Deafheaven Bring Back the Roar on ‘Lonely People With Power’: Album Review

Deafheaven Bring Back the Roar on ‘Lonely People With Power’: Album Review

At a time when heavy metal has mutated and evolved into so many different shapes that even the term “post-metal” feels reductive, it’s hard to slap the term on anyone — especially, er, post-metal pioneers Deafheaven, whose unusual fusion of screeched vocals and blast beats with towering, majestic guitars and gentle interludes have always made […]

Deafheaven Release New Album and Unveil "Winona" Short Film

Deafheaven have released their sixth album, Lonely People with Power, along with a short film for the LP’s track “Winona.” Both the LP and the seven-minute movie can be streamed below. The album’s release comes ahead of the blackgaze band’s spring North American tour, which kicks off April 19th in Los Angeles, and features support from Gatecreeper and Trauma Ray. Tickets are available here. Get Deafheaven Tickets Here Lonely People with Power wa…

Deafheaven transcended black metal and the elitists hated them for it - now they've embraced it again with their heaviest album yet

“Deafheaven aren't real black metal.” It’s a sentence purists have bandied about ever since the San Franciscans started tempering extreme music’s savagery with blankets of shoegaze. Pearls only got cl

Deafheaven are truly not a band to which expectations should be put. Otherwise SUNBATHER would have co-founded the Blackgaze in 2013? Would Black Metal fans otherwise have been so offended by the shoegaze-more powerful INFINITE GRANITE (2021)? And could they now be pleased that LONELY PEOPLE WITH POWER is coming in again with staggering force? With their sixth [...]Deafheaven are truly not a band to which expectations should be put.