Listening to Agalloch: The Mantle, Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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Fun fact:
The distinctive percussion sound in The Lodge was created by hitting a deer skull.
One of the best avant garde/black metal albums, it just puts you in another space.
the first track immediately reminds me of the first 3 Opeth albums ... the drums and also the growling of Michael, which got much better later .... and then the switch to accoustic guitar - very Opeth - ish 🤣🤣 song nr 2 nice instrumental .. and in 3 the Opeth feeling comes back, even though the singing is different 🤘
Love this album so much. Can listen to this any time of year and day. Keeps giving me such a weird, warm, melancholic feeling of coming home.
One way I usually put it is, the 80s were sort of an arms race in metal. NWOBHM was a teensy bit faster and harder than the original hard rock and metal bands, with just the tiniest amount of punk atitude, Thrash took that and made it faster and harder and more aggressive, and by the time you get to death metal, you kind of run out of space to go in terms of upping the ante. You can't get faster than the blast beat.
So bands began going sideways, and that's why there was such an explosion of (sometimes flawed) creativity in the 90s. You had Anathema and Paradise Lost playing around with going really slow and atmospheric, and likewise the black metal explosion was at once incredibly conservative and isolated and absurdly eccletic. Bands like Emperor, Arcturus, In The Woods..., Solefald, Ved Buens Ende were all playing around with different sounds to marry the more aggressive metal to and sometimes would venture into new territories altogether. Bands like Agalloch andNegura Bunget are more or less the continuatrors of that experimentation.
Some tracks in the terrorcore genre, though essentially EDM, are anywhere between 200-400 bpm and are not a million miles away from metal. My son likes to bug his mum by listening to these but I'm immune!
@ken... lol!
Drinking my coffee in my Fun/pa cup.☕👨👦
Did you see your/my cup make an appearance in the Adam Holzman interview? ruclips.net/video/IeDPDi7u1Qg/видео.htmlsi=9mpqGddvRvcqNYYJ watch at 40:50 onwards!
@@JimNewstead Are there royalties involved?😂😂
( The cash kind, not the kingdom kind) lol.
BTW Any luck getting AIC DIRT?
Really like that second track.
I would love to see your reaction to their debut record, Pale Folklore, now that you've heard this masterpiece, as they are quite different.
I'm sure I'll get to it at some point!
Still quite interesting (and adventurous with the bowed double bass especially) but the chord progressions are fairly conventional as if Ghost covered an Ed Sheeran track at a black metal festival with Tobias Forge's laryngitis kicking in and out. I might pay money to see that. Roll on part 3.
You can analyze it and try to find clever analogies that make you appear smart. You can also just enjoy it for what it is, immerse yourself in it and the feeling it provides. Your choice.
What a shame about the growling.
Get used to it or you will be missing out on some of the greatest music ever made.
I find it adds to the overall aesthetic of the piece. I don't mind it at all here.
It took me a couple of months of curiosity-fueled effort for me to understand growling. I was frustrated that I was missing out on metal because I knew how passionate it's fans could be. Despite Agalloch now being my favorite band ever by a couple of Mariana Trenches, Opeth was the one that made it click for me. But the perspective that made it click, which I think is more important, was to view it as a prominent instrument, rather than lead vocals. Allow it to blend seamlessly into the greater soundscape. Enjoy the melody of it if nothing else. I believe everyone can come to enjoy it, it just takes finding the right perspective, which takes a good deal of patience. The payoff, however, is the greatest music that you'll ever hear.