Sunbather
About this Album
Sunbather is the second album by Deafheaven, released on Deathwish in June 2013 and produced by Jack Shirley.[1][2] Most of it was written in 2012 in the band's San Francisco apartment after a long tour.[1]
The record fuses black metal with shoegaze and post-rock, and its orange-pink cover provoked early backlash from black metal purists.[1] It nonetheless became one of the most popular black metal albums ever made and helped spark a global blackgaze wave.[1] Decibel inducted it into its Hall of Fame.[3]