| Liturgy have announced their follow-up to 2011's breakout LP Aesthethica. The Ark Work reunites the quartet lineup of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Bernard Gann, Greg Fox, and Tyler Dusenbury for a ten-track album featuring "cross-fertilizing hardstyle beats" and "occult-oriented rap," according to the label. Liturgy 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. |
