Liturgy
| Liturgy | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | New York City , United States |
| Genre (s) | Blackgaze , post black metal |
| founding | 2005 |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, guitar |
Hunter Hunt Hendrix |
bass |
Tyler Dusenbury |
guitar |
Bernard Gann |
| former members | |
Drums |
Greg Fox |
Liturgy is a four-piece band from Brooklyn , New York City , formed in 2005.
style
The band is stylistically inspired by Black Metal , they call their music "Transcendental Black Metal". However, it differs fundamentally from Black Metal in that it deliberately renounces show effects typical of the genre, such as corpse paint , fake blood or disguises. Furthermore, they reject the propagation of anti-Christian, misanthropic or fascistoid ideologies, which are or were common for a large number of the Scandinavian genre sizes. Hunt-Hendrix "uses music, which carries a virulent opposition to Christianity in its DNA, as a vehicle to explore great ideas about, among other things, Christian salvation ." The band is therefore denied authenticity by traditional black metal fans.
"We are really willing to suffer being hated for doing what feels right aesthetically."
"We are really willing to suffer being hated for what feels aesthetically right."
Because of the enormous differences to classic black metal bands, parts of the press also describe the music as “the hipster meat grinder version of black metal”, “hipster black metal” or “ transcendental blubber”, where “the what is brewed from the influences, is completely independent ”, or simply as“ Post-Black-Metal ”. The music "ultimately has more to do with post-rock on hyperspeed than with classic black metal: here the music piles up crescendo on crescendo without ever degenerating into mere guitar crackling".
Discography
- 2008: Immortal Life (EP)
- 2009: Renihilation (album)
- 2011: Aesthethica (album)
- 2015: The Ark Work (album)
- 2019: HAQQ (album)
Awards
- Visions - Albums of the Year 2011 - Aesthethica : 4th place
- Spin - Albums of the Year 2011 - Aesthethica : Place 26
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Robert Iwanetz: Post-Black-Metal: Strip off the dead skin of the cliché .
- ↑ a b c Jayson Greene: Liturgy: Aesthethica .
- ↑ a b Yves Weber: Liturgy - Aesthetica .
- ↑ Visions , issue 226, January 2012, p. 63.
- ↑ Spin Staff: SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2011 .