"Renihilation" Begins with what sounds like a Gyorgy Ligeti outtake and quickly explodes into something akin to John Coltrane playing black metal. Mixing the buzz of Burzum and Ulver's "Nattens Madrigal" with a compositional style more suited to Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, modal jazz and 20th Century minimalism, than black metal, Liturgy astonishes. The band provokes intellectually, plays with an emotional intensity that an emo kid would cut himself for, and blasts grim with the full frosty fury of the most blacked metal. It is almost too much to take, it is that powerful.
Listen to "Mysterium" here
Listen to "Ecstatic Rite" here
"Ecstatic Rite" live
A full live performance at WFMU here
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