Roads to Judah

Roads to Judah is the debut studio album by the American blackgaze band Deafheaven.

[7] The album title is a reference to N Judah, one of the busiest lines in the San Francisco transit system.

Shane Mehling of Decibel gave the album an eight out of ten, and praised it for pushing the boundaries of black metal.

He wrote that, "This band produces long, incredibly beautiful black metal that, aside from the buried shrieks of the vocalist, doesn't have a drop of evil or noticeable malice" and that Deafheaven is "sure as hell doing a lot more with the genre than the newest batch of gauntlet-wearing Darkthrone worshipers.

"[3] Graham Scala of RVA Magazine wrote that Deafheaven's songs are, "all a series of graceful transitions and dynamic shifts in timbre, rather than marathon blastbeat sessions or one effects-laden crescendo after another.