Deafheaven

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.

I realized that it has been ages since I heard the debut album Roads to Judah so I decided to pull it off the shelves. I think I like it better than Sunbather even though I understand the greater appeal of that one in much the same way I like Isn't Anything more than Loveless Facebook

lol facebook hyperlink

It's to my own page. I am always desperate for friends. Why don't you want me to have any friends? Sadist fucker.

Hate this. Sounds like gybe

black metal seems to be about cathartically purging ugly feelings rather than aestheticizing them in a way that makes them seem not ugly

Love this, and gets especially fun once you've purged a bit, you then start blasting old Celtic Frost records out of pure joy

I try with older Celtic Frost but maaaan they could not play for shit

I've never really been able to get into either them or Venom. Maybe that's the reason?

Oh my god. You're so lucky this is the Deafheaven thread else this heresy would not go unpunished.

ive noticed a lot of muso type dudes/chicks cant get into celtic frost or hellhammer! its hard for them to embrace that type of crudeness, the basicness (or even sloppiness) of the actual playing. to me that kind of stuff puts it on a higher level of kultitude

sund4r I'm surprised you cant dig celtic frost at least what with them actually having avant garde influences and the like

What would I listen to for the avant-garde elements? To Mega Therion?

yeah, but you should be listening to it anyway as one of the best albums ever!

Tho I guess Into The Pandemonium is seen as a weirder album

so listen to those 2!

I don't mind the "Mexican Radio" cover.

hah that's the weakest thing on it. When it made the all time metal tracks top 100 I remember a few people hated it.

Still putting me to sleep. Maybe I'll try again some time: I do like a lot of their ideas.

What exactly is the problem with their musicianship? I don't hear (post-Hellhammer anyway) any flubbed notes, loss of time or untuned guitars. Is it just that you guys don't like simplicity?

damn musos!

ive noticed a lot of muso type dudes/chicks cant get into celtic frost or hellhammer! its hard for them to embrace that type of crudeness, the basicness (or even sloppiness) of the actual playing. to me that kind of stuff puts it on a higher level of kultitude

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OTM, same type of people seem to hate Darkthrone's more lo-fi albums for similar reasons

No, I agree that the playing didn't sound sloppy or imprecise. (I never made that criticism btw.)

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I know a lot of people who love the last 4 or 5 Enslaved albums but hate the stuff before it. A lot definitely do not like lo-fi production OR simple stuff. Im fed up of hearing so many people say over the years "i dont want to hear stuff a 12 year old could play"

Rocky knows who I am talking about if he sees this thread

Im fed up of hearing so many people say over the years "i dont want to hear stuff a 12 year old could play"

Because you think the compositions are (deceptively) more sophisticated than that or because you don't think that's a valid criterion?

I mean, when ums said of well-known professional musicians that they "can't play", I didn't think he literally meant that they lacked the basic technical ability to clap a beat or tune their instruments. That usually means that they're not playing anything very interesting or challenging, right?

If that's the case it's sort of like criticizing the early Beatles albums because they're not Yes.

the latter(i wasnt talking about M@tt btw)

i think the compositions are more sophisticated than that AND i dont think its a valid criterion

It's a weird criticism tbh, especially because there are some damn good 12-year-olds out there. My Advanced Harmony/Analysis student from last year would probably beat Brian Eno in a technical contest.