Body Void Drops Off Remaining Tour Dates With Liturgy… Without Notifying Liturgy First
New England via Bay Area noise-doom group Body Void have made the decision to drop off their remaining tour dates with Liturgy. There’s only one problem, though: they seem to have not notified Liturgy.
Body Void posted a very brief statement on their Twitter, saying the following:
“Hey, we’ve decided to drop off our remaining tour dates. Very sorry to everyone that was excited to see us. We will make these cities up asap. Thanks to everyone who came out see to us this last week”
Then Liturgy made a public response that suggested this was their first time hearing about it, asking:
“Why are you dropping off the tour? Without even giving me a (call)”
The sudden departure from the tour and the decision to announce it publicly without privately discussing anything with the headliner first has led many fans online, as well as the folks over at Lambgoat, to speculate that Body Void may be dropping off the tour in response to recent posts on the Liturgy account, which is run by the band’s frontwoman and main creative force, Haela Hunt-Hendrix.
To be clear, there is no confirmation from Body Void that this is the reason for their dropping off of the tour and this is all just speculation at this point. But Liturgy’s recent tweets about religion have gotten a lot of people upset. So upset that a metal journalist who pen-named herself after Haela Hunt-Hendrix might be starting to regret her name choice at this point. Amongst the many long-winded posts that Hunt-Hendrix has made about religion on the band’s Twitter account, one particularly controversial tweet seems to suggest that Islam is simply a branch of Christianity that must be reunited with the “Universal Orthodox Christianity.” Here’s the full tweet:
“If you’re reading this (not through a VPN), you belong to Christendom, which is in (the final days of) its Judeo-Protestantism phase. The moral horizon you take for granted is not natural, it is part of your religion, which includes (currently) a prohibition against adoration of God, as well as (eternally) a commitment to universal egalitarianism, which was given to us as a gift from Jesus (it has no natural basis, this was the message of Socrates for which he was martyred). The expansion of universal egalitarianism dialectically discards cultural vessels when the are no longer needed.
“The great antagonism of our time is the estrangement between Christendom and its cousin Sufism, which is in (the last days of) its Salafi phase, which for some reason people in modernity started calling ‘Islam.’ Sufism was always a wing of Christianity, but it became estranged from the mother Church due to its subjection to the Persian empire during the first ecumenical councils. Today Salafism reigns not just in the Middle East; structurally speaking the regimes of China and Russia are Salafi, Dugin admits this himself.
“The Way (Dao) of Universal Orthodox Christianity is the sublation of the estrangement between so called ‘east’ and ‘west’ which is accomplished through a fractal series of local sublations – between Judaism and Islam, between Protestantism and Catholicism, between Zoroastrianism and Vedanta, not as an ecumenism but as a gathering together under the shadow of the rough-hewn cross of the third secret of Fatima”
After reading all of that, I think I might want to switch to reading something a little less dense like Finnegan’s Wake or Infinite Jest. Some people have been calling out Hunt-Hendrix for these comments, while others argue that everyone is too quick to criticize Hunt-Hendrix simply because she’s transgender.
Still, if you’re not put off by Hunt-Hendrix’s recent tweets, here’s the remaining shows on their tour that you can catch, albeit without Body Void:
June 7 Atlanta The Earl
June 8 Orlando The Conduit
June 9 Miami Gramps
June 12 Chapel Hill Local 506
June 13 DC Songbyrd Music House
June 14 Philadelphia Milk Boy
June 15 NYC Le Poisson Rouge
