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Agalloch was an American metal band formed in Portland, Oregon, United States in 1995. For twenty years the Pacific Northwest group defined what it means to combine influences from a variety of musical genres into one brooding, colossal, and cinematic sound that provides the soundtrack to existential themes concerning man, nature, loss, and death. However, on May 13th, 2016, Agalloch announced their disbandment. After two demo releases in the late 1990’s the band released three full-length albums: Pale Folklore (1999), The Mantle (2002), and Ashes Against the Grain (2006). “The Mantle” has since been heralded as a classic for having been one of the first albums to combine elements from black metal, neo-folk, progressive rock, post-rock, and ambient music. The influence of this record can be heard in the music of multiple “post-black metal” bands. In 2008 Agalloch began re-releasing their demos, B-sides, and EPs under their own Dammerung Arthouse label. In 2010 their fourth album Marrow of the Spirit made number one on numerous critic’s top ten lists. In between each of these full-lengths the band pushed on the flexible boundaries they had developed around themselves through a series of EPs that found the band experimenting with post-rock/instrumental rock (The Grey, 2004), neo-folk/psychedelic folk (“The White EP, 2008) and a mammoth twenty-minute epic work entitled Faustian Echoes (2012) released through Dammerung Arts. Their fifth and last full-length album ...

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• This White Mountain on Which You Will Die
  This White Mountain on Which You Will Die
• Limbs
  Limbs
• Falling Snow
  Falling Snow
• In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
  In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
• Not Unlike the Waves
  Not Unlike the Waves
• Odal
  Odal
• Fire Above, Ice Below
  Fire Above, Ice Below
• The Lodge
  The Lodge
• I Am the Wooden Doors
  I Am the Wooden Doors
• A Desolation Song
  A Desolation Song
• You Were But a Ghost in My Arms
  You Were But a Ghost in My Arms
• A Celebration for the Death of Man...
  A Celebration for the Death of Man...
• Our Fortress Is Burning... I
  Our Fortress Is Burning... I
• The Hawthorne Passage
  The Hawthorne Passage
• ...And the Great Cold Death of the Earth
  ...And the Great Cold Death of the Earth
• The Misshapen Steed
  The Misshapen Steed
• Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds
  Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds
• As Embers Dress The Sky
  As Embers Dress The Sky
• Hallways Of Enchanted Ebony
  Hallways Of Enchanted Ebony
• Our Fortress Is Burning... III - The Grain
  Our Fortress Is Burning... III - The Grain
• Dead Winter Days
  Dead Winter Days
• The Melancholy Spirit
  The Melancholy Spirit
• They Escaped the Weight of Darkness
  They Escaped the Weight of Darkness
• Into the Painted Grey
  Into the Painted Grey
• The Watcher's Monolith
  The Watcher's Monolith
• Foliorum Viridium
  Foliorum Viridium
• Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires
  Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires
• Haunting Birds
  Haunting Birds
• Kneel to the Cross
  Kneel to the Cross
• Black Lake Niðstång
  Black Lake Niðstång
• To Drown
  To Drown
• Birch Black
  Birch Black
• The Isle of Summer
  The Isle of Summer
• A Poem by Yeats
  A Poem by Yeats
• Hollow Stone
  Hollow Stone
• Pantheist
  Pantheist
• Birch White
  Birch White
• Sowilo Rune
  Sowilo Rune
• Of Stone, Wind, and Pillor
  Of Stone, Wind, and Pillor
• Summerisle Reprise
  Summerisle Reprise
• The Astral Dialogue
  The Astral Dialogue
• The Wilderness
  The Wilderness
• A Celebration for the Death of Man
  A Celebration for the Death of Man
• This Old Cabin
  This Old Cabin
• (Serpens Caput)
  (Serpens Caput)
• Celestial Effigy
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• She Painted Fire Across The Skyline Part 1
  She Painted Fire Across The Skyline Part 1
• Dark Matter Gods
  Dark Matter Gods
• The Lodge (Dismantled)
  The Lodge (Dismantled)
• She Painted Fire Across The Skyline Part 2
  She Painted Fire Across The Skyline Part 2