Album Rating: 3.5

luv u bro nice satanic pizza

new father befouled album is up on the blog, get dat shit

i guess this is a step foward, but it hard for me to really compair 1 song ep to a full lengh Marrow which was mostly forgettable except for those awesome electronics on Black Lake Nidstang.

and they should get more neo folky on the next one.

Album Rating: 3.5

oooo gotta check

aw crysis and agaloch are back together aw

Album Rating: 3.5

together 4 ever

This is rather average tbh

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

it is a step away from their atmospheric folky whatever it is into more straightforward black metal aesthetic, which was what marrow did just not quite as dramatic as this

Album Rating: 3.5

i don't think they're dropping it at all, it would have distracted from the heart of this ep which definitely isn't nature or atmospherics. i can definitely see why it wouldn't be to the liking of a lot of people but i can p. much assure you that this isn't a permanent direction. or at least if it is, i'll likely be in the same boat. :]



Regardless of how you want to argue this, it's a staple to their sound and I feel like I'm not listening to Agalloch. It's like if Immolation were to drop their pinch harmonics and atonal riffs. They wouldn't be Immolation anymore.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

the riffs are still distinctly agalloch, the droning moments sound exactly like the grain or odal dismantled, the drums of course are very reminiscent of marrow, there are acoustics still, they're just not distracting from the main theme. there's plenty here that agalloch have building over the years.



i do see how the lack of naturey atmospherics wouldn't sit well with some though. :]

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

oh baseline, how i wish you'd hold me tight :]

Album Rating: 3.5

I liked Marrow a lot but I admit it's the weakest LP they have.



I demand to have my demography represented in this review!

baseline, is that you in your avatar?

looking forward to seeing them play this live.. hopefully it doesn't become exhaustian echoes

Album Rating: 2.5

"Some people just aren't ready for how good this EP really is so they turn to preposterous claims like it's "flat" or it's "lifeless" or it's too "accessible" (lol) because they have no ability to properly analyze or dissect music with any level of depth. Mark my words, ten, twenty, fifty years from now this EP is going to be a fucking grade A classic of 21st century black metal composition. The EP that found true inspiration from several loose genres (folk metal, symphonic prog, avant-garde jazz, to name a few) and tied them together into a cutting-edge aesthetic that hits harder than a train wreck if you're not too dense to hear it. The amount of personality Agalloch extracts out of their instruments here is almost incomparable to anything that came before it, including Pink Floyd and AC/DC's greatest records."





hahaha, where is this from

Album Rating: 4.0

gotta love the ending solo

Album Rating: 3.5

the riffs are still distinctly agalloch,



I believe their upped production standards really throw me off on this one. They just sound so boring for Agalloch. Although I will admit, every single Agalloch album/ E.P. grew on my overtime. This may be the case too.

the riffs are still distinctly agalloch,

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

i like the riffs in this a lot :[

aw

Album Rating: 1.5

Their finest record.