With the weather outside beginning to change, many people see this transitional period of the year as a time to reflect and approach the upcoming months with a new lease
Deafheaven seem to have completed their sonic transition. The band, which formally sat firmly abut, if noth entirely within, the realm of black metal, began their progression with 2018’s Ordinary
The albums that make up this list reflect metal’s increasing ability to outgrow people’s conceptions of it, in the process making progress not just for itself, but all the other genres it’s come to challenge.
Just like the salmon pink sleeve art to its incredible sophomore album, Sunbather, Deafheaven doesn’t do a lot to try to seem like a “black metal band.”
