For over two decades, Alcest have been taking their audience to musical spheres far beyond our earthly reality. The French band, which effectively invented and established the genre of “blackgaze” worldwide, masterfully fuses the raw, desperate intensity of black metal with the dreamlike, weightless melancholy of shoegaze.

The Los Angeles band Agriculture is taking the underground scene by storm. Instead of leaning into traditional darkness, the quartet celebrates “Ecstatic Black Metal” — a blazing musical experience that puts joy, healing, and ecstasy at the center.