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Hunt-Hendrix thinks of Liturgy as “orchestral music created with the tools of a metal band“, and with violin-inspired guitar parts and avant-garde classical influences, she’s more than nailed the brie
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15.05.21 | Bill Peel Art school black metal, complex and powerful; Brooklyn hipster bullshit, breathtakingly original; Pitchfork bait, unbelievable musicianship. All of these things are true of ‘Aesthethica,’ Liturgy’s second and most (in)famous album, a 70-minute epic of avant-garde black metal. The only thing that everyone can agree on about this 2011 record is that it is anything but mediocre. If you want purple prose about frontwoman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s “piercing shrieks” and Greg Fox’s phenomenal drumming, check out contemporaneous reviews on ‘ Aesthethica‘ from Pit...
Summary Rating 80 / 100 Black metal, with its emphasis on repetition, nature, and sheer power, has always been good at capturing the Kantian idea of the sublime; the kind of fearful awe we feel when we look at immense structures, human-made or otherwise. A band like Darkspace draw from the sublime of the unending cosmos, and the horror of human scientific potential. Last year, Melbourne group, The Peregrine turned the cold woodland environmental tropes of black metal on its head with their album ‘ Rust and Dun’, evoking the crushing vastness of the Australian d...
30 Best Metal Albums of 2020 Of all the things 2020 was a terrible year for, metal was not one of them. There were countless great releases all across the spectrum of heavy music this year, and even with our weekly metal song roundups, the weekly metal album roundups over at Invisible Oranges, and the several metal albums we reviewed this year in Notable Releases, it can be hard to keep up with all of it. But in order to help narrow things down, we've put together a list of 30 metal albums from 2020 that we highly recommend listening to if you haven't done so already.