News Four more bands have been added to Damnation FestivalNovember’s festival of heaviness and extremity, Damnation, just got even louder – and there’s “so much more to come” to the Manchester bash.
Reviews Album review: Deafheaven – Lonely People With PowerTake the power back: Deafheaven return with unexpectedly heavy and entirely expectedly brilliant sixth album.
The Cover Story Deafheaven: “If power is influence, we have a responsibility to be as understanding, empathetic and knowledgeable as possible”Deafheaven frontman George Clarke has grappled with the self-examination through music for years now. Where his Californian pioneers’ icy blackgaze has often felt like an exercise in abstract deflection, however, awesome sixth album Lonely People With Power finds healing fire in its complex interrogation of human relationships and the art of influence over one another...
News Damnation add Deafheaven, Author & Punisher and more to 2025 line-upDamnation gets even bigger with Deafheaven, Author & Punisher, Necrot and more joining the bill for November...
News Deafheaven have released a new single, HeathenHear Deafheaven’s new single Heathen – the second preview they’ve shared from next month’s Lonely People With Power record.
Features “That spirit of playing fast and hard has been reinvigorated”: Deafheaven take us inside new album Lonely People With PowerCalifornian blackgaze overlords Deafheaven have returned with ear-smashing new single Magnolia to start the engines on imminent sixth album Lonely People With Power. We sat down with frontman George Clarke to find out how falling back in love with heavy music led to the most representative record yet of exactly who they are...
Reviews Live review: Knocked Loose, O2 Institute BirminghamKnocked Loose hit Birmingham hard as they begin their furious new chapter...
Reviews The big review: ArcTanGent 2023Heilung, Converge, Devin Townsend and many more hit Fernhill Farm for four days of artistic celebration and musical madness at ArcTanGent Festival…
News Deafheaven announce 10th anniversary reissue of Sunbather, plus tourDeafheaven’s iconic second album Sunbather will be getting the remix/remaster treatment, and they’ll be touring The States in celebration with Touché Amoré…
News Deafheaven to play Sunbather in full at ArcTanGent 2023ArcTanGent have confirmed over 50 bands for next year’s festival bill – including Deafheaven performing their 2013 classic album Sunbather in full…
Reviews 14 of the wildest moments from Outbreak Fest 2022Hardcore mega-gathering Outbreak Fest celebrated its 10-year anniversary this weekend. We were there for every sweat-drenched spin-kick and free-flying stage-dive across a bonkers three days…
Features “This is closer to opera than rock, in quite a fundamental way”: Inside the theatrical world of Alto ArcCelebrating the release of their self-titled debut EP, Deafheaven frontman George Clarke and world-renowned make-up artist Isamaya Ffrench pull back the curtain on mesmerising experimental collaboration Alto Arc…
News Experimental project Alto Arc share “sinister fairytale”, Bordello, from debut self-titled EPAlto Arc – featuring Isamaya Ffrench, Deafheaven’s George Clarke, and Hundred Waters’ Danny L Harle and Trayer Tryon – have shared a new single, Bordello, ahead of their upcoming self-titled EP.
Features The 50 best albums of 2021It’s here: the Kerrang! verdict on the 50 albums that shaped 2021…
Features The 18 best albums released in August 2021From Turnstile to Trash Boat to Jinjer, these are the best albums released in August 2021.
Reviews Album review: Deafheaven – Infinite GraniteBlackgaze heroes Deafheaven drop the metal almost entirely for their most Deafheaven album to date…
Features When The Sun Hits: How Deafheaven stepped out of the shadows to embrace a brave new dawnOver the past decade, Deafheaven’s signature blend of blackened ballast and soothing shoegaze has earned their reputation as one of the most captivating, cutting-edge outfits in heavy music. As gauzy fifth LP Infinite Granite pushes forward, into softer textures and sweeter melodies, we find out how they’ll never risk stagnation for the sake of safety...
