Deafheaven Full Set - Pitchfork Music Festival 2014 

Technical Difficulties glad they didn't! Lol theres too many bands out there that sound like that but few who sound like dh

Misleading is an understatement! When I first listened to the Sunbather album for the first time, I looked at the album cover and thought it was some kind of vaporwave album!

I dig their outfits. It's not the 80's anymore.

@@nekochan-e8t no. it's not.

@@nekochan-e8t no it's not.. not at all

+PAJ DrumsnGuitar The US community is embarrassing. Stop making sentences starting with Oh my God and finishing with Jesus Christ, putting a fuck-fucking-fuckity in between, they're all totally obsolete swear words. Think for yourself, question authority.

+TheSheer96 you literally just put rules on everything as well.... See what i mean?

PAJ DrumsnGuitar I'm asking for something, giving my opinion and now you're taking my opinion as an order ? Who has a problem with authority... ? ;)

+TheSheer96 hahaha no point in arguing dude. I just hate how they have to classify EVERYTHING. Ya feel?

PAJ DrumsnGuitar Classifying is identifying, putting away the fear of the void and unknown for the simple minds and the weak ones. It takes away a huge part of freedom (speech, music writing, etc) but it holds the cattle together so I won't say it's good or bad. I'll just say it is necessarily pain for the free ones not kill the fragile ones because of their weaknesses.

but i dont think Deafheaven makes cold or empty music. To me, this music is heavy to the soul because it's filled with emotion

this is anything but empty my friend 19:20 feel that vibe man

Whatever it is called...its an own style with some BM influences, not more. Americans might call it Black Metal....just because their definition of BM clearly differs from ours (Europeans, especially north europeans). I can respect different preferences and taste into music but someone who really calls this "pure" or "perfect" Black Metal clearly just does not has any clue. Take it for what it is...no matter how you call it. But in the end DH are as close to Black Metal as Jonny Cash was close to Blues & Jazz. He might took a bit of it...but still did different music.

...Johnny Cash played blues dude

It just feels like since they became popular, in reviews and commentary about other bands with similar sounds always seem to bring up Deafheaven, and it's annoying. It's kind of how I used to feel with Tool and prog during Tool's peak - a lot of Tool fans would tell you all day and night that Tool is THE prog metal band, and that they are the standard that other prog metal bands should be compared to. Even though Tool is great, it's annoying to see them come up when you're reading about a band you actually think is better than them, despite being in the same genre. Just to re-state; I think Deafheaven is great. I also think it's great that people who weren't previously into metal or even this specific type of metal are getting into it through Deafheaven. It's just frustrating when a lot of those fans think this type of music started when they discovered it; with Deafheaven. A lot of long-time fans think that's patently false and it's annoying to see people say it a lot. Plus there's always some animosity in some metal fan circles towards the band that brings in droves of fans that weren't previously fans of the genre, and they project onto them the lowest-common denominator among them - the guy who thinks Deafheaven is this revolutionary band that was the first to uncover an innovative new sound and that there are just a bunch of Deafheaven-copycats. That guy might not be very common, but he's definitely out there. That's just my take on it anyways. My finger isn't as much on the pulse of the metal community as much as it once was, but that's precisely because things like this seem to happen all the time. As per usual, there are *far* more comments talking about how shitty the metal community is for arguing all the time, and seemingly very few comments of people actually arguing about genres or whatever. That guy is also really fucking annoying - sees a couple buried comments of people scrapping over something stupid and then says ""oh I'm so much better than the metal community, look at those losers argue over nothing. I love this music but I'm infinitely more cultured and mature than all you other losers who love this music" and then a dozen people upvoting and agreeing "oh yeah tell me about it, metal fans arguing are so lame", meanwhile the actual argument is long gone, and we're left with what the "metal community" has actually become, which is a bunch of hipsters claiming to be better than the imaginary straw-man metalhead with his rules and pretensions that lives for arguing with other metalheads. That guy doesn't even exist anymore, but the guy that thinks he's so much better than the non-existent guy and wants to tell you about it is fucking everywhere. It's especially frustrating when two fans are having a courteous discussion about influences and, yes, labels (*gasp* what a loser) and that asshole comes in "QUIET you plebs stop arguing about bullshit like the metal losers you are and just enjoy the music like I am, gosh you guys are so pathetic". Some people like to analyze music, and more often than not it's not some flamewar argument about who's tastes are better, but just a casual dissection of how certain fans see the music. But maybe I'm just taking it personally because that's happened to me, and I do get a kick out of trying to pin down genres and influences, if for no other reason than it is fun and does in fact help me find other music I enjoy. Basically it just feels like a lot of music bloggers/journalists as well as fans on social media have never actually been to a metal show, and yet have all these ideas about what the ''other' metal fans are like, presumably based off youtube comments or their own prejudices. I guess you could say there's a fair amount of Deafheaven fans that fall into that category.

