@@totarantonio yeah I know but the ticket prices are out of this world. :*( They are actually playing a festival here in germany but the ticket price plus the travel costs are not affordable for me atm. Aside from that they are only playing a handful of shows in Portland and Denver in the US I think. I am just gonna pray that they are gonna announce more tour dates for 2024. 🙏
"The god of man is a failure Our fortress is burning against the grain of the shattered sky Charred birds escape from the ruins and return as cascading blood Dying bloodbirds pooling, feeding the flood The god of man is a failure And all of our shadows are ashes against the grain"
Great idea putting that photo of the burning Bitterroot wilderness with this song....this is one of the most famous wildfire photos ever taken, and I promise I am shitting you not, I lived less than a mile away from right where that photo was taken. My family moved away about two weeks before the fire burned down our old home. Summer 2000. I will never forget that.
The literal buildup of a small fire starting wayyy in the distant forest to it slowly spreading- to going out of control, picturing the wildlife come to the realization of their imminent doom, fleeing, until death whispers show up.... Silence.
This is amazing, grew up with Emperor, Burzum, Trelldom, Abigor and Setherial to name but a few. This gives me an In the woods meets Ved Buensende vibe. Well done Agolloch, decent tune
This is the song I want my friends to listen to after I've died. If any song will help guide me to the proper afterlife, it's this one. My soul doesn't require judgement. It simply requires peace.
I discovered this band a few hours ago; I've noticed that the comments on all of this band's videos seem to be unified, artful, just beautiful really. It's just nice to see.
This band just manages to confey emotion so well. You can instantly that this song was made with passion, intent and heart and can't help but let it take you on a journey and drift away through the dread and pain. What a masterpiece.
Here are the lyrics for people who like to have them close while listening to a song without having to open another tab The god of man is a failure Our fortress is burning against the grain of the shattered sky Charred birds escape from the ruins and return as cascading blood Dying bloodbirds pooling, feeding the flood The god of man is a failure And all of our shadows are ashes against the grain
This song hits the emotion nerve hard. Almost as hard as Pallbearers foreigner. First heard this song on the way home from one of my best friends funerals. The timing made it one of the strongest things I've ever heard.
I live in Guadalajara México, I love Agalloch. Right now our forest near of the city is burning, it reminds me to this song and also reminds me the greed and evil of human being
Every once in a while a song from Agalloch escapes me. I had never heard this song before until it popped up on my Pandora. Of course I had to search it up and listen again.
The god of man is a failure Our fortress is burning against the grain of the shattered sky Charred birds escape from the ruins and return as cascading blood Dying bloodbirds pooling, feeding the flood The god of man is a failure And all of our shadows All of our shadows All of our shadows Are ashes against the grain
já mais em hipótese alguma vai aver outra banda igual a agalloch quando se escuta você vai pra outro planeta uma sensação que não dá pra explicar apenas sentir,obrigado agalloch por momentos incríveis que viajei ouvindo suas obras de artes.
My English and my abstract writing skills are horrible, but I'll try. This music has a very special place in my heart. I just wanted to put it here. We used to listen to this a lot, when we were playing Fallout RPG with the boys. Then when I played Fallout New Vegas' Lonesome Road DLC, I listened this for the entire game. I don't know if you know, but Lonesome Road has a very different atmosphere. Some of the machinery still works, some ancient-but-superb tech is there, but although all these crazy-tech stuff is there, its totally empty and overrun by beasts. When you walk in such a place, use that technology, knowing that you are probably going to be the last guy to take that elevator, use that terminal etc., it really feels like you are making it through a technological ruin, and this is totally a one-direction journey, because any part you pass basically collapses behind you due to being old etc. Fallout has this vibe where things work so you feel somewhat convenience, but it feels bizarre and alien because it is literally a ruined world. Don't know why, but it felt very much like that these days, real life. I feel like I am walking alone through a collapsing technological hell, where I know I will be using these tools for a last few more times, before the Forest burns into ashes totally, leaving nothing but ruins behind. I stopped thinking about other people, whether they realize that the forest is burning or not, I dont care. Wherever I look, I see people spitting hatred on each other. More the fire grows, more it consumes. Now, even the young seedlings that are supposed to be all fresh and full of water, they are burning too. Everything is burning. More people spit hatred, corrupt the land, oppress the weak and delve in wickedness, fueling the fire that is burning EVERYONE and not just themselves. I just shut my brain off, got me my rocket launcer, play this song, and walk through the fires and ashes. My heart is full of hope and joy, knowing that I will make it to the plains. The forest screams 'The God of Man is a failure' maybe, but I know that is not the case. My heart is neither cheerful nor gloomy. It just beats with hope, knowing what it has to beat for. My God will lead me out of this fire. I know that.
