Aesthethica

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.