American atmospheric/gothic-doom/neo-folk/post-rock/metal band AGALLOCH's upcoming fourth full-length entitled ‘Marrow Of The Spirit’, is set for November 23rd, 2010 release via Profound Lore Records. The album was recorded entirely in analog on vintage equipment at Audible Alchemy Studios in Portland, Oregon, with producer Steven Wray Lobdell.
AGALLOCH formed in 1995; the band is led by John Haughm - vocalist, guitarist, an artist and graphic designer, and has so far released four EPs, three full-length albums, two demos, one split album, one compilation album and one live DVD. Their debut for major record label (The End Records) came in 1999; ‘Pale Folklore’ was described as “as important a black metal album as any American band ever produced” by AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia. Critically acclaimed second full-length, ‘The Mantle’, was released in 2002. 2006's ‘Ashes Against The Grain’ prompted E. Rivadavia (AllMusic) to write: “Quite possibly the greatest American black metal band ever, or at the very least, the first American black metal band that really mattered! Such claims should not to be thrown about lightly, its true; but why measure words when faced with the worshipful fervor with which extreme metal fans embraced the enigmatic quartet's inspired creations, featuring corrosive black metal spliced with delicate folk music into arrangements improbably fluid, majestic, and avant-garde? Oh, and the torturously long waits in between their releases didn’t hurt matters either, only fueling the notoriously withdrawn band's budding cult legend, while their supporters dug in their heels for what wound up becoming an anxious, four-year vigil leading up to the arrival of AGALLOCH's third magnum opus [‘Ashes Against The Grain’].”
Listen to AGALLOCH music here (Bandcamp) and buy their stuff here (official store).
AGALLOCH features: John Haughm – vocals/guitar/drums, Don Anderson – guitar, Jason William Walton – bass and Aesop Dekker – drums
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