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returntothepit >> discuss >> Deafheaven - Roads To Judah by Archaeon on Mar 2,2011 10:09pm
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toggletoggle post by Archaeon at Mar 2,2011 10:09pm
http://www.mediafire.com/?ues4pfgs1r7ovio

In b4 hipster black metal.



toggletoggle post by goatcatalyst   at Mar 2,2011 10:23pm
Cool sweater, bro. That Brooks Brothers?



toggletoggle post by Archaeon at Mar 3,2011 3:23am
Vineyard Vines.



toggletoggle post by goatcatalyst   at Mar 3,2011 6:59am
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."



toggletoggle post by nekronaut  at Mar 31,2011 3:35pm
Deafheaven transcends Liturgy.



toggletoggle post by nekronaut  at Mar 31,2011 3:35pm
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.



toggletoggle post by burnsy at Mar 31,2011 3:40pm
This album is fucking awesome.



toggletoggle post by thesac at Mar 31,2011 6:22pm
nail them to a cross in the name of rodeo burgers



toggletoggle post by bloblovesmusic at Mar 31,2011 6:24pm
they're playin O'Briens in June



toggletoggle post by burnsy at Mar 31,2011 6:29pm
Wren, you serious? I heard nothing about this. Their look reeks of this "hipster madness" running rampant on this forum but their music rules.



toggletoggle post by nekronaut  at Mar 31,2011 6:34pm
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.



toggletoggle post by burnsy at Mar 31,2011 6:44pm
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.



toggletoggle post by Alx_Casket  at Mar 31,2011 6:52pm
Some bands are better sports than others...




toggletoggle post by nekronaut  at Mar 31,2011 6:54pm
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)



toggletoggle post by burnsy at Mar 31,2011 7:21pm
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.



toggletoggle post by goatcatalyst   at Mar 31,2011 7:33pm
I dig it



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 31,2011 8:29pm
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.



toggletoggle post by bobnomaamrooney at Mar 31,2011 8:53pm
Infernal Stronghold>>>>>>>>This band



toggletoggle post by bobnomaamrooney at Mar 31,2011 8:57pm
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.



toggletoggle post by arilliusbm  at Mar 31,2011 9:26pm


Sigh...



toggletoggle post by arilliusbm  at Mar 31,2011 9:31pm
music has great atmosphere, but I can't take them seriously. lulz



toggletoggle post by goatcatalyst   at Mar 31,2011 10:06pm
Buttdart chic



toggletoggle post by Randy_Marsh at Mar 31,2011 11:39pm
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.



toggletoggle post by arilliusbm  at Mar 31,2011 11:56pm
I guess it's "post rock" with blast beats and harsh vocals. modern USBM at its finest



toggletoggle post by burnsy at Apr 1,2011 12:00am
This thread is lolsist.



toggletoggle post by ancient master at Apr 1,2011 2:13am
bobnomaamrooney said[orig][quote]
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



toggletoggle post by Blessed_Offal at Apr 1,2011 2:19am
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.



toggletoggle post by Yeti at Apr 1,2011 10:43am
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".



toggletoggle post by Yeti at Apr 1,2011 10:47am
nekronaut said[orig][quote]
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.



toggletoggle post by arilliusbm  at Apr 1,2011 10:47am
Plaid metal ftw



toggletoggle post by Yeti at Apr 1,2011 10:49am
oh yeah and Notshaver i know you didn't write that, my question was directed at them, not you.



toggletoggle post by cute dad at Apr 1,2011 11:10am
Yeti said[orig][quote]
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



toggletoggle post by Randy_Marsh at Apr 1,2011 11:11am
fuck i revealed my troll



toggletoggle post by xmikex at Apr 1,2011 11:17am
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.



toggletoggle post by burnsy at Apr 1,2011 11:58am
Randy_Marsh said[orig][quote]
fuck i revealed my troll


Ha



toggletoggle post by Blessed_Offal at Apr 1,2011 12:05pm
you didn't reveal your troll until you said 'i revealed my troll' logged in



toggletoggle post by burnsy at Apr 1,2011 12:10pm
I got no problem with zebras, just as long as we call it a striped horse.



toggletoggle post by zzzzzzzz at Apr 1,2011 1:04pm
play the same note for 3 minutes while turning reverb to 11

yawn



toggletoggle post by BobNOMAAMRooney nli at Jun 3,2011 9:39am
Burrito metal



toggletoggle post by goatcatalyst   at Jun 3,2011 10:10am
Fancy lads.



toggletoggle post by arilliusbm  at Jul 24,2011 5:15pm
oh hai



toggletoggle post by anon and on at Jul 24,2011 6:04pm
Relevant.



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