Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power

 

 

Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
Warner/Roadrunner – 2025
Metal, Black, Post, Shoegaze
Rated: ****

I could have sworn we mentioned their lesser metal more shoegaze album Infinite Granite back when it was released in 2021. But apparently, we did not. And so we jot down these words about the new Deafheaven album Lonely People With Power as if it comes back to back with Ordinary Corrupt Human Love from 2018 and New Bermuda from 2015. And on some levels, it does. For Deafheaven moves decidedly back to that metal side and the black metal screams that turned the metal world into a black metal haven, a heaven, a Deafheaven. It’s blast beats galore and granite grinding vocals, surging across crashing guitar tsunamis. But they haven’t discarded all of those Infinite Granite movements, for the dynamic range has been amplified, the waves crash harder and the flow between all the different elements feels natural and almost super natural. Otherworldly storms of blissful power and torturous components, turn into heavenly flowing dark, pop sensible melodies. With Amethyst being all of that in its purest and harmony bringing form, binding all the different elements of Lonely People With Power into one shining piece of jewelry. It’s Deafheaven, and all of it…

(Written by JK)

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