Hear Liturgy's Ecstatic 10-Minute Art-Metal 'Microcosm' of 'The Ark Work'

A one-time lightning rod for black-metal scene politics after they dispatched a manifesto at an academic conference and released an album on an indie-rock label, Brooklyn art-metal band Liturgy have returned with 57 minutes of immersive, ecstatic experimental rock that almost defies genre. While the churning ice-pick guitars and blastbeat drums of black metal are still a…