AGRICULTURE — LODGE ROOM 12/5
Los Angeles-based Agriculture brought their ecstatic black metal to a sold-out Lodge Room, turning Highland Park into a sweat-drenched congregation. Heaven's Club and World Peace set the tone, heavy and unrelenting, but Agriculture's set hit different. The crowd erupted, bodies colliding in the pit, arms raised like they were reaching for something just out of frame.
Agriculture doesn't do background music. Their sound demands your full attention: searing, devotional, built on the collapse and rebuild of ego and riff alike. Dan Meyer and Leah Levinson's dual songwriting anchors the chaos: Zen-inflected grief meets queer survival, both refusing to flatten into easy consumption. On this night, the band delivered what their new album The Spiritual Sound promises: presence, confrontation, the sublime through heaviness. No apologies, no vibe. Just the weight.
