Album Rating: 4.0
I've always felt like the mantle is definitely their most overrated. It's my least favorite outside of the last album
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Album Rating: 5.0
it's the one I loved most since it got me into them, but my love for it is tied more to the memories I associate with listening to it than how I enjoy it now. present day, it's the second hardest for me to get through, but I'll always love it
nowadays, it's Ashes/The White -> Marrow -> Pale Folklore
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Album Rating: 4.0
Everything except last two full-lengths + white and faustian echoes > last two full lengths
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Album Rating: 5.0
I really wish I loved Serpent. I've tried so many times to appreciate what they were going for but over the years I've come to accept that it just doesn't work for me
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah, it's pretty bland at times
Same with Pillorian
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Album Rating: 4.3
This is their last album with that Agalloch magic.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I grew to really enjoy a handful of tracks on Serpent, but overall it's certainly my least favorite LP
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Album Rating: 4.3
Yeah same. Dark Matter Gods is my fav, and the Musk Ox tracks too. Rest ranges from adequate to boring.
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Album Rating: 4.5
the opener might be the worst track, definitely kills it from the start. Dark Matter Gods is when it starts to pick up and Celestial Effigy has some really strong moments. Plateau of the Ages is a great track but the whole thing is a slog from start to finish
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Album Rating: 5.0
yeah the opener makes the album's momentum start from the bottom of the ocean and have to work up from there
it also feels completely separated from the "real" album which I feel is all the tracks sandwiched between the Musk Ox tracks
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Album Rating: 4.3
The pacing and lack of ideas makes Serpent a slog yea, but the opener and Plateau do have their moments. Celestial Effigy is probably my second favorite after Dark Matter Gods. I still think it's weird they outsourced all the neofolk to another band. Can't help but wonder if this was due to lack of inspiration to write anything other than pretty good but unspectacular atmospheric/melodic post-black metal.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Pika, that was an awesome line.
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Album Rating: 5.0
i refuse to subscribe to the opinion that simple chord progressions and simple lyrics make for sub-par music as there are too many examples of the contrary, but w/e, I used to be a musical elitist too so I know where you're coming from
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simple chords are fine and the mantle wouldn't be improved by more complex alternatives. issue is that so many of its other songwriting tools sound crude or amateurish that its simplicity gets cast in a dodgy light in general. especially with those dated post-rock dynamics and unimaginative scale-transcription melodies - tbh there are also some great motifs (wooden doors/great cold death), but a large chunk of the instrumentals (odal/hawthorne esp) sound way too facile to hit the brief
i don't usually give a shit when musicians sound like they barely know what they're doing or music is sloppy or basic or whatever, but the 'epic' scope and po-faced delivery on that alb is where the line gets drawn. agalloch were a pretentious band trying to stretch makeshift-sounding composition skills to make profound statements above their grasp, i get a major suspension-of-disbelief interferencething around that atMOsperh, and the chord progressions are a convenient scapegoat for this. they stepped it up though! idk if this or ashes really did away with all the cringeworthy parts of their sound, but they sound so much more in control of it that it's never bothered me if not
nd also "simple" is generous to the point of disingenuous for those lyrics; be real, you'd be embarrassed if you'd written that level of bollocks 20 yrs ago
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Album Rating: 4.3
The only not perfect aspect of The Mantle is some of the singing.
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https://people.howstuffworks.com/cult7.htm
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The Mantle "exit counseling" - the 2022 we all deserved
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Album Rating: 4.3
lol
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This = Ashes > Serpent > PF > Mantle
don't @ me
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Album Rating: 4.0
^ would still put Ashes above this, but other than that, just straight fax
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