Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere
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swallowtales
February 26th 2020


583 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This is underrated, admittedly love everything this band did, but still think this is real good.

0GuyMan0
April 17th 2020


4626 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

the astral dialogue sure is

DungeonBoy
April 17th 2020


9698 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

This is appropriately rated, a couple standout tracks though

Meridiu5
April 18th 2020


4166 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

If any other band released this album youd all be worshipping them bow

0GuyMan0
April 18th 2020


4626 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I'll just stick with tracks 3 and 5

Deathconscious
April 18th 2020


27348 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

"If any other band released this album youd all be worshipping them bow"



i dont think so, i wasnt going into this expecting to be so underwhelmed, i loved everything else they had done up until this. John himself said he had lost inspiration at this point.

StormChaser
July 15th 2020


2090 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"If any other band released this album youd all be worshipping them bow"



That's probably pretty accurate.



I never understood the hate for this album. Sure, it loses some steam at tracks 7 and 8, but no way is this that much worse than Marrow. Then again, Sput has Fear Inoculum rated worse than 10k Days so I shouldn't be searching for logic here I guess

Morningrise767
August 11th 2020


3253 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

First time jamming this

Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be

But still fairly average compared to their other stuff

Celestial Effigy is pretty decent though

Ocean of Noise
August 11th 2020


10970 Comments


Album's still perfectly good. Just not great.

Less inspired than previous albums but still very competent

0GuyMan0
August 11th 2020


4626 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

The high points on this really makes me miss them.

wildinferno2010
August 11th 2020


1884 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

For some reason "birth and death of the pillars of creation" and "plateau of ages" are blanked out on spotify for me. But the rest of the album is. I wonder why?

Eakflanderyof
August 11th 2020


5400 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I listened to this again and it was still boring

StormChaser
August 12th 2020


2090 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The Astral Dialogue, Celestial Effigy and Dark Matter Gods are to me still prime Agalloch without a question. The rest may feel a bit boring, but I love all the acoustic tracks

hel9000
August 12th 2020


1528 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

still boring [2]

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
August 12th 2020


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

The acoustic tracks are the best parts of this, but those aren't even by Agalloch. They pretty clearly blew the last of their creative genius with Marrow, but this is still decent atmospheric doom/bm. They'll always be one of my top favorite bands for their first three albums, the White, and Black Lake.

R6Rider
August 12th 2020


5282 Comments


Love the overall sound and atmosphere on this album. There’s some good tracks as well, but as a whole this one is tough to get through.

hel9000
August 12th 2020


1528 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

songwriting is too meandering on this. so many sections just blur together and drift by without any impact.

this has all the worst qualities of Agalloch imo: songs that are long for the sake of being long, "live" production that just makes it sound sloppy and casts a light on not great/poor musicianship (not sure why it worked on Marrow and not here), bad vocals...

0GuyMan0
August 13th 2020


4626 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I mean Marrow has production that fits the product about 10000x better than this. it probably sits in my top 5 in that regard.

StormChaser
August 13th 2020


2090 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Marrow has garbage production like literally garbage

wildinferno2010
August 13th 2020


1884 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

The production on Marrow is probably the best of any of their albums tbh



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