Brooklyn Vegan — Brooklyn's annual Gigawatts Festival returns this year with a lineup that's bigger and more impressive than ever. The fest happens July 24-26 at The Wick & The Well, and artists playing include Black Lips, Braid, Liturgy, Swearin', Beach Slang,... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Protomartyr @ Sugarhill Supper Club 2014 (more by Joe McCabe) The Gotobeds @ The Wick, 2014 (more by PSquared) Grooms @ DbA's final show (more by PSquared) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows,... more info

Stereogum — Brooklyn metal boundary-crushers Liturgy released their epic and decidedly experimental album The Ark Work last month, and today, they’ve unveiled their video for the early single “Quetzalcoatl.” The Japanese art entity Aujik directed the video... more info

Stereogum — It seemed like every day of March brought with it a new controversy or calamity worthy of coverage here: There was the Ghost Bath hoax; the revelation that Lars Ulrich was to blame for the absence of bass on …And Justice For All; the bizarre dissol... more info

Stereogum — The Brooklyn band Liturgy made their name as black-metal experimentalists, starting fights in the metal underground by using the music to strive for bright transcendence rather than dark hate-wallow muck. But other than a few aesthetic touches, the b... more info

Forest Gospel — 100% recommendation. Their best yet. Really, really amazing laser beam noise wonder and awe. Ranks up their with the new Zs album, the new John Wiese album, the new Mount Eerie Album, the new Liturgy album, the new Matana Roberts album, i.e., the bes... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: Psalm Zero at Saint Vitus in 2014 (more by Greg Cristman) Earlier this year, when the usually-black metal band Liturgy released the first new single "Quetzalcoatl" from their new album The Ark Work (due 3/24 via... more info

Stereogum — Brooklyn’s Liturgy have a rep for being black metal experimenters, but their forthcoming album The Ark Work isn’t really a metal album at all. Instead, it’s dense and textured experimental music that sometimes pulls an idea or two from the meta... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As mentioned, Liturgy are releasing a new album this year and they've now announced a tour in support of it. The tour includes the Brooklyn band playing a hometown show on April 15 at Saint Vitus. Tickets for that... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: Erez Avissar To quickly recap, Brooklyn black metal band Liturgy put out Aesthethica, their best-received album yet, in 2011. Not long after, their not-so-secret weapon Greg Fox (drummer) left the band. They then began playing... more info