Well this article is..



Late.

Fuck! Yeah!

Not a huge black metal fan, but I'm definitely going to check this out. Sunbather was fantastic!

I think "from the kettle to the coil" was their best song yet. I hope the album delivers what that song promises

Sweet baby white Jesus. I've got a dollar.

the new album artwork is really good but i can't believe they found forty-nine separate people who each had a tattoo of the Sunbather cover on their buttcheek

Incoming love and loathing. Personally I loved Sunbather and hope this is great.

sunbather had promise, i hope this reaches it

There's a slight typo in there. It should be "will be released".

Roads To Judah was awesome, Sunbather was awesome…

Can only assume this will be awesome too!

old news bro

Really haven't "got" these dudes, i've got roads to judah, sunbather an their demo and they just never seem to grav hold of me so to speak. I dont think they're bad but just dont understand the hype.

"Your news is old news"

Think of them as like a hyper-melodic WitTR with shoegaze, Moose :3

this finna go in holy hell

Yo Moose, the hype is a bit absurd. But, I love this band. Most people that reeeeeeally hate it are people that are mad that so many people (that don't generally praise its influencing bands) reeeeeeally like it and that it isn't trve or groundbreaking. As if that matters when the overall product is fantastic.

damn that live video of sunbather is vicious too. way better than those outdoor festival vids that were floating around. this should be good.

^ which one?

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which one? [3]

I fixed the typo, which I hadn't even made in the first place.

The album artwork is certainly interesting. Given how Kettle sounded and these song titles I wouldn't be surprised if their new direction leans more toward pure black metal. On the other hand I wouldn't be that surprised if they lost all their extreme metal elements in an album or two like Liturgy, Lantlos, Alcest etc. have all done.

The one on the article page I assume:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CcqihRWNxY

No doubt this will suck monkey balls. Hipsters all over will be gurgling the hell out of it no doubt

And whoever compared these guys to WITTR needs to really figure out his life decisions

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No doubt this will suck monkey balls. Hipsters all over will be gurgling the hell out of it no doubt

People who hype albums for 6 months and then shit on them are stoked

artwork is neat but i hope five songs actually means five songs instead of like three songs and two interludes. one interlude wouldnt too bad tho

The set from the pitchfork festival. I think they debuted kettle on one of the videos and no one liked it til the studio version came around cause they kinda suck in broad daylight outdoor venues

Will slay.

I feel ya moose, I don't really get the hype for this band either. I find them fairly boring, however, Dream House is a great song and that new artwork makes me want to give this at least a cursory listen.

I'm stoked to see if they evolve.

And whoever compared these guys to WITTR needs to really figure out his life decisions

oh blow me, dude. The first half of Pecan Tree is straight-up WitTR riffing and melodic playing, but with a different guitar sound and screamier vocals. A lot of their melodicism is comparable, as are their basic riffing styles.

one interlude wouldnt too bad tho

First album had four songs, second album had four "songs" and three interlude songs, so I feel like you're probably right on this. For bands like this with songs this long, four tracks are, imo, the sweet spot. Five ten-minute bm tracks would become tiring, but four is just enough to keep everything interesting--a single interlude in there also helps make it run smoother.

anyone that doesn't hear wittr influence in tracks like the pecan tree and violet are deaf(heaven).

Yep. WitTR.

Let the 5's roll in... I'm so cool I have a rainbow colored Lion and I listen to Deafheaven, I'll go eat tofu now...

Not just WITTR, they're influenced by a lot of bands that use melodic black metal riffing and ambience. I'm also hoping for four long tracks and one interlude to help the album's flow.

still gotta jam sunbather damn

stoked. this is gonna be fuckin great

jam it, Barber, it's pretty good.

Alls I'm saying that Wolves were doing it far before this (Southern Californian no less) band were ever ripping off their peers. No other band I have listened to comes off as such try-hards other than deafheaven. A pink album cover with pseudo black metal and boring post rock influences? Not edgy and spectacular, more like how contrived and boring. Especially since we're in an age when new music coming out needs no borders. No wonder WITTR last album wasn't black metal at all; of I was being lumped in with this band, I'd run for the hills immediately.

And this is coming from a dude who knows black metal is dead before his eyes, and it's certainly albums like Sunbather which drive the stake even further in the corpse. rip

fuck yeah

bm's not dead were you asleep for the whole "Black Twilight" thing or? You talk about how music needs no borders and then you lament how a genre is dead bc some hipster bm band added crappy post-rock lol

Epilogue bm isn't a just a genre but a feel, this is why it'll never die kid

plus awesome things die hard

Im lamenting how it died, not because it died. And that's exact my point-why mish mash so painful and obvious to appeal to a set of hipsters that don't even know who Gorgoroth is? No borders means doing mixing your influences to create something wholly innovative and true. DFHVN is not true to me because they know their boundaries. And I will not blow whoever wants me to. I'm glad sputnik still has 15 year old posters who don't logically deduce an an opinion but treat it like an argument just because I made fun of their favorite postpsuedoblackvaporcore band. There. That sounds like something of a label the band can be proud of

And Deafheaven doesn't have that feeling. Plain and simple. It's a feeling the second generation perfected, and now it's long gone, kiddo.

meh disagree hard on the secondwave4eva BS since awesome and honest bm records keep coming out even today. Not to mention the ones who can push the genre boundries on a deeper level than just mixing genres, finding new and personnal bleak feelings to communicate through the notes, broadning the feels bm can convey; heck to me I can even get those feels from non bm bands like Today Is The Day so I think it's time to be more open than just what the moma's boys of the second generation did to that feel.

