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Deafheaven released “At Work in the Fields of the Bomb” today without having announced either a title or a date. It runs to three tracks —“Hunter”, “Three Princes” and “Sorry Laid the Hearth”— comes out on Roadrunner and arrives with a video for the first of them.
The title is taken from a book of photographs by Robert Del Tredici that Harper & Row published in 1987, documenting the ordinary places and ordinary people behind the production of nuclear weapons. The band says it takes the central idea from there too.
“Hunter” was not entirely new: the band played it live for the first time on 2 October in Chicago, at a show where a limited run of physical copies was on sale of an EP that still had no name.
Guitarist Kerry McCoy had talked about it in September to the Spanish site Binaural. He said it would be by far the heaviest thing they had ever recorded and the closest they had come to black metal, well beyond “Lonely People With Power”, which is from 2025. Those remarks went through Spanish and his exact words cannot be given.
Text by Marçal Bonastre