Name: Agalloch
Song:
Falling SnowGenre: Hard to say. Let's say Post-metal, but with heavy folk, doom and black metal influences. Their style also tends to vary between albums.
I did not fall in love with this band instantly. It took me some times to fully understand the epicness that is Agalloch.
When I first discovered them, I knew they were amazing, but I didn't quite understand why. At the time, I had heard of post-metal, but wasn't quite sure what it was. I'd checked out bands such as Isis and Pelican, and I wasn't really sure what to think of them. I didn't really like it, but I didn't hate it either.
Agalloch was different, though. I felt like I
had to like them, because to say I didn't just felt wrong. I knew the music was awesome, but I just didn't get it. The songs were too long, they didn't have any discernible structure, or sometimes even melody.
Then one night, it all just came to me. I couldn't sleep, so I was just staring at the ceiling and thinking, while listening to the album
"Ashes Against the Grain." I'd already listened to it once, and my iPod was on repeat, so the album just started over. I was too lazy to change it, and I felt that I'd done enough thinking for one night. So I just turned up the music, and closed my eyes...
It was amazing. I was surrounded only by the music, nothing else existed. I forgot about everything else. It was just me, wrapped up in blankets, and surrounded by this wonderful, whitish-grey nothingness. It really was bliss.
...then
