Aesthethica - Liturgy
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  • Summary: This is the second full-length album for the Brooklyn-based black metal band.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. The A.V. Club
    May 17, 2011
    91
    Stacked against its predecessor, Aesthethica feels less like metal-black, post-, or otherwise--and more like Liturgy. And in this case, that's a great thing.
  2. All Music Guide
    Dec 9, 2011
    80
    It may come to define or utterly transcend metal; but it doesn't matter because this album is in its own class. Anyone remotely interested in heavy music needs to encounter Aesthethica at least once.
  3. The Guardian
    May 19, 2011
    60
    Entertaining on its own visceral terms, but not wholly convincing.
  4. Kerrang!
    May 20, 2011
    20
    The album sounds like Liturgy tried to make a mathcore record, put two and two together and got three. [7 May 2011, p.52]
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  1. mrcseattle
    9
    A truly singular record. First, the speed and intensity of the musicianship grabs your attention. Second, the elements of their sound: Blast beats, screamed vocals consisting of short lyrical phrases, upper-register dueling guitars, and a fuzz-bass anchor, begin to coalesce into an original, expressive aesthetic. Third, you realize that beneath it all, half of the tracks are actually great SONGS. "Generation", "Tragic Laurel", and my personal favorite, "Glory Bronze", make up the top tier of the cuts here. Aesthethica rips open a hole to a new violent world, then forces you to remain there until the internal logic of the place begins to sink in. By then, though, you don't want to leave.
    P.S. Greg Fox, PLEASE rejoin the band so you guys can someday play "The Colbert Report".    … Expand
  2. jackchanning
    9
    Aesthethica seems to be a huge issue to metal-goers, claiming it "hipster metal".. and mostly because of the way the band dresses. but while they seem to be "hipsters", their music is anything but. it's a force to be reckoned with, paving way for a new subgenre they dub 'transcendental black metal': all the wails and blast beats of black metal merged with a mathcore sensibility and the act of transcendence itself.… Expand
  3. enjoyablyC
    8
    A good album, but will have trouble finding an audience. The black metal posers will undoubtely dub it "hipster black metal" and the hipsters well...hipsters don't like black metal.… Expand

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