Liturgy - Ecstatic Rite live at the Knitting Factory (NY Eye and Ear II)

[Destronr]

black metal 'lol'

[BathorysGraveland]

@FaeriesFuckHumans Wow, I envy your intelligence and sense after that thoughtful post.

[BathorysGraveland]

Lol, it takes more than playing ultra-fast and having blast beats to play black metal. These guys bring absolutely nothing new to the table (except a one-way trip to immense boredom) despite what the frontman says in that facepalm-inducing interview.

[ChordsFromTheVoid]

@totenrune Yhea. I really, really like this band but I think they are doing themselves a big disservice by claiming to be "black metal"; i love pure, raw black metal too but they just do too many different things on their albums to justifiably be pigeonholed into one strict genre

[blackenedshoegazer]

krallice wannabe's

[ChordsFromTheVoid]

@blackenedshoegazer Krallice is excellent. I just got done listening through to Diotoma again and I really dont see alot of similarity with Liturgy. I mean sure they are both USBM but I think what each are trying to get across in their music is pretty different, and it shows

[blackenedshoegazer]

@ChordsFromTheVoid yeah,i kind of half agree with you.i'm half tempted to buy liturgy's album's&give them a proper listen.but the front man really put's me off,he come's across as a real wanker.i think the drummer is outstanding though&i like their album cover's which i take into consideration when purchasing album's.

are they christian's?that's another thing i will take into consideration,i'm agnostic myself.but i don't think i really want to support christian music.

[ChordsFromTheVoid]

@blackenedshoegazer Definetly not christian.

[blackenedshoegazer]

@ChordsFromTheVoid good!i really like their song arctica,may get their first album.

[ChordsFromTheVoid]

@blackenedshoegazer Both albums are really great in their own ways. Renihilation is more raw and primal, while Asthethica is more technical and polished. The only thing I wish they would do is cut out the chanting intro/interlude schtick; its cool the first time you hear it and then it gets trite really quick. But really you cant go wrong with either album.

[blackenedshoegazer]

@ChordsFromTheVoid ok,thank's mate.i'll give them both a listen,i really like the album cover of renihilation.simple but effective. 

[adish666]

What...

What is this?

[PsychoNinjaFreak]

PITCHFORK RECOMMENDED METAL HEEELLLLL YEAAAAAHHH

[Dimdez]

No toms? *_*

[Caporacolo]

When listening to their studio recording, these guys are really good. Especially Renihilation album is very very nice. I don't give a fuck about appearance. Do i need to have a certain look to play black metal? Since when? People use looks to recognize with other people with the same ideas, music etc. What if i listen to thousands different genres? I dress the way i like, i don't need to conformize myself to other "metal-heads". These guys may need to "mature" musically a bit, but are very good.

[TouchingYou]

It's NOT tremelo picking! (Just like they call vibrato bars TREMELO bars! ARGH!) ...

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and I don't like the dorky corpsepaint either, but I don't want to watch guys in jeans and t-shirts either. Looks like you just came from plumbing a toilet!

[landmiles]

quite brilliant... do they actually have lyrics? :o)

[Soilwar]

@landmiles: Yeah: "AUUUAAAUAUAUWAAUWAAAAWWAAAAAA­AA!" It's Finnish. :)

[Brazilianariana]

very good!

[FenrizBrazil]

If it looks like a hipster, plays music like a hipster and talks in interviews like a hipster then it is certainly not transcendental black metal! This band sounds like a 3 year old shitting in his diapers while screaming for his mommy's attention.

[Anasat23]

Nachtmystium wannabies.........

[scottasfuck]

now if only this band was from norway, dressed up like assholes and took themselves too seriously...then i'd totally ask my mom to use her credit card to buy me their t-shirt online...

[antiirony]

liturgy fucking owns ur family

[Rotscrek]

Shit! Epic trascendental black metal! i simply love them

[jolthax]

spare the naysayers, liturgy rule

[MrDDos]

this sucked... gay screaming over random tremolo picking riffs is not black metal

[pillyreymond]

@MrDDos They're not trying to be like traditional black metal. If you don't like it, you don't like it, but don't hold them up to standards they're not going for.

And also, fuck you, homophobe.

[rasjvon]

@MrDDos they are out doing something--ur a poser

[MrDDos]

@rasjvon Something? Sure, something crappy

[vandret]

This is ass, not even Black Metal. European Black Metal reigns supreme

[DazzlingKillman]

Damn that was intense...very cool!!! :D

[tsartodd]

that said, they DO kind of look like Hansen or Silverchair after having grown up and deciding to play black metal instead of bubblegum rock.

[musicasacra]

Well, you know, it seems like this could use some costumes and gimmicks.

[kawaramachi907]

This is actually interesting music. It doesnt need costumes or gimmicks like some other stuff.

[SundayMorningLive]

This makes for better music than the contemporary morass of bumbling musicians that play black metal in its tired and now trite tradition does. Haha, and they most certainly don't have to conform to the corpse paint and spikes visual... the music really speaks for itself. The drumming is actually interesting, too...

[pillyreymond]

@SundayMorningLive REALLY interesting.

Saw them live today, so good.

[MeatyCockandBallz]

Fuck this. These dudes look like a bunch of ivy league pillow biters. Keep black metal BLACK!!!!!!!!!!

[shrikepriest]

@MeatyCockandBallz Who cares how they look? They play awesome black metal. I don't see how the lack of leather and bolts is a problem. Besides, that whole fashion pretty much started with Rob Halford, he'd be fond of pillow-biters ;)

[tsartodd]

@MeatyCockandBallz actually, i LIKE the fact that they don't feel the need to put on all of that retarded corpsepaint. they are confident enough in their talent and songs that they don't feel the need to resort to the usual black-metal theatrical bullshit.

[aarongtr180]

@tsartodd Come on now. Darkthrone, Mayhem, Burzum, Bathory, etc. are all 100x the musicians these guys will ever be, and I really don't care that they produced a few videos of themselves running around in forests with corpsepaint on. Image has nothing to do with music, PERIOD. There is honestly nothing special about this band except that they tremolo-pick major key melodies.

[kultran]

its funny - student pc geek looking young people play black metal

[stonedevil]

this destroys all pussy ass european black metal.

[fredmachine]

No it doesn't.

[ReigninAcai]

Fuck this Post Latte Faggot Shit!

[joewhittles]

@ReigninAcai as opposed to looking like a faggot ghost viking? please, these just look like normal, goofy dudes who happen to not look like stupid assholes.