Metal Anarchy

Deafheaven have released a new mini-documentary, titled “The Vast Sterling Purple,” via Veeps. The film was shot by Sean Stout and Liam Stewart and it focuses on the band’s recent tour with Harm’s Way and I Promised The World. That trek found them playing in less conventional places.

Vocalist George Clarke commented:

“It’s more about connecting with people who don’t normally get to see the band and going out to them and giving them as good a show as you would in those other places. Going to college towns and going to smaller suburbs, going to places where people do not go to as many shows, you never know what the reaction is going to be.”

He also added the following about writing music for live sets:

“Early on, that was a real motivation because there isn’t a huge blueprint for what we do, a lot of what we create is done in a way that is sort of flying blind. We have enough records under our belt, and a lot of experimentation having been done over those albums, I think we arrived at a place that was very comfortable. I really thought that, for us to get our point across, I had to do the thing I’ve always done, which is reach in and assess my own life and the things that have made me me, to a much stronger degree.”