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The Spiritual Sound

Agriculture

The Spiritual Sound

Second full-length release from the Los Angeles black metal quartet

ADM rating[?]

8.6

Label
Flenser
UK Release date
03/10/2025
US Release date
03/10/2025
  1. 10.0 |   The Guardian

    The LA group’s second album pairs all the power and euphoria of heavy music with imaginative detailing and poignant lyrics – it will have you levitating with joy
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  2. 9.0 |   Exclaim

    Confrontational yet embracing, The Spiritual Sound wraps you in screams and distortion, pummelling while blanketing, devastating amidst the uplift
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  3. 9.0 |   Under The Radar

    Agriculture refuses to be confined by genre norms and expectations. This is a band that ploughs its own furrow; it’s a band that embraces and celebrates the differences, refuses to shy from conflict, yet wears on its sleeve the tenderest of hearts
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  4. 9.0 |   Punk News

    The instrumentation and sequencing, the fury and fragility. Whatever magical combination has coalesced to create this record, I’m all in. I can’t get enough of it. I’ve got a new band occupying that space in my mind where I know they can create special music and that makes me immensely happy
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  5. 8.6 |   Paste Magazine

    The LA black metal quartet’s latest album’s versatility finds full consciousness in music that blasts with numbing intensity until it’s reborn into vibrance
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  6. 8.4 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    This album might not flow as perfectly as others or have one consistent style, but what it does have is riffs, balls and atmosphere aplenty
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  7. 8.0 |   Kerrang!

    The Spiritual Sound is a fathomless pool worth hurling yourself into, a shimmering, shattering new landmark on heavy music’s mind-expanding outer limits
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