Deafheaven with Uniform – Friday, 27 July 2018 @ The Opera House, Toronto, ON
I cannot believe I just saw Deafheaven. The show felt like it took forever to approach and was over with too quickly. That’s how all life’s joys go though. Drab Majesty were absent as they had some issues getting across the border and had to cancel the Toronto and Montreal dates. Uniform and Deafheaven were still enough to make me happy thankfully, it just meant an extremely short show. It was probably less than two hours long.
Uniform, similar to the Windsor powerviolence group, Minors, totally shook me. To me, powerviolence is a genre of hardcore metal that never fails to terrify. They’re frontman was very expressive and was very into it.
Deafheaven was absolutely unreal. The tour was to support the release of their new record, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, a difficult album to come after New Bermuda and Sunbather. It’s a very subversive and divisive record but they performed it to the best of their ability. The highlight of the show was definitely their playing of the songs “Honeycomb” and “Brought to the Water.”
Remaining tour dates:
AUG 08 Boise, ID @ Neurolux
AUG 10 Seattle, WA @ The Neptune Theatre
AUG 11 Vancouver, BC @ The Imperial
AUG 12 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
AUG 14 San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
AUG 15 Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post
AUG 17 San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick
AUG 18 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
SEP 13 Warsaw, PL @ Hybrydy
SEP 14 Poznan, PL @ U Bazyla
SEP 15 Dresden, DE @ Beatpol
SEP 17 Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik
SEP 18 Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
SEP 19 Stockholm, SE @ Kraken
SEP 20 Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
SEP 22 Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
SEP 23 Esch Alzette, LU @ Rockhal
SEP 25 Antwerp, BE @ Trix
SEP 26 Koln, DE @ Essigfabrik
SEP 27 Berlin, DE @ Bi Nuu
SEP 28 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez
SEP 30 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
OCT 01 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
OCT 02 Glasgow, UK @ Art School
OCT 03 Leeds, UK @ Stylus
OCT 05 London, UK @ ULU
OCT 06 Nijmegen, NL @ Soulcrusher Festival
OCT 07 Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie
OCT 09 Munich, DE @ Feierwerk
OCT 10 Winterthur, CH @ Salzhaus
OCT 11 Milan, IT @ Legend
OCT 12 Bologna, IT @ TPO
OCT 13 Zagreb, HR @ Mochvara
OCT 14 Vienna, AT @ Arena