I thought of this song too and this specific upload! To me, 10:41 onwards represents the cries of mother earth... "We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to" - Terri Swearingen
Yeha me too, Im fucking diyng, too much pain, and lonliness. No one cares, no one understands my stupid World , Im driving crazy, I wanna die, Im so tired to this life, to this World Im tired of me, God!! Theres no God, Theres nothing. No more pills no more doctors, its doest work, its over. Beautiful masterpiece, it brings me piece. Thanks
@@deyanirarodriguez7765 haha idiot god gifted life live the fullest enjoy every moment....animals are the one who suffering more than us try to save animals as much as u can...sorry for my english
The most tormenting outro I ever stumbled upon, the growls at the end so powerful that it left scars on my heart by the pictures created in my head thanks to the emotional impact it had on me. Everything up to that point is a friendly walk alongside a figure with piercing hateful eyes, looking straight at humanity as a self-proclaimed God, presenting the "wonders" of the marks it left upon the earth.
I feel we need to be responsible for every choice we make and respect mother nature; each summer wildfires getting more intense and we feel like we need to save the forests? well we need to save ourselves; if nature turns against us, we become nothing. Let's not be like cancer to mother Earth.
One of my "favorite" (as inappropriate of a term I could use here) memories is listening to this as I watched Notre Dame burn on live feeds. Politics, Religion, philosophy, art, meaning, as intertwined and discordant of values as they have progressed over time struck me as the peak Western experience in that moment.
I recently drove through Jasper Park in Alberta, Canada listening to this song with the Chetamon wildfire clearly visible from the highway. Really brought out how insignificant people are in the face of nature. Once we're gone, the earth will continue as it has for billions of years and our unnatural presence will fade away.
Mind blowing music is this what all about... Start with slow, take it to medium base and then smash the ending part. Anyone who can recommend me more music like this ? Cheers
I'm unsure how to exist anymore, since covid I lost my girlfriend and never really had any friends, always housebound or working alone... Need to practice walking in nature again.. But life just feels so meaningless, I'm so alone.. I guess at least I have agalloch.
Now i'm reading letters written on a piece of paper. No its not a suicide letter or something else its just a letter written with full of joyment, happiness and fun. But this song makes my tear goes down while reading. Just one drop, from my eye to my heart. I have one drop of a tear shed.
I think the same, Slava Ukraini. I'm an American but I have been watching every bit of war footage since the moment the first missiles fell on 3am, February 24th.
Sometimes... have you ever got a feeling that, some songs like these wouldn't be possible to listen to, if there wasn't a comment section? Because to read and to see people helps it, whilst listening to such sad music
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Agalloch is just untouchable. A reunion would make me so happy you can't even imagine. I would buy tickets the day they would announce their reunion.
👍🏻
the reunion you wanted has arrived :D
@@totarantonio really? Are they back or was it just once?
@@totarantonio yeah I know but the ticket prices are out of this world. :*( They are actually playing a festival here in germany but the ticket price plus the travel costs are not affordable for me atm. Aside from that they are only playing a handful of shows in Portland and Denver in the US I think. I am just gonna pray that they are gonna announce more tour dates for 2024. 🙏
I bought mine for San Fransisco the day the show was announced. Flew across the country for it and DO NOT REGRET ANY OF IT.
