Deafheaven - Demo (2010)

Band: Deafheaven
Album: Demo
Year: 2010
Country: USA
I've read some reviews on this demo, and this band sounded really interesting. So I decided to look them up. And then I figured out that they recently signed to Deathwish Inc., the label that nowadays mostly seem to sign hyped bands and suck out money from kids who idolize Converge. We also have the fact that this cover is baby blue and pink, combined with a try to be trve kvlt by writing "DFHVN" instead of just "Deafheaven". This combination doesn't make sense. The third reason not to listen to this is that when you look at their live pictures on lastFM, they all have nice haircuts, everyone but one wears bright coloured shirts, and not a single goat was shedded. No fucking way that I would get involved in this shit by free will.
But in a weak moment I just happened to listen to it anyway. And my facial expression 10 seconds into the first song is probably priceless. My expectations was some kind of basement recording by young hipster boys who realized playing Emo won't get you any girls these days. I was kind of wrong.
This is a very well produced demo riding the popular wave of combined forces of Post-Hardcore and Black Metal. Since this band is from USA, you will hear that the big influence is Xasthur instead of Lifelover, which is a good thing since the Lifelover is kind of worn out these days. This is not original or evolving though, you will get the same feeling when you listen to Agalloch, Wolves In The Throne Room, or Altar Of Plagues. But on the other hand, this is just a demo, and I wish the best of luck to these guys in the future.

Song(s) you should listen to: The first track Libertine Dissolves is a good one. It's explosiveness in the beginning kind of reminds me of treasures such as Celeste. Then it calms down a bit and gets quite emotional, then it blows you away again.

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