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On the other hand free drinks
Wow, Haela Hunt-Hendrix happens to be the lead woman of one of my favorite bands. Liturgy, a “transcendental black metal” band which everyone who likes metal should go ahead and check out
I know she’s mentioned Hegel and Marx before and definitely doesn’t read as a reactionary to me, but all of her gnostic kabbalah Christian mysticism stuff is completely inscrutable to me. All her philosophical ramblings post-Aesthetica make the Transcendental Black Metal manifesto seem completely straightforward and completely devoid of pretense.
(“Pretentious” isn’t exactly the right word, she seems 100% genuine about whatever it is she’s getting at, but you can definitely tell she’s a Yale philosophy major with a masters that thinks her “arkwork” concept is like the idea behind Scriabin’s “Mysterium” where the Wagnerian idea of gesamtkunstwerk creates some kind of religious revelatory mystical effect on its audience or something. There’s a track on Renihilation that’s a direct reference to Mysterium IIRC. Really interesting and deeply odd person. Also the great(?)granddaughter of a Poppy Bush affiliated Texan oil baron fortune.)
I cant understand any of her philosphic ramblings. However the live show was outstanding, I love most of their album art and some of their songs are beautiful. ‘god of love’ is one of my favorite tracks of all time.
“Harmonia”, “Glory Bronze” and “True Will” have been my favorites. I should revisit The Ark Work and HÆLL or whatever Liturgy did after Aesthetica, they didn’t really stick with me once she started incorporating more electronic stuff and for lack of a better term ‘mumble rap’ stuff with glitchy choir/pipe organ shit, but maybe there’s something there and it’ll click upon a revisit.
It’s mostly glitchy choir pipe organ shit tbh but also at least one of the recent albums has an orchestra as well. Origin of the alimonies is worth a listen.
Thanks
I’ll give it another shot and see if I come out on the other side transcendental kabbalah gnostic-pilled or whatever
For anyone that kinda likes Liturgy, I’d recommend Wolves in the Throne Room, Krallice, Ash Borer and Panopticon. I’d plug Vildhjarta too even though they’re much more post-Meshuggah proggy death metal/djent milleu than weird black metal, but they scratch the same itch to me that some of Liturgy’s hypnotic and overlaying rhythm parts accomplish but with super low chunky baritone guitar riffs instead of layered tremolo picked black metal leads.
Thanks for the recommendations!
She’s from a prominent bourgeoisie family, the Hunts helped create the professional sports industry in the US and originally made their fortune in oil. It tracks, unfortunately, in the way that this all reads as some bougie nonsense. I love the music too tho
Damn that actually makes a shit load of sense. Kinda sad but at least she got the financial backing to make such interesting music. Tbh I always liked the aesthetic and triggering my parents with anything that had weird cross imagery