@The Talent George Clarke reminds me a mix in Aldof Hitler and Freddie Mercury singing black metal xD

He definitely looks like a nazi soldier, no jokes

:44 Poster worthy

His name is Frederick Zoller if I remember it correctly..

That's the first thing I thout too!

holy shit i never even thought about that, you're so fucking right. the conditioning to get to where he's at now must've been absolute hell. much respect to the guy

@anth ony 😂

He has 3 lungs

But I just hear cymbals.

Check out this drummer ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kfTcE_Sh1_w.html

congratulations, you discovered blackgaze

@@pedrododI never thought that a rock/metal sub genre would exist. It was thanks to two RU-vid Channels that talk about Blackgaze. I both love it, Deafheaven & Alcest are my favorite Blackgaze bands.

@@jamesjeager129 Try Ellende and Lantlos

Agreed. Wholeheartedly so.

+mantra3000 I cant picture a better fitting vocalist TBH

I still don't understand how these kinds of vocals are performed without blowing out the voice.

"I still don't understand how these kinds of vocals are performed without blowing out the voice." as a person that's screamed in a hardcore & never used a mic - don't give a fuck, the emotional connection to the song matters - not if you blow out the voice. who cares if you cough up blood. seriously. lol

uncrownedoak it’s all about technique my dude. Years of practice.

in your mom's bedroom

Yeah he’s late for his busboy job at Chili’s 🌶

@@crujones4046 TE MAMASTE SI ES CIERTO JAJAJA

When you have a show at 8 and you're grandma's birthday party at 9.

@@post-hardcoreboi7145 looks more like grandma's funeral lol

I'd say he is rather, well, standard, if that's the right word. He just follows the song, nothing creative there. Check out Azarath's drummer, Decapitated's Vitek, Inferno from Behemoth, etc.

Spheres of Madness, "creative".

Sorry, I quite not understand. Are you taking a piss there? Cheers.

Hahaha, yeah I am a bit. But honestly though, I prize "following the song" above creativity. You could play really creatively in regards to composition, sound and feel, but if it doesn't fit into the context of the song it won't really sound good. In Dream House the blast beats melds perfectly with the beautiful strummed chords and creates this chaos in an otherwise wistful, almost transcendental wall of sound. This really fits the composition and makes the emotional impression of the song more profound, and ultimately more beautiful. I'm not saying "don't be creative" but rather to be creative within the boundaries of the song. So in short, If you deliver what the song needs it will sound killer. Btw I'm not really talking shit about Vitek, he's fucking phenomenal (Day 69, phew) and let me tell you this, he delivered. Cheers.

Alonso Castro Thank you blessed soul

+Alonso Castro Thanks fam

+Alonso Castro thanks

+Carlos R may your soul burn in hell

+Alonso Castro Do you accept cookies as a payment of gratitude?

this!

omg i had never heard of slowdive and this is literally just slowdive as a black metal band which sounds hilarious but they are phenomenal musicians

If you think those lyrics get to you, read some of the lyrics on New Bermuda.

Those are some of my favorite lyrics ever written.

Josh Schulz "Sitting quietly in scorching reimagined suburbia."

he stands out on purpose, as the main songwriter. i'm sure you know that by now though

Dark clothes are for wimps.

ik i’m 4 years late on this response , but to be fair - their album cover was pink

The only reason I'm not a fan is the monotonous vocalist. What band are you listening to lol

Alejandro S Give Lantlôs a try

it's just EitS with witchy vocals, Jesus christ

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ZDHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY DZHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

well thats more of a screamo thing which deafhaven reminds me more of than bm

I was just taking notice of that as well, and I agree - he's fucking intense, awesome

you clearly haven't seen a single Daughters show.

