Deafheaven

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I think I'm going to give up on trying to get into this album.

that font tho

I'm glad this thread got bumped cuz it reminds me I still need to check out Woe - Withdrawal

I've tried off and on with Sunbather, but it's never quite clicked. It has a certain simplicity or purity of effect that may have helped it crossover, I guess, but I just kind of lose interest. The vocalist doesn't do much for me - his shrieking is too monochromatic. There's no sense he's reacting to anything in the music going on around him. Their sound is I guess kind of unique, but the songs seem fairly interchangeable.

^ "his shrieking is too monochromatic. There's no sense he's reacting to anything in the music going on around him" and they're pretty generic so in many ways they're the post-BM Cult of Luna.

There are a lot of bands, if not exactly reinventing this particular sub-sub-genre called blackgaze or whatever horrible title you want to call it, but doing it a whole lot better but DH is the one many sites/people seemed to latch onto for some reason and it's just baffling to me because they are just poor.

I might have said something similar upthread but idc

There are a lot of bands, if not exactly reinventing this particular sub-sub-genre called blackgaze or whatever horrible title you want to call it, but doing it a whole lot better

Which ones iyo?

Alcest and WITTR are/were the best at it to me though they've both gone in different directions now. Lantlos and An Autumn for Crippled Children are very good, and Krallice have a lot of the ole 'gaze to them though they are rather more intense and less poppy than most in this particular field. There are probably more but I'm about to collapse into bed so if no one else suggests anything I might list off some more tomorrow...

^strong posting. Negura Bunget also have some stellar blackgaze moments - for instance,

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

…which I think might be the single greatest blackgaze song ever written

Obviously I'm not counting Darkspace, otherwise they'd crush the opposition entirely - they're less 'gaze', more 'roiling madness'

Fuck it, if these guys count then they deserve an airing. Feel slightly embarrassed for Deafheaven being juxtaposed with them, but yknow, life's a cunt and then you get sucked out of an airlock

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

Krallice are awesome and I def rank them over Deafheaven. I tend to put them in this category though: Search: Metal that Sounds Like Glenn Branca. My favourite Alcest is Le Secret. When they're doing retro-90s guitar pop, they don't hold my interest. Haven't kept up with WITTR since Diadem of 12 Stars. I don't know Lantlos or An Autumn for Crippled Children. I'll keep an eye out.

loving that negura bunget song

Haven't kept up with WITTR since Diadem of 12 Stars.

you should at least check out the second full-length

I think it's really cool that a progressive band like Deafheaven brought so much innovation to metal....definitely a "thinking man's" metal band, might go over some ppl's heads if they aren't ready for it

who is/was making arguments like that?

woah I'm listening to .Neon by Lantlos right now & can I just say: Frederik B totally OTM

(well okay, like 95% OTM -- I hear more Bark Psychosis than Talk Talk, but that's splitting hairs I didn't even know existed until this album made them stand up all over my body)

getting a weird M83 vibe from the last track, too... maybe just the female voice speaking French(?) in the background

yeah yeah I like Lantlos' beefier take on this particular sound. I highly rate the album they released this year too

Krallice are awesome and I def rank them over Deafheaven. I tend to put them in this category though: Search: Metal that Sounds Like Glenn Branca.

yyy, krallice gives me a bit of a live skull vibe iirc

oooof never heard darkspace before that's bloody intense. I will have to investigate further when I'm in a position to play it really fucking loud. Points off for corpsepaint though.

Also I like how we're mostly talking about anyone other than DH now heheheheh

m8 the entirety of dark III is on youtube. go there urgently. imo it is one of the greatest metal albums

Yeah y'know what fuck it, I was highly impressed so I'll do just that

Opinions on the new single?: https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/from-the-kettle-to-the-coil

I'm not really sure what to make of it yet.

Are we not freaking out and jumping off of rooftops over the new one?

https://soundcloud.com/antirecords/deafheaven-brought-to-the-water

I've really been enjoying it!

wait so it was a joke there's not really a kokomo cover

Yes but the whole album is a concept album about Ibiza, it's balearic black metal y'all

I like the new song.

Yup, me too!

Starts out not sounding like them, but over the course of the song becomes more recognizably them. Sounds okay, but I burned out quickly on their last album, and kind of figure the same thing would happen here.

The drummer loves his two-kick and snare triplets

In laymen's terms that means what?

Probably something different from bitchy internet metal drummer terms. Or he's really into Cuban music?

(Seriously, dudes go off about how someone's playing gravity blast beats instead of real blast beats, it's hilarious. I probably even have that wrong an am opening myself to flaming.)

It's when you've got a double bass drum and hit each of those and then the snare in rapid succession. Three quick notes that kind of sound like one.

a few minutes in and it sounds like vintage thrash metallica

Thanks for the explanation re: kick/snare triplets. I'm not a drummer, but I program drums sometimes and was wondering what you meant. I really like the guitar tones on the new song. I do hear a lot of Metallica's chunkiness in certain chords. I dig the tune overall.

love the newest song

New single!

https://open.spotify.com/track/3lRlDtNzyIgoXLXDThMo5O

I'm jumping off the roof

that new single's intro sounds like they transposed the intro of godspeed you! black emperor's "sleep"

Still not connecting with this band. Not that they're doing anything wrong, but I get bored.

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/23/441531170/first-listen-deafheaven-new-bermuda

this is amazing so far, the drummer is sick as hell and every time they let a real riff rip it's skin-scraping

http://www.stereogum.com/1831360/premature-evaluation-deafheaven-new-bermuda/franchises/premature-evaluation/

generous and reflective

that solo on 'come back'!!

I'm glad that piece highlights the drumming, it's what I was most impressed by on first listen. Not just beautifully played but also great-sounding.

this fuckin record!!

i like this album a LOT more than the last one. i didn't really dig that album at all. but the guitars are cool on this and the singer sounds like he went to BM school cuz he just sounds better in general. and the pretty guitar parts remind me of The Sundays. which is a compliment. don't know if i would listen to this on my own - just checked it out to see what condition their condition was in - but it's a good effort. i actually like the ROCK guitar parts a lot. maybe the guitarist will start a regular rock band at some point. would listen to that.

One of the guitarists is in a regular rock band (The Creepers) but they're pretty meh live so.

The Sundays??? lol