Stream Agriculture member Dan Meyer’s new shoegaze & black metal album ‘Kneeling’

Side A is shoegaze, side B is ambient black metal, and it’s all got much more where Dan’s soaring clean vocals in Agriculture came from.

Mar 28, 2025 - 18:19

Stream Agriculture member Dan Meyer’s new shoegaze & black metal album ‘Kneeling’

Agriculture are one of the best and most interesting newer black metal bands around, and one of my favorite parts about them is the way they break up all the harsh fury with guitarist Dan Meyer’s soaring, spiritual clean vocals. If you want more where that came from, you’re in luck. Today, Dan released his debut solo album Kneeling as part of The Flenser Series Membership 666, and the first half is full of shoegazy songs that find his singing voice sounding as gorgeous as ever. The second half embraces his black metal side, but it’s more of an ambient approach to black metal, still more meditative than the music he makes with Agriculture. The album description provides more background info on this LP:

Side A is full of weird biblical imagery. After getting sober a few years back, Dan went looking for God in the Old Testament and was inspired by all the strange stuff he discovered. The Ugly Man is a fantasy of how a biblical writer might have described God punishing the pornstar Ron Jeremy. 16 Angels is a fantasia describing a man donating blood to a group of angels. In Omen, Dan watches the apocalypse unfold with his beloved dog Shiloh. And Sacrificing a Calf is a literal description of the ritual for cattle sacrifice described in Leviticus.
Side B is six atmospheric black metal songs about Los Angeles. Dan never wrote lyrics for these songs but rather improvised shrieks and howls and superimposed them onto an enormous stack of distorted guitars and basses. Broadly speaking, these songs try to articulate the experience of driving around Los Angeles at night. It’s a huge city, but it looks kinda empty.
[…] According to Meyer, “I wanted these songs to sound like huge piles—big leafy piles that you could just jump into. I wasn’t worried about fidelity and actually wanted weird audio artifacts to pop up from all the layering. My rule was just to record everything as many times as I could before I had to get up to stretch or pee or whatever. I kept a lot of bad takes in the mixes too. Everything was recorded on a vintage Tascam 4-track and then transferred to my computer. I just wanted them to sound huge and small at the same time.”

The whole record is very cool and you can give it a listen below…

Kneeling by Dan Meyer