Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
| Release date: | 8 August 2006 |
| Style: | Atmospheric black metal, Neofolk |
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01. Limbs
02. Falling Snow
03. This White Mountain On Which You Will Die
04. Fire Above, Ice Below
05. Not Unlike The Waves
06. Our Fortress Is Burning... I
07. Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds
08. Our Fortress Is Burning... III - The Grain
09. Scars Of The Shattered Sky (Our Fortress Has Burned To The Ground) [Double LP Vinyl 1000 Copies Limited Edition bonus]
Top 20 albums of 2006: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 10
02. Falling Snow
03. This White Mountain On Which You Will Die
04. Fire Above, Ice Below
05. Not Unlike The Waves
06. Our Fortress Is Burning... I
07. Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds
08. Our Fortress Is Burning... III - The Grain
09. Scars Of The Shattered Sky (Our Fortress Has Burned To The Ground) [Double LP Vinyl 1000 Copies Limited Edition bonus]
Top 20 albums of 2006: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 10
Reviews 
Lyrics John Haughm - guitars, vocals
Don Anderson - guitars, piano, vocals
Chris Greene - drums
Jason William Walton - bass
Guest musicians
Ronn Chick - piano, ebow
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In today's world of overplayed musical styles and boring sameness, a few bands stand out as innovators. Agalloch from Portland, Oregon is one of those bands. With their unique blend of Doom, Gothic and elements of Death metal, those musicians managed to break through the US scene with the highly-acclaimed album The Mantle back in 2002. The band witnessed the arrival of Chris Greene taking over drumming duties for John Haughm (who remains very busy with guitars and vocals) while the rest of the lineup is still rounded up by Jason William Walton (bass) and Don Anderson (guitars). Read more ›› |
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Agalloch's Ashes Against The Grain. Never have I found another release I love so much yet feel so unsatisfied by. There's so much here, yet it feels as if so much is missing. It's so spot on, but I just don't find it a flawless or even exemplary demonstration of the genre in question. I'd call it the perfect musical embodiment of a love/hate relationship. With that said, however, I must admit that I feel a far greater abundance of the former than the latter. Read more ›› |
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 DimaPosts: 1547 From: Australia  |
Written by Guest on 18.10.2014 at 18:41 Oh it has an atmosphere alright. A cold one at that.
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Written by Guest on 08.12.2014 at 16:06 I know, YUCK ... especially that awful song Falling Snow
---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself.
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Written by Guest on 08.12.2014 at 17:53 I was like: "I should absolutely 8 this", but then I thought it's totally not worthy of an 8.
---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself.
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Written by Guest on 08.12.2014 at 18:01 This band could make use of you as a devoted listener.
---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself.
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| Maco Handbanana Posts: 1646 From: Peru  |
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| Metren The What The? Posts: 409 From: Estonia  |
After falling in love with The Mantle, this album truly was a disappointment. It's self-indulgent, all over the place with regard to the musical ideas and just plain boring in the final third. All that by Agalloch's own very high standards of course. It's not all bad or even average, there are plenty of brilliant moments here, but just not enough to make it a masterpiece, which it isn, by a long shot.
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| Bad English Masterchief Posts: 45755 From: Sweden  |
Gosh if ppl says its worst album ever, Its like voting for trump something
---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Kvothe Posts: 32  |
What an atmosphere. Feel the cold and ice in this piece. You can perceive something that has been broken along the way: "God of man is a failure". And Bloodbirds is the best ending for an album that has never existed.
---- Winter Is Coming... 
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