Roads to Judah
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| Studio album by Deafheaven | ||||
| Released | April 26, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | December 2010 – January 2011 | |||
| Studio | Atomic Garden Studio, East Palo Alto, California | |||
| Genre | Blackgaze,[1] black metal | |||
| Length | 38:21 | |||
| Label | Deathwish (DW120) | |||
| Producer | Jack Shirley, Deafheaven | |||
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Roads to Judah is the debut studio album by the American black metal band Deafheaven. The album was released by Deathwish Inc. on April 26, 2011.[2] Roads to Judah was recorded in four days between December 2010 and January 2011.[3]
Reception
Roads to Judah was met with generally positive reviews. Shane Mehling of Decibel gave the album an eight out of ten, and praised it for pushing the boundaries of black metal. He wrote that, "This band produces long, incredibly beautiful black metal that, aside from the buried shrieks of the vocalist, doesn't have a drop of evil of noticeable malice, and that Deafheaven is, "sure as hell doing a lot more with the genre than the newest batch of gauntlet-wearing Darkthrone worshipers."[4] Graham Scala of RVA Magazine wrote that Deafheaven's songs are, "all a series of graceful transitions and dynamic shifts in timbre, rather than marathon blastbeat sessions or one effects-laden crescendo after another. This is a distinction which not only separates them from the majority of their contemporaries, but has provided the basis for a memorable and compelling release."[5] However, Alex Deller of Rock Sound gave the album a six out of ten stating that Deafheaven's blend of black metal and shoegaze wasn't "an entirely new proposition" and compared the album to the music of Liturgy.[6]
Accolades
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Publication Country Accolade Rank The A.V. Club[7] US Loud's Top 15 of 2011 12 Decibel[8] US Top 40 Extreme Albums of 2011 36 MSN[9] US The Top 50 Albums of 2011 17 NPR[10] US The Best Metal Albums of 2011 6 Pitchfork[11] US Top 40 Metal Albums of 2011 22
Track listing
All songs written and recorded by Deafheaven.[3]
- "Violet" – 12:19
- "Language Games" – 6:46
- "Unrequited" – 9:31
- "Tunnel of Trees" – 9:45
Personnel
- Deafheaven
- Nick Bassett – guitars
- George Clarke – vocals
- Trevor Deschryver – drums
- Kerry McCoy – guitars
- Derek Prine – bass
- Production[3]
- Jack Shirley – production, engineering, mixing, mastering
- Deafheaven – production
- Artwork[3]
- R. Sawyer – cover art, insert art
- N. Steinhardt – package design
References
- ↑ http://www.metalinjection.net/reviews/album-review-deafheaven-sunbather
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