Metalsucks — Photo by Alex York Okay, before I even get into any of this, I’m going to come clean and be totally honest. I absolutely abhor everything about Liturgy, and think that Ghost is an over-hyped gimmick that features musicians from much better bands a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Mayhem at Irving Plaza (more by Paul Birman) After cancelling their last batch of dates, Mayhem will head back out to North America for a fall tour with support from Keep Of Kalessin, Hate, and Abigail Williams. Woe... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Liturgy - "Generation" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Liturgy - "High Gold" (MP3) Liturgy at Scion Rock Fest 2010 (more by Christopher Mumma & BBG) Brooklyn black-metallers Liturgy released their sophomore effort Aesthethica on May 10 via Thrill Jockey. A... more info

Impose Magazine — You can thank the month of May for all kinds of things: Leaks in your roof, short skirts, excuses to get wasted (yes, this one occurs every month), but please don't forget to thank it for being one of the best music months of the year, to date. G... more info

Guardian Music — (Thrill Jockey)Is no genre safe from the dread hand of the Brooklyn hipster? Black metal – once famous for its homicidal tendencies, but more recently the focus of some wildly experimental and compelling acts – is the sound the New York four-pi... more info

Totally Fuzzy — From the band members' coifed looks and heady philosophy to the upright and inverted crosses balancing out Aesthethica's front cover, everything about Liturgy seems intended to provoke a strong reaction. Ever since the 2009 release of the intriguin... more info

Stereogum — You probably noticed that we experimented with an Editor’s Score for the past few Premature Evaluations. The feedback we received suggested these Stereogum ratings weren’t necessary, or necessarily what people liked about PE, so we decided to cho... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG DOWNLOAD: Liturgy - "Generation" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Liturgy - "High Gold" (MP3) Liturgy at Death By Audio (more by Jesse Lindmar) Loved by some and love-to-be-hated by others (but isn't that how the great ones are treated?), Brooklyn "trancendent... more info

Impose Magazine — This year, the fine folks over at Thrasher Magazine and Converse asked us to curate a day show for their Deathmatch series. So we put together a punk lineup we'd want to skate to, with Trash Talk, JEFF the Brotherhood, Weedeater, Hunx and His Punx, D... more info

Metalsucks — IDK much about black metal (I stopped being interested in 1995 when I’d read all the gossip on Usenet about Euronymous getting killed) but if there are more bands like LITURGY, maybe I should get back into it?? What other bands should I check out i... more info