As many of you know, AGALLOCH's new album, titled "Ashes Against The Grain", will be released on the 8th of August. A review of the album, written by sincerely yours, can be found here - http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=11734 - http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=11734 The review has been approved and endorsed by the musicians themselves.
AGALLOCH have finally launched a new website, which can be found here - http://www.agalloch.org/ - http://www.agalloch.org/ Agalloch fans will appreciate new information found on the website, and I strongly encourage to check out the page for further updates on the group's inspiring career.
In addition, according to the group's myspace page, controlled by the group's members, there will be a video for a great song from the new album - "Not Unlike The Waves", and there will be a small tour:
The Pacific Northwest's AGALLOCH whose long-awaited and much-anticipated new album "Ashes against the Grain" is due out August 8, 2006 on The End Records have filmed a video for the song "Not Unlike The Waves" with director Nicole Phillips and cinematographers Richard Stark and Juan Mosqueda. It is currently in the editing process. Over nine hours of footage was shot in three days and the results are quite stunning thus far. To film aficionados, the style of the video will call to mind the work of Ingmar Bergman, Mario Bava, and the German Expressionist movement.
In other news, the band have lined up the following dates:
Jul. 29 - Portland, OR @ Sabala's
Aug. 04 - San Francisco, CA @ The Elbo Room
Source - http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=27545777&blogID=131277906&MyToken=18208f33-f48a-46d5-8ebd-b4f7d32fa5bf - http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=27545777&blogID=131277906&MyToken=18208f33-f48a-46d5-8ebd-b4f7d32fa5bf
Moreover, I have some intimate news for all prog fans coming directly from Don Anderson, AGALLOCH's guitarist. Quoting his private message to me, which was sent by the man himself, who had earlier registered on PA(but I'm not telling you his username

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...Both John and I are HUGE prog rock fans so it is really cool to be recognized by a prog site. We are anticipating moving more into a progressive rock direction (listening to a lot of Thule, Anekdoten, Landberk, Anglagard lately), so we are hoping to integrate more of that darker swedish prog sound into our own...
Personally I would be happy with any direction the group decides to take, but this is some truly fascinating news for all Progressive Rock fans and I can only let my imagination figure out what the group's next creation will sound like.
Sincerely yours,
Ivan "Frost" S.