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AGRICULTURE + HEALING WOUND
SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2026
Castle & Falcon, Birmingham
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Extreme music has the ability to be a powerful mode of expression for 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 sub-genre’s tropes. After having them join us at Supersonic 2024 while they were touring the Living Is Easy EP, they blew us away with their honest and powerful music. Now they’re back with their new album The Spiritual Sound.
Agriculture’s formation mirrors their duality. What began as a loose collaboration between Kern Haug and Dan Meyer in the Los Angeles noise scene evolved into a shared pursuit of the sublime through heavy music. With the additions of Richard Chowenhill and Leah Levinson, the project solidified into the band’s current form. Agriculture doesn’t offer salvation. The Spiritual Sound isn’t a map out of the fire. What it offers instead is presence: a confrontation with the moment, however unbearable, however divine. It insists that meaning is still possible, even in a world hell-bent on reducing everything to content, and where suffering itself can be conducive to recovery. As the Buddhist saying goes: “the only way out is in.”
“This is an album about the really fundamental human experiences of suffering, joy, and love. We find a lot of the profound in these basic experiences. To us they are by definition spiritual and worth singing and screaming about. With this record, we wanted to make music that connects the intensity of daily life with the intensity of an encounter with Spirit.” – Agriculture
