Last year, Liturgy broke their four-year silence with the very good new album H.A.Q.Q., and today, band leader Hunter Hunt-Hendrix has come out as transgender. She wrote in part, “I am a woman. I’ve always been one. The love I have to give is a woman’s love, if only because it is mine. To varying degrees many already understand this, but I’d like to make a clear statement about my actual gender. I could have done this before Liturgy started, but I didn’t, out of fear. I knew I was female and not male, emotionally and in my experience of my body. But I was afraid – of social rejection, romantic rejection, career rejection, rejection by my family, failure.” Read Hunter’s statement in full below.
And in recent related news, check out this mutual love between Hunter and Converge’s J Bannon:
Ahh had no idea Jacob Bannon is a Liturgy fan 💔 Converge such a fundamental influence https://t.co/dnEP8LSZ9O
— Litvrgy (@LITVRGY) May 9, 2020
Sorry is it cringe to screen shot it, just feel honored, something unique about hearing ‘incredible masterwork’ from someone whose music you’ve had such a deep personal experience with pic.twitter.com/0ZwdBw2Oqz
— Liturgy (@LITVRGY) May 9, 2020