Deafheaven

in "the pecan tree", the vocals almost seem to be struggling against the music, especially at the end, and they don't stand a chance. i keep thinking of an orc writhing in agony -- possibly dying -- as he is exposed to sunlight for the first time ever.

darkthrone had pretty legitimate production quality when they were a DM band, so it stands to reason they went lo-fi deliberately

an orc, gtfo

um the orcs have a vague psychological (not a physical) response to sunlight so go to hell

just meant that the tension between the black metal aspects of the record and the post rock aspects of the record really come to a head at the album's climax.

i quite like the idea of vocal ork dying by guitar light fuiiid

actually fuogp either way

Okay, it took me listening to it several times, but I really finally get this album. The hardest thing for me to get past was the screamo vibe, and it's still a detriment, but the fact that I also hear shimmering shoegaze, black metal undertones and psyche-era Pink Floyd mood changes makes up for that.

Chalk me up as another person who kept seeing this thread at the top of New Answers and went to listen out of curiosity, really dug it, then bought the album and now love it

Yes, I know just what you mean. In a similar way I am now enjoying burritos made with two small tortillas.

what if this is all just a dream and deafheaven is the reality? really makes you think

lol

It was all a dream
I used to read Terrorizer magazine
Fenriz, Count G up in the limousine

lol

A+

this is not to suggest that it's a likely influence but rather just a coincidence of production quirks, but one thing that kind of reminds me of trv old school black metal that i've heard is the fast Bob song on Husker Du's Metal Circus. that same insectoid, distorted whine of guitars and frantic cardboard box snare

What other black metal bands should I check out if I deeply love both this album and (though I wish it wasn't so) Filosofem? Like, black metal with atmospheric guitar fuzz and an ongoing dialectic between melancholy and transcendence?

Personally I'd recommend Explosions In The Sky

yeah good point they are better than most black metal

lol

I'd recommend actually exploding in the sky

black metal with atmospheric guitar fuzz and an ongoing dialectic between melancholy and transcendence?

― Treeship, Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:01 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess people think they're boring now or whatever but Wolves in the Throne Room scratches this itch for me

i would recommend eits to anyone regardless of whether they like black metal or not

but especially if they like ongoing dialectics with their guitars

svperstvtvres of transylvania

Treeship: check out the new Woods of Desolation, "As the Stars" for sure.

Who amongst us will confess to having Sunbather as their best album of the year, then?

I never liked EITS, by the way.

Okay, it took me listening to it several times, but I really finally get this album. The hardest thing for me to get past was the screamo vibe, and it's still a detriment, but the fact that I also hear shimmering shoegaze, black metal undertones and psyche-era Pink Floyd mood changes makes up for that.

based on this description, i wish they'd reissue this album, without any vocals, so i can really hear it.

i primarily enjoy this album as an imaginary lost sunny day real estate record tbh

(xp) Deafheaven: The Karaoke Album

KIDZ BOP 666: DEAFHEAVEN

Sunbather is in my top 4 or 5 for sure xp

I had deafheaven #3 I think in the metal albums poll

Treeship I feel you would really benefit from Moonsorrow, specifically V: Hävitetty - absolutely incredible blackened melodic folk-metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5-_4VbzF_A

ok, moonsorrow kicks ass. i already knew wolves in the throne room were good, but thanks hoos anyway for spurring me to re-listen to them. i'm especially fond of their first album. still don't know if i am getting the shoegaze element in these groups though that i love so much in deafheaven and burzum.

i think listening to metal over these past few weeks have snapped me out of a saddish period. if it weren't for deafheaven i think i would have just been stewing in my melancholy indie playlists, so thank you deafheaven. black metal seems to be about cathartically purging ugly feelings rather than aestheticizing them in a way that makes them seem not ugly, which is what sad love songs do for feelings of romantic disappointment. goes without saying that there is a place for both kinds of music. maybe this is just the old distinction between the beautiful and the sublime.

oh yea and this is relevant to black metal

http://www.freep.com/article/20140222/FEATURES01/302220057/Viking-calendar-predicts-the-world-will-end-today

Trying to listen to this on my portable crosby turntable. It isn't working out so well.

*crosley

ooof that must sound pretty harsh on a crosley

Crosleys are for old people in nursing homes to listen to Andy Williams albums on. Seriously, please save up for a better table.

^^^

It sucks, i agree, but it's very space efficient. Know of any good portable ones?

Audio Technica Sound Burger

iPod Classic

It sucks, i agree, but it's very space efficient. Know of any good portable ones?

Portables usually sacrifice quality, obviously. You could probably get a receiver, bookshelf speakers and a table and stack them up in roughly the same area though?

Maybe... I'm probably going to move in the next year or so and will configure a new sound system then i think. A quality turntable is definitely on my list of things I want to own; the crosley is only serviceable for folk and lo-fi indie albums where there's not a lot of detail to get across.

The sound burger is real btw & supposed to be the best portable, comes w decent AT cartridge

try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCmTCidbDaU

http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/indians-will-lindsay-doesnt-give-a-shit-about-deafheaven

he played for a while in wittr for a while btw before joining Indian

"extreme" needs to stop being a word.

when i first looked at that url i thought that link was about lindsay lohan not giving a shit about deafheaven. was surprised at how relieved i felt to discover LL doesn't actively dislike deafheaven, or at least that she hasn't made a public statement to this effect. old crushes die hard.