“High Gold is the blistering opening track from Liturgy?s second album (and third release) Aesthethica, the followup to 2009?s Renihilation. The Brooklyn quartet?s been a favorite live band for the past couple years: Aesthethica harnesses and refines that in-person energy, resulting in one of the year?s most exhilarating, cathartic, ultimately moving records. It?s a nonstop buzz or drone, a kind of harsh experimental explosion: Hunt-Hendrix mixes trance-like vocal chants with black metal howls and drummer Greg Fox destroys his kit while bassist Tyler Dusenbury and second guitarist Bernard Gann strum/pick for their lives” –Brandon “Show No Mercy” Stosuy/Stereogum.

We?re told High Gold?s their vision of the apocalypse. Listen HERE.

Aesthethica is out 5/10 via Thrill Jockey. You can hear a second track,  Returner at Soundcloud.

Continue reading: Liturgy ? ?High Gold? – Stereogum.

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Brooklyn?s Liturgy wield their considerable musicianship in anguished paroxysms of minimalist black metal? yielding a strange, hypnotic  music that is almost as hopeful as it is bleak. Swirling clouds of  feverishly buzzing insectoid guitars hover over a furious and simple  beat recalling both the impassioned assault of a garage rock band and  the deliberate control of prog rock, yet their resulting din is  instantly recognizable as black metal.

This is a four-piece band that  is renowned for the quality of their live shows, and they are quickly  becoming revered on the strength of their two albums ?Immortal Life? and especially last year?s buzz-creating ?Renihilation?. They are one  of the few current black metal bands able to add something new to the genre while staying well within the bounds of ?true?, ?kvlt? and ?necro?.