Hunter Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix is a composer, musician, artist, and philosopher who seeks in her practice to combine these disciplines in synthetic unity. Her music under the name Liturgy has been widely acclaimed for its sincere ecstatic energy and its meticulous fusion of vernacular, traditional, and experimental forms. The band is simultaneously a medium and platform for drama and theology. She started Liturgy as a bedroom black metal project in 2004 while studying philosophy and avant-garde composition at Columbia, and released a debut EP, Immortal Life, in 2007. In 2009, she first presented her prophetic and philosophical orientation in the treatise "Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism" in tandem with Liturgy's debut full-length Renihilation. After expanding to a quartet they made waves globally with their 2011 sophomore album Aesthethica for introducing the style of Scandinavian black metal into the world of experimental art rock. Their ambitious 2015 album The Ark Work was controversial for its incorporation of IDM and trap production into their musical language. In fall 2019, the band released their highly acclaimed fourth studio album H.A.Q.Q., which is tied to an ongoing philosophical YouTube lecture series. Their fifth studio album Origin of the Alimonies, an opera composed alongside a film created by Hunt-Hendrix, was released in 2020.