Late-Bloomer Review: Liturgy's "Aesthetica"

SO I was looking for something to do and decided to offer up a short (very short) review of Liturgy's newest Black Metal excursion Aesthetica, which was released before this blog came about. If you don't know Liturgy, and you like metal, you should check them out. If you know them, then you either really like them or really hate them, aka they're either poseur/hipster BM fakers or one of the genre's newest progressive forces. Though I appreciate the theater of it, I tend to like my Black Metal a little lighter on the crude aesthetic copy-catting and regrettably reactionary politics (esp. where National Socialism is concerned), but it's hard to argue with the visceral reaction engendered by the genre as a whole. There's a lot of interesting ground being covered with Black Psych-Metal and Black Noise in general, the likes of which I tend to appreciate much more than the idiotic Satanic posturing, which is just as one-dimensional and flat as anything the Bible Belt can come up with, and really can only exist in concert with it. Anyhow, I digress. Here's my short review of Aesthetica:

"Holy shit. Get this album."

And see them live. I've caught them 3 or 4 times now, and just watching the drummer work makes the whole thing worth it. Fucking kills it.