Favorite Agalloch Album!
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Belligerent
Greekus Urungus
Going w/ the mantle
This band creates an atmosphere like no other on the mantle. The other releases are good but none have the same emotional level.
Just one of those cd's you want to put on at 2in the morning on halloween(w/candles lit) and spark a spliff to.
A dark eerie atmosphere that no other band can create.My favorite song being odal.
*footsteps in the snow gets me every time*
This band creates an atmosphere like no other on the mantle. The other releases are good but none have the same emotional level.
Just one of those cd's you want to put on at 2in the morning on halloween(w/candles lit) and spark a spliff to.
A dark eerie atmosphere that no other band can create.My favorite song being odal.
*footsteps in the snow gets me every time*
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Dee Snarl
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I'm gonna go on record as saying Agalloch is overrated, with the caveat that I only know and own Ashes. It's cool and all, but I too listen for upbeat/tight drumming and music. I really wanted to like this a lot more than I did; maybe it'll grow on me.
It sounds too post-rock to me, a genre I've not loved so far. Are the older ones significantly different?
It sounds too post-rock to me, a genre I've not loved so far. Are the older ones significantly different?
Hatebreeder
Pizzicato Heartstrings
I've got Pale Folklore on my to-get list, as I crave more of the sorrowful, hypnotic riffing I heard on "Ashes...". Plus, the fact that they're a half-decent folk/black metal from AMERICA is good enough for me. 
Aeuphorias
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Pale Folklore all the way for me. It was the first Agalloch album I ever owned and remains my favourite.
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Zephyrus
Tyrants and Slaves
I saw Pale Folklore at the record store yesterday. Is it a worthy pick-up considering my tastes?
entanglement
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Zephyrus
Tyrants and Slaves
Alrighty. But it won't be for a while since I'm still digesting AATG.
np: "Not Unlike the Waves"
challenge_everything
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Ashes Against the Grain is perfection.
I love Pale Folklore and The Mantle, but PF tails off towards the end, and I don't like the repetitive and boring instrumentals on The Mantle.
I love Pale Folklore and The Mantle, but PF tails off towards the end, and I don't like the repetitive and boring instrumentals on The Mantle.
Rumpole
Dust and Bones
Really? I find Pale Folklore only gets stronger as it progresses, The Melancholy Spirit is the perfect ending for the album.
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Demilich
Remember
I listened to Ashes Against the Grain again today and I'm starting to like it more. Still not gonna top the first 2, but it is growing on me.
Thasis
Canadian Black Metaller
I have to say Ashes Against the Grain. The other two albums were amazing, but I felt that musically Ashes was better. Plus with Ashes I got more of a feel with it then the other albums.
Belligerent
Greekus Urungus
I have newfound respect for that album after seeing the "not unlike the waves"video. It reminds me of the woods of ypres video for "shedding the deadwood" which pootube took off for some unexplainable reason.It was a great atmospheric video(one of the only vid's by woods of ypres ive seen). You tube has 100 videos of some 40 yr old dipshit attempting to play "enter sandman" in his parents basement thinking he is hetfield(then they go and delete woods of ypres in the meantime??)
AMAZING band. Ashes nearly took my album of the year award last year, but i would say their most complete and crowning achievement is THE MANTLE.
Xorv
Drug the Priest
I love all 3 of them like my children. Well 4, actually. The Mantle arrived as twins. Dunno why.
I like Pale folklore better, becuase it has "Hallways of Enchanted Ebony" & "The Melancholy Spirit"
I like Pale folklore better, becuase it has "Hallways of Enchanted Ebony" & "The Melancholy Spirit"
Xorv
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DoomsdayZach
The Professor was right
Love agalloch, love the song, but that video is shit. They edited all the dynamic out of the song. Fuck that, i'll listen to my vinyl over that any day.
And i say Ashes. Pale Folklore and Mantle were both fucken phenominal records, but Ashes takes the best elements of both to make a record damn near perfection.
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