History Music / Deafheaven

[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, [[SarcasmMode they]] ''[[SarcasmMode totally]]'' [[SarcasmMode look like black metal]].]]

* 2013 - ''[[Music/{{Sunbather}}]]''

* 2013 - ''[[Music/Sunbather]]''

* 2013 - ''Sunbather''

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Mostly an 8 or 9 for the metal sections, while the {{Subdued Section}}s can drop as low as 1.

Deafheaven is a BlackMetal band from San Francisco, CA. They tend to be one of the biggest {{Base Breaker}}s in the genre: they have garnered a staggering amount of critical acclaim (Metacritic declared ''Sunbather'' the best-reviewed album of the year of ''any genre'' in 2013, which was the first time a metal album received this honour), but the band has also been attacked for "watering down" black metal with PostRock, {{Screamo}}, and {{Shoegaze}} influences, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking songs written in major keys, and pink album covers]]. The band's music remains very much a LoveItOrHateIt affair; mentioning them, either positively or negatively, on some black metal forums is instant FlameBait.

* '''MindScrew''': The album ''Sunbather'' is described as a concept album about "deals with the profound sadness found in the quest for one's personal perfection... serving as an artistic lucid dream of warmth despite the stinging pain of life's cruel idealism". Even if you read the lyrics, you'll be stumped over what they really mean.

* George Clarke
* Kerry [=McCoy=]
* Daniel Tracy
* Stephen Clark
* Shiv Mehra

Deafheaven is a BlackMetal band from San Francisco, CA. They tend to be one of the biggest {{Base Breaker}}s in the genre: they have garnered a staggering amount of critical acclaim (Metacritic declared ''Sunbather'' the best-reviewed album of 2013, which was the first time a metal album received this honour), but the band has also been attacked for "watering down" black metal with PostRock, {{Screamo}}, and {{Shoegaze}} influences, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking songs written in major keys, and pink album covers]]. The band's music remains very much a LoveItOrHateIt affair; mentioning them, either positively or negatively, on some black metal forums is instant FlameBait.

Deafheaven is a BlackMetal band from San Francisco, CA. They tend to be one of the biggest {{Base Breaker}}s in the genre: they have garnered a staggering amount of critical acclaim (Metacritic declared ''Sunbather'' the best-reviewed album of 2013, which was the first time a metal album received this honour), but the band has also been attacked for "watering down" black metal with PostRock, {{Screamo}}, and {{Shoegaze}} influences and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking songs written in major keys]]. The band's music remains very much a LoveItOrHateIt affair; mentioning them, either positively or negatively, on some black metal forums is instant FlameBait.

* SiameseTwinSongs: "Dream House" -> "Irresistible"; "Sunbather" -> "Please Remember".

Deafheaven is a BlackMetal band from San Francisco, CA. They tend to be one of the biggest {{Base Breaker}}s in the genre: they have garnered a staggering amount of critical acclaim (Metacritic declared ''Sunbather'' the best-reviewed album of 2013, which was the first time a metal album received this honour), but the band has also been attacked for "watering down" black metal with PostRock, {{Screamo}}, and {{Shoegaze}} influences and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking songs written in major keys]]. The band's music remains very much a LoveItOrHateIt affair.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Mostly a 9 for the metal sections, while the {{Subdued Section}}s can drop as low as 1.

* IndecipherableLyrics: As is the norm for black metal.

** "Windows" contains a sample of a street preacher and a sample of [=McCoy=], who was addicted to pharmaceutical opiates at the time ''Sunbather'' was recorded, buying drugs. Clarke commented, "Thematically, it's supposed to be about this guy talking about the evils of hell intermixed with one's own personal hell and the actual realities like addiction and self-worth, not the fire and brimstone. [[=McCoy=]] didn't have a lot of money, and he was kind of desperate; he's showcasing the true horrors that are here on earth--one's own personal demons."

George Clarke
Kerry [=McCoy=]
Daniel Tracy
Stephen Clark
Shiv Mehra

* 2011 - Roads to Judah

* 2013 - Sunbather

** "Windows" contains a sample of a street preacher and a sample of McCoy, who was addicted to pharmaceutical opiates at the time ''Sunbather'' was recorded, buying drugs. Clarke commented, "Thematically, it's supposed to be about this guy talking about the evils of hell intermixed with one's own personal hell and the actual realities like addiction and self-worth, not the fire and brimstone. [McCoy] didn't have a lot of money, and he was kind of desperate; he's showcasing the true horrors that are here on earth--one's own personal demons."