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AGRICULTURE
from April 2023
Date Signed: January 2023
Label: The Flenser
Band Members: Dan Meyer, guitar, vocals; Leah B. Levinson, bass, vocals; Richard Chowenhill, guitar; Kern Haug, percussion
Type of Music: Ecstatic Black Metal
Management: N/A
Booking: N/A
Legal: N/A
Publicity: Stephanie Marlow, stephanie@another-side.net Web: agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com
A&R: N/A
Los Angeles-based metal band Agriculture can count all the shows they’ve played on the four band members’ fingers and toes. That makes it easy to remember their worst concert. “Our guitarist Richard [Chowenhill’s] amp stopped working halfway through the second song,” guitarist-vocalist Dan Meyer recalls of the gig. “It was the worst possible timing.”
Even worse, Jonathan Tuite, founder of experimental-music label The Flenser, was in attendance, at Meyer’s request. Agriculture’s frontman wanted his band to join that label more than any other. Meyer was sure they blew their chances that night. But, ironically and remarkably, Tuite saw past Agriculture’s technical difficulties at the show and signed them anyway. Needless to say, it was both a surprise and a dream come true for the quartet.
