Artist: Deafheaven
Album: Demo CS
Album: Demo CS
Release: 2010
Label: Self-Released
Label: Self-Released
Tracklist:
1. Libertine Dissolves
2. Bedrooms
3. Daedalus
4. Exit:Denied
Black metal is a careful descriptor these days. It’s a genre that’s going in an assload of directions. There are bands bringing it to the forefront of mainstream music. There are OGs who don’t give a fuck anymore. There are obnoxious hipsters who get into the genre, appropriate what they like about it, imbue it with an entirely contradictory M.O., and talk about their art like it’s the truest form of the music.
San Francisco’s Deafheaven aren’t groundbreakingly original, but are good at what they do while not falling into any of the aforementioned groups. Instead, they’re more in the vein of Alcest, Fen, and other black metal groups prone to mixing the peak-and-valley dynamics of post-rock music in with the genre standards of shrieked vocals. Intentionally or not, the band maintains a healthy amount of mystique, offering zero band member pictures, but wisely sidesteps the condescending pretention and dramaticism of select peers and just go for the throat. “Libertine Dissolves” blazes right into fast riffing and howling vocals, and is then nicely offset by the acoustic instrumental “Bedrooms.” “Daedalus” offers some enjoyable tempo changes while maintaining plenty of blasting sections. Epic closer “Exit:Denied” introduces a conversation of acoustic guitars before returning to a wash of speed, then decays into a wallowing section that shambles to its end.
Stylistically, Deafheaven know what they’re doing and do it well. Some time dedicated to honing their voice will ultimately lend them more longevity. Still, for being merely a four-track demo, dudes have their shit together.
San Francisco’s Deafheaven aren’t groundbreakingly original, but are good at what they do while not falling into any of the aforementioned groups. Instead, they’re more in the vein of Alcest, Fen, and other black metal groups prone to mixing the peak-and-valley dynamics of post-rock music in with the genre standards of shrieked vocals. Intentionally or not, the band maintains a healthy amount of mystique, offering zero band member pictures, but wisely sidesteps the condescending pretention and dramaticism of select peers and just go for the throat. “Libertine Dissolves” blazes right into fast riffing and howling vocals, and is then nicely offset by the acoustic instrumental “Bedrooms.” “Daedalus” offers some enjoyable tempo changes while maintaining plenty of blasting sections. Epic closer “Exit:Denied” introduces a conversation of acoustic guitars before returning to a wash of speed, then decays into a wallowing section that shambles to its end.
Stylistically, Deafheaven know what they’re doing and do it well. Some time dedicated to honing their voice will ultimately lend them more longevity. Still, for being merely a four-track demo, dudes have their shit together.
13 comments:
"Libertines Dissolve" is one of the best things I've heard this year.
No hard copies available for purchase?
Harris, see the Buy Here link for the very limited cassette...I think the run is like 85 copies.
Worst hipster BM going, I post with two of these fruits on a messageboard.
They're ex rise of caligula (google, you'll see what I am talking about)
this is awesome, reminds me of a black metal loma preita (dark mountain era)
So good!!
fuck liturgy
fuck liturgy. i forget where, but i read a bio-piece on liturgy on-line recently but i forget where. i could smell bullshit and i don't even like metal!
does this band have any connection to whirl?
yall are pathetic fucks without any humor. too bad your dad's railed you one too many times in the two hole but fuck just get over it.
did a member of Liturgy just get mad at the internet?
If Liturgy are a joke/trolling band meant to be taken as such, that would seriously be the best prank ever. I'd be punk'd.
great blog aboslutely terrible hipster garbage band. these guys are trend hopping deathcore idiots.
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