As for Deafheaven just started jamming and I agree it ain't bm, but that doesn't make me look down at the music as a result, I can still dig what's being played

awe yee
Pre ordered this sexual bust

"And this is coming from a dude who knows black metal is dead before his eyes, and it's certainly albums like Sunbather which drive the stake even further in the corpse."

Its comments like these that make me keep trying to get into Deafheaven. They seem to piss off trve black metal fans which makes me think they're probably onto something.

And they may not be a bm band per se, but the bm and wittr influence is obvious.

rest in rip, trve blvck metal

artwork reminds me of a sad animaniacs

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/animaniacs/images/c/c9/Animaniacs.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20140603004922

the trailer makes it seem like this album will be more experimental, though, so I don't really know how you can call them out as having boundaries at this point. And what are "boundaries" anyway? They mesh bm/shoegaze/post-rock but they don't use wonky experimental crap, wow such one dimensional.

Not a huge black metal fan, but I'm definitely going to check this out. Sunbather was fantastic!

eh so what its a good starting point to get into the genre.

just listen to Dissection's Storm of the Light's Bane--it's super melodic and pretty melodic death metal influenced, so it's pretty easily one of the most accessible "classic" bm albums.

Hoping for a really good follow-up to Sunbather.

Good. One less human.

m/

how the fuck would anyone think deafheaven is better than emperor?

well I'm not particularly enthralled by most of the second wave classics for whatever reason sooooooooooo

I like sunbather more than I like any emperor record, but I like emperor more overall

i don't find this band interesting anymore but maybe i'll check out a tune or two when they drop

So excited for this but also slightly nervous too. I have some feeling they could suddenly make a curveball of a record but I dont know why.

Black Metal must be a vampire or an abomination by this point given how often it died and apparently still lives.

Who mentioned Gorgoroth?

Band was super mediocre to begin with.

Im lamenting how it died, not because it died. And that's exact my point-why mish mash so painful and obvious to appeal to a set of hipsters that don't even know who Gorgoroth is?

Oh lol, I skimmed over that.


I wonder what happens when these people go to concerts, that must be frustrating as hell for them.

i guess they're probably the type who don't really socialize, so i doubt they'll ever be in situations to be frustrated with other people and their lack of knowledge of gorgoroth lol

Idk, oddly enough I have seen some of these vbertrvekvlt people on concerts and while they were mostly just scowling around I wonder what happens when they clash with other people which kind of inevitably happens.

gorgoroth have about like 4-5 good tracks in their discography

noctus you are rustlin mah jimmies

[: !!!

their first three albums are good standard bm come on

Nah, Mr. Rainbowdicksword unicorns is right.

NO.

Sure is. Shittons of 2nd wave bands more worthy of one's time.

They pretty much defined the basic Norwegian bm sound so I'd say that's kind of significant.

if by defined you mean jumped on the bandwagon and acted like idiots then yeah, i suppose so

agree on all of noctus' gorgoroth related comments

:-[

they're one of the best examples of those awful second wave style-over-substance fashion black metal bands. look the part, do stupid shit, make mediocre music = black metal paragon. the only merit they have as a band was the fact they were in the right place at the right time.

pffff Pentagram's gud and so prob are the other two. I don't even know what/if any controversial stuff they did pre-Ghaal so I'm basing that totes on teh riffz only

well infernus was an accomplice in rape and kidnapping, so

oh, and illegal weapon possession

kjettar was also convicted of church arson

I didn't even know they did pseudo-egy Burzum-esque stuff, I thought they were just a really mediocre 2nd wave BM band.

ahah I just looked that up. So Ghaal and whatshisname were actually trying to be the *good guys* by kicking Infernus out? Norwegian bm is weird ufff

Ghaal is known as the most hated man in Norway. I wonder if he still lives in that secluded cabin in a swamp lol

most hated? I don't know about that, but I do know he won the "gay person of the year" a few years ago at the Bergen Gay Galla, soooooo :3

I just remember him having that title in news articles from all the violent crimes toward humans and animals during his Gorgoroth days. He seemed to basically be exiled from normal society, some nervous camera crew interviewed him in his house about it a few years ago and were all afraid he'd murder them.

I liked the part when they climbed up that mountain to see his old childhood shack and they couldn't make it all the way because of the snow/they were afraid to be around him in a storm. (That was a thing, right? I haven't watched it in years.)

I bet Gaahl is a super chill person in private.