Deafheaven

"From the Kettle Onto the Coil"

BY Alex HudsonPublished Aug 22, 2014

Black metal shoegazers Deafheaven are participating in this year's Adult Swim Singles Program. Now, their contribution has emerged in the form of the "From the Kettle Onto the Coil."

The song is a venomous scorcher, its crushing drums and climactic guitars making the first couple of minutes feel like a continuous crescendo. Eventually the arrangement shifts into head banging riffs, dramatically slow rhythms and a mellow middle passage, with frontman George Clarke's throat-tearing screams sounding particularly terrifying.

Take a listen below.

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