History Music / Deafheaven

* SpecialGuest: [[Music/{{Alcest}} Neige]] on "Please Remember".

Deafheaven is a BlackMetal band from San Francisco, CA. Along with Music/{{Alcest}}, they are one of the pioneering bands of the post-black metal/blackgaze subgenre, which combines the tremolo picking, blast beats, and HarshVocals of black metal with the sunny atmosphere of shoegaze and post-rock song structures. They started off as a two piece consisting of vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry [=McCoy=], under which they self-released a demo. After this got them some notoriety, they recruited new members to fill out their lineup and released their debut record ''Roads to Judah'' in 2011, which attained critical acclaim from the music press and put them on the map. They ''really'' took off in 2013, when they released their sophomore album ''Music/{{Sunbather}}'' to widespread critical acclaim, becoming the most praised album of ''any'' genre in 2013 on Metacritic, the first metal band to ever do so. Despite this, they became something divisive among the metal community, with many people decrying them as being "hipster metal". Undaunted, the band continued touring and released a third record, ''New Bermuda'', in 2015. This album featured a stronger metal sound, with an increased preponderance of heavy guitar riffs and less shoegaze influence. The band has continued to push their sound in new directions with 2018's ''Ordinary Corrupt Human Love''--their most sonically diverse release to date, with elements of classic rock, ambient, country, and spoken word alongside the heavier passages--and 2021's ''Infinite Granite'', which is essentially a straightforward shoegaze record with almost no harsh vocals.

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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Stephen Lee Clark, George Clarke, Shiv Mehra, Daniel Tracy, and Kerry [=McCoy=].]]

Deafheaven is a BlackMetal band from San Francisco, CA. Along with Music/{{Alcest}}, they are one of the pioneering bands of the post-black metal/blackgaze subgenre, which combines the tremolo picking, blast beats, and HarshVocals of black metal with the sunny atmosphere of shoegaze and post-rock song structures. They started off as a two piece consisting of vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry [=McCoy=], under which they self-released a demo. After this got them some notoriety, they recruited new members to fill out their lineup and released their debut record ''Roads to Judah'' in 2011, which attained critical acclaim from the music press and put them on the map. They ''really'' took off in 2013, when they released their sophomore album ''Music/{{Sunbather}}'' to widespread critical acclaim, becoming the most praised album of ''any'' genre in 2013 on Metacritic, the first metal band to ever do so. Despite this, they became something divisive among the metal community, with many people decrying them as being "hipster metal". Undaunted, the band continued touring and released a third record, ''New Bermuda'', in 2015. This album featured a stronger metal sound, with an increased preponderance of heavy guitar riffs and less shoegaze influence. The band has continued to push their sound in new directions with 2018's ''Ordinary Corrupt Human Love''--their most sonically diverse release to date, with elements of classic rock, ambient, country, and even spoken word alongside the heavier passages--and 2021's ''Infinite Granite'', which is essentially a straightforward shoegaze record with almost no harsh vocals.

Deafheaven is a BlackMetal band from San Francisco, CA. Along with Music/{{Alcest}}, they are one of the pioneering bands of the post-black metal/blackgaze subgenre, which combines the tremolo picking, blast beats, and HarshVocals of black metal with the sunny atmosphere of shoegaze and post-rock song structures. They started off as a two piece consisting of vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry [=McCoy=], under which they self-released a demo. After this got them some notoriety, they recruited new members to fill out their lineup and released their debut record ''Roads to Judah'' in 2011, which attained critical acclaim from the music press and put them on the map. They ''really'' took off in 2013, when they released their sophomore album ''Music/{{Sunbather}}'' to widespread critical acclaim, becoming the most praised album of ''any'' genre in 2013 on Metacritic, the first metal band to ever do so. Despite this, they became something divisive among the metal community, with many people decrying them as being "hipster metal". Undaunted, the band continued touring and released a third record, ''New Bermuda'', in 2015. This album featured a stronger metal sound, with an increased preponderance of heavy guitar riffs and less shoegaze influence.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Mostly an 8 or 9 for the metal sections, while the {{Subdued Section}}s can drop as low as 1. Parts of ''New Bermuda'' could be considered to reach 10, if not the album as a whole.

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Bedrooms" and the interludes on ''Sunbather'' (particularly "Irresistible").