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H.A.Q.Q.

Liturgy · 2019

• Scores: Noise 5, Unease 4, Complexity 4 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Metal, Black Metal, Experimental
• Mood: ecstatic, grand, unsettling
• Sound: orchestral and choral textures, glitchy electronics, blast beats, shifting time signatures, ritual feel, long songs

H.A.Q.Q. is an album of black metal broadened with strings, harp, vibraphone, voice, electronics and the Japanese wind instruments hichiriki and ryuteki. Haela Hunt-Hendrix of Liturgy produced it and recorded it in August 2019 at Machines With Magnets in Providence, and wrote every track. The title stands for "Haelegen above Quality and Quantity", a concept from Hunt-Hendrix's own philosophical system, which is drawn as a diagram on the cover and explained in a series of YouTube lectures. It was released digitally by surprise on 12 November 2019.

Track list

1. Hajj (8:30)
2. Exaco I (2:19)
3. Virginity (3:58)
4. Pasaqalia (5:18)
5. Exaco II (2:16)
6. God of Love (8:05)
7. Exaco III (4:00)
8. Haqq (7:03)
9. . . . . (3:42)