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Product Identifiers

Record LabelTJ, Thrill Jockey

UPC0790377037821

eBay Product ID (ePID)6046059400

Product Key Features

Release Year2015

FormatCD

GenreRock

ArtistLiturgy

Release TitleArk Work

Dimensions

Item Height0.30 in

Item Weight0.10 lb

Item Length5.56 in

Item Width5.05 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks10

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Fanfare 1.2 Follow 1.3 Kel Valhaal 1.4 Follow II 1.5 Quetzalcoatl 1.6 Father Vorizen 1.7 Haelegen 1.8 Reign Array 1.9 Vitriol 1.10 Total War

Sub-GenreHeavy Metal

NotesLiturgy is a Brooklyn-based, self-styled 'Transcendental Black Metal' band whose yearning, energetic music exists in an uncanny space between avant rock, black metal, fine art and shamanic ritual. Led by songwriter and conceptual architect Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, who is joined by guitarist Bernard Gann, bassist Tyler Dusenbury and drummer Greg Fox, the band exists as a 21st century total work of art (gesamtkunstwerk): activating divine potencies by means of music and culture even as it underscores the contradictions inherent in such a project during the internet era. Their third full length, The Ark Work, is a quantum leap forward, a radical change in sound that paradoxically sounds more like Liturgy than ever. The album hums and churns with Hunt-Hendrix's inventive arrangements - drenched with glockenspiels, bagpipes, strings, ritual chanting, and MIDI horns. It supplements it's metal energy with motifs from unlikely, disparate genres; cross-fertilizing hard style beats, occult-oriented rap, and the glitched re-sampling of IDM with structures from Medieval sacred music, Romantic classical music, and minimalism. The result is a rich, seething cyber-fantasia that is improbably listenable, conveying the disarming, authentic emotion that is Liturgy's hallmark - a blend of startling invention, high caliber musicianship, raw energy, and profound, cosmic sadness. The result is the first true sonic realization of Transcendental Black Metal: a musically cohesive alchemical fusion, an artistically reflexive work of thundery, and a mind-bending album that is as original as it is beautiful.