Album Rating: 4.5
Yes agreed, it's quite different from Serpent and the Sphere. This is definitely both their heaviest and their darkest long player. How could it be a throw-back if it's that much more extreme than the things that it allegedly throws back to?
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Album Rating: 4.5
You know what people? I see a lot of 4.5's ....let's 5 this fucker...on it?
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Album Rating: 4.5
@Rik
I guess it's more intense than The Mantle and Pale Folklore, but you can't tell me you don't hear the palpable spirit of those records on those 2 songs. Agalloch were a folk/black metal band that evolved into a modern post-metal band on Ashes, therefore to me anything folky or black-metal-y is a throwback stylistically in a general sense, and those styles comprise almost half of this record. The rest of it isn't like Ashes at all either...it's weird and ominous and funereal.
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Album Rating: 4.5
side note. the blasts on the pillorian album are way too high in the mix. it's like a metalcore album.
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Album Rating: 4.5
stylistically, i'd put this most in line with Pale Folklore, but I wouldn't call it throwback. It's progression.
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I'd agree with the Pale Folklore comparison. The production is garbage though.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I can't disagree more. Love the production. I mean just listen to Watcher's.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Production on this is great. Idk whether recording it in analog made a difference, but it sure didn't hurt.
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Can we talk about the album artwork for this? Cause it's brill
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Also the end of Black Lake is possibly the greatest passage in all of music
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Album Rating: 4.5
Possibru
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Album Rating: 4.5
Mushrooms and campfires and agalloch are the recipe for wokeness fam
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Album Rating: 4.5
@artiswar: I don't know.. I personally don't think Into the Painted Grey sounds like the first two albums, like, at all. The sound isn't organic enough and too dark and frosty for that. The acoustic guitars aren't prominent enough etc, I also don't find it folky enough.
I agree that it isn't really the most logical progression from Ashes, but that one wasn't the most logical progression from The Mantle either. I also agree that Ghost of Midwinter Fires sounds like Pale Folklore (the only one on here that does) and Watcher's Monolith sounds like Ashes Against the Grain, BUT it's not like the albums prior to this one didn't have remainders of the albums before them. Ashes Against the Grain had Fire Above Ice Below which sounded like The Mantle and The Mantle had Wooden Doors which sounded like Pale Folklore. And I think that's a neat way of connecting the albums to each other despite of their stylistic differences
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Album Rating: 4.5
I can see where you're coming from with those observations, the only one I don't really agree with is that Fire Above is a call back to the Mantle; the guitar style is reminiscent of it, but the mood that track creates is in my opinion unique to the album, and their whole discography.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I didn't enjoy this as much as any of the first three, the general dark atmosphere of the record is a positive but I do miss the acoustic parts & melodies. A couple of the songs drag a little & feel overblown, although I realise they couldn't make 'AATG' or 'The Mantle' all over again it's disappointing. It's a great record but by Agalloch's standards... not so sure.
I'm going to revisit soon.
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Album Rating: 4.0
the part starting just under 6:30 on Into the Painted Grey was life changing live.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I think 'Into the Painted Grey' was certainly my favourite on first listen. It might just take a while to sink in... although I very much enjoyed the first 3 (to a greater extent than this) almost instantly.
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Album Rating: 5.0
The more I listen over the years, the more The Watcher's Monolith becomes my favorite over Black Lake. Thats a dark motherfucker.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Black Lake is one of my least favs here tbh but still love it.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Monolith is fucking transcendent
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