ArtReview called it “a black slurry of rich, harsh noise, industrial beats, and grainy samples. Their EP, The Sun and the Moon, was released in 2019 two of its tracks were played on the moon. It began as a live performance in 2018, which Hedva toured throughout Europe and the States. It is a solo electric guitar and voice performance that embodies cosmic darkness, the song of whales, the sound of the void, and deep time. Their latest album, Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House, was released on crystalline morphologies and Sming Sming, on January 1, 2021. They are informed by the Korean tradition of Pansori singing, which demands rehearsal next to waterfalls in order to ravage the vocal cords, as well as Keiji Haino, Sunn O))), Nine Inch Nails, Diamond Galás, and Sainkho Namtchylak. Their live performances are as much a cathartic grief purge as a droned-out metal colossus that summons the holy spirit. Hag blues, cave music, mystical doom, and intimate metal are some of the genres that articulate Hedva’s music. Hedva’s work, no matter the genre, is different kinds of writing, whether it’s words on a page, screaming in a room, or dragging a hand through water.
They are devoted to doom as a liberatory condition, deviant forms of knowledge, and the way a voice can unmake the world.
Hedva’s practice cooks magic, necromancy, and divination together with mystical states of fury and ecstasy.
Johanna Hedva is a Korean-American writer, artist, musician, and astrologer, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives between LA and Berlin.
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