recommendation: ashes against the fuckin grain

[circus_brimstone]

http://www.metalreview.com/ViewInterview.aspx?ID=30127

^ new Agalloch interview

 

[Erik]

hey marten addae of neun welten, you get thanxed in the new agalloch booklet

 

[lizard]

 

[Guthrum]

http://www.metalreview.com/ViewInterview.aspx?ID=30127

^ new Agalloch interview

Cool interview.

hey marten addae of neun welten, you get thanxed in the new agalloch booklet

This is also cool.

 

[Doom]

So I've listened to the album a bunch of times since I got it earlier today. I think it's absolutely fantastic, basically. Pale Folklore is probably untouchable, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to like this more than The Mantle in the long run.

However, and I know it's already been mentioned, but the last track bothers me. I can hardly ever see myself listening to that. It's a perfectly ok piece of music, but it's just not what I want on this particular album. It's also dissapointing because the ending of Our Fortress Is Burning II is just so spectacular, and it would have been a much more fitting end to the album IMO.

 

[Eminor]

Just bought this and after only a couple listens I love it.

 

[Demonspell]

I still think The Mantle is their best work. As for AATG, I think it's about equal to Pale Folklore.

I'm in agreement here, and Doom nailed why I don't think the noise track, though I've come to think of it as being the audio equivalent of being burned alive, works following the album's true climactic moment...

 

[J.]

im tired of reading in every interview and review of Agalloch that they sound European. What the fuck does that mean? because they have acoustics or a foresty image? there are forests in Oregon you know.

 

[Papa Josh]

The new album is quite good.

 

[Reign in Acai]

It get's better with every listen.

 

[Claws of Perdition]

It get's better with every listen.

QFT

 

[Demilich]

finally got it, listened to half of it in the car earlier but now begins my first real, full-attention spin

 

[Reign in Acai]

I don't understand why everyone is bitching about the noise track? It fits in just fine!!! It would be what I would turn to as a musical choice if I was passenger on a boat off the coast of Maine.

 

[Krilons Resa]

fuck that last track./

 

[Claws of Perdition]

Not Unlike the waves!!! best track

 

[Guthrum]

In that one interview that was posted, they said they would like to do an entire album like Not Unlike the Waves.

 

[Demilich]

watch Doomcifer and all the noise-isn't-music crybabies bitch when they do a whole album like "The Grain"

 

[J.]

what an awful idea that would be.

"so what kind of metal music do you like?"
"music? pffft, noise is where it's at."

 

[Demilich]

its not like noise as music is such a novel idea anyway

 

[Ellestin]

the last track is gold when you're genuinely involved in the album.