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Although some members left the band around 2012, they reunited to record their third studio album, \"The Ark Work.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar artists to Liturgy include Krallice, Thantifaxath, Altar Of Plagues, The Body, Mamaleek, Panopticon, Deafheaven, Wolves In The Throne Room, Oranssi Pazuzu,\nBoris,\nJeromes Dream,\nsunn O))),\nThe Hirs Collective,\nAgriculture,\nAshenspire,\nBIG|BRAVE,\nModel\/Actriz,\nOxbow,\nPortrayal of Guilt,\nand KEN Mode.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aesthethica","title":"Aesthethica","description":"\u003cp\u003ecd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50410022764875,"sku":"337762","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50410022404427,"sku":"337761","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9119a760-c73f-4c99-8f53-eb3c886e9503_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726634585"},{"product_id":"origin-of-the-alimonies","title":"Origin of the Alimonies","description":"\u003cp\u003eOrigin of the Alimonies is Liturgy's fifth full-length album and their first to fully integrate Hunter Hunt-Hendrix's vision of total art, or what she calls Perichoresis, with her musical compositions. The music amplifies a dramatic narrative addressing the question of the origin of all things, which itself aesthetically grounds the content of Hunt-Hendrix's ongoing philosophical YouTube series on her System of Transcendental Qabala. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album is by far Liturgy's most meticulous and radical statement, pushing their characteristic synthesis between black metal, minimalism, experimental club music, and 19th-century romanticism to new extremes. Exploring microtonality, free improvisation, polymetric structures and Richard Wagner's ideas of musikdrama and leitmotif, Hunt-Hendrix employs her unique \"burst beat\" technique to bind together the rhythmic signatures of metal, experimental club and classical music in the service of speech patterns and narrative flow. Featuring the virtuosic playing of bandmates Leo Didkovsky, Tia Vincent-Clark and Bernard Gann, the entire album also includes flute, piano, harp, strings and horns performed by a 8-piece chamber ensemble drawn from New York's various avant-garde music scenes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YLYLCYN","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50416436674891,"sku":"1120428","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50416436478283,"sku":"1120427","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/74e48803-cc86-4930-b546-f244d5042466_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726703485"},{"product_id":"93696","title":"93696","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiturgy transcends the traditional parameters of what constitutes a rock band. Founded by Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, Liturgy is a part of a shared discipline of composition, art, and philosophy that thrives on exploring the spaces between. 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