Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit
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Sevengill
September 24th 2020


13163 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

woah, I was expecting to be roasted for that, not hear that the guy who made it agrees with me

Eakflanderyof
September 24th 2020


6685 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I love ashes and am fine with the production but it is an obvious outlier in their catalogue in terms of production quality. It sounds more polished than everything else they've done. Cuts out the sloppiness that gives agalloch their charm lol

Sevengill
September 24th 2020


13163 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Agalloch's charm is that their albums sound like they're being played to you around a campfire in real time. Ashes is great but yeah, it sounds like a studio creation. John definitely felt that, too, considering this entire album was recorded on analog equipment lol

teamster
September 25th 2020


6463 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This was and will always be best Agalloch for me. Right when it came out. No debate.

Meridiu5
September 26th 2020


4208 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

only pale folklore is trve

Orb
September 26th 2020


9638 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

with teamster on this one.

Artuma
September 26th 2020


32828 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

this pretty much demolishes pale folklore

Sevengill
September 26th 2020


13163 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Pale Folklore is cool but it sounds too messy, like a demo in places. Like, you should probably have done another take.

Eakflanderyof
September 26th 2020


6685 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The main issue I have with this is that it has really high highs but really low lows. And some of it seems straight up derivative of pale folklore in parts

hel9000
September 26th 2020


1729 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Pale Folklore hasn’t aged well for me, the songs all felt like they were laboriously written to be long epics, but they’re rarely compelling enough to justify the length imo. Definitely feels like a young album, albeit an ambitious one. Plus the “plink”y guitars get on my nerves pretty quickly

beefshoes
September 26th 2020


8448 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"This was and will always be best Agalloch for me. Right when it came out. No debate."

Definitely. Pale Folklore is great though. I personally prefer it to The Mantle.



Eakflanderyof
September 26th 2020


6685 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Hot take time: the mantle is the weakest of their catalogue with the exception of the serpent and the sphere which I dont count

beefshoes
September 26th 2020


8448 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Woah now

0GuyMan0
September 27th 2020


5652 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

was and is best Ag [2]



Easy. Something truly magical about this production. I can listen to it with fancy headphones, in the car, or through my cell phone from across the room, and it sounds like it was MEANT to sound each of those ways.



I go through phases with every song on here, thinking that each, in a given time, is the best track they ever did. For the last three years I've felt like it is Watcher's Monolith, but Painted Grey has been hitting me really hard again. It's just a magnificent black metal song. Top 3 for me.

Meridiu5
October 21st 2020


4208 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

their coldest album

zaruyache
October 22nd 2020


28647 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

winter tunes

0GuyMan0
October 25th 2020


5652 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

coldest album [2]



yeah. one of my favorite winter albums.

oltnabrick
November 7th 2020


41074 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires is so good

zaruyache
November 7th 2020


28647 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

it snowed like four inches last saturday, then was 70 degrees yesterday, and I'm sure it won't snow again significantly until mid December at the earliest. I hate it.

Keyblade
November 7th 2020


30810 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

take it in, this album is 10 years old



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