The Mantle
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| The Mantle | ||
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| Studio album by Agalloch | ||
| Released | August 2002 | |
| Recorded | November 2001 - April 2002 | |
| Genre | Folk metal / Doom metal | |
| Length | 68:25 | |
| Label | The End Records (TE028) | |
| Producer(s) | Ronn Chick & John Haughm | |
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| Agalloch chronology | ||
| Of Stone, Wind and Pillor (EP) (2001) |
The Mantle (2002) |
Tomorrow Will Never Come (EP) (2003) |
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The Mantle is an album by American metal band Agalloch. The album was released on 13 August 2002 by Salt Lake City-based label The End Records.
Taking a more mellow tone than Agalloch's first full-length, Pale Folklore, The Mantle still contains heavy electric guitar riffs, as well as acoustic guitar portions. Quite preeminent as well are long and melancholic cello sequences such as on the instrumental track "The Lodge".
The Mantle features both sung and instrumental tracks.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
- "A Celebration for the Death of Man" – 2:24 (instrumental)
- "In the Shadow of our Pale Companion" – 14:44
- "Odal" – 7:38 (instrumental)
- "I Am the Wooden Doors" – 6:10
- "The Lodge" – 4:39 (instrumental)
- "You Were but a Ghost in my Arms" – 9:13
- "The Hawthorne Passage" – 11:17 (instrumental)
- "And the Great Cold Death of the Earth" – 7:13
- "A Desolation Song" – 5:07
[edit] Vinyl Edition
On March 28, 2005, Profound Lore Records released a double LP version of The Mantle on grey colored vinyl. Limited to 500 copies, it also featured exclusive cover artwork.
[edit] Credits
- John Haughm - vocals, guitars, drums
- Don Anderson - guitars
- Jason William Walton - bass guitar
[edit] Miscellanea
- A section of "The Hawthorne Passage" includes a soundclip from the Swedish movie The Seventh Seal. The official translation is:
Antonious Block- Who are you?
Death- I am Death.
- The last few seconds of "The Hawthorne Passage" feature an excerpt of the play Fando y Lis by Spanish Theatre of the Absurd author Fernando Arrabal.
Lis (cantando) - Yo moriré y nadie se acordará de mí. De mí....
Fando - Si Lis, yo me acordaré de tí e iré a verte al cementerio con una flor y un perro, y en tu funeral cantaré, en voz baja, "¡Que bonito es un entierro!"
(Lis (singing) - I will die and no one will remember me. Me...
Fando - Yes Lis, I will remember you and I will go see you in the cemetery with a flower and a dog and at your funeral I will sing, softly, "Burials are so beautiful!")
