The genre-bending heavy act Deafheaven have just announced an Australasian tour in support of their new album ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’, including two New Zealand tour dates!
Known for their transcendent live shows and united by their sheer ferocity, Deafheaven are poised on the edge of an emotional apocalypse. With tortured shrieks and immersive guitar explosions, Deafheaven music is not made for the everyday.
Handsome Tours & Valhalla Touring presents
DEAFHEAVEN
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Tour
Wednesday 20th February | Valhalla | Wellington
Thursday 21st February | Galatos | Auckland
Tickets on sale 8am, Friday 9th November from Under The Radar.
Press Release:
Formed in San Francisco in 2010, Deafheaven (vocalist George Clarke, guitarists Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra, and drummer Dan Tracy) made their debut in 2011 with album Roads To Judah and had an unexpected crossover hit with their 2013 sophomore effort Sunbather. Along with being praised as “one of the best albums of the year” by Stereogum, their third album New Bermuda was hailed as “a brilliant collision of beauty and despair” in Pitchfork’s Best New Music review.
Deafheaven’s musical style has been described by Rolling Stone as a “boundary-pushing blend of black metal, shoegaze and post-rock”. McCoy has cited various other influences on the band’s sound, including alternative rock and early thrash metal, and said they do not consider themselves a black metal band, as although influenced by the genre, they do not have “the ethos, the aesthetic or really the sound of one”. In a 2017 interview with Red Bull Music Academy Daily, McCoy stated: “The whole shoegaze/black metal, or post-black metal thing, was being done ten years before we were a band.”
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