I really wish Deafheaven would have destroyed the Beverly. It would’ve been a defeat for the development that’s sucking the life out of music locales everywhere, it would’ve affirmed their status as ...

Deafheaven (due this Sunday, February 16, at the Marquis Theater) formed in San Francisco in 2010. Starting modestly, writing its earliest demos on acoustic guitar, the outfit has since made its mark ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Deafheaven band members left to right: Kerry McCoy (guitar), ...

The time's never been better than now to take a deeper dive into the world of metal. With the release of their new album, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, Deafheaven have propelled themselves firmly into ...

Don’t let the album covers deceive you: Deafheaven is neither your standard rock nor black metal band. The blackgaze band has been polarizing to many people for various reasons. For example, black ...

Ask a purist and they’ll tell you that Deafheaven has never been metal. Which is gatekeeping bullshit, of course: Neither the absence of corpse paint nor the presence of some gorgeously shimmering ...

Heavy metal is such an insular genre that a full lineup of bands who have crossed over to mainstream rock audiences would be shorter than a typical grocery list. There are the legacy artists everyone ...

Last June, Bay Area black metal/shoegaze unit Deafheaven played one of the most anticipated metal shows of the summer at Red 7. They had just released Sunbather, one of the most critically acclaimed ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Labels are limiting in the world of music. Some bands can be described by filing the recording artist ...

When the Grammy nominations for rock were unveiled in December, many fans were pleasantly surprised to see the now L.A.-based quintet Deafheaven on the list for metal performance. The group — inspired ...

2013 was the year of Kayne's Yeezus, Chance the Rapper's Acid Rap, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, and Beyoncé's surprise self-titled record. But the best-reviewed album of that year didn't come ...

Deafheaven’s melding of longform black metal, Britpop, and shoegaze (they’re not the first band to be considered “blackgaze,” but they set off the fuse for many other bands) has always been conducive ...