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With 'Honeycomb,' Deafheaven Matches Its Expansive Promise

Deafheaven's <em>Ordinary Corrupt Human Love </em>comes out July 13.

The secret of the pearl's beauty is secretion: Layers and layers of calcium carbonate and conchiolin form over a microscopic intruder in a process intended principally to protect the has spent eight years layering its exquisite and extreme sound, its eureka moment of gauzy black metal most realized on and adventuring beyond with 2015's . It's the latter that reached more ears, but sometimes felt unformed in its sonic array — still something to behold, but not quite ready to be broken open.

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