{"id":6656,"date":"2015-10-27T20:58:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2022-11-01T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:23:44","slug":"buttkickin-halloween-songs-a-desolation-song-agalloch-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2015\/10\/27\/buttkickin-halloween-songs-a-desolation-song-agalloch-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “A Desolation Song” — Agalloch (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s to love, the sickness
<\/em>The great martyr of the soul
Here’s to life, the vice
The great herald of misery…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing like a sweet love song to get the heart a-tittering, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metal band Agalloch created a most chilling neo-folk tune with their 2003 track A Desolation Song<\/strong>. And could any song title be any more apropos than this one? If bleak, hopeless heartache could come to life and cut a single, it would be this song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every second of A Desolation Song<\/em> bleeds with agony. John Haughm’s vocals aren’t just haunting; they’re long since cold and dead, buried somewhere deep underground. Inconsolable lament carried by an indifferent wind to nobody who cares. This is pure despair, maybe a little too on the nose with its cavernous oblivion, but perhaps that’s the point. This darkness never ceases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe A Desolation Song <\/em>isn’t necessarily a Halloween song, but it will nonetheless chill you to the bone. Grab a blanket, build a fire, drink some brandy, but there’s no way to evade the frozen abandonment of this void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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