The Bad Penny (beta)

After metal’s materialist excesses of the ‘80s, a backlash in the form of “folk metal” emerged the following decade. Agalloch’s The Mantle was its apex, epitomizing metal musicians’ retreat to forests and reconnections with nature.

Read my full review on Treble.

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