2024! The best metal band ever
Facts
Hell yeah
"The god of man is a failure
Our fortress is burning against the grain of the shattered sky
Charred birds escape from the ruins and return as cascading blood
Dying bloodbirds pooling, feeding the flood
The god of man is a failure
And all of our shadows are ashes against the grain"
Brilliant lyrics! One reason I was and am a huge fan of Agolloch.
A band that never failed my ears and soul!!!!!
You are so pretty.....kisses!!!
Exactly, i have never listen a almost every song of a band with joy. But agalloch is different. Every song of them is just so different and perfect
Whatever i listen lets say 5hours per day, but at the end when my soul has no anybplace to rest, i come back to the almighty Agalloch
Spellbound
always loved them since the first time i listened to "a desolation song" like 9 years ago
Great idea putting that photo of the burning Bitterroot wilderness with this song....this is one of the most famous wildfire photos ever taken, and I promise I am shitting you not, I lived less than a mile away from right where that photo was taken. My family moved away about two weeks before the fire burned down our old home. Summer 2000. I will never forget that.
Terrible :( so sorry about it, really sad :'(
wow man, what a story , thanks for sharing!
Patrick Allen 😔😔
Legend
The Feels overload. Im at a loss of words. Other than you and yours are very lucky 😨
The problem was that too many people could not get this particular music. Closed minded.
The literal buildup of a small fire starting wayyy in the distant forest to it slowly spreading- to going out of control, picturing the wildlife come to the realization of their imminent doom, fleeing, until death whispers show up.... Silence.
This is amazing, grew up with Emperor, Burzum, Trelldom, Abigor and Setherial to name but a few. This gives me an In the woods meets Ved Buensende vibe. Well done Agolloch, decent tune
Not a song,but a trip.
True bro
journey!
I just went a hell of a lot further than I ever did in eleven minutes.
🤘🏿i ride
@@algernonilfracombe I listened to this masterpiece when I was 17..now I am 30 and it still is a part of me, forever.
"We learn to embrace the inevitable darkness that's to come. And that is truly a thing of beauty"
Where's that quote from? I like it!
@@MrEgofreak my mind
@@crackerjack8115 That works!
@@crackerjack8115 you should do music
Çok teşekkürler Agalloch derin duygular yaşattın bize dertlerimizin tercümanı oldun sen bitanesin....
Hayat denilen bu macera çok boktan bence, sence de öyle değil mi?
God I miss Agalloch so much. absolutely irreplaceable. I hope they know that. there is nothing like them.
I wish I'd known this band when they were still active
Well they're back and touring in 2024!
One of the the greatest pieces of music ever written
This is the song I want my friends to listen to after I've died. If any song will help guide me to the proper afterlife, it's this one. My soul doesn't require judgement. It simply requires peace.
you ok mate?
I discovered this band a few hours ago; I've noticed that the comments on all of this band's videos seem to be unified, artful, just beautiful really. It's just nice to see.
Great name, you have there
Go home Josh, you're drunk.
@@khanhhoi9246 shut up cartman, you fatass dumb
And in 3 replies they've proven you wrong
@John H dude life is sucks, we are just bugs in the universe and nothing is meaningful.
Nice picture for a great song. I miss you, Agalloch
Luis Arrúa we all do my friend. We all do...
Dont be sad they broke up be happy they were a thing.
Still missing agalloch
This band just manages to confey emotion so well. You can instantly that this song was made with passion, intent and heart and can't help but let it take you on a journey and drift away through the dread and pain. What a masterpiece.
confey
Here are the lyrics for people who like to have them close while listening to a song without having to open another tab
The god of man is a failure
Our fortress is burning against the grain of the shattered sky
Charred birds escape from the ruins and return as cascading blood
Dying bloodbirds pooling, feeding the flood
The god of man is a failure
And all of our shadows are ashes against the grain
Great great thanks to uuuuu
Their best music in my opinion, that second part always leaves me stunned and almost completely broken down.
Such an underrated band...I wish they would get more attention! beautiful music!!!
