Hunter Hunt-Hendrix is a great name for a rock guitarist. It’s also a name of a musician you’d totally expect to describe his music as “transcendental black metal,” as HHH dubbed Liturgy in the New York quartet’s early days. Their brand of metal comes adorned with ostentatious guitar ululations, the requisite blast beats, and HHH’s tormented wails, which you can hear on LPs such as Renihilation and Aesthethica. My fave song by them might be “Generation,” which approaches Lightning Bolt levels of maniacal repetition and majestic power. The Ark Work (2015) starts a tendency toward prog-rock melodiousness, while Liturgy’s newest track, “God of Love,” finds them moving in a neoclassical direction, without losing their power and pomp. by Dave Segal