On Monday, (April. 15th) Chop Suey Presents: Agalloch and Nostalgist, and we have a chance for you and a guest to go, for free! Just email us at theseattlepa@gmail.com with the subject “AGALLOCH CONTEST”, and your FULL name as the text, and that is it! You won’t be signed up for anything, and the winner will be drawn at random at 6pm this Friday. You will be notified by email if you win, and added to the guest list. This show is 21 and up. Good luck!
By Dustin Carroll
Whether Agalloch strive to be a primitive-sounding neo-folk band, a prog-post rock group, or write a black-metal rock opera about the German play Faust, this Portland-based outfit are never afraid to push the boundaries of what one might consider normalcy in the Northwest heavy music scene. With aspirations set high, Agalloch have been churning out a series of mythologies through their prolific career, which is now nearing the two-decade mark. Their precise attention to detail and the nonchalance with which they cross between genres leaves the impression that this is art being created for the sake of being art. Whether or not a song is going to be able to be pulled off in a live setting is likely not a concern at its inception.
That being said, Agalloch still have a reputation for putting on a scathingly intense live show. Putting on a two-hour metal concert would be an endurance trial to most groups, but the outfit approaches their live show in the same meticulous and thorough way they write their music. Banners adorned with elk imagery backdrop the stage, bones line the borders between monitors, wisps of sage writhe through the air like tendrils, accented by low blue lighting and candlelight. Their live show captures every sense of the audience, and can draw in even the soberest of listeners to be entranced.
The group are slated to perform here in Seattle on April 15th, one of only two U.S. dates before heading to Europe for a month and a half long tour adorned with numerous sold out dates. Don’t miss your chance to catch these guys while they’re still a Northwest secret.
