ASHES AGAINST THE GRAIN

"Limbs" is a trademark post-rock song, actually post-rock dominates here and black/doom metal influences are thrown in. The effectiveness of this song is highlighted by heavy slow parts. "Falling Snow" offers a mixture of clean and growling vocals. The track is somewhat monotonous and it wouldn't have damaged it if it was trimmed to 6 minutes instead of 9. Nice interlude follows and it allows the listener to take breath for further songs.

"Fire above, ice below" have both poles hearable in the song - the warm fire is represented by the warm clean vocal and acoustic guitars. The icy sphere are the whispering vocals. In this track, the fire seems to take ownership over ice. A pretty interesting experiment.

Extreme black metal vocals a la are displayed in the following track that is also alternating between fast black metal and slowlier riffs not far from post rock.

The greatest epic post-rock track penned by Agalloch is to be found in the last three tracks. The first two ones are pretty decent and exploring picturesque riffs, the third one turns into a messy soundscape and disturbs more than it attracts.

Overall, Ashes against the grain will find its supporters but isn't the most representative of Agalloch's works. There is enough for a progressive metal fan to explore, though.

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