In the churning underbelly of Los Angeles’ DIY scene, Agriculture—Dan Meyer (guitar/vocals), Leah B. Levinson (bass/vocals), Richard Chowenhill (guitar), and Kern Haug (drums)—deliver their sophomore salvo, The Spiritual Sound, on October 3, 2025, via The Flenser.
This isn’t black metal’s usual frostbitten nihilism; it’s a fervent, queer-inflected blackgaze ritual that fuses dissonant riffs, shoegaze haze, and post-hardcore propulsion into a demand for presence. Drawing from Zen Buddhism, queer/AIDS literature, and the raw poetry of daily survival—gas station epiphanies, tour-van confessions—the album arcs from Side A’s sky-rending catharsis to Side B’s devotional simmer, a unified grammar of spirit in the profane.