The untitled demo by the American
black metal
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band
Deafheaven
Deafheaven is an American post-metal band formed in 2010. Originally based in San Francisco, the group began as a two-piece with singer George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy, who recorded and self-released a demo album together. Following i ...
was self-released by the band on June 1, 2010. The demo would later be remastered/re-released as an EP in 2012 through
Sargent House
Sargent House is an American management company and record label based in Los Angeles. It was founded in June 2006 by Cathy Pellow, who is a music video commissioner for Atlantic Records and also owns a music video production company called Refuse ...
.
History
The demo was initially only available in cassette and digital download formats and distributed to a few of the band's favorite blogs. It was written and recorded by the two founding members, George Clarke and
Kerry McCoy, with John Kline performing on drums.
Clarke and McCoy later recruited three new band members to tour in support of the demo.
After its release, several record labels began courting Deafheaven to give the demo a proper, wide release.
Deathwish Inc., co-founded by
Jacob Bannon of
Converge, was one of these labels who reached out to the band. Deafheaven was interested in working with Deathwish, but wanted to release some newer material they had been working on at the time instead of their demo.
As a result, Deathwish released a 7" single featuring "Libertine Dissolves" and "Daedalus" in January 2011
and a full-length album with all-new material titled ''
Roads to Judah'' in April 2011.
In late 2012,
Sargent House
Sargent House is an American management company and record label based in Los Angeles. It was founded in June 2006 by Cathy Pellow, who is a music video commissioner for Atlantic Records and also owns a music video production company called Refuse ...
released a limited-edition, remastered vinyl edition of the demo with new artwork.
This version is also available on the band's Bandcamp page.
Reception
The metal blog
MetalSucks
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History
The site was fou ...
gave the album a rating of (3.5/5) in 2010 and stated: "While Deafheaven's music shares surface characteristics with the classic black metal sound, this demo is so distanced from
Mayhem and
Immortal
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as to be another kind of music entirely. It engulfs rather than tramples, shimmers where so much black metal rattles."
Track listing
All music written and recorded by Deafheaven.
# "Libertine Dissolves" – 5:13
# "Bedrooms" – 2:06
# "Daedalus" – 5:54
# "Exit:Denied" – 11:30
Personnel
Album personnel adapted from remastered vinyl liner notes.
* Deafheaven – recording, production
* Jack Shirley – production, engineering, mastering
* Nick Steinhardt – logo design
* Karlynn Holland – logo design
References
External links
Deafheaven's demo EPat
Bandcamp
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(streamed copy where licensed)
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2010 EPs
Deafheaven albums
Sargent House albums
Demo albums