Album Rating: 5.0

Pale Folklore > The Mantle > Ashes

Album Rating: 4.0

It's taken me quite some time to realize how pointless it is to post and debate the "best" Agalloch albums to date. Opinions vary but i'm still with Jingle.

Album Rating: 4.0

they're all of equal quality depending on the season

Album Rating: 4.0

The Mantle stays fresh through out the year

Album Rating: 5.0

Pale Folklore > Ashes Against the Grain > The Mantle

Album Rating: 4.0

I was wonderin when you would show up with that lol

Album Rating: 5.0

I had to do it lol.

Album Rating: 5.0

fu[font=2]c[/font]king awesome album

Album Rating: 4.5

I love this album and it was my favorite of theirs, but the more I listen to Ashes the more I like it. So I'm not sure now.

Album Rating: 5.0

God dammit this album is so great. Listening to it right now then listening to Ashes right after.

Album Rating: 4.5

I think it's kind of offputting that this review doesn't cite what are clearly the two major influences for this album. Ulver - Bergtatt and Katatonia - Brave Murder Day. Latter Agalloch albums would bring in more influences such as Ennio Morricone, Godspeed You Black Emperor, and Sol Invictus to name the three biggest, but Pale Folklore is more pure in that it is almost strictly indebted to Bergtatt and Brave Murder Day. Take the sprawling, somewhat repetitive yet very catchy power of Brave Murder Day and mix it with the black metal meets folk pioneering of Bergtatt and there's Pale Folklore.

Album Rating: 4.5

Also, Ashes Against the Grain == The Mantle > Pale Folklore for me

Album Rating: 4.0

all good if you're in the alps. lost. having to eat wolves. and your grandmother.

Album Rating: 5.0

so I FINALLY listened to this

and

lol

that part at the start of song 2...

"I SAW THE NIGHTFALL IT CALLED TO ME LIKE A RIVER OF SHADOWS AND IT SANG TO ME WITH THE CRIES OF A THOUSAND RAVENS THAT BLACKENED THE SKY AS THEY TOOK FLIGHT AND SANK THE SOL"

I laughed so hard

Album Rating: 5.0

But this is far better than their other 2 albums + EP's?

Album Rating: 5.0

No, this is damn good, and I believe there is merit to what Dan said about the season you listen to the album in, but The Mantle is still my favorite

Album Rating: 5.0

Truth to Danny's comment. But on a cold rainy day like today, Pale Folklore rules the roost.

Album Rating: 5.0

Except for that little part. I want to meet the band and ask them what the fuck was up with that.

Ashes Of The Grain wins any time of the day. But this is a worthy second

Album Rating: 4.0

Agreed.