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Jul 06, 2011
Liturgy @ DC9
By the standards of conventional logic, fast music should beget fast movement from the listening crowd. Speed is certainly an integral factor in Liturgy’s music: guitarists Hunter Hunt-Hendrix and Bernard Gann possessed fingers that moved at a dizzying pace for the entire set and drummer Greg Fox had the most wild and intense drumming DC9 had seen since Brian Chippendale. But unlike Lightning Bolt’s overwhelming mosh pit, Liturgy’s devastating set led the audience to more of a blissful state of jaw-dropping catatonia.