By Seth Colter Walls, eMusic ContributorThis summer, I went to a bar in my neighborhood to see a show aimed at the local "black metal" aficionado population of Brooklyn. The headlining act was the (newly drummer-less) incarnation of Liturgy —… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorIt was a year full of surprising breakouts and breathtaking discoveries, with reliable favorites from familiar faces and strong entries from new voices. These are our Top 100 Records of 2011. more »
By Maris Kreizman, Audiobooks Editor Since Liturgy is one of the country's most divisive black-metal bands, we had two members of our editorial team weigh in on their Knitting Factory show last night in Brooklyn. Here's what they had to… more »
By Seth Colter Walls, eMusic ContributorThese are cynical times in the culture industry — so much so that, when a metal band from Brooklyn starts talking about transcendentalism and William Blake, your first response might be to process it all… more »
By Seth Colter Walls, eMusic ContributorNo, that's not a typo in the title; Brooklyn's black-metal upstarts have grafted the Greek "ethica" onto the word "aesthetic." That unexpected, moralist signaling might be as subtle as a blast beat, but that's the… more »