Agalloch In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion

Atmospheric Folk, Dark Metal USA album: The Mantle 2002 members: John Haughm Vocals, Guitar (Drums 19962004) Don Anderson Guitar, Piano, Backing Vocals Jason William Walton Bass Shane Breyer Keyboards themes: Nature, Loss, Depression, Death, Winter lyrics: Through vast valleys I wander To the highest peaks On pathways through a wild forgotten landscape In search of God, in spite of man til the lost forsaken endless This is where I choose to tread Fall. .. so shall we fall into the nihil The nothingness that we feel in the arms of the pale In the shadow of the grim companion who walks with us Here is the landscape Here is the sun Here in the balance of the earth Where is the god Has he fallen and abandoned us As I m stalked by the shadow of death s hand The fire in my heart is forged across the land Here at the edge of this world Here I gaze at a p