“Lonely People With Power” is the metal band’s follow-up to 2021’s “Infinite Granite”, with Justin Meldal-Johnsen returning as producer. “Lonely People With Power” is out March 28th. It’s Deafheaven’s first album for Roadrunner Records; their previous albums arrived via Deathwish, Anti-, and Sargent House. Since their 2011 debut, “Roads to Judah”, Deafheaven have embraced an aesthetic palette that transcended heavy music itself, but black metal firmly remained the core of their sound. With 2021’s “Infinite Granite”, the band brought that idea into question for the first time, mostly casting aside the scream and scorch in favour of dreamier shoegaze textures.
Four years later, “Lonely People With Power” offers not just the reassurance that black metal remains essential to who Deafheaven are and what they do, but genuinely rivals any of their prior releases as their best. Still swirling in elements of dream pop, post-punk, noise rock and other sounds, Deafheaven sharpen their focus and go for the throat on more concise, finely honed rippers like “Magnolia” and “Doberman” while stretching their limits even further on versatile standouts such as “Heathen” and “Body Behaviour.”
“Lonely People With Power” captures Deafheaven at their most beautiful and brutal, and an astonishing spectrum in between.
The band—featuring vocalist George Clarke, guitarists Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra, bassist Christopher Johnson, and drummer Daniel Tracy—invited Interpol’s Paul Banks and Boy Harsher’s Jae Matthews to guest on the new album.
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