New Bermuda
Deafheaven’s sublime 2013 album *Sunbather* was an alloy of black metal aggression and shoegaze melodicism as beautiful as it was punishing. Opening with a murmur of ambience before giving way to the sound of church bells and Slayer-like thrash, *New Bermuda* pushes the band’s formula even further, juxtaposing twinkling guitars with searing growls (“Baby Blue”) and lurching, hardcore-style breakdowns with chord progressions that could’ve come from a moody English alt-rock record circa 1988 (“Gifts from the Earth”). It’s an adventurous blend from an extraordinary band.
Showcasing a brilliant collision of beauty and despair, Deafheaven’s new album, New Bermuda, is even more overwhelming than their 2013 breakthrough, Sunbather. The group has shaped a suite of songs into one pliable, massive, and ecstatic 47-minute arc, one where they unabashedly treat the roar of electric guitars as a holy experience.
In the run-up to the release of Deafheaven’s third album, New Bermuda, the dialogue swirling around the band reached a fever pitch. In the wake of its breakthrough sophomore album, Sunbather, the band was worshipped and scrutinized in equal measure. All this chatter was the product of its rise to fame, which included…
Deafheaven follow up Sunbather with an uncompromising album that could end up as the band's true masterpiece.
California-based metal group Deafheaven's 2013 breakthrough album Sunbather was triumphant and uplifting, even as it dealt with harsh personal issues such as insecurity and alienation.
Brought to the Water sets the tone on New Bermuda with its brutal blast-beats, bared-teeth vocals and waves of sorrowful guitars
Despite being their third album, Deafheaven's latest feels like a sophomore effort thanks to the career-making hyperbole that followed 2013'...
If you'd put a wager on Deafheaven five years ago, saying that they would release an album that would be championed by the mainstream music press,
What New Bermuda delivers is an overall more calamitous and harsher experience
A review of New Bermuda by Deafheaven available October 2nd worldwide via Anti Records.
Review of 'New Bermuda', the new release by Deafheaven, the full-length comes out on October 2nd via Epitath Records. The lead single is "Come Back".
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