Agalloch — Lyric Analysis

LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 22 songs across 5 albums by Agalloch. They use 795 unique words out of 1,473 (lexical richness MATTR 0.87), with an average of 67 content words per song. Emotional tone: 18% of songs positive, 32% neutral, 50% negative.

Most used words by Agalloch

1. life (17)
2. lost (14)
3. fire (13)
4. away (12)
5. cold (11)
6. hands (10)
7. sky (10)
8. woods (10)
9. silence (10)
10. god (9)
11. time (9)
12. black (9)
13. stone (9)
14. voice (9)
15. die (8)
16. arms (8)
17. dark (8)
18. spirit (8)
19. blood (8)
20. death (8)

Signature phrases

• “life clay urn” (4)
• “clay urn mantle” (4)
• “dark woods time” (3)
• “reap sow lost” (3)
• “life path walk” (3)
• “sow lost desolation” (3)
• “desolation life path” (3)
• “lost desolation life” (3)
• “lost desolation love” (3)
• “myriad cast vale” (2)

Colors in the lyrics

• black (9)
• red (2)
• white (2)
• crimson (2)
• amber (2)
• emerald (2)
• grey (1)
• blue (1)

Albums analyzed

• Pale Folklore (1999)
• The Mantle (2002)
• Ashes Against the Grain (2006)
• Marrow of the Spirit (2010)
• The Serpent & the Sphere (2014)