DEAFHEAVEN – INFINITE GRANITE

Over the course of their first ten years, Deafheaven’s music vacillated between tormented beauty and harmonic rage-a hybrid of black metal’s malice and shoegaze’s sublime wall-of-sound. On their fifth album, ‘Infinite Granite’, Deafheaven are no longer toying with the juxtaposition of pitting metallic abrasion against swirling grandeur. Quite the opposite: ‘Infinite Granite’ is a bold and brave leap forward, a gorgeous and invigorating album brimming with style and splendor. In the context of their catalog, it takes on a whole other layer of defiant beauty. Ultimately, ‘Infinite Granite’ is Deafheaven’s most goosebump-inducing album to date.