Name: Aesthethica
Brand: Liturgy

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thrill273cd

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2011-05-23

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PIAS

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Standard:20

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790377027327

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Liturgy

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Metal

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Liturgy is an American "transcendental black metal" band from Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2008 by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, the band started as a solo project and later expanded to a four-piece group. After releasing their debut 12-inch record "Immortal Life," Liturgy gained recognition and signed with Thrill Jockey. Their second album, "Aesthethica," was featured in Spin Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 2011" list. Although some members left the band around 2012, they reunited to record their third studio album, "The Ark Work."

The current lineup consists of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix on guitar and vocals, Mario Miron on guitar, Tia Vincent-Clark on bass, and Leo Didkovsky on drums.

Similar artists to Liturgy include Krallice, Thantifaxath, Altar Of Plagues, The Body, Mamaleek, Panopticon, Deafheaven, Wolves In The Throne Room, Oranssi Pazuzu,
Boris,
Jeromes Dream,
sunn O))),
The Hirs Collective,
Agriculture,
Ashenspire,
BIG|BRAVE,
Model/Actriz,
Oxbow,
Portrayal of Guilt,
and KEN Mode.

cd version in a 4 panel mini-lp style package with 20 page booklet disregarding the genre boundaries of black metal, hardcore and experimental music. on 'renihilation', liturgy make use of simple song structures, and concentrate on sustaining a blindingly high intensity level from start to finish by connecting black metal techniques to the spirit of film score writing (vangelis, badalamenti) and post-romanticism (scriabin, sibelius). 'high gold' presents a vision of apocalypse, 'harmonia' presents a judgment on the meaning of life, and so on. the resulting collection of songs, at once, embodies and transcends these tropes. the music is supersaturated with lofty melodies and lyrics, bursting with frenzied execution, and builds to a boiling point of chaos, distorting all meaning and distilling to reveal the raw core of pure sonic joy. liturgy surrounds these fractured islands of meaning with a sea of a-signifying ritual repetition and sound (branca, sleep, lightning bolt). tear at the seams of the straitjacket of ordinary life, release the energy from the field of potentiality that it binds, enter the realm of the good and the beautiful, so commands 'aesthethica'. highly technical musicianship, poetico-mystical gesturing, and a minimal directness; all singular elements, whose interactions and reactions are contained in and bursting from a black metal framework. revelatory contrasts presented in an intensely physical performance whose energy is palpable and whose abatement is as illuminating as its arrival.

Aesthethica

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