Liturgy are a black metal

Black metal

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 band from Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, New York

New York

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. Originally the solo project of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, the band expanded to a four piece in 2008, after the release of the 12" Immortal Life, which was followed in 2009 with their debut album Renihilation. The group call their style "transcendental black metal", which is described in a declaration

Declaration

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 written by Hunt-Hendrix. Hunter cites Swans

Swans

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, Glenn Branca

Glenn Branca

Glenn Branca is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.-Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s:Branca...

, Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...

, Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis

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 and Lightning Bolt as influences.

The group's second album, Aesthethica, was released in May 2011 by Thrill Jockey

Thrill Jockey

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.

Personnel

• Hunter Hunt Hendrix – vocals, guitar
• Bernard Gann – guitar
• Tyler Dusenbury – bass guitar

Former

• Greg Fox – drums

Albums

• Renihilation (20 Buck Spin, 2009)
• Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey
  Thrill Jockey
  Thrill Jockey Records is an American independent record label established in 1992 in New York City by former Atlantic Records A&R representative Bettina Richards.-History:...
  
  , 10 May 2011)

External links

• http://www.archive.org/details/TranscendentalBlackMetal Transcendental Black Metal theory paper by Hunter Hunt Hendrix presented at Black Metal Theory Symposium I: Hideous Gnosis