YMMV / Liturgy

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Genuine innovators taking metal to a whole new artistic level, or incredibly dedicated trolls? Which one you see them as depends almost entirely on whether or not you enjoy them. To be fair, there are also people who see them as both at once.
• Awesome Music: Most fans would nominate Aesthethica. Their other two albums also have their fans, though The Ark Work has proven to be extremely divisive, even for this band.
  • The 19 minute untitled song on their split with Oval is a good candidate.
  • Pretty much everything on H.A.Q.Q. counts as this, specially "God of Love" and "HAJJ".
  • Origin of the Alimonies is quite impressive from start to finish too, particularly the 14-minute epic "Apparition of the Eternal Church".
• Epic Riff: The opening riff of "Untitled", which is impressive considering it's just one note.
  • "Generation" accomplishes the same thing using only two notes (which happen to be the same note an octave apart, even).
• Friendly Fandoms: Perhaps surprisingly, they have one with the significantly more dissonant Jute Gyte, owing to similarities in the two bands' composition styles; both of them take an unusually academic approach to composition. Another one is with the avant-garde metal band Victory Over the Sun, whose sole member Vivian Tylinska is also transgender and has cited Liturgy and Kayo Dot as her two biggest musical influences.
• Memetic Mutation: "HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY", the only line from "Glass Earth" off Aesthethica. It even had a follow up with "Vitriol" off The Ark Work.
  • Jokingly referring to the "trans" in Haela's "Transcendental Black Metal" labeling of the band as being a foreshadow of her coming out as trans has become one for fans.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Hunt-Hendrix has expressed her goal as effectively being to turn black metal into this, and there are definitely moments in their discography that qualify, such as the climax of "Reign Array" - into which, perhaps more impressively, they manage to work bagpipes.
• Never Live It Down: Haela's "manifesto", which accomplished absolutely nothing except making the mainline black metal fandom hate her even more (which may or may not have been the goal if you ascribe to the Trolling Creator interpretation) and making her fans and defenders lambaste it as a piece of faux-academic nonsense that did nothing except demonstrate how limited her knowledge of the genre actually was while also making her look like a pretentious pseudo-intellectual douchebag. Even after the dust cleared and the controversy was forgotten about, people still remember that ridiculous manifesto.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Amongst people who don't like The Ark Work, this is a common complaint. This is also a primary reason they've been so polarising in general - while their music has a lot of common traits of black metal (harsh vocals, tremolo picking, blast beats, etc.), as an otherwise positive Pitchfork review of Aesthethica noted, Liturgy's music just doesn't feel like black metal (which, we should note, is very much an Intended Audience Reaction).
• Schmuck Bait: Some think the band intentionally does this to confuse their fans and critics all while pissing off the Black Metal community, which are often considered by some to be a high form of elitism.
• The Scrappy: They're the black sheep of USBM, which is already the black sheep of the black metal community at large. ^note  With a few exceptions Haela Hunt-Hendrix in particular gets this a lot. Even a lot of people who like the band think she comes off as being overly self-serious and pretentious, and even her defenders shook their heads at her "manifesto".
• Win Back the Crowd: Overall, H.A.Q.Q. and Origin of the Alimonies have received a much less polarised reception than The Ark Work did (although they still have their detractors), with some listeners calling them two of Liturgy's best albums. 93696 has received an even more positive reception, with some reviewers noting that the album's immaculate recording quality (it was recorded by Steve Albini, after all) helps take the band's sound to new heights.