Deafheaven - Roads To Judah[views:9959][posts:41]__________________________________ [Mar 2,2011 10:09pm - Archaeon ""] http://www.mediafire.com/?ues4pfgs1r7ovio In b4 hipster black metal. |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 2,2011 10:23pm - goatcatalyst ""] Cool sweater, bro. That Brooks Brothers? |
| _________________________________ [Mar 3,2011 3:23am - Archaeon ""] Vineyard Vines. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 3,2011 6:59am - goatcatalyst ""] I used to have a killer Vinyard Vines tie. Wish I knew where it was. Compliment city. "Hey, that's a great tie." "I know, I'm handsome." |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 3:35pm - nekronaut ""] Deafheaven transcends Liturgy. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 3:35pm - nekronaut ""] Welcome to the latest edition of “Freeloader” in which we review albums that you don’t have to feel like a douche for downloading for free. Today Satan Rosenbloom checks out the latest from Deafheaven. Black metal is a music of destruction, but not as an end in itself. Just as devastating fires are necessary to maintain the evolution of a forest, the outsized musical gestures and inflammatory rhetoric of black metal are aimed at razing the world so that we may begin anew. Strange, then, that it’s only been in the last five years or so that we’ve seen black metal sprouting so many new branches. It’s a sad irony that a music so opposed to orthodoxy should be so concerned with notions of purity. San Francisco’s Deafheaven are one of a growing legion of young American black metal bands (also including Krallice, Velnias and Liturgy) whose music captures that duality perfectly. There’s plenty of violence in the outpouring of blastbeats and guitars on their self-titled demo (briefly introduced by Vince here), but the violence feels transformative, baptismal, even comforting. Deafheaven’s arcing guitar harmonies lead to conventionally beautiful places; they even fly directly into the sun for the major key flashes of “Daedalus.” It says a lot that the acoustic instrumental “Bedrooms” feels totally at home among the beautiful carnage that surrounds it. It’s just as emotionally complete as the louder tracks. While Deafheaven’s music shares surface characteristics with the classic black metal sound, this demo is so distanced from Mayhem and Immortal as to be another kind of music entirely. It engulfs rather than tramples, shimmers where so much black metal rattles. These descriptions alone do not make Deafheaven good or bad. But they do amount to an important shift in aesthetic values, one that makes black metal more listenable without taming its spiritual thrust. It’s a shift that has clear predecessors in Weakling, Wolves In the Throne Room and Agalloch. Do Deafheaven offer a take on this strain of black metal that the others don’t? Not really, though they do streamline the sound a bit. Do they offer that same feeling of cleansing that I get when I listen to the aforementioned? Oh, yeah. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 3:40pm - burnsy ""] This album is fucking awesome. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 6:22pm - thesac ""] nail them to a cross in the name of rodeo burgers |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 6:24pm - bloblovesmusic ""] they're playin O'Briens in June |
| ________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 6:29pm - burnsy ""] Wren, you serious? I heard nothing about this. Their look reeks of this "hipster madness" running rampant on this forum but their music rules. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 6:34pm - nekronaut ""] That's why I bumped this thread.. Show is with KenMode, The Proselyte and Lunglust. Apparently you aren't allowed to voice your opinion on Deafheaven on the Facebook event page without somebody getting butthurt and deleting the comment. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 6:44pm - burnsy ""] Oh, no shit. I dunno, I can't really blame someone for deleting negative shit from their public page though. I'm sure I'd do the same unless it truly exuded many lols. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 6:52pm - Alx_Casket ""] Some bands are better sports than others... [img] |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 6:54pm - nekronaut ""] I think it was something like: Deafheaven sucks. Liturgy Part Deux. I thought it was funny. Anyway, I was recently shown these guys by Andrew from Castevet who said people went apeshit for them at SxSw. And no, I didn't see a picture of the band before I actually heard the band (but it certainly didn't help their case) |
