Liturgy Go Record Shopping, Get No Actual Metal

Liturgy will forever be the band most people immediately associate with hipsters in metal. This makes sense, given that a) their success came about during the rise of Hipsterism as a cultural genre, b) they don’t dress like satanic warlords, c) frontman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix wrote a bunch of elaborate essays on why his sorta-metal is stronger than most ur-metal, and d) their music is classified as metal even though that’s a debatable genre assignment.

The thing is, I know the Liturgy guys do like metal. They’re metalheads, at the end of the day; drummer Greg Fox used to rock a Gorgoroth back patch (maybe still does? Fox, corroboration?). So as easy as it is to blow them off as abandoners of the faith, you still have to give them a nod as fellow metalheads.

But man, this episode of What’s In My Bag? does Liturgy no fucking favors. Triple H and bassist Tyler Dusenbury go record shopping at Amoeba in LA, and they don’t grab a single metal record between them. It’s all classical and Bulgarian folk music and Lonnie Holley and all sorts of weird distortionless stuff. And hey, that’s probably the same type of stuff that Ihsahn might pick up at Amoeba, but you’d also expect him to toss a copy of some classic metal in there to. The disinterested monotones in which Tyler and Hunter discuss the music don’t help, but hey, that’s people for you.

Anyway, watch the episode below, either out of appreciation for musical diversity or contempt at these damn Brooklyn kids ruining true steel.

[via The PRP]