Album Rating: 2.0
I mean since I'm such a huge Agalloch fan I might be a little bit biased towards this, but still even if you're the average black metal fan I don't see how you could think this is anything less than a 3 or 3.5.
I kind of figured all their fans would turn into bitches with this release, whether it was up to the standard of their past albums or not. And I was right.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Songwriting is still a bit sloppy though imo.
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Album Rating: 4.8
Eh maybe so, but still it's their best for me.
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Album Rating: 4.0
This album seems like it should have came before the mantle and after pale folklore.
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
Go listen to a song like "As Embers Dress The Sky", where there are clean, distortion and acoustic guitar solos, three different kinds of vocals, a billion different riffs, yet it somehow manages to be so smooth you'd never notice unless you tried looking. That's what Agalloch don't do here.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I see what you mean Crysis, but I wasn't looking for this album to beat or be similar to their previous ones.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Maybe that's my problem with PF, that it's overambitious. I don't know; at least they're good riffs.
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Anderson actually goes out of tune on a PF solo.Fer cryin out loud.
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Album Rating: 4.8
I agree with both Crysis and Gmork. This album seems simpler and almost dumbs everything down that they've done before, yet still manages to be effective, at least for me.
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If anything, this album is too ambitious because as an album it tries to carry out a concept through 6 songs but fails because 1) it doesnt have the continuity and flow which made the mantle so good and 2) it lacks the atmosphere of a pale folklore. It feels inconsistent overall compared. But it still has certain songs/parts which make this album great (into the painted grey, black lake Nidstang, parts of the wactcher's monolith).
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Album Rating: 4.0
Called refinement if you ask me.
@ Hawks
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Album Rating: 4.8
Yeah the atmosphere is lacking a little bit (a lot compared to Pale Folklore), but I think the flow of it is just fine.
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Album Rating: 4.5
As Embers Dress the Sky is my favorite song by them.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'm with Hawks, regardless of any dumbing down or retreading of past techniques, it still gets the job done, and I thought the atmosphere was great to be honest.
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
If anything, this album is too ambitious because as an album it tries to carry out a concept through 6 songs but fails because 1) it doesnt have the continuity and flow which made the mantle so good and 2) it lacks the atmosphere of a pale folklore. It feels inconsistent overall compared.
123 my thoughts exactly.
Called refinement if you ask me.
Hard to call it refinement if they expand on nearly all of their influences to the point of incompetence, refinement would be if they took what they had and trimmed it down to where everything is perfect.
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Album Rating: 4.8
The atmosphere is perfectly fine until you start comparing it to the other albums. No matter what anyone thinks of the album, there's no deny that Black Lake Nidstang is one of the best songs they've made.
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Album Rating: 4.0
@Crysis
That's kind of what Ashes Against the Grain felt like to me.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I would have been ecstatic with a little heavier Ashes.
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Album Rating: 4.8
Well they're not going to make the same album two times in a row. I think that's pretty obvious. If they wanted to make another Ashes, Pale Folklore, or The Mantle then they would've done it.
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
Anderson actually goes out of tune on a PF solo.Fer cryin out loud.
Call it the black metal fan in me but the imperfection of the transitions and things like what you mention here are part of what makes Pale Folklore so awesome.
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