You’ve never seen cannibal corpse yet have you

His vocals are on another level, and I love his stage presence!

Definitely one of the most emotion driven metal vocalists

Silgrond You cried? Baby.

TheSewerChewer its called having the music move you

TheSewerChewer You chew sewers? Nasty ass. Ha lol jk

Pussy. For crying

Shut up soyboy

I think with the dynamics of his screaming technique he'd need to cup the mic to get the full effect. He sounds incredible tho. I can't complain with any thing the sound guy or the band did

His vocals are usually buried in the mix of their albums anyhow

+John Doe I agree, but you can make an argument for or against this, i'd like his voice to be a bit more in the forground as well

Jurgen Noppe His vocals are hardly discernable here too. It kinda just comes with the vocals. It makes no real difference

+Sebastian “Branston Pickle” Lacroix As someone whose been through the process a couple times, I can just imagine how many times each little take had to be volume adjusted, would've taken a lot of time

yea the elitists and fangirls ruin it for everyone

fucking sexist piece of shit

Beachgothhoneybear 87 Lol it's true. When you go on to a metal video and see little girls with dan and phil profile pictures asking if their cancerous "phandom" is there, it really makes me not want to stay

tracts lol right-o

mos def

Did you go off grid

LOL

y

Thanks Karl!

stop gazing

Yeah I was gazing at them too

Yes thats what im saying buddy

yes to your yes about you saying yes! @@rururu5877

+Reikoreigan Reseñas i think its way better than sunbather

I feel sorry for you if you think this is metal.

It may not be black metal, I agree, but if it's not metal, what is it?

Hipster post rock, pop and shoegaze with some sub par black metal thrown in. Check out Blut Aus Nord if you want some forward thing and original black metal.

have u ever seen death grips live? they play for like an hour and some straight and zach is just going insane the entire time lmao

Look at how simple his drum set is, too. Just the essentials.

truth! simple and the most effective

Jay Cotrone Melt Banana are amazing live.

why? he's not even playing any double bass lol he's an awesome drummer but as far as speed there's a ton of drummers who astound me way more than this

+emerica4u what

+emerica4u I've always preferred death metal vocals over black, but black vocals always sound fucking possessed

+Stephen Bennett Death Metal vocals are very low and growling with some high pitched screams, check out Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under and Deicide for examples. Hope this helps 👍

Technique.

It's just what metal singers do

There's secretly a dude behind feeding him bottles of water idk. 🤣

+E Schur It's tough to make the sounds he's making without those movements. The intensity he puts into those vocals comes through in his body

Justin Zymbaluk I used to be a death metal singer, and Ive also watched countless death and black metal vocalists in the past. Ofcourse, some form of intensity is needed in order to bring this sound out of your body. This dude is just way over the top I mean... are these movements really necessary when he's not singing for 2 minutes straight? Well maybe they are for him.. I personally prefer to just listen to the album

Reminds me of a young Maynard James Keenan

I saw these guys live last week. His hand movements were really distracting to me. I don't know what purpose they serve, for him or for anyone else. I guess once you got used to seeing it it might be OK, but just looks pretentious to me.

+Crosnertony thats the most metal thing I've heard today

like

+Crosnertony I don't like the vocals on sunbather, they're pretty average and annoying (although I concede the guy pulls them off extremely well live) but I love the vocals on New Bermuda.

+Crosnertony probably because of the monotony. I don't like it either and think they would do better with instrumental music.

cherryfirebird i disagree I think it would be way more monotonous without it. Blackgaze can sound very repetitive if you don't have something that stands out to break it up.

kind of lol he was fucking everyone up in the intro of unrequited dude needs a metronome

why cant black metal elitist accept the beauty of deafheaven :/

@@billnye4379 you are the cancer

@@navigator_g please give me head

Acutually the only bm band I e n j o y

I thought the same

"scene is an image of society"

Elitists don’t like it because it mixes atmospheric black metal and post rock (blackgaze) with screamo vocals. But i love it, elitists gon hate.

@@gabiocampos these are not really screamo vocals though? Sounds a lot like original bm vocals to me, just in a different setting.

