YMMV / Lingua Ignota

• Funny Moments: Perhaps you wouldn't think it from the harrowing sounds and subject matter that Lingua Ignota is associated with, but the project also lent itself to a troll song in its day. The day after Gal Gadot released her widely maligned celebrity sing-along cover of "Imagine", Hayter released a song on Bandcamp titled "ABOVE US ONLY SKY"; it plays the first few lines of Gadot's cover, with audible distortion, before cutting into several minutes of harsh noise wall. The song's description reads "TO LIFT SPIRITS AND INSPIRE HOPE".
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The entirety of "Woe to All."
  • "All Bitches Die" graphically describes the narrator being beaten and murdered.
  • Caligula, especially since it's about domestic abuse.
  • "The Order of Spiritual Virgins" in its second half, with many sudden scare chords, Hayter straining her voice, and the creepy vocal sample. "Standing... standing..."
  • "I Who Bend The Tall Grasses," especially Hayter's vocal performance and delivery, which is so theatrical and deranged it almost reads like a soliloquy — only Hamlet never screamed, "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK! JUST KILL HIM!"
  • "Many Hands" has one of the most spine-chilling and graphic lyrics on the record: "Unto your pale, pale body I will put many hands / and rough, rough fingers for every hole you have."
  • Saved! is more of a Breather Episode after such a long run of albums with some truly horrifying themes, but since it's still Kristin, there's still a fair amount of fuel—"I'm Getting Out While I Can" sounds like it's falling apart and at one point falls out of time in a truly eerie fashion. There's also numerous jump scares all over the record, as several songs cut off prematurely to recordings of Hayter speaking in tongues.
  • "How Can I Keep From Singing" takes the prize for most disturbing, the entire song being undercut by glossolalia that grows in intensity as it goes on.
• Signature Song: "Do You Doubt Me Traitor," despite being a nine-minute monster, is her most well-known song, containing some of her most memorable lyrics.
• Tearjerker: With the themes dealt with in Hayter's music, there's an air of sadness and tragedy that hangs over it.
  • Her slower songs are especially moving: "God Gave Me No Name," "Fragrant Is My Many Flower'd Crown," "Pennsylvania Furnace," "The Perpetual Flame of Centralia," and "The Solitary Brethren of Ephrata" are some poignant examples.
  • "That He May Not Rise Again," wherein Hayter desperately begs for God to save her from an abuser who is trying to gain control of her again. It's especially sad towards the end, as the noise cuts out and all you're left with is Hayter sobbing and struggling to sing. And the spoken word at the beginning...
    I love you and everything is going to be alright. I promise everything is going to be okay.
  • Hayter's poetry on "Epistolary Grieving For Jimmy Swaggart" is raw and tragic, especially when being read aloud by Hayter herself. It primarily deals with the aftermath of abuse, feelings of abandonment and brokenness (mentally and physically), and searching for salvation.
• The Woobie: Hayter herself, considering that the lyrics draw directly from her own experiences with abusive relationships.
• Write What You Know:
  • The themes of abuse in her music are based on Hayter's own experiences with domestic violence.
  • The Roman-Catholic symbolism was inspired by her own upbringing in the church.
  • Often the style of her music takes inspiration from wherever she was living at the time of making the album. All Bitches Die was inspired by the surrounding noise/metal scene in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Appalachian folk of Sinner Get Ready was inspired by the Mennonite communities in rural Pennsylvania.