The Mantle
by Agalloch
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The Mantle is ranked as the best album by Agalloch.
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The Mantle track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Mantle rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  arthurbittencourt | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 84/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 56 Music Albums of 2002 | 19/56 | 3 |
| 2026 | Untitled | Top 20 Music Albums of 2002 | 18/20 | 1 |
| 2026 | Museman | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 43/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | leniad | Top 301-400 Greatest Music Albums | 45/100 | - |
| 2026 | OFarrio | Top 25 Music Albums of 2002 | 20/25 | 1 |
| 2026 |  LedZep | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 1/100 | 20 |
| 2026 |  deadhouse | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 35/100 | 63 |
| 2026 | VanillaBean | Top 72 Music Albums of the 2000s | 47/72 | 7 |
| 2026 |  JMGL95 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 7/100 | 19 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 203 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,290 | |||
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The Mantle ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/17/2026 06:20 | Scrabbler | 293 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2026 01:35 |  Helios | 6,265 | 69/100 |
| ! | 04/30/2026 18:22 | iann97 | 2,228 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.6/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.4.
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The Mantle forum mentions
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The Mantle comments
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mickilennial 07/10/2013 02:26 | #80845 | TOP COMMENT
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The Mantle is a companion to cold, desolate walks through a north american forest during the harsh but quiet winter. It's no surprise the album takes inspiration from cynical european black metal, desolate dark ambient, and chilling neofolk. The Mantle molds all of this into a masterful one-piece package and it pulls no punches.
SquishypuffDave TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/15/2012 15:15 | #42389 | TOP COMMENT
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It's not every day you make a discovery like this. Utterly perfect. Elegant. Cold and somber. Warm and inviting. Beautiful.
Necharsian TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/04/2011 20:11 | #27059 | TOP COMMENT
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Amazing. I had never been a fan of growling vocals, but this album has changed that. It's a brilliant masterpiece.
Odal is beautiful. I learned it on guitar yesterday, now I feel like a king.
I wouldn't call it life-changing, and it kind of drags at times, especially in the middle. Still, it's one of the most beautiful things Ive heard recently, and it's an extreme metal album that has a lot of completely non-typical metal ideas
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