Band Set To Release Faustian Echoes EP

“We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess—across the night, eastward over the Plains…” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Portland musical enigmas AGALLOCH are pleased to announce a month-long bout of live performances this Summer. Slated to commence with a hometown show July 11, the tour will include a nightly rotating set list featuring both new and early material with stage times anticipated to be between 90 – 120 minutes. The band will be joined by TAURUS featuring Stevie Floyd of Dark Castle and Ashley Spungin (formerly of Purple Rhinestone Eagle) as well as various local openers throughout the journey, all hand-selected by members of AGALLOCH. Comments the band in a collective statement: “We are excited by TAURUS’ experimental and challenging music and feel they are a perfect fit for us. We have carefully selected local openers whose music fits the environment of an AGALLOCH show. Where there are no openers selected, we will play nearly 120 minutes. We are all personal fans of the openers and encourage everyone to show up early to see them.”

This tour will also mark the release of AGALLOCH’s recently recorded EP Faustian Echoes, a mammoth twenty-minute epic released through the band’s own imprint, Dammerung Arts. This EP was recorded at Jackpot Studio in Portland, Oregon with acclaimed engineer Billy Anderson (Melvins, Sleep, Neurosis) at the helm. It was mixed by Anderson and mastered by Justin Weis (Ludicra, Hammers Of Misfortune) at Trakworx in San Francisco.

Though stream and digital download options will be available in the coming weeks, the LP and CD versions will only be available at the shows during the dates on the tour and will be available via mailorder after the tour.

AGALLOCH Summer Tour 2012 w/ Taurus

7/11/2012 Branx - Portland, OR w/ Eight Bells
7/12/2012 The Crocodile - Seattle, WA w/ Eight Bells
7/13/2012 The Rickshaw - Vancouver BC w/ Eight Bells
7/14/2012 The A Club - Spokane, WA at w/Eight Bells
7/16/2012 Zebra- Bozeman, MT
7/17/2012 Bluebird Theater - Denver, CO
7/18/2012 Waiting Room - Omaha, NE [
7/19/2012 Miramar Theater - Milwaukee, WI
7/20/2012 Reggie's - Chicago, IL
7/21/2012 Blind Pig - Ann Arbor, MI w/Musk Ox
7/22/2012 Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH
7/23/2012 Opera House - Toronto, ON at w/ Musk Ox
7/24/2012 Petit Campus - Montreal, QC at w/ Musk Ox
7/25/2012 Middle East - Boston, MA
7/26/2012 Williamsburg Music Hall - Brooklyn, NY w/ Musk Ox
7/27/2012 Underground Arts - Philadelphia, PA
7/28/2012 Empire - Springfield, VA
7/29/2012 King's Barcade - Raleigh, NC
7/31/2012 Orpheum - Tampa, FL
8/01/2012 The Earl - Atlanta, GA
8/02/2012 Bottletree - Birmingham, AL w/ Pallbearer
8/03/2012 One Eyed Jack's - New Orleans at w/ Pallbearer
8/04/2012 La Grange - Dallas, TX at w/Maleveller
8/05/2012 Red 7 - Austin, TX
8/08/2012 The Rhythm Room - Phoenix, AZ
8/09/2012 The Casbah - San Diego, CA w/ Author & Punisher
8/10/2012 Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA w/Oskoreien
8/11/2012 Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA

AGALLOCH info:
For sixteen years the Pacific Northwest group AGALLOCH has defined what it means to combine influences from a variety of musical genres into one brooding, colossal, and cinematic sound that provides the soundtrack to existential themes concerning man, nature, loss, and death. It has been said that AGALLOCH is to heavy metal what Ingmar Bergman is to cinema.

After two demo releases in the late ‘90s the band released three full-length albums: Pale Folklore (1999), The Mantle (2002), and Ashes Against The Grain (2006). The Mantle has since been heralded as a classic for having been one of the first albums to combine elements from black metal, neo-folk, progressive rock, post-rock, and ambient music. The influence of this record can be seen in many so-called “post-black metal” bands today.

In 2008 AGALLOCH began re-releasing their demos, B-sides, and EPs under their own Dammerung Arthouse label. In 2010 their fourth album Marrow of the Spirit made number one on numerous critic’s top ten lists. In between each of these full-lengths the band pushed on the flexible boundaries they had developed around themselves through a series of EPs that found the band experimenting with post-rock/instrumental rock (The Grey, 2004), neo-folk/psychedelic folk (The White, 2008) and most recently Faustian Echoes (2012) released through Dammerung Arts.

