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Liturgy is a transcendental black metal band from Brooklyn, NY. Their music is an ecstatic affirmation of becoming and an assault on the floating malaise of contemporary information-age life. “Liturgy are the first black metal band that truly embodies the ghosts of New York. They play metal like it’s a minimalist downtown art/life/religion project in the tradition of dronemasters Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham and La Monte Young’s Dream Syndicate. Through their own brand of growling, gnarling, lightning-fast black grind, Liturgy try to find euphoria through dissonance, repetition and volume’turning metal nightmares into something ready for the Dream House.” -Village Voice Their debut full-length Renihilation presents a vision of a new American black metal, permanently held to the flame, searing with energy, purged of impurities and form, eternally glowing like a star..................... Also on the bill: Warband & Argentinum Astrum