Agalloch "Ashes Against the Grain"

Birkenau said:
You liked it? I thought it was a bit...pretentious?

It has some healthy pompousness to it, like some of the songtitles on their former albums. Haughm is simply a rhetoric wizard, and I think these kinds of titles suit Agalloch's music.

I'm a bit puzzled by the "rock"-thing also, but it's not necessarily a bad move, depending on their take on the genre. We'll see how things develop.
 
I'm expecting more of a progressive rock influence, but tempered through their obsessions with neo-folk and post-rock, with more of an epic sweep as opposed to the sparseness of their earlier albums. Less minimalistic. In short, a flagrant sellout.
 
If it's more rock into the realm of say, that Fields of the Nephilim disc that Dick Sirloin told us to check out, then it'll probably be alright.
 
If I was a fucking moron, I still wouldn't have called my 3rd album "Ashes Against the Grain". it has to be at least schfourteen-teen times as good now.
 
metalheads who ASSume that anything rock-based means bad or sellout are generally stupid fucks who don't know what a broad spectrum of things that could mean. just a general comment.
 
Demilich said:
metalheads who ASSume that anything rock-based means bad or sellout are generally stupid fucks who don't know what a broad spectrum of things that could mean. just a general comment.
They have said that they listen to KENT and that the new material has influences like that

I'm just putting two and two together

But I have faith in good ol' Agalloch!
 
Demilich said:
DON'T WAKE THE SLEEPING BAGS
DON'T WAKE THE SLEEPING BAGS
DON'T WAKE THE SLEEPING BAGS
DON'T WAKE THE SLEEPING BAGS










:zombie:
DONT WAKE THEM IF YOU KNOW WHATS GOOD FOR YOUR BUTT!

I dont really know what he says there..but thats what it souds like:Spin:
 
Trylakos said:
DONT WAKE THEM IF YOU KNOW WHATS GOOD FOR YOUR BUTT!

I dont really know what he says there..but thats what it souds like:Spin:

Be honest, you woke the sleeping bags, didn't you? And you liked it.