Album Rating: 5.0
Nah not at all, I get dead middle of winter, somewhere even farther north and more desolate than my homeplace
i don't really get a winter vibe from ashes, in a way that's their "least" seasonal album to me
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Album Rating: 4.5
This album is straight-up frostily. Pale Folklore is more of a snowy album, and The Mantle is misty. As for Ashes, it's ... nightly? I agree that it's their least seasonal album.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Seasonally speaking, Pale feels like a spring/fall crossover, The Mantle is 1000000% fall, The White is 1000000% Spring, Ashes is.... nothing?, Marrow is 1000000% winter, and I haven't been engaged enough by Serpent to say it makes me feel a certain way
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Album Rating: 4.5
ashes is winter for sure. it's their "coldest" sounding imo, not necessarily dark though. idk why but i just disagree with you a lot on this
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pf/mantle/marrow are all fairly autumnal by comparison to ashes yea
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Album Rating: 5.0
ugh now i have to relisten hold on
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speaking of which, i need to revisit this one – i suspect it's a little better than a 3.5
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Album Rating: 5.0
it is, it's roughly ~1.5 better
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hmm
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Album Rating: 3.5
'i feel ashes is more like a winter album, this gives me more of early spring vibes you know, when it's still cold and dark but the snow is starting to melt'
I agree, Art. I put it on just the other day when it started snowing.
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Album Rating: 4.0
14% better
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Album Rating: 4.5
Maybe the best Agalloch.
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Album Rating: 4.5
HYPE IT MARROW'S TIME HAS COME
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Album Rating: 5.0
Marrow has always, always been excellent. People didn't give it a chance since it was such a stark departure from Agalloch's previous sound progression, which had been on a increasingly post-esque arc. Ashes is barely black metal at all, whereas this one is easily their most black metal
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Album Rating: 4.5
"Ashes is barely black metal at all, whereas this one is easily their most black metal"
I agree, it's probably their most metal record.
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Album Rating: 5.0
exactly, and I think it makes perfect sense when viewed as an arc between Serpent and Ashes, since Ashes is post-rock, Serpent is kind of "post-black" and this is solidly black. I think they wanted to make a definitely "black metal" album with the agalloch sound, one that didn't sound like Faustian's second wave worship, and I really think people just didn't want Agalloch to record a black metal album
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Album Rating: 4.5
I agree that there is a lot of actual black metal on here, more than usual, but I wouldn't call it a black metal album either. Black Lake Nidstang and To Drown are barely black metal at all and they amount to nearly half of the album's running time.
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Album Rating: 4.5
black lake has a couple of very bm-y moments though but yeah. actually into the painted grey is the only track here i would easily label as bm
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Album Rating: 4.5
whatever it is, it's great.
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Album Rating: 5.0
hmmm I don't really disagree, but it still feels like a black metal album to me, as opposed to others which lean much more heavily as "folk-black"
I certainly think its their only *album* you could call a black metal album
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