I agree. But even out here in the country side of texas im finding fans of this band
So sad they split up :(
This song hits the emotion nerve hard. Almost as hard as Pallbearers foreigner. First heard this song on the way home from one of my best friends funerals. The timing made it one of the strongest things I've ever heard.
wow man
Agalloch es como esas bandas que escuchas estando en un viaje de larga distancia mirando el paisaje a traves del vidrio
That's how I listened them at first.
exatamente
el paisaje esta en mi mente atraes de la musica, no necesito drogas ni viajes ni pensamientos, A galloch lo es todo
I really like that one. Slow, steady. The guitars are clearly talking about that fire.
those guitars... you can hear them crying
Sorry, crying isn't enough for describing what's happening!
The dismantling of a forest to create musical instruments
yup, that tone at 6:35... It is more like, "Our Bambi Is Burning"...
That outro/ending is one of the most soulful and absolutely emotional things I've ever heard. This is truly incredible.
I can honestly say that not many tunes will ever beat this master piece 🤘
I live in Guadalajara México, I love Agalloch. Right now our forest near of the city is burning, it reminds me to this song and also reminds me the greed and evil of human being
Every once in a while a song from Agalloch escapes me. I had never heard this song before until it popped up on my Pandora. Of course I had to search it up and listen again.
it's so hard to find people for this music to create a band..... a pity
hehe, nice thought! I am from Germany
+U Mirin what a shame! If you ever make it to germany, I'll invite you to a beer! ;)
Would you guys mind if I join 😂 I live in the Maldives though
American here. I'd like to join. We can be the first intercontinental metal band inspired by aggaloch
Colombia jajaja
R.i.p agalloch iam gonna miss u so much ..love y from Egypt
The god of man is a failure
Our fortress is burning against the grain of the shattered sky
Charred birds escape from the ruins and return as cascading blood
Dying bloodbirds pooling, feeding the flood
The god of man is a failure
And all of our shadows
All of our shadows
All of our shadows
Are ashes against the grain
Holy shit...
blessed feces?
Hail the lord of shit and stuff
I love how they named the album after the last line in it, it gives it so much impact when you finally hear it.
I witnessed living god come forth from a tree when I removed the groves amidst the altar
ugh that lick kicking in at 7:50 just kills me. So simple, yet so powerful. Pure beauty
Do you know more music with this kind of solos?
Today in Turkey, several wildfires have erupted within different regions and cities. Now this song makes more sense to me than it ever has...
F
Benim de yangın çıkar çıkmaz bu şarkı aklıma geldi
I'm in California surrounded by wildfires in every direction. Red sky with ash falling and all I hear in my head is this song.
já mais em hipótese alguma vai aver outra banda igual a agalloch quando se escuta você vai pra outro planeta uma sensação que não dá pra explicar apenas sentir,obrigado agalloch por momentos incríveis que viajei ouvindo suas obras de artes.
i just love how sadly relatable those animals are. they are, thinking, "i should probably start moving away from this in the other direction. eh."
I am so in love with Agalloch. Their music just takes over my soul
All I can think of is the sorrow of my innumerable ancestors. What a harsh world we come from.
The transition at 5:19 never fails to give me the chills
same
That's where "Our fortress is burning... II - Bloodbirds" starts.
Agalloch is in a genre of its own- environmental metal. I know people say this is atmospheric metal. Both are correct IMO
Thank you! these are the good comments!
Great song, hits the soul. Great job.
Can u gimme the link for the photo please?
Still a beautiful go to song 💚
Cheers Cat 🌷😼
Better fuck them up then.
Ahem...assplay.
That is all.
probably the best band that lived...pure ART
The most powerful music I've heard in quite a while, so emotionally charged!
This one goes out for Greece, hang in there guys!
00:00 - 05:19 Our Fortress Is Burning... I
05:19 - 11:40 Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds
This song fits this photo fucking perfectly. It's so surreal.
That's one of the best songs ever written....I'm listening to this year's now..so thankful I found it.