AGALLOCH has earned a reputation for explosive and emotional live performances. They have sold out tours across Europe and the U.S. and have played a variety of major festivals including: Roadburn, Inferno, and Scion, among others. The band takes special care constructing the environment of each and every show with wood, incense, and imagery taken directly from their home in the Northwest. Such care makes an AGALLOCH show more than just a typical heavy metal concert.

https://www.facebook.com/AgallochOfficial
http://www.agalloch.org/index.htm

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Life is short. When one beast dumps you, summon the guts to find another. Henry Rollins 5/16/13

Awesome to see them have Eight Bells, Musk Ox and Oskoreien on those select dates.

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Life is short. When one beast dumps you, summon the guts to find another. Henry Rollins 5/16/13

i'm off work the week of the brooklyn show but i have rented a house at the shore for that week. i guess i could just listen to some agalloch on the beach!

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"prison ain't so bad, you can make sangria in the terlet. 'course it's shank or be shanked''"

Only if it's rainy and 1 foot visibility thru fog

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Life is short. When one beast dumps you, summon the guts to find another. Henry Rollins 5/16/13

Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Milwaukee show is on a Thursday night and I always work that night cause the boss takes off. And the Chicago show that Friday night we have a big golf outing so can't make that either.

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Those hipsters would play all the way down in Ann Arbor.

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"I've become an old man who tells old man stories". - JC.

Definitely trying to go the Philly show

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looking forward to August. Will have to check that one out.

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Life is short. When one beast dumps you, summon the guts to find another. Henry Rollins 5/16/13

I might be able to make it to the Chicago show after all since the show doesn't start til 10 pm.

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Tonight!

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kitteh

2 hours, 15 minutes.

Into/opening thing
Falling Snow
The Watcher's Monolith
Faustian Echoes
Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires
Hallways of Enchanted Ebony
Dead Winter Days
I am the Wooden Doors
(something here but I was outside and taking a piss)
In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
Kneel to the Cross
Into the Painted Grey
Bloodbirds

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kitteh

you had to piss outside???

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"prison ain't so bad, you can make sangria in the terlet. 'course it's shank or be shanked''"

For next time.

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With Warmest Regards, Your Ol' Buddy Jesus.
(Award Winning Human Being)

Wish I wouldn't have missed the Philly show

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There's an outside area with a bar and they had portapotties out there. Then I ran into Danny out there and talked for a few minutes.

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kitteh

It seems like every concert memory I have involves needing to pee really bad but not wanting to miss any part of the show.

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With Warmest Regards, Your Ol' Buddy Jesus.
(Award Winning Human Being)

please don't pee in the venue's swimming pool.

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Life is short. When one beast dumps you, summon the guts to find another. Henry Rollins 5/16/13

I went right before they started but between drinking beer and the set being so long, I had to step out. Over 2 hours!! Who does that??

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kitteh

Man I saw this show in Bozeman and it was probably the best they've ever sounded. Just a couple hours north of me. It was crazy that it was Jason's hometown and John is from about an hour north. I headbanged so much I though I had brain damage the next week. My last time headbanging...I tend to overdo it after too many beers. But it was their definitve performance for me.

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You turn me on when your heart is pounding
It's ecstasy when I hear you scream
I flash a knife to your paralyzed eyes
And only I will watch you die
Psychopath - on the loose

I still think the time we saw them in Portland after the Seattle show was the best. This was great because it was so many songs, but I just don't like Faustian Echoes and would much rather have had Limbs and Not Unlike the Waves instead.

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kitteh

I can understand that. I've heard those songs, awesome as they may be, enought times live that there's some other tracks I'd rather hear, like off the White ep or The Mnatle for instance, but a lot of their songs are hard to do live with the multiple instrument tracks. It was much to do with the enviroment I think. They had much of their families there and it was such a underground crowd in Montana, you just don't have the population or awareness here thst was maybe a part of it as well. I'm still pissed they still aren't making XXL tees

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You turn me on when your heart is pounding
It's ecstasy when I hear you scream
I flash a knife to your paralyzed eyes
And only I will watch you die
Psychopath - on the loose

Fuck, I should go to the Springfield, VA show.

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Maybe if you have a time machine.

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Blargh...
http://www.recordnerd.com/lists/Chaoseum

I can't believe i didn't notice. I was probably drunk.

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