D eafheaven is back with Lonely People With Power, their sixth full-length album and possibly their best work ever. The band—vocalist George Clarke, guitarist Kerry McCoy, drumm ...

album from endlessly inventive metal band Deafheaven, and it perfectly sums up their magic-trick mix of raw aggression, painterly lyrics, and earworm melodies. Lonely People With Power is an ...

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minute-long intro to ‘Lonely People with Power’ leaves both possibilities open, before ‘Doberman’ answers the question categorically in its opening seconds. Deafheaven pick up where they ...

Fifteen years into a storied career that’s crisscrossed the boundaries of black metal and shoegaze, Deafheaven has found a ...

Deafheaven play a form of music dubbed “blackgaze” due to its mix of black metal and shoegaze (“shoe metal” evidently didn’t have quite the right ring to it). The San Francisco band have acquired a ...

In this mess of confusion, Lonely People With Power stands. It’s a continuation of their journey, but where has it led? Not to the roaring waves of Sunbather, not to the jagged cliffs of New Bermuda.

But these heavy, soaring songs also hint at unexplored terrain. Like most Deafheaven records, Lonely People With Power opens thunderously. Following a brief, atmospheric intro, “Doberman ...

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 ...

Over the course of 15 years, Deafheaven have become the biggest black metal/shoegaze crossover band in the world. One interesting aspect of the album is the interstitial musical arrangements that dot ...

Hear Deafheaven’s new single Heathen – the second preview they’ve shared from next month’s Lonely People With Power record. Features “That spirit of playing fast and hard has been ...