My English and my abstract writing skills are horrible, but I'll try. This music has a very special place in my heart. I just wanted to put it here. We used to listen to this a lot, when we were playing Fallout RPG with the boys. Then when I played Fallout New Vegas' Lonesome Road DLC, I listened this for the entire game. I don't know if you know, but Lonesome Road has a very different atmosphere. Some of the machinery still works, some ancient-but-superb tech is there, but although all these crazy-tech stuff is there, its totally empty and overrun by beasts. When you walk in such a place, use that technology, knowing that you are probably going to be the last guy to take that elevator, use that terminal etc., it really feels like you are making it through a technological ruin, and this is totally a one-direction journey, because any part you pass basically collapses behind you due to being old etc. Fallout has this vibe where things work so you feel somewhat convenience, but it feels bizarre and alien because it is literally a ruined world.
Don't know why, but it felt very much like that these days, real life. I feel like I am walking alone through a collapsing technological hell, where I know I will be using these tools for a last few more times, before the Forest burns into ashes totally, leaving nothing but ruins behind. I stopped thinking about other people, whether they realize that the forest is burning or not, I dont care. Wherever I look, I see people spitting hatred on each other. More the fire grows, more it consumes. Now, even the young seedlings that are supposed to be all fresh and full of water, they are burning too. Everything is burning. More people spit hatred, corrupt the land, oppress the weak and delve in wickedness, fueling the fire that is burning EVERYONE and not just themselves. I just shut my brain off, got me my rocket launcer, play this song, and walk through the fires and ashes. My heart is full of hope and joy, knowing that I will make it to the plains. The forest screams 'The God of Man is a failure' maybe, but I know that is not the case. My heart is neither cheerful nor gloomy. It just beats with hope, knowing what it has to beat for. My God will lead me out of this fire. I know that.
This causes me an emotion that i cant describe !
Those screams starting at 10:41 is all one needs to hear to just completely let go and break down...
Actually, it´s around 9:05...
i can't handle those cries, they sink in so deep that i wanna just break loose
@@paulpaulsen7245got it?
@@MultiTetzlaffyes, I got it!
Thank you!
I wish I knew these pieces existed when my house burned down last year, would have been real therapeutic haha
The fire that burns in Australia now just reminded me of that Photo... Sad situation
Same, yeah verry sad situation.
I thought of this song too and this specific upload! To me, 10:41 onwards represents the cries of mother earth...
"We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to" - Terri Swearingen
I thought of Xasthur's blood from the roots of the forest first, but this one captures the feeling of despair quite well too
I had the same thought when I saw what happened wow
Minus the flowing stream
I'm tearing up. My heart is heavy.
Hang on in there.
Me too shit is incredible
Yeha me too, Im fucking diyng, too much pain, and lonliness. No one cares, no one understands my stupid World , Im driving crazy, I wanna die, Im so tired to this life, to this World Im tired of me, God!! Theres no God, Theres nothing. No more pills no more doctors, its doest work, its over. Beautiful masterpiece, it brings me piece. Thanks
@@deyanirarodriguez7765 haha idiot god gifted life live the fullest enjoy every moment....animals are the one who suffering more than us try to save animals as much as u can...sorry for my english
@@dilipneupane710thanks a lott. Greetings
This is quite relevant for me right now since I live in Australia and we are currently experiencing the worst bushfires in our history
Hope you're doing well
@@kaladin7487 yeah everyone's forgotten about the fires now the virus is here
@@minksrule2196 I'll be honest I don't keep super up to date with things, are the fires there still pretty bad?
@@kaladin7487 the fires are all gone now it's almost winter
Hail Óðinn!
We must all see we are burning our fortress every day. It's madness...
But we remember and fight until the day we die. Hail Odinn!
The most tormenting outro I ever stumbled upon, the growls at the end so powerful that it left scars on my heart by the pictures created in my head thanks to the emotional impact it had on me. Everything up to that point is a friendly walk alongside a figure with piercing hateful eyes, looking straight at humanity as a self-proclaimed God, presenting the "wonders" of the marks it left upon the earth.
wow this was perfect.
Are you a A.I bot?
The first time I got high, me and two of my best friends were listening to this in a car. I have good friends. :)
I wish I could get high with metal heads
@John H cause none of my friends listen to it
@John H punk is overrated
@John H metallica is overrated
@John H i listen To melodic death metal or symphonic Black metal like dimmu borgir mostly, nowdays i only listen To doomer wave
Really helps when I'm depressed...
