Lingua Ignota is an experimental musician from Providence, RI. Her music combines elements of noise, power electronics, liturgical music and modern classical, and deals heavily with themes of domestic violence, retribution, and religion in abstract. She was formerly a doctoral candidate and lecturer at Brown University, and her initial musical output was a product of her doctoral thesis.

Her visceral and often horrifyingly beautiful LPs consist of 2017’s All Bitches Die, 2019’s CALIGULA, and 2021’s SINNER GET READY.

In December 2022, Kristin Hayter – the force behind Lingua Ignota – announced that the project would be retired in 2023 after a final tour. She cited the emotional and mental pain performing songs so closely tied to her trauma caused her as the main reason for this retirement. Currently, she records music under the name Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter.