Liturgy is a transcendental black metal band from Brooklyn, NY. Liturgy’s music is an ecstatic affirmation of becoming and an assault on the floating malaise of contemporary information-age life. The ebb and flow of their churning, swarming rhythms and melodies both models and fosters the eternal flux.
They draw influence from, and comparison to, products from many ages and disciplines – the solemn 11th century chants of Perotin, the allegorical prophecies of Blake, the apocalyptic vision of Scriabin, the mass-media spirituality of Jodorowsky, the cataclysmic transcendence of Glenn Branca’s post-minimalist collective no-wave drones. But there is nothing eclectic about Liturgy’s music. They dig to the core of black metal to drink from its purest essence, only to create it anew, reinventing it as what it truly is by connecting it to a broader transcendental tradition.
Their debut full-length Renihilation presents a vision of a new American black metal, permanently held to the flame, searing with energy, purged of impurities and form, eternally glowing like a star.
2009 Best Of Lists (selected) for “Renihilation”:
NY Times – Pagan Dawn – Top Songs of 2009 (Ben Ratliff)
Brooklyn Vegan – Honorable Mention (“BBG”)
Stereogum – Honorable Mention (Brandon Stousy)
Popmatters – Best of 2009 (#16)
Village Voice – Best Local Music of 2009
Impose – Best of 2009 (#10)
Metalsucks – Best of 2009 (#17) (“Satan Rosenbloom”)
InSound – Best of 2009 (#19)
Submerge Mag – Best of 2009 (#16)
Scratch The Surface – Best of 2009 (#1) (David Alexandre)
Chronic Youth – Best of 2009 (David Castillo)
SpeedGlueAndMusic – Best of 2009 (#2)
Skeletons & Candy – Best of 2009 (#2)
Crustcake – Best of 2009 (#9) (“Crustcake Gerf”)
InReviewOnline – Best of 2009 (#10) (Kathie Smith)
HydraHead – Best of 2009 (Jon Chang)
