AGALLOCH’s ‘Ashes Against The Grain’ is an impressive follow-up to 2002’s ‘The Mantle,’ their groundbreaking sophomore album that fused the emotional struggles of dark metal, folk music and melodic harmonies. The album as well served as an influential base for a lot of younger bands who have since surfaced, yet few have been able to capture the dark beauty that coats the emotional wounds sculpting AGALLOCH’s work.

On ‘Ashes Against The Grain’ the band continues their sonic journey, always progressing but never losing touch with their dark metal roots, as the band's third album unites elements of black metal, Scandinavian prog and post-rock with the band's signature brooding style.

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AGALLOCH - Ashes Against The Grain
The End Records | TE068 | August 8th, 2006 | 59:51

1. Limbs
2. Falling Snow
3. This White Mountain On Which You Will Die
4. Fire Above, Ice Below
5. Not Unlike The Waves
6. Our Fortress Is Burning... I
7. Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds
8. Our Fortress Is Burning... III - The Grain

What the critics are saying:

"Unbelievably addictive…Agalloch is like extra-strong heroin laced with even MORE heroin." - DECIBEL

"...like a fine wine this album (Ashes Against The Grain) has been fermenting until just the right time." - CRITICAL METAL

"Agalloch’s music sounds like the soundtrack to the annihilation of nature all the while unleashing the essence of its virile ferocity. If you haven’t heard them before, "Ashes Against the Grain" is as good a place to fall into their web as any." - DEADTIDE

"Ashes Against the Grain is the Dark Side of the Moon of American underground music and should be revered as such." – DIGITAL METAL

"The fusion of folk, dar