“It’s solely been, eh, a couple of thousand days since we have been right here final,” smiles Agalloch mainman John Haughm. “It doesn’t sound so lengthy if 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 steel is unequivocally epic and melancholic on document and within the recollections of these sufficiently old to recollect seeing them final time spherical. It’s initially a bit disconcerting, then, to soak up the sheer glee with which they gallop by way of 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 previously 10 years, they’ve clearly not but gotten bored with 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 Elements II and III it seems like everybody crammed into an more and more sweaty predominant stage is having the time of their lives.
It’s a headline set for the ages which is able to take an terrible lot to high in 2026. However you wouldn’t wager in opposition to the freshly-announced headliners Outdated Man’s Youngster giving it a hell of a shot. Don’t grasp round on getting tickets if you wish to see for yourselves…
