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Agalloch’s ‘The Mantle’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Agalloch on 10/15/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

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.

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