Agalloch

[Xorv]

If you love them. Please tell me.

I love EM!

 

[Guthrum]

Pale Folklore.

I believe that is all that needs to be said.

 

[CAIRATH]

I <3 them.

 

[Mort Divine]

They are my second favorite band, right below Pain of Salvation. The Mantle is an amazing album, damn near perfect ... if not actually perfect.

Pale Folklore is also an amazing album.

 

[metal paddy]

all i will say is the melanholy spirit paddy love em

 

[Freanan]

I have The Mantle.
The lyrics are extremely great, but sadly the music is not nearly as good.
This folk-rock-pop is the most overrated thing i ever saw on this forum despite the great lyrics.

 

[Mort Divine]

I have The Mantle.
The lyrics are extremely great, but sadly the music is not nearly as good.
This folk-rock-pop is the most overrated thing i ever saw on this forum despite the great lyrics.

What the fuck? Folk and rock sure, but pop? I don't see it.

 

[Killbot]

They seem to be a band that nobody dislikes, and I'm not one to disprove that theory.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Me either, cool band.

 

[WNxScythe]

Never clicked with me... for folk influenced metal, I'll take Primordial and Drudkh over Agalloch any day.

 

[Susperia]

I love both The Mantle and Pale Folklore. They are a great band.

 

[byrne]

pale folklore is awesome. the mantle is good as well.

 

[CF87]

Great band, but i'm not to fond of the clean vocals. When a clean voice is good enough that means the band could drop the growls if they wanted to and it would be ok.

Opeth cleans have gotten a lot better over the years so I think maybe in the future the cleans in agalloch might actually be significant or sound good. They're kinda in the same boat as older opeth and older katatonia. It's like insignificant moaning without power or range, and you wonder why the bands even bothered putting them in a song.

 

[Xorv]

I have The Mantle.
The lyrics are extremely great, but sadly the music is not nearly as good.
This folk-rock-pop is the most overrated thing i ever saw on this forum despite the great lyrics.

pop...yea, agalloch is following in the footsteps of N'Sync

 

[Freanan]

The pop thing is maybe not 100% reasonable.
What i wanted to say is that i can't find anithing moving in Agalloch's music except the music. It sounds quite shallow and boring (although i love for example Ulver's Kveldssanger), and it is not especially heavy, neither emotionally, nor musically, nor in the sense that it might be difficult to get into because of too much folk -maybe that's why the term pop came to my mind.
If everyone likes them, have fun, but i was really disappointed by The Mantle.

 

[Scourge of Malice]

About the comment on the clean vocals... from the new song that's online I'd say they have already improved, so look into the new album when its out!

 

[swizzlenuts]

Agalloch sucks!

 

[Ender Rises]

Agalloch is OK, I don't like the clean vocals though

 

[Susperia]

Agalloch sucks!

*Looks like she was slapped across the face* Peters how could you??

 

[swizzlenuts]

*Looks like she was slapped across the face* Peters how could you??

Who's Peters?

EDIT: pwned.