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Cult hero, chaos merchant, squat party conductor. Deijuvhs — that’s pronounced ‘dayj-yoo vee-aitch-ess’ — is the leader of a raging new underground movement of punks, rappers, nerds, and ravers getting its kicks from kicking out at the world. Having cut his teeth churning up moshpits at DIY festivals, and honing his songwriting chops through frenzied studio sessions, there’s a whirlwind now forming around Deijuvhs. And he’s in control of it.
An MC, singer, bandleader, scene leader — perhaps most of all, ringleader — Deijuvhs picks from a post-internet grab bag of unmoored musical influences. Over a series of blistering mixtapes (Forever Hoodpunk , Flower Ghoul, and Perpetual States of Boredom the following year) his catalogue leaps from grunge to sweetboi dancehall to hair metal solos. In some cases, as on 2020’s ‘Infinity Pipe’, he covers all this ground in the confines of a single song.
His latest project, titled Cemetery Scum and due for release early ‘25, is a lightning rod for this new movement — and Deijuvhs’s most cohesive project to date. “It’s night time as a hoodpunk,” Deijuvhs says of the mixtape’s overarching mood. Cemetery Scum takes its framing just as much from Deijuvhs’s vast musical appetite as from the mood and aesthetic of iconic movies like Blade, The Matrix, and Queen Of The Damned. He’d break through creative blocks in the studio by showing his producers scenes from these movies, and then “things would just make sense.”