16:24:00-07:002020-01-13T11:15:42-08:00Pitchfork names Sunbather and Dreamhouse in their top albums and tracks of the decade so far<p><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9465-the-top-100-albums-of-2010-2014/4/" target="_blank"><img src="https://33.media.tumblr.com/2cf3d1ad87c845129794ca73f5f6e5da/tumblr_inline_nbeglmSJ3R1ryyjn7.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9465-the-top-100-albums-of-2010-2014/4/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/a10e6dae6d28b8782a718126b02467b6/tumblr_inline_nbegjiKvHF1ryyjn7.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://38.media.tumblr.com/dbd7700918d10d5399c6a21c6d7ffd6b/tumblr_inline_nbegm0WcK01ryyjn7.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9465-the-top-100-albums-of-2010-2014/4/" target="_blank">Click here to see the Top 100 Albums of the decade so far as chosen by Pitchfork, who have placed Deafheaven’s “Sunbather” in at #26. </a><br><br><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9466-the-top-200-tracks-of-2010-2014/8/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/b5fc3f432d071958a06db10acbfc05b3/tumblr_inline_nbegry7R3y1ryyjn7.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9466-the-top-200-tracks-of-2010-2014/8/" target="_blank">Deafheaven’s track “Dreamhouse” has also made their Top 200 Songs of the decade so far list over at Pitchfork coming in at #52 </a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957112014-08-22T17:39:53-07:002020-01-13T11:15:43-08:00
Deafheaven have shared the studio version of “From the Kettle Onto the Coil”, a new...<p><img src="https://38.media.tumblr.com/2cf3d1ad87c845129794ca73f5f6e5da/tumblr_inline_naqgl6yePS1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://33.media.tumblr.com/1332ee4a13d8b8e71e6eec94a3263c3f/tumblr_inline_naqh6uXqsI1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
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<p><a href="http://pitchfork.com/artists/30011-deafheaven/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> have shared the studio version of “From the Kettle Onto the Coil”, a new track they recently performed at this year's <a href="http://pitchforkmusicfestival.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pitchfork Music Festival</a> in Chicago. Now, it’s being released as part of this year's <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/55403-giorgio-moroder-tim-hecker-deafheaven-future-speedy-ortiz-more-to-release-adult-swim-singles/" target="_blank">Adult Swim Summer Singles Program</a>. It'll be available as a free download <a href="http://adultswim.com/singles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> beginning August 25. </p>
<p>Check out the complete Summer Singles artist list and song release schedule <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/55403-giorgio-moroder-tim-hecker-deafheaven-future-speedy-ortiz-more-to-release-adult-swim-singles/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br><br>Note: <em>Artwork shown above is the bands version and is By Jesse Draxler. Adult Swim is using their own version of the artwork which can be seen at the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/from-the-kettle-to-the-coil/" target="_blank">Tracks link here</a>. <br><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/164201039&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></em></p>
<p>Watch “From the Kettle Onto the Coil” live debut below and <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/56090-deafheaven-perform-new-song-from-the-kettle-unto-the-coil-at-pitchfork-music-festival-2014/" target="_blank">click here to see more live videos by Deafheaven at Pitchfork Music Festival:</a><br><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fFon58KT6wI?rel=0" width="500"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> have just returned from their European tour and will now head East kicking of a headline run in N. America with festival plays including <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uyjyazaubybeagauqaiaybj/click.php" target="_blank">Basilica Festival</a> in Hudson, NY, <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uybsaaaubybeaaauqagaybj/click.php" target="_blank">Downtown Festival</a> in Minneapolis, <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uybuacaubybeakauqataybj/click.php" target="_blank">Midpoint Music Festival</a> in Cincinnati, <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uybearaubybeazauqanaybj/click.php" target="_blank">Pygmalion Festival</a> in Central Illinois, and <a href="http://via2014.com/" target="_blank">Via Festival</a> in Pittsburgh. Deafheaven will play club shows with No Joy and Indian Handcrafts in between. Their extensive tour schedule continues into October for <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uybmanaubybeaoauqalaybj/click.php" target="_blank">Corona Capital</a> (Deafheaven’s first ever appearance in Mexico) and <a href="http://t.ymlp243.net/uybjataubybeadauqakaybj/click.php" target="_blank">Fun Fun Fun Fest</a> in November.