Posted by Elise Yablon on May 13, 2020
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, frontperson of black metal band Liturgy, has come out as transgender. Taking to the band’s and her own social media accounts, Hunt-Hendrix states: “I am a woman. I’ve always been one. The love I have to give is a woman’s love, if only because it is mine. To varying degrees many already […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 9, 2015
[youtube]http://youtu.be/mk6p-esqi5g[/youtube]Brooklyn black metal band Liturgy became a lightning rod for the “but is it really metal?” debate a few years ago with their sophomore album, Aesthethica. Much of that might have had to do with frontman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix and his thesis on Transcendental Black Metal. There’s nothing particularly metal about a thesis, and Hunt-Hendrix seemed to […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on October 28, 2014
We don’t watch The Blacklist, an NBC drama starring James Spader. However, it’s not every day black metal appears on prime time network TV. It’s even less often that the black metal in question is by Brooklyn’s Liturgy. And it’s even rarer still when guest star and Golden Globe award winner Peter Fonda is playing […]
