Agalloch - The Mantle
| Release date: | 13 August 2002 |
| Style: | Neofolk, Atmospheric black metal |
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01. A Celebration For The Death Of Man...
02. In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion
03. Odal
04. I Am The Wooden Doors
05. The Lodge
06. You Were But A Ghost In My Arms
07. The Hawthorne Passage
08. ...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth
09. A Desolation Song
Top 20 albums of 2002: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 10
Featured in "Getting Into: Agalloch"
02. In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion
03. Odal
04. I Am The Wooden Doors
05. The Lodge
06. You Were But A Ghost In My Arms
07. The Hawthorne Passage
08. ...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth
09. A Desolation Song
Top 20 albums of 2002: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 10
Featured in "Getting Into: Agalloch"
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Lyrics John Haughm - vocals, guitars, drums, percussion, ebow, woodchimes, samples
Donald L. Anderson - guitars, piano
Jason William Walton - bass, noisescape
Additional musicians:
Danielle Norton - trombone
Ty Brubaker - double bass, accordion
Ronn Chick - synths, mandolin, bells, programming
Aaron Sholes - samples
Neta Smolack - samples
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In the true musical lineage of Opeth and Katatonia, Agalloch is one of these mystic and melancholic bands, excelling at playing a smart blend of Doom Metal and few elements from Melodic Death Metal, such as the voice a la Dark Tranquillity. Established as one of the best combos in their style and one of America's most interesting bands, Agalloch was founded in Portland, Oregon in late 1995. After a couple of demos, they scored a deal with The End Records in 1998 and their debut album Pale Folklore was released in 1999. In 2001, a limited MCD entitled Of Stone, Wind and Pillor was released and they then worked on today's chapter, their second full-length album, The Mantle. Agalloch is composed by John Haughm , Don Anderson and Jason William Walton . Read more ›› |
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Rating: 10 |
Agalloch are a band that I have only recently started listening to, but they are the first band in a long time that I have fallen in love with instantly. Most of my favourites have grown on me overtime but there was something about The Mantle that captured me immediately. I tend to listen to cleaner vocal songs, although there are death metal bands I like, but I thought I would be put off by Haughm's raspy blackened vocals. Instead I found them really beautiful the way they weave in and out of the music. That was the thing that struck me most about Agalloch: the beauty of it. The general formula seems to be power chords on electric guitar with gentle twangy acoustic melodies over the top. This works really nicely and the juxtaposition of the heavy and the soft is mirrored when Haugm's vocals become more tuneful. The first time this occurs is in "In The Shadow of Our Pale Companion"-the magnum opus of the album and Agalloch's best along with "Not Unlike the Waves" four years later. The rasps and whispers build up to an epic sounding tuneful cry which gives me shivers every time. The vocals then vary between these two styles, as well as monotone almost talking and whispers through the rest of the album, in a very fluid way. There is no clean verse to harsh verse pattern; it all blends into each other. Read more ›› |
31.08.2022
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It is only now that I realize how ironic it is that one of the most wintery albums out there was released in the summer. The August from 20 years ago gave us this masterpiece, and this is one of those kind of albums where it's very uncontroversial to call it as such. "In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion" only gets competition from "East Hastings" as my favorite song of all time, and I've mentioned time and time again how discovering this album about ten years ago was a paradigm shift for me and my music taste. It's interesting see how I still connect to The Mantle after all these years, even though sometimes I feel it's either too pompous or meandering for its own good, there are very few albums with such a great interplay between electric and acoustic guitars, and that so effectively merge atmospheric black metal into post-rock structures. And all of it feels magical years later. RaduP's picks | More picks ›› |
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| Yugosaki Posts: 140 From: Bosnia and Herzegovina  |
Amazing album
---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaEBpRWr2IA
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| Death_95 Posts: 200  |
Love the album but is it really metal? I usually listen to thrash and heavy, I'm new to this kind of metal.
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| bodomroy Posts: 56 From: Uruguay  |
The spanish vocals at the end of The Hawthorne Passage?? yo moriré, yo moriré, etc. somebody knows its origin? I mean where are they taken from.
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| Timmeh Dudeman Posts: 344 From: Australia  |
Written by bodomroy on 02.08.2011 at 20:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fando_y_Lis
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| strade Posts: 677 From: USA  |
Written by Prometheus on 29.08.2011 at 11:48 Only four are instrumental, and two of them are shorter than any of the vocal songs. But I do know what you mean; I don't like instrumental music very much but these are just captivating. Also, this is hands down one of the greatest albums of all time.
---- My lo-fi synth project: http://luciddreamer.bandcamp.com
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8978 From: Canada  |
Written by mrgod on 11.03.2012 at 17:48 Then you are not human.
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8978 From: Canada |
Written by Guest on 23.03.2012 at 21:15 D: The world I knew is dead...
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8978 From: Canada |
Written by Guest on 23.03.2012 at 21:19 http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/707/nothing-to-do-here-template.jpg.scaled500.jpg
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| Sonic MrSumo Posts: 447 From: Australia  |
An absolute masterpiece!
---- All the bridges in the world won't save you, if there's no other side to cross to. - Rock poetry from Silverchair.
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| infernaldeath87 Posts: 171 From: USA  |
I heard this for the first time a couple months ago and I was intrigued, then I listened to it again today, and I was floored by the level of musicianship and song-writing ability of this band. And I love how they just paint a bleak picture of the world in your mind! 
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| CobiWan1993 Secundum Filium Posts: 1364 From: USA  |
This album is an enchanting experience. Only Agalloch could possibly make an album this devastatingly beautiful in all its melancholic glory. It is tied with Blind Guardian's "A Night at the Opera" (i know, they are completely unrelated albums) as my favorite album for the year 2002, and are both among my favorites of all time.
---- Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe (Lao Tzu).
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| Druss Posts: 274 From: Ireland  |
The first black metal album of any kind I've listened to the whole way through....''In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion'' floored me, the rest of the album kept me there.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands  |
Written by Druss on 13.06.2012 at 16:34 The last time I listened to The Mantle there was zero to no black metal in it at all.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| Druss Posts: 274 From: Ireland |
Maybe should've made further mention that I haven't listened to too many black metal albums since  I was more going on the fact I've most often seen Agalloch labelled as blackened folk, or.....folkened black 
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Posts: 40071 From: The Netherlands |
Written by Druss on 13.06.2012 at 17:07 their debut has more black in it as does their most recent one. But this one none whatsoever and neither does the one after.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Iron Nostarion Maiden Whore Posts: 289 From: Jordan  |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 13.06.2012 at 17:14 I think you forgot "I Am The Wooden Doors".
---- To their tombs the people are immured, There is their gold, treasure and wealth, The only condition is to ignore them, Those who feed on corruption and weave death
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| Windir Posts: 95 From: USA  |
Written by mrgod on 11.03.2012 at 17:48 Yep, this album is ridiculously overrated! I bought it after reading so many good reviews about it... SOLD!
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