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Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere (2014) [Japanese Ed.]

Posted By: hill0

Date: 2 Feb 2015 19:19:59

Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere (2014) [Japanese Ed.]

The fifth full-length album from Portland, OR-based black-ish metal band Agalloch, The Serpent & The Sphere, opens with a 10-and-a-half-minute track called “Birth And Death Of The Pillars Of Creation,” and it is a mindfuck. The song spends some three and a half minutes laboriously building from near-total silence, and upon finally hitting its groove, it proceeds for the next seven goddamn minutes at like 56BPM — a rhythm you might describe as “adagio” or “deliberate” or “glacial.” Frontman John Haughm’s lead vocals are mostly whispered, his rhythm guitar track is entirely acoustic; there’s some portentous plainsong chanting, and at numerous points, components of the already spare instrumentation peel away, leaving only one or two pieces in play, as if the song is buckling under its own enormous weight. It reminds me a lot of the elegant and deeply depressive funeral doom made by Australia’s Mournful Congregation (or Agalloch’s Profound Lore labelmates Loss, from Nashville), although it doesn’t attempt to wring quite the same powerful drama from those sonic elements. It’s not a difficult song, exactly — it’s rather refined and beautiful-sounding, in fact — but on first blush, as an opening track and inaugural statement, it makes no fucking sense.

The fifth long-player from the brooding and cavernous Pacific Northwest-based metal outfit, The Serpent & the Sphere, the first set of new material from the group since 2010's critically acclaimed The Marrow Of The Spirit, opens with the epic "Birth and Death of the Pillars of Creation," a ten-minute slab of churning, slow-burn black folk-metal that rolls in like the thickest fog ever and decimates everything that it comes in contact with, a metaphor that applies to the remaining eight songs as well. The album was produced and engineered by hard rock legend Billy Anderson and released via Profound Lore Records.
~James Christopher Monger

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Tracklist:

01. Birth And Death Of The Pillars Of Creation (10:28)
02. (Serpens Caput) (03:07)
03. The Astral Dialogue (05:12)
04. Dark Matter Gods (08:36)
05. Celestial Effigy (06:59)
06. Cor Serpentis (The Sphere) (02:59)
07. Vales Beyond Demension (06:48)
08. Plateau Of The Ages (12:26)
09. (Serpens Cauda) (03:09)
10. Omega Serpentis (04:20)
11. Sigma Serpentis (02:49)

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Agalloch / The Serpent & The Sphere [Japan]

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Personnel

John Haughm - Vocals/Guitar
Don Anderson - Guitar
Jason William Walton - Bass
Aesop Dekker - Drums

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