Deafheaven
Roads To Judas

THE REVIEW

"Senseless" melancholy at epic levels, in psychotic frames".

"Violet" opens the Deafheaven album, a guitar weaving a sad and gray canvas of clear shoegaze, until the blackmetal explosion, a crazy and continuous crescendo on the edge of a shining razor, blastbeats rushed from a cliff, bridges of guitar echoes and an ending closure that says goodbye to Burzum.

"Language Games" is a pearl of screamoblackmetal, infinite tensions, illusory mid tempos, moments of pure suspension in mid-air, these guitars hurt at the mere thought, harmonizations in suspension, almost "U2-like" melodies dancing on frantic double pedals, and then an atomic silence that explodes on the walls of the mountains of madness, it's despair in a raw state. "Unrequited" is a vain illusion of peace, an incomplete armistice, pierced by crazy guitars and a voice soaked in pain.

"Tunnel Of Trees" is the gigantic gate that closes the doors of this mental care institution without windows, guitars ever tenser, drums ever heavier, the voice now abandoned to its destiny, dissolving in a sea of echoes of beauty, infinite guitars.

California has a black sun.