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| 4.5 superb | Alabaster Jones | December 30th 15 |
This is the first official recording from famed folk metal band Agalloch, and it's as good as a demo can be. It's always cool to me when bands show immense skill and abilities on their initial projects, but also show a large amount of promise, too. That is definitely what happens here, to the nth degree. From my own standpoint, I'd consider it even better than their great debut LP, Pale Folklore. The best moments on this demo are just as good and sometimes better than the best ones on Pale Folklore, and that's apparent even through phenomenal opener "The Wilderness". The fact of the matter is that this is concise, wonderfully written folk-influenced, melodic, and introspective black metal that is brimming not only with emotion but with nuances that show the band was a special group of guys full of ideas even back nearly two decades ago.
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| 3.5 great | CrazyFool84 | October 22nd 08 |
Though my mp3 for Wilderness is pretty messed up, this EP/demo is a nice addition for Agalloch's fanbase and somewhat pivitol step in their progression. Though their later work would come to differ pretty extremely from some of this work, their predisposition towards the avant-garde is still present in their earliest offerings.
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| 1.5 very poor | SMOKMAS | August 29th 22 |
like regular agalloch but worse
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| 2.5 average | EasterInTheBatcave | June 20th 16 |
An early Agalloch demo which displays their promising beginning. The metal parts are sloppily performed ("The Wilderness"), but the clean sections are wonderful ("Foliorum Viridum"), and the band's songwriting abilities are good, even at this early stage. The aforementioned sloppiness stops it from a higher rating, but, as early demos go, From Which of This Oak is above average.
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| 0.0 | | November 30th 15 |
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| 3.5 great | Willxw | August 24th 21 |
| 3.0 good | JOK | December 3rd 19 |
| 3.0 good | Elynna | October 15th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Chuck | March 30th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Radex | October 13th 18 |
| 3.7 great | Atari STAFF | July 4th 18 |
| 3.0 good | ArvidL | January 26th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | solrage | September 27th 17 |
| 3.5 great | YeeHaw | July 11th 17 |
| 2.5 average | Pon EMERITUS | April 28th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | February 8th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Ianman | July 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jeclub | January 17th 15 |
| 3.0 good | adr | August 20th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | March 22nd 14 |
| 3.5 great | Uqnivde | February 26th 14 |
| 3.5 great | tarkus | January 18th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | 1992 | January 13th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Weirman | November 21st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Smial | October 1st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Agapeth | August 6th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Caelum | June 14th 13 |
| 3.0 good | Sunlar | February 5th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Edlund | October 23rd 12 |
| 3.0 good | sevrior | September 30th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tiwo | June 5th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Yami | May 27th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Themac | March 19th 12 |
| 3.5 great | true | July 26th 11 |
| 3.0 good | itchy | February 15th 11 |
| 3.5 great | qwe3 | May 12th 10 |
| 3.0 good | KSCIAA | March 11th 10 |
| 3.5 great | XII | March 3rd 10 |
| 3.5 great | Kyle Ward EMERITUS | November 3rd 09 |
| 2.5 average | Saidir | June 15th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ardghal | April 17th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Windows | August 7th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Odal CONTRIBUTOR | May 5th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Aura | January 7th 08 |
| 3.5 great | Satanix | December 12th 07 |
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