A lot of that with maturity has changed - my attitude about the world for sure - but coming out of that I remember thinking, “All of this is insane and beyond me and has nothing to do with me. That kind of mentality opened us up to being more expressive and not caring about confines and stuff like that. It was a kind of a low-living free-for-all in a lot of ways.
I also remember the 2008 financial crash happening - I remember despair but also thinking, “This is a chance to live outside of all this.” It was very teenage, but we felt like the only reaction was to have no responsibility at all. Kerry and I talk about this quite a bit, being in high school during the Bush era and there being a tremendous distrust of government. On how he was affected by the 2008 recession leading into the new decade Also, I was listening to the Cascadian stuff, including Skagos and Wolves in the Throne Room. And then, of course, black metal, too, certainly, listening to a lot of Weakling, Ludicra, Velvet Cacoon, a lot of weirder black metal. I remember in 2009 seeing Unholy Grave with Magrudgergrind and that being par for the course. I was listening to His Hero Is Gone, Eyehategod, and I remember listening to Crossed Out, Siege and a lot of ’80s hardcore, as well as Discordance Axis, Insect Warfare, Pig Destroyer and the wave of metallic grindcore that was happening. I’ve always been listening to things besides metal but at the time I was particularly into the heavy stuff. Everything was about going to shows, going to parties, meeting new people, and living a new life in a lot of ways. I had just turned 20 and we were pretty careless. It was a lot of fun It was an exciting time. In 2009, I was living in San Francisco, I had moved there that year. On his life and musical taste at the start of the decade With Deafheaven recently included on Consequence of Sound’s lists of Top 100 Albums, Top 25 Metal Albums, and Top 25 Metal Songs of the 2010s, Clarke recently spoke to us from his Tokyo hotel room to talk about youth, maturity, and why metal will never die.
As such, there’s no better musician than George Clarke to unpack the last decade in metal with us. Now, at the end of the decade, Deafheaven have two more esteemed albums - New Bermuda and Ordinary Corrupt Human Love - under their belt, not to mention a whole lot of touring experience. Many perpetually contrarian black metal diehards hated it, but their admonition didn’t stop Deafheaven from growing into a must-see live act and crossover musical success.
It precipitated a renaissance in atmospheric black metal that defined the decade. In 2013, Deafheaven released their breakout sophomore album, Sunbather, which may be the most popular metal album of the decade among critics. Vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy formed the band in their San Francisco apartment in 2010, when they were barely legal drinking age, and leveraged the internet to spread their blend of black metal and post-rock. In many ways, the story of metal in the past decade is the story of Deafheaven. (Via Consequence Of Sound by Joseph Schafer)Ĭonsequence Of Sound interviewed George from Deafheaven about the past 10 years in Metal, read the entire interview HERE.
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