DEAFHEAVEN – Glint (live)

From the album Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (2018), live at Bi Nuu, Berlin, September 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD1ex6MfHQ0 Listening to muffled footstepsOf those brushingReaching grassesSeeing the last letters of my nameSeeing the last letters of my nameFaded and shyImagining us clasping hands in holiday Imagining us clasping hands in holidayImagining you growing olderGrowing somehow more beautiful Imagining …

DEAFHEAVEN – Live at Pitchfork Music Festival (2014)

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Unrequited (live) / Tunnel of Trees – DEAFHEAVEN

From Deafheaven's debut album Roads to Judah (2011). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CavrFHiICwg Bowing to a monolith of griefObsessing over discordDaydreaming of nightsThat led my staggering steps to nowhere Bathing in the Summer night’s coldAnd in the black of nightI feel so old I feel so worn, quartered, and tornHung from the postWhere my brothers once sungCut from the …

Canary Yellow – DEAFHEAVEN

From the album Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5eQuhBfDE0 Staring out onto the earthly, pottery ofPottery of existence, climbing lightClimbing light vines to heavenClay ribbons descendSwirl downward against Staring out onto the earthly, pottery ofPottery of existence, climbing lightClimbing light vines to heavenClay ribbons descendSwirl downward against Downward against metallic swellGo sail, go sail, go …

Worthless Animal – DEAFHEAVEN

Indie-Black metal for headbangin' shoegazers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ-WmYn_9GE With all life profaneThe ladles cradlingStreams of buttermilkCurrent stretch outAnd alabaster lips unseal So I may recallThe soft timbre ofWhisper in its stillnessStill Alabaster lips unsealSo I may recallI may recallThe soft timbre ofWhisper in its stillnessStill Now When a fawnStumbles into the roadHoneydew highAnd deep in afterglowMind swarmingMind …

Deafheaven: Black Metal for Shoegazers

My new musical passion: Deafheaven. Picture a black metal band whose members are into British alternative/indie rock, or vice-versa: an alternative/indie rock band (melodic as it can be), whose members are fond of The Smiths, that experiments with black metal. Not a usual combination, as headbangers usually hate The Smiths, and vice-versa. Their songs are …

Honeycomb – Deafheaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8g0XNyHRw Shadows extend east And Cortazar stares at women shuffling by who blot their lips from violent men And say "god bless you" I sulk with pause and Loving mariachi soars against the red and yellow tents of strangers Gifting geese the ends of bread 8, 12, 13 hours and the people keep fighting for …