<br><br><strong><a href="http://artistdata.com/deafheaven/shows" target="_blank">SEE ALL DEAFHEAVEN SHOWS & DETAILS HERE </a></strong><br><br><strong>DEAFHEAVEN LIVE 2014</strong><br>08/24 Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Fest - SOLD OUT <br>09/13 Hudson, NY @ Basilica Sound Scape 14<br>09/14 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg #<br>09/16 Hamden, CT @ Ballroom at the Outer Space #<br>09/17 Pawtucket, RI @ The Met Cafe #<br>09/18 Buffalo, NY @ Traff Music Hall #<br>09/19 Toronto, ON @ Opera House #<br>09/20 Montreal, QC @ Il Motore #<br>09/21 Burlington, VT @ Showcase Lounge #^<br>09/23 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar #^<br>09/24 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop #^<br>9/26 Minneapolis, MN @ Downtown Festival @ Skyway Theater<br>9/27 Cincinnati, OH @ Midpoint Music Festival<br>9/28 Urbana, IL @ Pygmalion Music Festival<br>10/01 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme<br>10/02 Pittsburgh, PA @ Via Festival<br>10/03 Amityville, NY @ Revolution Bar & Music Hall<br>10/11 Mexico City, Mexico @ Corona Capital Festival<br>11/09 Austin, TX @ <a href="http://funfunfunfest.com/" target="_blank">Fun Fun Fun Fest</a><br> <br># w/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nojoymusic" target="_blank">No Joy </a>& <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Indian_Handcrafts" target="_blank">Indian Handcrafts</a><br>#^ w/ No Joy</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957122014-08-01T13:44:00-07:002020-01-13T11:15:43-08:00Second wave of Touring begins at Off Festival on August 2nd - ATP Takeover and New Song <p><span class="userContent"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/94414720e81aa8548ff00718ae4a1393/tumblr_inline_n9nadrBTf91r3j6b4.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent"><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> will begin their second wave of European tour dates in Poland at Off Festival on August 2nd. </span></p>
<p><span class="userContent">On August 25th they will release a free download as part of the <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/55403-giorgio-moroder-tim-hecker-deafheaven-future-speedy-ortiz-more-to-release-adult-swim-singles/" target="_blank">Adult Swim Singles</a> of a new track called “<span class="watch-title long-title" id="eow-title" title='Deafheaven perform "From the Kettle Onto the Coil" - Pitchfork Music Festival 2014'>From the Kettle Onto the Coil” which they debuted live at Pitchfork Festival. </span><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/deafheaven/shows" target="_blank"><br><em><strong>See ALL Deafheaven Tour dates, ticket links and info HERE</strong></em></a><em><strong>.</strong> </em><br><br><strong>DEAFHEAVEN EU 2014</strong><br> Aug 02 Katowice, Poland @ OFF Festival<br> Aug 03 Dresden, Germany @ Beatpol ^*<br> Aug 04 Vienna, Austria @ Arena ^*<span class="text_exposed_show"><br> Aug 05 Prague, Czech Rebublic @ Klub 007<br> Aug 08 Oslo, Norway @ Oya Festival<br> Aug 09 Gothenburg, Sweden @ Way Out Festival<br> Aug 10 Aarhaus, Denmark @ Voxhall<br> Aug 11 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Beta -<strong> SOLD OUT</strong><br> Aug 13 Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang<br> Aug 14 Hasselt, Belgium @ Pukkelpop<br> Aug 15 London, UK @ ATP’s Jabberwocky ^*<br> Aug 16 Manchester, UK - ATP presents @ Gorilla ^*<br> Aug 17 Belfast, Ireland @ Mandela Hall ^^<br> Aug 18 Galway, Ireland @ Roisin Dubh ^^<br> Aug 19 Dublin, Ireland @ Whelans ^^<br> ^* w/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cchelseawwolfe" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=25730125526" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a><br> ^^ w/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nospillblood" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=218303461588387" target="_blank">No Spill Blood</a><br><br><strong>US/CANADA/MEXICO 2014</strong><br> Aug 24 Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Fest - <strong>SOLD OUT</strong> <br> Sept 13 Hudson, NY @ Basilica Sound Scape Festival <br> Sept 14 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg #<br> Sept 16 Hamden, CT @ Ballroom at the Outer Space #<br> Sept 17 Pawtucket, RI @ The Met Cafe #<br> Sept 18 Buffalo, NY @ Traff Music Hall #<br> Sept 19 Toronto, ON @ Opera House #<br> Sept 20 Montreal, QC @ Il Motore #<br> Sept 21 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground #^<br> Sept 23 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar #^<br> Sept 24 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop #^<br> Sept 26 Minneapolis, MN - Downtown Music Fest @ Skyway Theater<br> Sept 27 Cincinnati, OH @ Midpoint Music Festival<br> Sept 28 Urbana, IL @ Pygmalion Music Festival<br>Oct 01 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme <br>Oct 02 Pittsburgh, PA @ Via Festival / Rio Theater<br>Oct 03 Amityville, NY @ Revolution Bar & Music Hall<br> Oct 11 Mexico City @ Corona Capital Festival<br> Nov 09 Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest<br><br> # w/ No Joy, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/indianhandcrafts" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=114464111908391" target="_blank">Indian Handcrafts</a><br> #^ w/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nojoymusic" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=206371372456" target="_blank">No Joy</a><br><br></span></span></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957132014-06-24T17:43:46-07:002020-01-13T11:15:43-08:00nickdinatale:
Deafheaven // Cambridge, MA
Always the best band...<img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/ca7422cc47d53f20d2cca143ca54f1f7/tumblr_n7p5zhtQyX1ql4vkno2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/0988b7cfa5f308cb37b2fc5934e8c02a/tumblr_n7p5zhtQyX1ql4vkno9_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/c354344718ffa1857d0c89ecf6ef8f99/tumblr_n7p5zhtQyX1ql4vkno8_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/98a1e407f59434f771b8369a6e72e34f/tumblr_n7p5zhtQyX1ql4vkno5_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/fabc00ca54221ad03d0bce81524846c9/tumblr_n7p5zhtQyX1ql4vkno4_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/fe3d28cc6204a90ff634ed46f59630bf/tumblr_n7p5zhtQyX1ql4vkno6_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/0754d21304fe5ac81b1162d353e560e3/tumblr_n7p5zhtQyX1ql4vkno7_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/505b48c269ace7a5e97e90fe17693260/tumblr_n7p5zhtQyX1ql4vkno3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/35979a780118271918c0fb6977904258/tumblr_n7p5zhtQyX1ql4vkno10_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/7028426d9fe8991d6731bfc382f1bd84/tumblr_n7p5zhtQyX1ql4vkno1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blog.nickdinatale.com/post/89805607191/deafheaven-cambridge-ma-always-the-best-band" target="_blank">nickdinatale</a>:</p>
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<p>Deafheaven // Cambridge, MA</p>
<p>Always the best band to photograph. Need I say more?</p>
</blockquote>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957142014-06-23T14:48:43-07:002020-01-13T11:15:43-08:00Deafheaven live photos shot in Orlando at The Backbooth on June...<img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/d6b37fedfe31e401997f8cf2433eda97/tumblr_n7n5u15fi81qblyljo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/5c75716af5fbd3e420b07d174eed54ca/tumblr_n7n5u15fi81qblyljo2_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/97057488bf478d158c959cec8f3592ec/tumblr_n7n5u15fi81qblyljo3_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/3e31636889da76e86eda18d0efbbefbe/tumblr_n7n5u15fi81qblyljo4_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/d799ae24bd10c370a163cd6f56ddf158/tumblr_n7n5u15fi81qblyljo5_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/85e0cb7705e82ac554ab6ad95d2ec58f/tumblr_n7n5u15fi81qblyljo6_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/bb064f27503e3ae42d409973346f87e7/tumblr_n7n5u15fi81qblyljo7_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/76ec5f81c4b399ba9d68f3986118ca0a/tumblr_n7n5u15fi81qblyljo8_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/0420b1ff66f3f8e9509d8860ddc3c35a/tumblr_n7n5u15fi81qblyljo9_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/027235baf89deba85cbcb1a1c08b6e5b/tumblr_n7n5u15fi81qblyljo10_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br> <br><p><a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> live photos shot in Orlando at The Backbooth on June 16, 2014 - all pictures by <a href="http://photos.orlandoweekly.com/dream-house-photos-from-deafheaven-and-pallbearer-at-backbooth/#1" target="_blank">James Dechert for Orlando Weekly - See full gallery HERE</a>. <br><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/deafheaven/shows" target="_blank">Deafheaven is currently on tour - See ALL DH Tour dates and details HERE.</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/60957152014-06-11T13:41:00-07:002020-01-13T11:15:43-08:00More N. American Shows announced for September <p><img src="https://33.media.tumblr.com/68ab6d96c9c4fd3dfcb7e70a5a7d9291/tumblr_inline_n70uguSP4y1r3j6b4.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p>
