93696 - Liturgy: Review
Liturgy is an experimental black metal project from New York who have long been controversial for their style among black metal fans. The peak of that controversy surrounded a manifesto published by lead singer Haele Raveena Hunt-Hendrix declaring the band's style "transcendental black metal." 93696 is the band's 6th album following 2020's Origin Of The Alimonies and dabbles in various philosophies the band has explored on previous albums. Review by Lav: One criticism that somebody could potentially level at my taste is that I like pretentious hipster metal, and they'd be absolutely right. Liturgy's conceptual fusions of the sounds of black metal with entirely new worlds of technical and genre expertise scratch an itch for me that so much conventional metal consistently fails to. From the more gritty scowling intensity of early wotk like Aesthetica to the nebulous conceptuality of their brilliant 2019 record H.A.Q.Q Liturgy has managed to impress me at...