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    Posted: April 22 2008 at 18:48
Originally posted by Prog-jester Prog-jester wrote:

Amazing band. All their albums are worthy of 4+ (well, except for "Pale Folklore", which is good but less captivating or challenging)
 
Yep! Well, I wouldn't put Of Stone... up with them, but yea I agree. The Mantle and Ashes are 5 star albums for me, and Pale Folklor is 3-3.5. The production on that is weak and their writing wasn't at it's best yet (one of the songs has a blatantly sour note in the bass line).
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Amazing band. All their albums are worthy of 4+ (well, except for "Pale Folklore", which is good but less captivating or challenging)
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The Mantle = Heart
 
One of the best albums I know in the PM realm.
 
Pale Folklore is also quite impressive. Need to let Ashes...grow on me more it seems.
 
Excellent, excellent band all the way around!
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one of those  PM groups.. that really grabbed me on first listen..  love the hell out of their albums Clap
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Points: 69 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2008 at 10:20
 
one thing thats kinda in the back of my mind when listening to agalloch is the fact that the vocalist records the drums on the albums, so hes doin vocals, guitar and drums, which i dunno is such a good idea
 
i guess agalloch dont need an amazing drummer for they're music, but at places it sounds a little strange, my friend who'd know a lil' more about drumming then me has told me theres a few places during the mantle where hes playing completly out'a time, but i dunno for sure
 
he does seem to be improving with every album tho, just still very average
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^I was in the same boat when I first heard Ashes. At first it didn't seem to be anything special. Then after a while, it become probably one of my top 20 favorite albums.
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I just got Ashes last weekend, at first I found it boring, but it's been building up on me ever since, and I'm really starting to like it! I got the white album about a month ago, and it is great, ambient acoustic stuff, with no vocals!
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I have The Mantle.  Very atmospheric.
 
The ONLY complaint I have about it is that it's a little samey in places, but the mood and the musicianship are right on the money.
 
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I like the mantle very much and was REALLY into ashes of the grain a while back when i first got it but its taken a hit with age. not that i dont like it, im just not very enthusiastic about it anymore. still need to get the white EP . .
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Originally posted by Avantgardehead Avantgardehead wrote:

I love the vocals as they're very unique for this combination of music and very pleasant to my ears. I also love the keyboard parts on Pale Folklore and The Mantle and somewhat miss them in their more recent stuff.
 
according to progarchives the keyboardist wasn't on Ashes against the grain or the White album,
 
hes listed on the two albums you said,but not the others...tis' a shame if hes left, he did some real nice stuff
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I love the vocals as they're very unique for this combination of music and very pleasant to my ears. I also love the keyboard parts on Pale Folklore and The Mantle and somewhat miss them in their more recent stuff.
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fans, unite!!!... or even if you've heard a few tracks, let us discuss...
 
my experiences with them takes me aaaall the way back about 3 years ago, i was on prog.arch, looking through the prog.metal top 20. list of best albums, and one day i saw this album called "the mantle"
 
so, i got her, didnt have any expectations, gave it a quick listen, straight away i hated it, month or 2 passed, listend again, hated it even more, another few months pass, tried it again, hated it...this went on and on for a year or so, then i didnt try it for ages, year later i tried it again and found it interesting enough, a while later i tried it again, i started getting into it. few days pass i listend to it again and im starting to really like it,
 
fast forward a few months and it had became possibly one'a my top fav. albums ever
 
so here i was thinking now im a huge agalloch fan, so i went and pale folklore...and, just like before...HATED IT, didnt even give it a chance, complety gave up on it, so i went back to mantle
 
fast forward again, i decided to try they're latest album, ashes against the grain, tried it, and f**king LOVED Limbs, then it started going into a pale folklore direction so straight away i gave up
 
now, fast forward to about 1 month ago, and now i really like both pale and ashes against, the only thing stopping me from loving them is the sh*tty vocals which are just beyond sh*t, and i know some of you would love that sort'a thing, but they just aint for me,
 
anyway, then fastforward to about 2 weeks ago and i got "the white EP" and fell in love with it, it showed such an amazing side to agalloch, so now i really like these guys
 
so whats your journey to agalloch like, or to those who dislike them, share your opinions and out-look on them?
 
(side note: i watched a live video of agalloch, and when i saw and heard the lead singer talk normally to the crowd it made me hate him even more, hes just some punk ween'e kid with the softest of voices, it just churn'd my butter the wrong way, anyway, continue....)


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