New Introductory Lectures on the System of Transcendental Qabala is the first studio album of Kel Valhaal, an electronic music focused project of Liturgy vocalist and guitarist Haela Hunt-Hendrix.

[4] Critic Joe Hemmerling wrote that some tracks on New Introductory Lectures "transpose metal’s labyrinthine structures into the sphere of electronic music".

[7] The exact first half of "Ontological Love" is a "hypnotic instrumental", the rest of the track consisting of a rap verse from Hunt-Hendrix over "a swelling, swirling maelstrom of artificial strings".

In the track, the rap consists of a "litany of jarring collisions between the sacred and the profane", lines including "I do cocaine with the clergy/ I teach peace to jihadis/ I show my tits to a leper.

"[7] "Bezel II", which closes the album, uses an improvised chiptune lead melody and the same instrumental and rap elements as "Tense Stage" and "Ontological Love".

[7] "Bezel" features a "impressionistic", very distorted guitar line that Hemmerling compared to the beginning part of "High Gold", a track from Liturgy's second LP Aesthethica (2011).

[7] The album opener, "Mea Culpa", was described by Pitchfork writer Kevin Lozano as music that would be fit in an action scene of a science fiction horror Z movie.

[2][3] Hemmerling, who graded New Introductory Lectures on the System of Transcendental Qabala a B, called the album a "brisk, exhilarating listening experience, and one that helps to clarify Liturgy’s divisive creative arc.

"[7] Lozano was more negative towards the album, scoring it a 3.5 out of ten: "He is bold enough to say that his music, his career, will be a Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, a total artwork so engrossing and multivalent that it speaks to all walks of life.