Name: Agriculture
Brand: Agriculture

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FR149LP

Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-10-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

795154139910

Total Cap

Black LP

FR149CD

2023-07-21

795154139927

Artist

Agriculture

Genre GB

Metal

Label GB

Flenser

The Flenser is a San Francisco label specializing in releasing black metal, doom, and other dark music. With a reputation for pushing boundaries and exploring the depths of sonic darkness, The Flenser has become a go-to destination for fans of heavy and atmospheric music. Whether you're looking for haunting melodies or bone-crushing riffs, The Flenser offers a diverse roster of artists that will satisfy your darkest cravings.

Known by many simply as "Flenser," this label has established itself as an authority in the underground music scene. From its humble beginnings to its current status as one of the most respected labels in the genre, The Flenser continues to curate and release groundbreaking albums that challenge conventional notions of what heavy music can be.

With an impressive catalog spanning multiple genres within the realm of dark music, The Flenser is dedicated to supporting both emerging talent and established artists who push boundaries. Explore their extensive discography and discover new sounds that will transport you to realms unknown.

Full length debut of “ecstatic black metal” band from Los Angeles. Recorded by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven). 

For something to be “ecstatic,” the feelings and emotions it evokes must transcend what one tends to experience most regularly in their life. Ecstatic joy isn’t just happiness; it’s a feeling of jubilation which impacts one emotionally and in a metaphysical, arguably spiritual sense too. Although it has long been associated with connotations of the dark and macabre, extreme music has the ability to be a powerful mode of expression for these feelings of absolute bliss, overwhelming love, and awe-inspiring sublimity. Extreme emotions no less and those which black metal quartet Agriculture evokes with its ecstatic subversion of the subgenre’s tropes. 

What was initially a meeting and subsequent series of jam sessions between Kern Haug and Daniel Meyer, two musicians in the Los Angeles underground 4 noise scene, would eventually manifest as a shared vision to portray the sublimity of the human experience through the vehicle of heavy music. Following the additions of veteran guitarist Richard Chowenhill and bassist / vocalist Leah Levinson to the band’s lineup, this idea would crystalize into the “ecstatic black metal” backbone of Agriculture’s music, first heard on the band’s 2022 debut EP, The Circle Chant. With Agriculture’s self-titled record and first full-length LP, it’s abundantly clear that the band’s use of heavy music to showcase the most resplendent emotions and moments of the human experience has a far deeper meaning. Woven between the flurries of soaring tremolo picking, crescendoing guitar harmonies, celebratory screamed vocals, thoughtful improvisation, and meditative atmospheric passages is the record’s mission statement to experience the wonders and joys of both the esoteric and physical world.

Music GB