Raust

Mastodon is one of my favorite metal bands that's out now. There latest release "Crack the Skye" is there best album to date IMO. Much more progressive sounding then there previous albums and cleaner vocals and a trippy story to boot.

hissundaygirl09.

only heard 1 song from them

Alfred

Been pretty obsessed with them in the past two months. Blood Mountain is boss, but all of the albums are great in their own ways.

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Shampoo

Amazing band. I saw them live a few months ago, they were great.

Sljslj

Mastodon's one of the few bands that I enjoy absolutely everything they've ever made.

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Zer0

Blood Mountain is an album i must go back and listen to, i haven't played it in a few years and i really enjoyed it when it was released. I even have a Blood Mountain t-shirt . I never really warmed up to Crack The Skye though, even though they had progressed as a band and as composers, that intensity and heaviness that made the band appeal to me in the first place was almost gone. I liked that album the first few times i listened to it but i grew sick of it quickly and haven't listened to it since.

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Alfred

Yeah, I think they really hit the nail on the head with Blood Mountain. It's more melodic and layered than their earlier work but it still maintains the heaviness and aggression.

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SATCHMO

So it surprises me that there's not been much talk of the Jonah Hex Movie soundtrack that Mastodon released about a month ago. 4 songs, completely instrumental. Just had a listen and it's really good, but definitely a lot more subdued and atmospheric given the fact that it's an actual film score. Anyone who's interested hit me up.

Zer0

Blood Mountain is probably their most complete album, it has a better flow and consistency than Remission and Leviathan. It really feels like you're on a journey going up Blood Mountain and meeting all these obstacles along the way. I love the really weird and different vibes the album has in places, like in 'Bladecatcher' and 'Sleeping Giant', it gives the album a real sense of depth.

Leviathan would be my next favourite, it just feels huge and completely bad-ass. It was also my first Mastodon album.

Yeah i heard that they soundtracked a film but i wasn't really too pushed to investigate it. Wouldn't mind a link though.

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Alfred

It's pretty cool to hear them do something like that, but I like Mastodon with vocals waaay more than instrumental Mastodon.

I'm not sure whether I like Leviathan or Crack The Skye more. Crack The Skye has awesome melodies and a pretty interesting theme, but a raw, sludgy album about sea creatures is pretty hard to beat.

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