Marrow of the Spirit

Marrow of the Spirit is the fourth album of the metal band Agalloch, released on November 23, 2010, through Profound Lore Records. The album was recorded entirely in analog on vintage equipment at Audible Alchemy Studios in Portland, Oregon, with Steven Wray Lobdell (of Faust) producing.^[4] On October 29, The track "The Watcher's Monolith" was released on the music website Stereogum accompanied by an interview with John Haughm.^[5] The track "Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires" was released via Vivahaterecords on November 1.^[6] The album was named among NPR's Top 50 albums of 2010^[7] and was also named the No. 1 album of 2010 according to Decibel Magazine. It was also named the No. 1 album of the year by Canadian metal webzine Hellbound.ca.^[8] This is the first album that features Aesop Dekker on drums.

Track listing

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Personnel

• John Haughm – vocals, acoustic & electric guitars
• Don Anderson – acoustic & electric guitars
• Jason William Walton – bass
• Aesop Dekker – drums

Guest Musicians

• Jackie Perez Gratz (Grayceon, Giant Squid, Asunder, Amber Asylum) — cello on "They Escaped the Weight of Darkness" and "To Drown"
• Steven Wray Lobdell — backing vocals on "The Watcher's Monolith"
• Jeffrey Neblock (Vindensång) — piano on "The Watcher's Monolith", and field recordings on "They Escaped the Weight of Darkness", "The Watcher's Monolith", "Black Lake Niðstång", and "To Drown"
• Nathan Carson (Witch Mountain, Two-Ton Boa, Sunn O))))^[10] — Moog MG-1, Moog Opus-3, vibraphone and glockenspiel on "Black Lake Niðstång"
• Veleda Thorsson — petrified bone, glass and metal sheet percussion on "To Drown"^[11]

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