Agriculture - Ckollontaj

"Agriculture’s music is sublime chaos"

 For something to be “ecstatic,” the feelings and emotions it evokes must transcend what we tend to experience most regularly in our lives.

Although it has long been associated with connotations of the dark and macabre, extreme music has the ability to be a powerful mode of expression for these 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 subgenre’s tropes.With Agriculture’s self-titled record and first full-length LP, it’s abundantly clear that the band’s use of heavy music to showcase the most resplendent emotions and moments of the human experience has a far deeper meaning. Woven between the flurries of soaring tremolo picking, crescendoing guitar harmonies, celebratory screamed vocals, thoughtful improvisation, and meditative atmospheric passages is the record’s mission statement to experience the wonders and joys of both the esoteric and physical world.

Through the extreme splendor of ecstatic black metal and the improvisational, experimental, and cathartic elements it embodies, Agriculture illustrates these otherwise incomprehensible questions with a poignant beauty that makes its music as much of an artistic statement as it is a transcendental experience. 

CKOLLONTAJ

Ckollontaj is a 2-piece dystopian band from Dendermonde Belgium that started as a solo project in 2023. The sound of Ckollontaj is defined byvbroken electronics, cold drum machines, field recordings, a guitar that defies its own sanity and deformed vocals. Ckollontaj songs make you want to dance at one moment, and die at the other.