I like this band, however they do seem to go out of their way to dress like a bunch of Portland dipshits 😂

bornwithclothes do you like Alcest, or Lantlos? Agalloch? All I consider better but can be roped in with this band if generalizing. This band would be better off instrumental in my opinion. What’s actual black metal?

@@bornwithclothes I like Deafheaven, I don't like Nickelback, I don't like emo. I find this stuff really beautiful and moving. I also like old bm but I don't find any reasons why old bm should be appreciated more (or less) than Deafheaven. It's all opinions and it's very sad that not everyone share the same musical taste as you

+H.R.T. Fantisma jajaja hes so chill like a tamed tiger, just fucking grooving

I wanna live in his universe. Hop on that bass line and take a riiiiiddddeeee.....

I hear ya bud!

Toxin08 you are the charles bukowski of our generation

Toxin08 Well said. People are silly.

Toxin08 Well, that describes like 99.9999% of RU-vid comments. Lol.

Toxin08 comments are necessary when your idea of a band 'trying something different' is actually just Pitchfork and Spin Magazine 's latest re-branding of a derivative sound (*cough SCREAMO). You're defending a MARKETING TOOL that happens to be a band.

Because there isn't any moshing at all at blackgaze gigs

I saw them a few weeks ago at a smaller venue, frontman's stage antics did not hold up when the crowd was six inches away from him.

Blackgaze isn't really for moshing haha

Yeah, the Blackgaze police just came and said "If you actually mosh to a Deafheaven song, you'll go to jail."

Let the youngsters go through it. They feel like bashing their heads. No problem with that.

lol true, for such "dark and evil" people, they care about image as much as a middle school girl.

adash milo it's definitely not black metal, but the influences of it do come through. and obviously it's not about the image lol, but there sure is a looot of people commenting about the band's image.

adash milo There is nothing evil about Black Metal, unless you count like the neo-nazi shit, and if you want that in your music then you're a scumbag.

Neal Zetek So? There is a difference between choosing what to wear. and wearing something because it is a genre standard.

delnuggets That shows how little you know about the black metal scene. Black metal elitists have a problem with bands like Cradle of Filth or Dimmu Borgir for being too light and mainstream. They would definitely not like this band even if they had a traditional black metal image, in fact the backlash would probably be much worse. As annoying as elitist find Deafheaven, atleast some of them realize that Deafheaven are not trying to be metal at all or make themselves seem like metal.

GloomyPapi "recorded with a potato" Good one. 😂

Black Metal is focused on Satan without Satan it is just MUSIC.

@@t.a.8380 lol, u ignorant as fuck, poor idiot

You obviously haven't listened to a lot of Black Metal if you think they all use the "lo-fi" sound.

shut the fuck up gloomy idiot. they'd be dead if they played with other black metal bands infront of a real black metal audience.

+Johansen Casasus Yep most bands concentrate too much on what they look like. The ones that dont belt out classics everytime they pick up a guitar.

+Johansen Casasus varg dresses in peadot, does that count?

+Johansen Casasus You must not know much about metal. Also, you are misusing the word pretentious.

+Johansen Casasus they look like they have their own frat lol not at all pretentious.

+Johansen Casasus - Good Call … The clusterfuck of metal genre-fication continues: Dillinger isn't Meshuggah/ Between the Buried isn't Opeth/This isn't Emperor/KISS definately is disco.

did they come to brazil? why do i only start listening to bands after they come here and cant go to their shows?

+Felipe Syderas pois é cara eles vieram dia 10 de Julho na Clash

Não ajuda q eu sou do rio e quase todos esses eventos são de são Paulo, é foda

puta merda, n fiquei sabendo ;(

how you spell is even more ridiculous than how the band looks

Ger Unkwon Whatever kid... he gives me $20 every time so who's laughing now bitch.

You underestimate how many times a day my step Dad wants to hang out.

because that is so much more ridiculous than screaming in the name of satan

Franz Danson you know Deafheaven lyrics have about as much to do with satan as a Jerry's Kids telethon

+DaDankDarlesCharwin pigeon holes are only good for 1 thing .shit

+DaDankDarlesCharwin Idk if I've ever listened to Wolves in the Throne Room and felt like an angsty teen, but... sure. Idk if I've ever listened to Lantlôs and felt like an angsty teen, but... sure. Idk if I've ever listened to amesoeurs and felt like an angsty teen, but... sure. Have you ever heard of a "new" type of blackgaze called "folk-influenced blackgaze"? It will blow your mind.

