What's your favoUrite song on The Mantle?

[JayKeeley]

"I am the Wooden Doors"

but I do also like "The Lodge" and the way it follows

Discuss.

 

[Doom]

Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood, but the last time I listened to The Mantle I honestly had difficulty getting through the whole disc. I loved it when it first came out.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth

 

[MFJ]

you were but a ghost in my arms / i am the wooden doors

pale folklore writing style > mantle writing style

 

[Six-winged Seraph]

in the shadow of our pale companion

 

[KILL TULLY]

In the Shadow of Moonlight and Dawn

 

[spaffe]

I'd say In the Shadow of our Pale Companion without a doubt. But now that a few years have passed and I've managed to distance myself somewhat from this record, I have to say it is very inconsistent. There's really no coherency among the tracks, besides them beeing extremly good tunes that is. But I get the feeling of something stitched together and lacking a natural flow, what with the "break tracks" tossed between the "real" songs

 

[MajestikMøøse]

In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion

And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth

seriously, I think the album should have ended with "...And the Great Cold Death..." It would have had such the perfect effect of the album beginning and ending on the same note... like being cyclical, or having continuity or some other hippie bullshit like that.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Never felt that way about A Desolation Song to be honest, it always felt like a very nice closing peice for the album.

 

[Demonspell]

In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion

 

[MFJ]

it's an encore to the album, not a bonus track. the major piece that is "the mantle" ends and this is the folky outro that says to us "goodnight"

or something

 

[MajestikMøøse]

more hippie jargon! less rational explaination!

 

[MFJ]

yeah, that was TOTAL hippie jargon. I'm pretty much a master in it now.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

hah, preach on brotha man.

 

[JayKeeley]

"and the great cold death of the earth" is excellent, and the lyrics remind me of my Heathen Winter shirt

"I am the wooden doors" reminds me a lot of Ulver's "I troldskog faren vild"...but then most Agalloch reminds me of Bergtatt

 

[Dick Sirloin]

chalk up another vote for Pale Companion

although my favorite used to be A Hawthorne Passage. you can't beat the second half of this song. brain meltingly good

 

[Demilich]

In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion has always been my favourite.

 

[skeptik]

I'll have to listen to this again to be sure, but it's probably between In the Shadow of our Pale Companion and And the Great Cold Death of the Earth, as seems to be the majority consensus.

 

[Trylakos]

I finnally bought this beast today, and I believe I like the hawthorne passage the best maybe.. Montreal is neat! They had negura bunget at HMV and I saw Lord Worm in the airport

 

[lurch70]

what is the name of track 10 again? ...