Uncompromising, unflinching and unwilling to be boxed in, Deafheaven have always been hard to pin down. 

The Bay Area five-piece have been pushing the boundaries of heavy music since they burst onto the scene early last decade, blurring the lines between post-rock, black metal and shoegaze to the point that nobody really knows exactly what to make of them. 

Too brutal for one crowd, too hip for the other, and for those that are on board, there’s absolutely no guarantee they’ll do what you want them to – just as it should be. 

True to form, they’ve taken another wild leap on their new album, Infinite Granite.

Full interview via guitarworld.com

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When “Great Mass of Color” was released, gone were the blast beats and metal screeches Deafheaven had been known for since their inception, and in place were luscious guitars and whimsical vocals. “It wasn’t a clear decision, and it wasn’t anything supernatural.” vocalist George Clarke told us, “It took a ton of work, but we needed to grow.” This leap took the band into Infinite Granite. The quintet has started a new chapter of their lore that, while not as heavy, is them at their core, expanding their horizons as artists who are infinitely working and improving upon their art.

Full interview via dscvrd.co

For much of 2020, George Clarke found himself staring into the pale wash of dawn. Brimming with pent-up energy he’d normally expend onstage or traversing the great American outdoors, the locked-down Deafheaven frontman bounced off the four walls of his neat Los Angeles apartment and into an extended bout of insomnia. Rather than stewing in the still, antisocial silence of the small hours, however, he found himself captivated by their stark beauty, and took to writing between three and six in the morning, repeatedly watching the thick dark of night dissolve into the dewy haze of day. 

Largely a result of those late-late sessions, Deafheaven’s fifth LP Infinite Granite feels like a glimmering reflection of wan light on the horizon. Jettisoning much of the remaining metallic heft they had carried through 2018’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, it boldly commits to the sounds of shoegaze and avant-garde post-rock, delivering nine tracks of delicate melody and atmosphere. 

“If Sunbather was summery high noon,” George begins, drawing a comparison with his band’s blistering 2013 breakthrough – its hot pink, Nick Steinhardt-crafted artwork meant to evoke bright light burning through shut eyelids – ​“then Infinite Granite is the early morning.”

Full interview via kerrang.com

Deafheaven are featured on the September issue of Decibel Magazine out now.

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George Clarke and Kerry McCoy of Deafheaven sat down to talk to Songwriters On Process about their creative process, inspiration, and personal approach to songwriting. Click below to watch the full interview:

Kristin Hayter sings, speaks, and occasionally shouts on her new record, but she doesn’t scream. Unlike her previous work as Lingua Ignota, there’s very little to tie her songs on Sinner Get Ready to black metal or noise. “It might be kind of divisive,” Hayter admitted. Her most recent album, 2019’s devastating Caligula, garnered international attention for its mix of metal, industrial, and opera tropes, which she combined with live performance art to terrifying effect. But the success of the project became limiting for Hayter: “When I was thinking about making this record, I was literally told, ‘You have to make Caligula 2, and it has to be better than Caligula.'” But those expectations didn’t align with her reality. “I think one of the major tenets of this project is to remain authentic,” she said. “I wanted to really make it about what I was experiencing at that time.”

Full interview via Stereogum.com

Apple Music featured Deafheaven's new single "In Blur" on their New Music Daily playlist.

San Francisco band Deafheaven’s forthcoming LP Infinite Granite is coming August 20th via Sargent House, today they debut the final single from it along with the first official video from the album. “In Blur” is a fever dream of melody and weighted past. The album was written during a period of unrelenting insomnia leaving a smear of morning blue across Infinite Granite from seeing the morning blue hour for months. “In Blur” fully encapsulates that notion as does the video. Directed by John Bradburn the video tips its hat to Sisyphus, the Greek Mythology story of rolling the boulder up the hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top. The song follows the first two singles “Great Mass of Color” and “The Gnashing.” 

Infinite Granite is yet another giant leap forward for Deafheaven - a band that has been defying genre conventions for the past decade. With production from Justin Meldal-Johnsen, known for his stellar work with M83, Wolf Alice, Paramore, Metric, among others, Deafheaven embarks on a new chapter of defiant beauty and their most goosebump-inducing album to date. Jack Shirley, who recorded all the previous Deafheaven albums, remained on board to engineer part of Infinite Granite at his Atomic Garden East studio in Oakland, CA with additional engineering and mixing coming from nine-time Grammy Award winner Darrell Thorp (Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Beck).