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A black-and-white portrait of Deafheaven's Shiv Mehra [left] and Kerry McCoy playing guitar in close-up.

Shiv Mehra and Kerry McCoy on stompbox thrill-seeking and Deafheaven's return to super-heavy guitars

By Jim Beaugez published

Lonely People with Power takes Deafheaven back to the frontiers of black metal and shoegaze, and once more torching the rulebook of genre orthodoxy in search of sonic enlightenment

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Deafheaven's Shiv Mehra and Kerry McCoy on embracing new gear and sonic approaches for Infinite Granite: “We replaced heaviness with intensity”

By Chris Schwarten published

The post-metal five-piece dial back the gain and explore a brave new world of shimmery sounds for their fifth studio effort

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Kim Thayil

From euphoric post-rock to gritty, overdriven blues: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Matt Owen, Sam Roche published

On tap this week is some guitar-driven heat from Jared James Nichols, Deafheaven, The Front Bottoms, Laura Stevenson, The Pretty Reckless and more

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Chris Johnson, Shiv Mehra, George Clarke, and Kerry McCoy of Deafheaven perform onstage at That Tent during the 2019 Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival on June 14, 2019 in Manchester, Tennessee.

Deafheaven announce new album Infinite Granite, share euphoric single, Great Mass of Color

By Michael Astley-Brown published

The shoegaze-metallers’ latest was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen

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