I felt a little strange posting a WSJ article on metal, but I really love hearing about metalheads (and goths, and punks, and noise dudes, and ...) around the world because it's like there's a unity among malcontents everywhere, and I'm not going to post every blog and forum post I come across because Hubski is a low-traffic site and easy to flood. Odd publication or no, it was nice to have a survey to post. I loves me some Agalloch, and I am not ashamed.One of the true regrets I have is that here in the Ohio Valley we get nothing concert wise except shitty Portland "indie" bands and country acts.
Nor should you be ashamed. Agalloch is awesome, but they don't really fit into a box that makes marketing the band and finding a bigger audience easy. I did not realize that 1. they are from Portland and 2. they have been around for 20 freaking years. I'm sort of sad that Epica did not catch on with my circle of friends. I'm also not ashamed to say that I like Sigur Ros which gets lumped into the "metal" category. And yea, I found a few neat metal bands from of all the possible places the Wall Street Fucking Journal. Great find, great link, thanks man.I loves me some Agalloch, and I am not ashamed.
Epica is great, but I can see writing them off. There were a lot of bands doing the Theatre of Tragedy soprano and growls vocal thing popping up at the same time they did, and most of them were not as good as Theatre of Tragedy.