Author: Tyler Dallman From the very start, Deafheaven was a band that had carved out a unique chunk from the flesh of metal to call their own. Their music was primarily black metal but dripping with post-rock and shoegaze in …

When Deafheaven released Sunbather in 2013, the conventional wisdom of metal began to unravel. Formed in 2010 in San Francisco by vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy, Deafheaven have always sought to branch themselves out of the …