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I've just discovered a band named Agalloch, as the title suggests. I'd highly recommend checking them out. I'm not 100% sure what genre you could call this, but I'd probably put it into progressive with Anathema, and Amorphis, as I'm hearing a lot of similarities here. The song that I am going to recommend (as it is their only song I've actually heard) is "Falling Snow", which goes for 9mins and 35 or so seconds. Definitely worth the ten minutes. I don't feel as though I've wasted them haha. Another band I've found which I am enjoying is Wolves in the Throne Room. Very Black Metal sounding, but not quite as raw, and probably could be called an extremely heavy Blackened Death Metal band, but then, the vocals are wrong.. hrm.... Either way, take a look at the song "Subterranean Initiation". It's pretty damned good. Boasts a whole 7min track on Youtube. You just KNOW that that means it must be good. (Despite the sarcasm in the previous sentence it IS actually really good. Check it out) Finally, another band that I recommend you guys look into, is Shining. Another Black Metal band, but you can tell they're Swedish, not Norwegian haha. Absolutely love their song "The Madness and the Damage Done". Definitely 3 and a half minutes to take a look at, and devote to such a good band. Anyone else got any recommendations? Bands that are obscure, and hard to categorise into genre, but still are really damned good?

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Re: Agalloch, and other obscurities Well, you could have posted this in the 'Underrated or Unknown Metal Bands' thread. Whatever. Darkwater's not too well-known but they get good reviews consistently. Dungortheb is a French technical death metal band which isn't too well-known, but I think they're quite good. :D

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Re: Agalloch, and other obscurities Wow... I go away for an hour and when I come back.... Anyways, Iceni, I didn't put it into Underrated or Unknown Metal because I didn't know how big these bands were. The Metal Advisor: I meant that the genre was a bit more obscure than the actual bands. I hadn't heard of any of these guys before today however. ReturntoCarthage: I'll be sure to check them out sometime soon. NTNR: This is why I downloaded them, so I could listen to a broader spectrum of their music. I wouldn't have called what I heard Folk though.

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NTNR: This is why I downloaded them, so I could listen to a broader spectrum of their music. I wouldn't have called what I heard Folk though.
You could call them Dark Metal as well. Their second album 'the Mantle' is 90% acoustic and thus labeled "folk". Their first record was more Black Metal but after those two they incorporated Doom and atmospheric elements into their sound. Dark Metal is probably the best label for it.
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Check out Gallowbraid. If you like Agalloch, you'll dig them.
Was just about to say that. I highly recomend Gallowbraid. Another band that is getting alot of praise on other metal forums I have noticed recently is The Living Fields. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soOdHVjizdc and if you haven't checked out Solstafir, I recomend them too http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... search=tag I Viking was the first song I heard by them, Pale Rider and 78 Days In The Desert are cracking tracks too.
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Re: Agalloch, and other obscurities Funny thing about Gallowbraid, I know Jake, I usually see him at shows and I've played with his new band Visigoth. He told our bass player that he HATES Gallowbraid. He said that he wrote most of it around 2006, but due to various issues didn't record and release the album until later. Between that time, he grew to hate Agalloch, but finished the recording anyway and now he can't even stand to hear it.

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