The Story Of Every Deafheaven Album Cover
The album cover of Deafheaven’s second album, 2013’s Sunbather, accrued a weighty, polarizing significance that its creators never anticipated it would bear. It garnered derision from metal purists, memetic adaptations from the chronically online, and lavish praise from the Pitchfork-pilled. Absent was the oft-illegible font so many black metal groups employed. In its place was an original serif typeface from graphic designer and Touché Amoré rhythm guitarist Nick Steinhardt. Coupled with warm pinks and oranges meant to evoke sunlight on […]