Agalloch - Not Unlike The Waves

 

The first time I came across Agalloch, was via a blog colleague "Tom S" Then I drew the attention of another colleague "Chief Rebel" that talked about the band and I became curious, damn this sounds really good.

Agalloch is an American metal band formed in 1995 in Portland, Oregon. The band is led by vocalist and guitarist John Haughm other members are guitarist Don Anderson,
bassist Jason William Walton and drummer Aesop Dekker.

Agalloch performs a progressive and avant-garde style of folk metal that encompasses an eclectic range of tendencies including neofolk, post-rock, black metal and doom metal. Common themes in Agalloch's imagery and subject matter are natural beauty, melancholy and allusions to ancestral Heathenry.

A great thing is that the band has now been re-released two previous records (The Mantle and Ashes Against the Grain) on Vinyl, which means I have to buy them, when the salary have landed the account.

Today's tune "Not Unlike The Waves" taken from the third full-length release "Ashes Against the Grain". Three versions of the album were released: a slipcase edition, a deluxe wooden box version (limited to 500 copies) and a vinyl version (limited to 1000 copies). The vinyl version was released on March 2, 2007 through The End Records' Infinite Vinyl Series. It was pressed in three different colors:
A clear/orange splatter edition limited to 200 copies.
A black edition limited to 400 copies.
A clear orange edition limited to 400 copies.

All three vinyl editions include an exclusive bonus track, Scars of the Shattered Sky (Our Fortress Has Burned to the Ground)

A music video was recorded for the fifth track on the album, "Not Unlike The Waves".



From : The Silence of The Forgotten Landscapes DVD!



One of the non-traditional instruments Agalloch has been known to use is the skull of a deer. In the song "The Lodge" John Haughm strikes the deer skull in order to create an unusual clicking sound.

More info @

Official Agalloch MySpace

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