93696

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AlbumMar 24 / 202315 songs, 1h 22m 12s
Avant-Garde Metal Black Metal
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Since the release of 2011’s *Aesthethica*, Brooklyn’s Liturgy have positioned themselves as a kind of black-metal band for listeners indifferent to the conventions of black metal—a stance no doubt aggravated by the self-consciously obscure philosophies of frontperson Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, who has done as much to poke the genre as she has to expand it. At 82 minutes, *93696* probably isn’t the kind of album you’ll listen to in one sitting, but its weird juxtapositions of flute fragments (“Red Crown II”), choral arrangements (“Angel of Sovereignty”), and black-metal comfort food (“Djennaration”) are provocative in any measure. Ambitious, but immediate, too.

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8.0 / 10

On a wildly ambitious 80-minute opus, Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix’s shapeshifting metal band reaches its most radiant incarnation yet.

9 / 10

Liturgy's previous two albums were certainly provocative.

8 / 10

Every artistic decision and mark of evolution that Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix has made under the umbrella of Liturgy has been in service of her qu...

8 / 10

Jack Terry reviews the new album from the ambitious rock collective Liturgy! Read the review of '93696' here on Distorted Sound!

3.5 / 5

A review of 93696 by Liturgy, available worldwide March 24th via Thrill Jockey Records

9 / 10

Already noted for their determination to challenge themselves and their listeners, Liturgy's 93696 shows them refusing to settle for less when more is possible.

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The title of Liturgy’s sixth studio album is a translation of ‘heaven’ via Thelemic numerological interpretation. Thelema, founded by Aleister Crowley in the early 1900s, is a social, spiritual, and occult philosophy that’s underpinned by the concept of will/desire. Yet this is more than just a concept record, this is a way of life for

93696 comprises a cavalcade of everything the transcendental black metal of Liturgy has to offer, and then some. 

4.3 / 5

Liturgy - 93696 review: 10101: the musical!

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