+DaDankDarlesCharwin Ugh; "Blackgaze". Jesus Christ..........

pigeon holes are only good for one thing. shit

black gaze its not fucking black metal

the most intense song on the album !

100%

probably sweat but it's cool anyway

Seriously.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TKfKN7SYIjQ.html&ab_channel=RefoundX

I think its saliva

@@altrumodi5694 IS A TEAR, HE IS CRYING, that is so VERY beautiful

maketotaldestroy seen them too. They kick major ass.

Check out some of Letlive's live shows

BryAttak ive seen videos

+mac cavanah ever heard about slayer?

derunsympath nooooo, never heard of slayer in my life ever as a metal fan lol

I was looking for this comment. thanks

I always thought he had a massive ego problem, but after speaking with the drummer of a band that opened for them (No Spill Blood) and him saying that they are an amazing bunch of guys, who are incredibly humble, it made me rethink it completely. His stage presence is through the fucking roof.

If you think black metal is about beauty, you are mistaken. And no, it isnt about "evil" and "grimness" either. But thats fine, you are free to enjoy Deafheaven and other such "beautiful" introspective, motivational lifestyle music. But it has nothing to do with black metal.

Lol ok

I think black metal is a genre that is good for conveying passion. The soundscape is so thick and coupled with the screeching vocals it really does sound passionate.

BaconJets​​ I couldn't agree more.

Read them while listening studio versions man, then you'll understand.

+Johannes i tried, but the song Dream House seems to have more lyrics than Genius says it does

No, it doesn't, George repeats several times the verses and the verses are not repeated on genius, and it happens with all the songs. I understand the lyrics when I listen to the songs without reading now. and I realized that.

+Johannes Yeah, thats what I figured too, but I still have a hard time following exactly what he's saying haha. Oh well

read stronger

Verdade meu colega, além de suprir expectativas. Muito foda🤘🇧🇷 Pqp

Inland rain is one of the most epic songs can’t get enough

PigsAreBrutal wtf is he singing?

David Jenkins AND I GRIPPED THE WHEEL. AND I GRIPPED THE WHEEEEEEEL.

I can't take him seriously with those dance moves. Great band tho.

***** You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

The singer is inspired by emperor though

***** hi varg...

***** what reason do you have to be here trying to disprove or invalidate that guy's opinion? if he gets emperor from it, he does. i'm assuming you like deafheaven, unless your idea of fun is looking up things you don't like on youtube and commenting on it, and if you've seen or read interviews, emperor is one of george's many influences. obviously you can hear it in the vocals and the blastbeat sections.

to be fair, i don't even think the band calls themselves specifically black metal. every interview i've read george classifies them as a metal for sure, but they just list black metal bands that have influenced them to where they are today. besides, black metal today isn't even black metal. people aren't underground tape trading anymore. they aren't burning churches. look at emperor live now. ihsahn wears designer glasses for fuck's sake

It's funny, I thought this the moment this video started. It's the hair though - I just saw Deafheaven live in 2016, the singer has longer hair now and I wasn't reminded of Winston once.

Nah, dude. Metal Michael Shannon

Nope, but that loosely sounds like the transcript to your mother's vocalizations from when we were doing naughty stuff last night.

Robert Stan assy comment

Robert Stan haha nice

***** their concerts should be played with subtitles so we can see just how much genius lies within the words.

pls p4k upload all sets

They uploaded The Haxan Cloak as well. I think they need the act's permission to put full sets online.

Ed Bartholomew not all just the ones that are living in the past. A lot of black metal bands like this new blackgaze ( when the band is actually talented ) it's pretty similar in feel to atmospheric black metal

the band and the music are alright. the crowd makes me cringe tho. the look like a buncha hipsters jumping up and down.

Nima Nikpour yeah, I ONLY want a CERTAIN crowd to like my music. Fuck everybody else. Why should people in skinny jeans feel comfortable wearing what they want and listening to what they want? fuck them.

they don't sound that metal on record to me. live it was clearly different, and sounded more metal tbh. explosions in the sky with screaming, so i can understand why they wouldn't like it because it is not really their genre its a different genre.

@@jorgepeterbarton I mean, it's still rather heavy music, record or not.