If the music that you love is not just great, but in many ways there is also plenty of stupid, you have to reinvent it. Agriculture from Los Angeles take everything that was bad and shit on Black Metal on her second album (sustainability, misogynia, provocation with fascular wasteland), delete it – and celebrate what remains.
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This is then often called Post-Black Metal. The band speaks of “ecstatic black metal”, and with fug and right: blast beats, high shouting and -unlike in the genre -beautiful guitar melodies and surfaces that keep going to the eyes of happiness.
All of this is not completely new: the high minced frequency is known from Wiegedood, the euphoria of Deafheaven, which insist on the beauty of Queenness of Liturgy. The consequence and playfulness, however, with which, for example, in repetitive-melodic noise like “My Garden”, the punky micah (5.15am) “and the mid-tempo painting current” Bodhidharma “Black Metal is freed from its toxic underflooring and is already a very self-awakening music.
This review first appeared in the MusikExpress 11/2025.