Deathconsciousness is the debut studio album by American rock duo Have a Nice Life, released on January 24, 2008 on Enemies List Home Recordings.

[6] The album received little attention from professional music publications upon its release, but spread through internet message boards and memes.

"[2] In an online Q&A session, Barrett commented on the notoriously lo-fi sound achieved on the album, mentioning how "a lot of Deathconsciousness was recorded through the pinhole mic on [his] laptop".

[11] Barrett picked "The Big Gloom", his personal favorite, as the most emotional song on the album to put together, while Tim Macuga chose "Earthmover", specifically the loud ending.

[2] The original master recordings of the album were lost during a hard drive crash, leaving the band with only 192 kbps MP3 files.

[17] Piero Scaruffi described the album as a "hybrid of My Bloody Valentine's shoegaze-pop, Joy Division's dark-punk, Godspeed You Black Emperor's post-rock, Nine Inch Nails' industrial dirges, and the Swans' proto-doom".

[19] Barrett said, "We saw an Italian magazine put it on the best albums of the year list next to Portishead and Meshuggah and thought, 'Oh god, they think we’re a real band!

Bands like Deafheaven and Planning for Burial, though heavier in tone, evoke similar emotional depth and genre-blending approaches.

Both these bands echo the album's mixture of post-punk, industrial, and black metal elements with a unique emotional depth that extends into themes of nihilism, loneliness, and existential despair.