Deafheaven Announce New Album ‘Lonely People With Power,’ Unleash Brutal New Single ‘Magnolia’

To say that Deafheaven is back with a vengeance would be an understatement. The Bay Area metal band is back with their first new song in four years, “Magnolia,” a brutal, thrashy tune that also serves as the debut single from their highly anticipated forthcoming album, Lonely People With Power.

I can sit here and try to come up with all kinds of flowery or macabre words to describe “Magnolia” and its accompanying music video, and if you’re familiar enough with Deafheaven you know why those are the two adjectives that best summarize their sounds. The fact of the matter is, “Magnolia” speaks for itself and you should listen.

Lonely People With Power is Deafheaven’s sixth studio album, following Infinite Granite, which was released in 2021. The new record comes more than a decade after the band’s breakout sophomore album, Sunbather, which remains a pivotal moment in the evolution of heavy metal to this day.

Throughout the years, Deafheaven’s seamless blending of black metal and shoegaze — dubbed blackgaze — has kept them at the forefront of conversations around the most genre-blending, bending, and defying heavy bands.

With their new single, it feels like Deafheaven is throwing down a metaphorical gauntlet to make it clear that they are and always will be a dark, ballsy, heavy fucking metal band to their core.

Suffice it to say, “Magnolia” is absolutely relentless, and if its merciless riffage is any indication of what’s to come, we should all be very, very excited about Lonely People With Power.

Lonely People With Power will be released on March 28th and is available for pre-order / pre-save today, with a 2x LP deluxe edition and several limited edition vinyl color variants available in Deafheaven’s store.

See the album’s full tracklist here: