METAL MONDAY: Celestial Effigy by Agalloch - Best metal album so far this year of 2014. I have had a chance to catch up on some new releases, and there is nothing that even comes close. This Portland, Oregon has been mixing up their unique blend of black metal, prog, and doom for over fifteen years and every release since their 1999 debut Pale Forklore. They simply outdo themselves on this epic album.
Celestial Effigy is probably best representative of The Serpent & the Sphere. It is not the bludgeoning, in your face metal, but rather the type that lifts you up on it’s seven minute journey of sounds. It does not grab you because it is loud, it gets you because it is heavy yet accessible in an almost pop way. The best way to describe it is mind altering.
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