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Ashes Against The Grain
Studio album by Agalloch
Released	August 8, 2006
Recorded	between December 10, 2005 and January 2006
Genre	Folk metal / Doom metal
Length	59:49
Label	The End Records (TE068) (North America), Grau/Prophecy (Europe)
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link NeuFutur link Pitchfork Media link
Agalloch chronology
Split with Nest (EP) (2005)	Ashes Against The Grain (2006)

Ashes Against The Grain is a recently-released album by American metal band Agalloch under the Brooklyn, New York-based label, The End Records. It is Agalloch's third full-length release, four years after the critically acclaimed The Mantle.

Before the release, the track "Falling Snow" was made available in its entirety on the label's website and on the band's MySpace page. Reports indicate a version of Ashes Against The Grain was leaked on the web in May 2006.

A pre-release review in the July 2006 issue of Toronto-based Exclaim! magazine described the new album as a "departure and an extension" from the band's previous work:

The songs tend to move with restraint, as Agalloch's characteristic threads of black metal, folk and ambient sounds coalesce with more doom and art rock.

Three versions of the album were released: a slipcase edition, a deluxe wooden box version (limited to 500 copies) and a vinyl version (limited to 1000 copies).

The vinyl version was released on March 2nd 2007 through The End Records' Infinite Vinyl Series. It was pressed in three different colors:

• A clear/orange splatter edition limited to 200 copies.
  
• A black edition limited to 400 copies.
  
• A clear orange edition limited to 400 copies.
  

All three vinyl editions include an exclusive bonus track, Scars Of The Shattered Sky (Our Fortress Has Burned To The Ground)

1. "Limbs" – 9:50
2. "Falling Snow" – 9:38
3. "This White Mountain on Which You Will Die" – 1:39
4. "Fire Above, Ice Below" – 10:28
5. "Not Unlike the Waves" – 9:15
6. "Our Fortress Is Burning... I" – 5:25
7. "Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds" – 6:20
8. "Our Fortress Is Burning... III - The Grain" – 7:09

• A recent Cradle of Filth leak of the track "Libertina Grimm" from their Roadrunner album "Thornography" is mislabeled and is actually Agalloch's "Limbs".
• A music video was recorded for "Not Unlike the Waves," and despite strong opposition from the band, an abridged version of the song was used.

• Official Press Release from The End Records
• Review by Highwire Daze