“It’s solely been, eh, a number of thousand days since we have been right here final,” smiles Agalloch mainman John Haughm. “It doesn’t sound so lengthy whenever you put it like that. It’s good to be again!”
Named after the resinous agarwood, the Oregon icons’ rustic mix of folks and progressive black metallic is unequivocally epic and melancholic on file and within the reminiscences of these sufficiently old to recollect seeing them final time spherical. It’s initially a bit disconcerting, then, to absorb the sheer glee with which they gallop via Hallways Of Enchanted Ebony and Darkish Matter Gods like some form of extra-evil Iron Maiden, and actually throw themselves throughout the stage. Having solely performed a handful of reveals up to now 10 years, they’ve clearly not but gotten uninterested in classics like You Had been However A Ghost In My Arms and Fireplace Above, Ice Under, and by the point they shut out with an apt salvo of Our Fortress Is Burning Components II and III it looks like everybody crammed into an more and more sweaty principal stage is having the time of their lives.
It’s a headline set for the ages which can take an terrible lot to high in 2026. However you wouldn’t guess in opposition to the freshly-announced headliners Previous Man’s Youngster giving it a hell of a shot. Don’t hold round on getting tickets if you wish to see for yourselves…
