10 Years Gone

10 Years Gone is a live album by blackgaze / post-metal band Deafheaven. It was recorded live-in-studio at The Atomic Garden Studio East in Oakland, California, and released on December 4, 2020, through Sargent House.

This article is about the live album by Deafheaven. For the song by Led Zeppelin, see Ten Years Gone. For the greatest hits album by Everclear, see Ten Years Gone: The Best of Everclear 1994–2004.
Ten Years Gone
Live album by
Deafheaven
ReleasedDecember 4, 2020
RecordedJune 2020
StudioThe Atomic Garden Studio East, Oakland, California
Genre
Length72:30
LabelSargent House
Producer
Deafheaven chronology
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
(2018)		 Ten Years Gone
(2020)		 Infinite Granite
(2021)

Background

"Earlier this year we intended on celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Deafheaven demo released through Bandcamp on June 1, 2010 with a tour of North America with our friends Inter Arma, Greet Death and All Your Sisters. Unfortunately, we couldn't fulfill that tour because of fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. To rebound from the financial and morale hit, we put together an album of the set we intended to perform.

Revisiting the songs in this studio sessions format with Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden reminded us of how important these years have been. I'm thankful we were able to give songs like Daedalus, the first we wrote, and other favorites like Vertigo and Kettle new power after so many years of playing them. They made me think of the people who played on them with us. For the first time we've included information on who played on what tracks and when they were originally released. We included thank you-s in the liner notes to these musicians who've spent time with this project, on tour or on record and all of the touring crew, label support and management support who have helped us this past decade ..."

— George Clarke[1]

10 Years Gone is the second live album released by Deafheaven (the band had previously released Live at The Blacktop, nearly a decade earlier, in 2011).[2] The album was created in celebration of the band's 10-year anniversary, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to cancel a planned 10th anniversary tour.

10 Years Gone includes live renditions of songs that originally appeared on the band's demo EP ("Daedalus"), Roads to Judah ("Language Games"), Sunbather ("Vertigo", "The Pecan Tree", "Dreamhouse"), New Bermuda ("Baby Blue"), Ordinary Corrupt Human Love ("Glint"), and a non-album single ("From the Kettle Onto the Coil"). A live version of "Language Games" was previously released on Live at The Blacktop [3] The version of "From the Kettle Onto the Coil" featured in 10 Years Gone was the song's first physical release; previously, it was only available as a digital download.

Critical reception

Christina Wenig, reviewing the album for Louder Sound, gave it four stars out of five and called it "...a sonic portfolio that shows the impressive evolution of one of our present moment's most distinct metal bands..." She said that "10 Years Gone doesn't offer the energy, spontaneity and little mishaps that make the magic of an actual live album, but how could it? Ultimately, this record is the chronicle of a band reaching out to their community, to not only look back together, but to also push through an incredibly hard time for all of us."[4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Deafheaven

No.TitleLength
1."From the Kettle Onto the Coil"6:28
2."Daedalus"4:51
3."Vertigo"14:05
4."Language Games"5:51
5."Glint"11:19
6."Baby Blue"8:49
7."The Pecan Tree"11:45
8."Dreamhouse"9:22

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of 10 Years Gone.[5]

Deafheaven

  • Kerry McCoy
  • Shiv Mehra
  • Daniel Tracy
  • Christopher Johnson
  • George Clarke

Additional personnel

  • Chelsea Jade Metcalf – album design
  • Jack Shirley – producer, engineering, mixing, mastering
  • Deafheaven – music, lyrics, producer
  • Bobby Cochran – photography

Charts
Chart performance for 10 Years Gone
Chart (2020) Peak
position
US Top Current Album Sales (Billboard)[6] 56

References
  1. "10 Years Gone". deafheaven.com. December 4, 2020. Archived from the original on February 27, 2021. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
  2. "Deathwish reveals FREE Deafheaven: Live at the Blacktop digital release" blowthescene.com
  3. DW Live Series 08: Deafheaven DW Live Series 08: Live at The Blacktop BandCamp
  4. Deafheaven's 10 Years Gone: post black-metal delirium live in lockdown Louder Sound
  5. 10 Years Gone (liner notes). Deafheaven. Sargent House. 2020. SH242.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. "Deafheaven Chart History: Top Current Album Sales". Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
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