I feel we need to be responsible for every choice we make and respect mother nature; each summer wildfires getting more intense and we feel like we need to save the forests? well we need to save ourselves; if nature turns against us, we become nothing. Let's not be like cancer to mother Earth.
Hail Óðinn!
We must all see we are burning our fortress every day. It's madness...
Strong words, and much needed in times like these.
I haven't had this on repeat, but pretty close.
Rip Agalloch what an amazing band.
So glad I got to see them twice.
One of my "favorite" (as inappropriate of a term I could use here) memories is listening to this as I watched Notre Dame burn on live feeds. Politics, Religion, philosophy, art, meaning, as intertwined and discordant of values as they have progressed over time struck me as the peak Western experience in that moment.
This song is so beautiful
Merci pour ce morceau
I loved this band. I was pissed when I heard they split up. Still listening.
Farewell Agalloch ❤
Many forest of my country have burnt last week.. im too far from them but i'm bit sad
Chile?
Hope things get better, it's hard to help from this far but we have to do what we can!
This is fantastic.
I recently drove through Jasper Park in Alberta, Canada listening to this song with the Chetamon wildfire clearly visible from the highway. Really brought out how insignificant people are in the face of nature. Once we're gone, the earth will continue as it has for billions of years and our unnatural presence will fade away.
the build up is amazing. what a great song.
Mind blowing music is this what all about... Start with slow, take it to medium base and then smash the ending part.
Anyone who can recommend me more music like this ?
Cheers
Try Worlds blood by Wayfarer. Also check out the rest of agallochs discography
Check out Nargaroth
Alcest is fucken great.
Is it just me or does part 1 not having lyrics really just make you think about how animals and nature can't just tell us in words their pain.
I'm unsure how to exist anymore, since covid I lost my girlfriend and never really had any friends, always housebound or working alone... Need to practice walking in nature again.. But life just feels so meaningless, I'm so alone.. I guess at least I have agalloch.
i am also at the lowest point in my life ,life is harsh but we need to stay strong
i hope you are doing well friend
stop listening to agalloch. Most beautiful and most depressing music. They also split up because of it
So relaxing!
I hate how much this song serves as a farewell to Agalloch as much as it is a masterpiece
There were two albums after this one.
that build up towards the end...
Agalloch will always be in my top ten.
Now i'm reading letters written on a piece of paper. No its not a suicide letter or something else its just a letter written with full of joyment, happiness and fun. But this song makes my tear goes down while reading. Just one drop, from my eye to my heart. I have one drop of a tear shed.
this is my idyllic place where my death wishes satisfy my dreams drawing a smile in my dark soul to continue................
This song now is strongly related for me, during war in Ukraine. Our cities is burning. Let the Lord protect my people. Glory for defenders.
I think the same, Slava Ukraini. I'm an American but I have been watching every bit of war footage since the moment the first missiles fell on 3am, February 24th.
Still around?
whole song is unbelievable but last minute is from another world
Sometimes... have you ever got a feeling that, some songs like these wouldn't be possible to listen to, if there wasn't a comment section? Because to read and to see people helps it, whilst listening to such sad music
Excellent. Love the picture!
Pura arte.
Sem sombra de dúvidas,arte pura
Great cold Agalloch.. Just awesome.
I'll just talk for my bong : "Blblblblbblblblblblblblblbl"
Feel that 👌🏽
Listening to this and looking at the picture I am reminded of the Amazon wildfires and all the animals that burnt together with the plants
As long man is, there will be plenty of suffer. And he will have Agalloch.
Fucking best music on UA-cam
Agalloch sounds like a band from north Europe, it's nice that music like this can be done in America too
it really fucks with your mind, to lose what youve known your entire life
Holy fucking shit. This song has just completed me. Doesn’t get any better than this
Amazing music. So heartbreaking.
This is another masterpiece that I’ve listened to after Darkestrah-Epos
Agalloch For Life .
BEAUTIFUL
this song is just amazing!
my fortress has been burning for a long time, soon there will not be much left to burn