New Bermuda

New Bermuda

San Franciscoâ€™s Deafheaven found massive critical success when their 2013 album Sunbather was an unexpected crossover hit, earning the band a 92/100 Metacritic score and ending the year as the best reviewed album of 2013. No one could have anticipated a band that drew from equal parts Weakling and My Bloody Valentine ascending to such heights, and that incomprehensibility added to the bandâ€™s singularity and allure. Two years later, founding members George Clarke and Kerry McCoy began working on their ANTI debut, New Bermuda, with a new perspective. Says Clarke: â€œSunbather yearned for something better. New Bermuda focuses on the idea of false promise, achieving something and wondering if itâ€™s what you really wanted in the first place.â€ McCoy shares that sentiment: â€œSunbather sounds like people who have nothing but are satisfied with life. Thereâ€™s an uplifting quality to it. But New Bermuda is a very tense record.â€ McCoy cites death metal demigods Dissection and Morbid Angel, the blackened death pioneers Behemoth, and Cliff Burton-era Metallica as influences on the new album. As New Bermuda progresses, Deafheaven travels further outside of their comfort zone, feasting on other niches of underground metal and offsetting the blunt force of their feral rage with more complex and nuanced beauty. A sophisticated and subdued pop element kicks off â€œBaby Blueâ€, before the band abruptly shifts into an amalgam of NWOBHMâ€™s anthemic urgency and thrash metalâ€™s racing chugs. Thereâ€™s a brief comedown where the band veers into the musique concrete soundscapes and hushed melodrama of early Godspeed You! Black Emperor before â€œCome Backâ€ resumes the bandâ€™s merciless assault of stampeding drums and vitriolic guitar harmonies, only to shift mid-song into the somber territories of 4ADâ€™s early catalog. Which is not to say that Deafheaven have softened their approach; New Bermuda offers the most punishing music of the bandâ€™s career in the wake of their greatest success.
Country USA
Brand Crimson
Manufacturer Anti
Binding Vinyl
ItemPartNumber 17709023
Model 35220672
ReleaseDate 2015-11-13
UnitCount 2
UPCs 045778742516
EANs 0045778742516

Country	USA
Brand	Crimson
Manufacturer	Anti
Binding	Vinyl
ItemPartNumber	17709023
Model	35220672
ReleaseDate	2015-11-13
UnitCount	2
UPCs	045778742516
EANs	0045778742516

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