Deafheaven From the Kettle Onto the Coil

The Adult Swim singles series is on a roll this year, with great contributions by artists as diverse as Captain Murphy and Future to the more punk rock-centric Speedy Ortiz and Diarrhea Planet to heavier acts like Sleep and a collaboration between Mastodon and Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers. So who better for a spot in this unique and wonderful collection than the Internet's simultaneously most celebrated and despised metal band, Deafheaven?

The San Francisco-based group's first material since last year's highly acclaimed Sunbather is a little less, well... sunny, right down to the cover art. The bright pink hues that adorned their previous release have been replaced with a black, grey, and white picture that appears to represent some sort of skull. This mirrors the music perfectly, as "From the Kettle Onto the Coil" leans much more to the heavily to the Darkthrone side of Deafheaven's musical coin than the My Bloody Valentine side. In fact, for most of its runtime, it may be the most straightforward black metal song they've released to date...[more]

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