Deafheaven meshes the dark sounds of extreme metal with the euphoric brightness of shoe-gaze Would a black metal band pick a quote from a Graham Greene novel for the title of their album? Well, if that band happens to be Deafheaven, they might. And they have. The San Francisco quintet calls their new album Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, a phrase from a quote in Greene’s The End Of The Affair, a novel where the protagonist, Maurice Bendrix, narrates retrospectively about an ill-fated affair with a married woman, Sarah Miles. In Greene’s novel there are many themes, including the conflict between human love and the love of god but also tender sentimentality and romanticism, which you...
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