KnightBrolaire
great value jason momoa
ok i like sunbather a loooot more than I liked New Bermuda, but I'm still not sold on the vocals.
Deafheaven Thread
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gunch
goof-ass
I agree with this.
Dekay82
I WANT the fret nibs
Something something Daemoness guitars...
In all seriousness, Sunbather is incredibly solid. Roads to Judah is enjoyable and New Bermuda aint too bad. Most of the hate I see is from people who take the black metal label waaay too seriously. That seems to be a problem for a lot of people when they compartmentalize something and try to make it fit into a genre. They get disappointed because it doesn't meet their expectations of said genre.
I was at Amoeba in LA last year and I think I bought Darkthrone's 3rd album and Morissey's first solo album. I jokingly told the cashier I was buying the Deafheaven starter pack and she rolled her eyes at me. Bitch. The SF Amoeba staff was way cooler.
Back on topic, I saw them last year on Long Island and they slayed. Haters be damned.
In all seriousness, Sunbather is incredibly solid. Roads to Judah is enjoyable and New Bermuda aint too bad. Most of the hate I see is from people who take the black metal label waaay too seriously. That seems to be a problem for a lot of people when they compartmentalize something and try to make it fit into a genre. They get disappointed because it doesn't meet their expectations of said genre.
I was at Amoeba in LA last year and I think I bought Darkthrone's 3rd album and Morissey's first solo album. I jokingly told the cashier I was buying the Deafheaven starter pack and she rolled her eyes at me. Bitch. The SF Amoeba staff was way cooler.
Back on topic, I saw them last year on Long Island and they slayed. Haters be damned.
gunch
goof-ass
Wut, don't they play Dunables?
KnightBrolaire
great value jason momoa
dylan at daemoness rips on deafheaven a loooot.
jwade
Doooooooooom
New Dylan rap soon? Ha.
supraorbital_keyhole
Well-Known Member
Stoked for this, I like the mix alot actually. Enjoying the fact that the drums are less buried than New Bermuda, but the guitars are still a bit more evident. Sunbather > New Bermuda for me and I'd say songwriting here is more at that level. They're doing something different than most metal bands right now and I'm all for it!
AdamMaz
Well-Known Member
Still love Sunbather and New Bermuda was a good follow up. Only listened to the above once yesterday, didn't care for it. I will probably check them out on tour again.
Have you not listened to Roads to Judah? I think it's much better than New Bermuda. Really it's practically as good as Sunbather.
I listened to New Bermuda again last night and this morning. It's not bad, but just doesn't grab me the way Roads or Sunbather do. Or even the new track Honeycomb.
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gunch
goof-ass
New Bermuda is basically Luna and that’s it
wankerness
Well-Known Member
New Bermuda is a frustrating listen. It feels like it should have been released BEFORE Sunbather. Nothing about it seems like a progression. I don't hate it, but I never find myself listening to it when I have the other two.
Sunbather is one of the best albums I heard last year. I utterly love their sound on some tracks. I really, really like the similar group Oathbreaker's album "Rheia." I heard that before hearing of Deafheaven, and I started a thread asking on here about groups with a similar vibe to the black metal sections of that album, and got some responses that were like THAT SOUNDS NOTHING LIKE BLACK METAL I'D DESCRIBE THOSE BLASTBEATS AND TREMELO PICKS AND SCREECHES AS POST ROCK EVEN IF YOU ISOLATED THAT ONE MINUTE OF THE SONG. Argh. It reminds me of way back in the day having topics on the Ultimate-Metal forums where people insisted that Slipknot's "Iowa" was alternative rock and that if you described it as any kind of metal, even to non-metal fans, that you were an IDIOT. I remember one big reason from those people was "they have verse-chorus structure, no metal band has that!!"
(I got plenty of very helpful responses on here, too, not trying to diminish the board!!)
Sunbather is one of the best albums I heard last year. I utterly love their sound on some tracks. I really, really like the similar group Oathbreaker's album "Rheia." I heard that before hearing of Deafheaven, and I started a thread asking on here about groups with a similar vibe to the black metal sections of that album, and got some responses that were like THAT SOUNDS NOTHING LIKE BLACK METAL I'D DESCRIBE THOSE BLASTBEATS AND TREMELO PICKS AND SCREECHES AS POST ROCK EVEN IF YOU ISOLATED THAT ONE MINUTE OF THE SONG. Argh. It reminds me of way back in the day having topics on the Ultimate-Metal forums where people insisted that Slipknot's "Iowa" was alternative rock and that if you described it as any kind of metal, even to non-metal fans, that you were an IDIOT. I remember one big reason from those people was "they have verse-chorus structure, no metal band has that!!"
(I got plenty of very helpful responses on here, too, not trying to diminish the board!!)
RoRo56
Well-Known Member
From what I remember reading about New Bermuda, they had a very short period of time to write and record the album. That and they had the rest of the band help with some of the songwriting whereas Sunbather was nearly all McCoy and Clarke.
jwade
Doooooooooom
The new song feels like a Sunbather b-side. I don’t mean that in a disparaging way, but it doesn’t feel like a ‘new’ song to me, if that makes sense.
AdamMaz
Well-Known Member
I have, but it didn't grab me and I haven't cared to revisit.
After listening to Roads to Judah again on my lunch break, I revise my opinion: it's not so much better than New Bermuda. They're about on the same level, below Sunbather. However I do really like the track Unrequited from Roads to Judah a lot more than any one track on New Bermuda, that's what I think is coloring my impression of the album as a whole.
BIG ND SWEATY
Edgy
This sums up how I feel about it. Its not a bad song by any means but it doesn't feel like it goes anywhere and it doesn't grab me like Sunbather did. I find it pretty boring actually, I like the vocals for it and the first 5~ minutes are pretty good but once the solo kicks in it loses the momentum that it started off with and the post-rockish parts are doing nothing for me.
prlgmnr
...that kind of idea
Dream house is just such a jam, seeing it live is so great
