The Flenser

29/10/2025

Agriculture featured on Guitar World.

Ahead of the quartet’s US tour, guitarist Dan Meyer, guitarist/producer Richard Chowenhill and bassist Leah Levinson discuss the secret behind their prolific work ethic, meeting Joe Satriani and the making of a dream guitar

29/10/2025

Have a Nice Life’s “The Unnatural World” is being released on a new variant, iridescent blue vinyl, now up for pre-order.

Also, the long-requested “The Unnatural World” shirts are available for the first time, featuring the classic design from the album that began Have a Nice Life’s relationship with The Flenser.

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28/10/2025

Uboa’s album The Origin of My Depression is back in stock on Cloudy Clear vinyl at nowflensing.com

Uboa has spent the better part of a decade dipping into every corner of heavy music. From harsh noise to dark ambient, glitch to doom metal, Metcalfe’s output, though sonically varied, remains consistent in her use of such styles to express her mental state at the time of writing. Whether it’s her live performances (described as a panic attack presented on stage) or her recorded material, her eclectic approach to dark music has led Uboa to become an unlikely but deserving cult figure in online music.

22/10/2025

Planning For Burial playing the ‘Below the House’ release show at Saint Vitus in 2017. 

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21/10/2025

Ragana&Drowse’s collaborative album “Ash Souvenir” will be out on November 14th. Noel and Kyle share some insights about the gear they used for the recordings.

“This album was my first opportunity to record using my Bhava harmonium and this beautiful Gretsch that my second cousin gave me from his 80s rocker days. Kyle recorded me playing some drones and melodies on the harmonium on his field recorder, then added guitar and synth to create one of the interludes on the album. I used the Gretsch for some of the guitars on In Eternal Woods, along with Maria’s amazing Univox Hi-Flyer knockoff that Ragana uses on all of our recordings.” - Noel

“On Ash Souvenir I played the same Fender Jaguar, Twin Reverb, and old Yamaha classical guitar that used to belong to my father that I use on all Drowse albums. Field recordings (Zoom H6) and Ebow appear frequently on the album. I also used my Ensoniq ESQ-1 synth, various methods of analog and digital signal processing in my home studio, and Ableton Live both live and in studio to trigger and sequence samples including sampled Mellotron. Not pictured: the bass that Nich Wilbur plays in New Issue, which he lent us for overdubs on the album, my pedal board, and my live mixer w/ more pedals.” - Kyle Bates

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20/10/2025

In the Earth Again, the collaborative album from Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo will be out on October 31st. The record portrays societal decay through the brutality of apocalypse and the eerie stillness in its aftermath.

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17/10/2025

The Spiritual Sound is out now!

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14/10/2025

Originally commissioned and premiered at Roadburn Festival 2024, Ash Souvenir was later captured at the Unknown studio in Anacortes, WA.

This is a series of photos from the Ragana&Drowse performance at Roadburn 2024 by .

Ash Souvenir is the new collaborative album from Ragana and Drowse, out November 14 on The Flenser.

11/10/2025

One year of Cool World.

09/10/2025

Agriculture’s new album The Spiritual Sound is out now. Thank you for listening.

07/10/2025

Listen to “Ash Souvenir”, the new single from the upcoming collaborative album by Ragana and Drowse out November 14 on The Flenser.

“Ash souvenir is a song dedicated to my mom. I got to play her this song before she died and she really liked it. At the end she is all I can think about when I say “there is nothing to lose” over and over until it’s a meditation. The words poured through me from my mom somehow. I think it means we don’t take anything with us when we die, we don’t have to worry about things, just people and mountains.” - Maria

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