{"product_id":"liturgy-the-art-work-cd","title":"Liturgy \/ The Art Work - CD","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD Cardboard Sleeve \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrack Listing: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Fanfare \u003cbr\u003e2. Follow \u003cbr\u003e3. Kel Valhaal \u003cbr\u003e4. Follow II \u003cbr\u003e5. Quetzalcoatl \u003cbr\u003e6. Father Vorizen \u003cbr\u003e7. Haelegen \u003cbr\u003e8. Reign Array \u003cbr\u003e9. Vitriol \u003cbr\u003e10. Total War \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiturgy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHunter Hunt-Hendrix\u003c\/strong\u003e, who is joined by guitarist\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBernard Gann\u003c\/strong\u003e, bassist\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTyler Dusenbury\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand drummer\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreg Fox\u003c\/strong\u003e, the band exists as a 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecentury total work of art (\u003cem\u003egesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/em\u003e): 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ark Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, is a quantum leap forward, a radical change in sound that paradoxically sounds more like\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiturgy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethan ever. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album hums and churns with Hunt-Hendrix’s inventive arrangements - drenched with glockenspiels, bagpipes, strings, ritual chanting, and MIDI horns. It supplements its metal energy with motifs from unlikely, disparate genres; cross-fertilizing hardstyle beats, occult-oriented rap, and the glitched re-sampling of IDM and with structures from Medieval sacred music, Romantic classical music, and minimalism. 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