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- Summary: This is the second full-length album for the Brooklyn-based black metal band.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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Negative: 1 out of 13
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May 17, 2011Stacked 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.
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May 16, 2011The band's aching for that contradictory limit can be felt quivering in every inch of Aesthetica. It is to their credit that one feels at peace through the record's most violent and cataclysmic moments.
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Jun 16, 2011It's black metal for prog fans or math rockers, Liturgy's attention to arrangement and speed the sort of maddeningly precise output nerds like that eat up.
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May 16, 2011Repurposing tired metal tropes for ecstatic sensory trips, these songs are steel-tipped pointillist portraits of vitality itself.
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May 16, 2011Aesthethica is jugular-grabbing black metal-startling, complex... and also quite long.
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May 16, 2011It's sonically assaultive, a riot of full-sprint drumming--by Greg Fox, increasingly this band's central nervous system--and guitar lines with the spasmodic precision of strobe lighting. But aside from the bleached gut-howl of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, and the dark ritual the band so purposely invokes, the music doesn't fall cleanly within black-metal parameters.
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Kerrang!May 20, 2011The album sounds like Liturgy tried to make a mathcore record, put two and two together and got three. [7 May 2011, p.52]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Dec 31, 2011
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May 30, 2012
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