Album Rating: 4.0
It resonates with me on one level, the fact it’s incorrect
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Well a 3.8 is closer to your 4.5 than it is to my 2.5
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Album Rating: 4.5
album's about .2-.3 too low, kinda like Black Cascade. suffers from the same "huh, this is more straightforward than their other stuff" syndrome, I think.
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Album Rating: 4.5
you think this is more straightforward? ok
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Album Rating: 4.5
straightforward is the wrong term. stripped-down. raw. it feels more traditionally black metal at points. idk man, I'm trying to figure out why people don't like it.
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Best Agalloch album
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Album Rating: 4.5
I've always seen this as their experimental art record tbh... There's large swathes of this that are just broody minimalism like the dirge-y opener and closer and the centre-piece Black Lake. There's only 3 tracks on here that feel like Agalloch, which is why I feel a lot of people don't like this one. This one demands the most out of the listener (although Serpent does that also in a way).
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Album Rating: 4.0
yea this is my fav agalloch too
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I always thought this was their most straightforward and easy to listen to. Albums like the Mantle try way too hard to be too many things at once and seem far more “artsy” than this. This album actually feels like an album with cohesive pacing.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Best Agalloch album [2]
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Album Rating: 4.5
I feel the opposite in every single way Astral but then again I don't think we've ever seen eye to eye on anything Agalloch related. Imo The Mantle is the very definition of cohesion. I don't see how it tries too many things at once, the album is basically one long song, it's a little TOO safe and cohesive if anything! Where as this almost changes on a track-to-track basis. I'll agree that this is an incredible album but it was not an easy listen and took a long time to properly sink in.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I love The Mantle but agree that it’s definitely ‘artsy’ ... compared with this anyway
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Album Rating: 4.5
Mantle goes from a sprawling epic to a slow-building instrumental to a straight-up black metal song to a folk piece and keeps on changing from there. This has songs that feel consistent in tone and direction, even if Nidstang has that huge post-whatever section taking up the latter half.
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Album Rating: 4.5
"I always thought this was their most straightforward and easy to listen to..."
Bingo.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I Am The Wooden Doors really sticks out I'll give you that, but the rest of the album even uses the same chord progression.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Best Agalloch album [2]
still not as good as Black Veil Brides agreed
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Album Rating: 4.5
Speaking of things that sound like a 12 year old pretending to be in a metal band...
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Album Rating: 5.0
Best Agalloch album [2][2]
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Album Rating: 4.0
...is The Mantle, agreed.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Probably Mantle, yeah.
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