recommendation: ashes against the fuckin grain

[NAD]

*continues to pull out*

 

[dorian gray]

why people need to not go on the internet and spout their "opinions" on an album first thing they do after the cd finishes for the first time, exhibit a

Nah, I've been listening to it for a week straight. The only other thing I've listened to in the past week has been Cynic and a Rush album.

 

[dorian gray]

once you have a kid, the potential for 90 listens of ANY cd go way way down.

I'm gonna have to second this. Many of you guys are gonna be in for a shocker when you A) get a full-time job B) get married and C) have children. I'm not making fun of anyone, it's just the truth. If you avoid any of these things, then you don't have anything to worry about.

 

[dorian gray]

this is dorian grey, what are you expecting?

I amuses me to no end how this forum considers me to be some kind of dumb asshole.

 

[Ellestin]

not at all!!! It was meant in a loving way

 

[Sadguru]

I amuses me to no end how this forum considers me to be some kind of dumb asshole.

I don't.

 

[NAD]

I'm gonna have to second this. Many of you guys are gonna be in for a shocker when you A) get a full-time job B) get married and C) have children. I'm not making fun of anyone, it's just the truth. If you avoid any of these things, then you don't have anything to worry about.

Yeah, my superfocuspower listening days died when I got a job at 17, ever since then I've had to actually make time to listen intensely, but hey, it can still be done.

Also, you're no more a dumbass than I am. O wait, sorry for insulting you like that.

 

[skeptik]

The Mantle is by far the most difficult of the three full-lengths to get into in my opinion.

 

[Doom]

The Mantle is by far the most difficult of the three full-lengths to get into in my opinion.

I guess I agree but I wouldn't really say any of them were particularly hard to get into IMO. It only took a couple of spins before I really liked "Ashes..." and I don't remember it being any different for the other two full-lengths.

 

[dorian gray]

my superfocuspower listening days

I remember these fondly. I think Rust in Peace had just come out.

 

[dorian gray]

and I don't remember it being any different for the other two full-lengths.

No? I noticed a few similarities between Mantle and Pale. But overall, Mantle seems to drag on and on and Pale had many more memorable moments.

 

[Doom]

No? I noticed a few similarities between Mantle and Pale. But overall, Mantle seems to drag on and on and Pale had many more memorable moments.

Eh? I wasn't trying to say they sound similar, but that I didn't really find either of them that hard to get into it.

While I certainly wouldn't say I think The Mantle "drags" I can absolutely see why someone might say that. I basically just don't find it as interesting as their other stuff (this is all relative though, because I do still love the album).

 

[Erik]

"you were but a ghost in my arms" could easily have been on pale folklore in terms of writing style, and the same goes for most of "i am the wooden doors"

some of the instrumentals DO drag (i'm glad they didn't venture further into that direction) and "a desolation song" is agalloch's weakest album track (well except for "the grain" now i guess) but overall the mantle is a great album

 

[Doom]

"you were but a ghost in my arms" could easily have been on pale folklore in terms of writing style, and the same goes for most of "i am the wooden doors"

some of the instrumentals DO drag (i'm glad they didn't venture further into that direction) and "a desolation song" is agalloch's weakest album track (well except for "the grain" now i guess) but overall the mantle is a great album

Well I wasn't trying to say they sound different either! My point wasn't about whether they sound the same or not. And a big WTF to the last part, I love that track. I'd have to say weakest album track (apart from "The Grain") would go to "Odal", although Agalloch have never made a bad song.

 

[dorian gray]

Eh? I wasn't trying to say they sound similar, but that I didn't really find either of them that hard to get into it.

Woops!

 

[Erik]

ugh i dunno, the mandolin is so out of place and pretty amateurishly played

it would make a good b-side or something but the thing is that "...and the great cold death of the earth" is such an awesome logical conclusion to the album that there wasn't really any need to tack on ADS to the end. feels like a bonus track. disrupts flow.

 

[Doom]

but the thing is that "...and the great cold death of the earth" is such an awesome logical conclusion to the album that there wasn't really any need to tack on ADS to the end. feels like a bonus track. disrupts flow.

Well that kind of makes sense. But that wasn't as much of a fuck up as on the latest, since "Our Fortress...II" is the PERFECT end to that album.

 

[Erik]

i think "the grain" is just there to make "our fortress is burning" trilogy exactly 1 second longer than "she painted fire across the skyline" trilogy

 

[Dick Sirloin]

I should probably buy/hear this or something

 

[skeptik]

i think "the grain" is just there to make "our fortress is burning" trilogy exactly 1 second longer than "she painted fire across the skyline" trilogy

Is it really one second longer? *too lazy to check*