<p>New shows have been added in September to the <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> tour schedule ( in bold below). Joining them on these new shows will be <a href="http://nojoymusic.com/" target="_blank">No Joy </a>and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Indian_Handcrafts" target="_blank">Indian Handcrafts</a><br><br><a href="http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/deafheaven/shows" target="_blank">See ALL Deafheaven Tour Dates and Details HERE </a><br><br><strong>DEAFHEAVEN 2014</strong><br>June 11 Richmond, VA @ Canal Club *<br>June 13 Manchester, TN @ <a href="http://lineup.bonnaroo.com/events/2014/06/13/" target="_blank">Bonnaroo</a><br>June 15 Miami, FL @ Churchill’s *<br>June 16 Orlando, FL @ Backbooth *<br>June 17 Tampa, FL @ Crowbar *<br>June 18 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jack’s *<br>June 20 St. Louis, MO @ Firebird *<br>June 21 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick *<br>June 22 Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon *<br>June 23 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock *<br>June 24 Lawrence, KS @ Granada *<br>June 26 Houston, TX @ FItzgerald’s *<br>June 27 Austin, TX @ Red 7 *<br>June 28 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada *<br>June 30 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom **<br>July 01 San Diego, CA @ Casbah ^<br>July 02 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall ^<br>July 18 Chicago, IL @ <a href="http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=5070575" target="_blank">Bottom Lounge</a> w/ Perfect Pussy <br>July 20 Chicago, IL @ <a href="http://pitchforkmusicfestival.com/" target="_blank">Pitchfork Festival</a><br>August 02 Katowice, Poland @ <a href="http://off-festival.pl/" target="_blank">OFF Festival</a><br>August 03 Dresden, Germany @ Beatpol ^*<br>August 04 Vienna, Austria @ Arena ^*<br>August 05 Prague, Czech Rebublic @ Klub 007<br>August 08 Oslo, Norway @ <a href="http://oyafestivalen.com/" target="_blank">Oya Festival</a><br>August 09 Gothenburg, Sweden @ <a href="http://wayoutwest.se/" target="_blank">Way Out Festival</a><br>August 10 Aarhaus, Denmark @ Voxhall<br>August 11 Copenhagen, Denmark @ <a href="http://www.beta2300.dk/index.php/events/index/deafheaven-%28us%29-%5Bdirty-days-of-summer-3%5D/11-08-2014" target="_blank">Beta Dirty Days of Summer</a><br>August 13 Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang<br>August 14 Hasselt, Belgium @ <a href="http://www.pukkelpop.be/en/" target="_blank">Pukkelpop</a><br>August 15 London, UK @ <a href="https://www.atpfestival.com/events/jabberwocky2014.php" target="_blank">ATP’s Jabberwocky </a>^*<br>August 16 Manchester, UK - ATP presents @ Gorilla ^*<br>August 17 Belfast, Ireland @ Mandela Hall ^^<br>August 18 Galway, Ireland @ Roisin Dubh ^^<br>August 19 Dublin, Ireland @ Whelans ^^<br>Sept 13 Hudson, NY @ <a href="http://basilicasoundscape.com/" target="_blank">Basilica Sound Scape 14</a><br><strong>Sept 14 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg #</strong><br><strong>Sept 16 Hamden, CT @ Ballroom at the Outer Space #</strong><br><strong>Sept 17 Pawtucket, RI @ The Met Cafe #</strong><br><strong>Sept 18 Buffalo, NY @ Traff Music Hall #</strong><br><strong>Sept 19 Toronto, ON @ Opera House #</strong><br><strong>Sept 20 Montreal, QC @ Il Motore #</strong><br><strong>Sept 21 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground #^</strong><br><strong>Sept 23 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar #^</strong><br><strong>Sept 24 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop #^</strong><br>Sept 25-27 Cincinnati, OH @ <a href="http://www.mpmf.com/" target="_blank">Midpoint Music Festival</a><br>Sept 26-28 Urbana, IL @ <a href="http://pygmalionmusicfestival.com/" target="_blank">Pygmalion Music Festival</a><br>October 11-12 Mexico City, Mexico @ <a href="http://www.coronacapital.com.mx/" target="_blank">Corona Capital Festival</a><br>Nov 7-9 Austin, TX @ <a href="http://funfunfunfest.com/" target="_blank">Fun Fun Fun Fest </a><br> <br>* w/ Pallbearer, Wreck & Reference<br>** w/ Destruction Unit, Wreck & Reference<br>^ w/ Wreck & Reference<br>^* w/ <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/chelsea_wolfe" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a><br>^^ w/ <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/No_Spill_Blood" target="_blank">No Spill Blood</a><br># w/ No Joy, Indian Handcrafts<br>#^ w/ No Joy</p>Sargent House