| ________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 7:21pm - burnsy ""] Haha yeah that's not bad. Yeah I hadn't seen them before I listened. To each their own but I love the shoegazey black metal. |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 7:33pm - goatcatalyst ""] I dig it |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 8:29pm - spaldino ""] HAHAHAHAHA WOW. i was just strollin along on youtube looking at Les Discrets songs when i checked out one of these guys' songs in the related videos. fucking awesome. i come here for general RTTP dickery and BAM, there is a thread about this band. WEIRRRD. |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 8:53pm - bobnomaamrooney ""] Infernal Stronghold>>>>>>>>This band |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 8:57pm - bobnomaamrooney ""] But real talk, I'm not into this frilly style of hipster black metal. Only dirty as fuck Youth Attack! hipster black metal is real. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 9:26pm - arilliusbm ""] [img] Sigh... |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 9:31pm - arilliusbm ""] music has great atmosphere, but I can't take them seriously. lulz |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 10:06pm - goatcatalyst ""] Buttdart chic |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 11:39pm - Randy_Marsh ""] I think its funny Deathwish is signing "black metal" bands now. I don't consider this band black metal ...(what's black or metal about it?) but I certainly think the music is good. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 31,2011 11:56pm - arilliusbm ""] I guess it's "post rock" with blast beats and harsh vocals. modern USBM at its finest :lol: |
| ________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 12:00am - burnsy ""] This thread is lolsist. |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 2:13am - ancient master ""] bobnomaamrooney said:But real talk, I'm not into this frilly style of hipster black metal. Only dirty as fuck Youth Attack! hipster black metal is real. heh |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 2:19am - Blessed_Offal ""] I usually don't care that much about people ruining metal because I just ignore it, but the recent uprising of hipster BM bands is really starting to get to me. |
| ______________________________ [Apr 1,2011 10:43am - Yeti ""] i just wish they would stop calling it "black metal". it's not even remotely the same. sure it has tremolo picking, screaming, and blast beats, but that doesn't make it "black" metal. it's a totally different world. i now dub it "plaid metal". |
| ______________________________ [Apr 1,2011 10:47am - Yeti ""] nekronaut said:It’s a sad irony that a music so opposed to orthodoxy should be so concerned with notions of purity. what a douchey statement. what do you think the old ways were? ANTI-EVERYTHING. listening to music like this labeled as "black metal" is like when elementary school had "Field Day" and you got the orange drink, but it was so horribly watered down that it barely resembled it's original form. they aren't "transcending" anything, they are standing on the shoulders of geniuses and pissing in their faces. |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 10:47am - arilliusbm ""] Plaid metal ftw |
| ______________________________ [Apr 1,2011 10:49am - Yeti ""] oh yeah and Notshaver i know you didn't write that, my question was directed at them, not you. |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 11:10am - cute dad ""] Yeti said:i just wish they would stop calling it "black metal". it's not even remotely the same. sure it has tremolo picking, screaming, and blast beats, but that doesn't make it "black" metal. it's a totally different world. i now dub it "plaid metal". yeah this pretty much exactly what i said in my post . . agreed haha |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 11:11am - Randy_Marsh ""] fuck i revealed my troll |
| ________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 11:17am - xmikex ""] My room mate (who is usually spot on when it comes to BM-ish stuff). Had me listen to the entire Deafheaven record. It was really unimpressive. Anybody could have made this record. |
| ________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 11:58am - burnsy ""] Randy_Marsh said:fuck i revealed my troll Ha |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 12:05pm - Blessed_Offal ""] you didn't reveal your troll until you said 'i revealed my troll' logged in |
| ________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 12:10pm - burnsy ""] I got no problem with zebras, just as long as we call it a striped horse. |
| __________________________________ [Apr 1,2011 1:04pm - zzzzzzzz ""] play the same note for 3 minutes while turning reverb to 11 yawn |
| _____________________________________________ [Jun 3,2011 9:39am - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""] Burrito metal |
| ______________________________________ [Jun 3,2011 10:10am - goatcatalyst ""] Fancy lads. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 24,2011 5:15pm - arilliusbm ""] oh hai |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 24,2011 6:04pm - anon and on ""] Relevant. |