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JohnnyoftheWell
August 16th 2021


64287 Comments


Pale Companion would honestly be around the middle of my ranking for this, good track but it's one of those Stars Are Projectors-esque overworked epics where the idea of the song ends up being more impressive than the way they pull it off

Artuma
August 16th 2021


32828 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"Stars Are Projectors-esque overworked epics where the idea of the song ends up being more impressive than the way they pull it off"



well now you lost me

wyvern13
August 16th 2021


9 Comments


delete

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
August 16th 2021


21027 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Stars are Projectors is my favorite MM song too haha

Sevengill
August 16th 2021


13113 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Wooden Doors might be my GOAT black/folk metal song. That song is literally responsible for my band lol.

benkim
August 16th 2021


4813 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Wooden Doors is ridiculous. Same as Ghost in My Arms.

quetzal
August 16th 2021


1029 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"Pale Companion would honestly be around the middle of my ranking for this, good track but it's one of those Stars Are Projectors-esque overworked epics where the idea of the song ends up being more impressive than the way they pull it off"



holy fuck i'm triggered now Stars are Projectors is one of the best damn songs of all time

JohnnyoftheWell
August 17th 2021


64287 Comments


stop listening to pretentious concept songs y'all!
Wooden Doors is great, maybe the second best here

porcupinetheater
August 17th 2021


11092 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

All 'bout Arms Ghost, Wood Doors aka Doors, and Odal

JohnnyoftheWell
August 17th 2021


64287 Comments


last time I jammed Ghost, the middle jam sounded way ropier than I remembered :[ same goes for all the instrumental cuts here aside from the opener tbh I am sad

porcupinetheater
August 17th 2021


11092 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

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Ghost got me into black metal when I was like 13, turned in the lyrics as an example of contemp romantic poetry in a euro history module freshman year



Rep yr set

JohnnyoftheWell
August 17th 2021


64287 Comments


Okay you have exposed me; when I was 13 I bailed out on a bring-your-own-poetry assignment in English class and played Seize the Day by Avenged Sevenfold directly after someone else who'd had a similar idea had played Yesterday. Our teacher never missed an opportunity for sass but even then it was hilarious how much he was holding back confining his reaction to "...this is rather cliched"
Took me about a yr to hit my redemption arc and it's been a long rest of my life since (Agalloch would probs have made my top 10 a few years later, but there was still vestigial energy from that class then - you decide how that reflects on them)

Lasssie
August 17th 2021


3536 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Remember Seize the Day was a song that played on the Fallen Footwear site back in the day when i was looking at sk8erboi shoes

Feel like i should give this album another og

Altho i really appreciated a lot of the stuff going on i also couldnt help but feel it was a tad bit overrated

StormChaser
August 17th 2021


3151 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

hot takes there johnny boy, but agreed Cold Death is the best song on here

StormChaser
August 17th 2021


3151 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

probably of their entire career in fact

quetzal
August 17th 2021


1029 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

hmmm i'd probably go with not unlike the waves as their best song



never really thought of agalloch as a great lyrics band, some of the stuff on pale folklore always cracked me up

quetzal
August 17th 2021


1029 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

she painted fire across the skyline part 2 is particularly humorous

DungeonBoy
August 17th 2021


10286 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I read in a recent interview that when John belted out the "I saw the Nightfall!" it was a bit of a last minute idea in the studio and he didn't feel particularly great about it, but he looked over at Don and Don gave him the nod of approval so they went with it, and in retrospect John wished he would have changed it.

OllieS
August 17th 2021


2286 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

here is the landscape

dedex
Emeritus
August 17th 2021


13008 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

here is the suuuuuuuuun



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