Mastodon C/D ?

listening to the track 'workhorse' now. in fact i've listened to it a couple of times in a row as i don't want that groove to leave my head. awesome stuff.

I was just wondering why, with Jonah Hex opening this weekend, that I hadn't heard much more about the soundtrack work they were doing and then I came across this article tonight. They're releasing an EP of songs from the film on June 29th.

woah! awesome!

http://www.thrashhits.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/MastodonXmasShirtThrashHits.jpg

OMG WAU.

want

http://www.mastodonrocks.com/sites/mastodonrocks/files/merch/preview/detail_beerstein.jpg

Metal has such great merchandise. It's taking a serious effort to not buy that.

its sold out apparently (they were $99) I dont even drink but I always wanted that Khanate hipflask

thankfully other people beat me to it. i wonder what would be an appropriate drink for a khanate hipflask. i'm not sure even pure grain alcohol would fit.

seriously though. if it's costs 99.00 it better turn me into a viking after drinking out of it.

appropriate drink for khanate hipflask = hemlock

Goddamn that band has some crazy merch - beer cozies? Far out. But what they should really get are some official Mastodon ones of these.

next album's called the hunter

http://pitchfork.com/news/42888-mastodon-name-new-lp-hilarious-song-titles/

it will include songs titled "Blasteroids", "The Octopus Has No Friends", "Stargasm", and "Curl of the Burl".

lmao @ the octopus has no friends

excited!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLbSRrlOsRA

now THAT is how you make a video!

i think my fav is the muppet that eats itself into oblivion!

guitar leads in new track "black tongue" remind me of swedish band dissection in a strange kind of way.

IT'S JUST THE CURL OF THE BURL

I KILLED A MAN BECAUSE HE KILLED MY GOAT

New album is even more melodic and the songs are pretty concise. Did they sell out again?

Man, fuck it. Who cares? This is clearly their best album since Leviathan. I for one am glad it's full of goat killing ZZ Top songs.

The first half of this is fantastic. STARGASM!

yeah tis a good album. Cant afford $60 for the deluxe edition this time. Will save up for the vinyl.

I keep putting this on, thinking it sounds pretty good, and then reaching for the new Rwake album before I get to track 5.

You're not getting to the best part is the problem. While I love the whole thing, I definitely think some of the more exciting stuff happens in the second half.

I love the whole thing. Weirdly I like listening to it as a whole each time, which is odd given that it's not a Crack The Skye or what have you.

You're not getting to the best part is the problem. While I love the whole thing, I definitely think some of the more exciting stuff happens in the second half.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, October 3, 2011 1:16 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

This could be true. I haven't really devoted the sort of time to this album it deserves. Gotta get blazed with some headphones and give it my undivided attention. Maybe this weekend. Will report back.

Rwake still made the best metal album of 2011, though, I'm sure of it.

The Rwake is definitely up there, yes, but don't skip out on the Mastodon. Its a really great shift for these dudes, even coming from someone who has loved the shit out of the proggier stuff.

yeah, I thought crack the skye was really great but am also kind of relieved that they've gotten the prog epics out of their system. (for the time being, anyway.)

and yeah, the rwake album definitely hit me harder and more immediately than the new mastodon fwiw

xp Oh yeah, I mean, Crack the Skye is by far my favorite Mastodon album, so no anti-prog sentiments here. I'm looking forward to digging deeper. First listen though, it sounded good-not-great. I need, err, context. :)

my favorite will probably always be remission but I resigned myself to the fact that they're never gonna do another one like that a long, long time ago

The sound on this lp is bad. The guitar tones are piercing, harsh and extremely annoying at high volumes, no grit to them at all.

Everything else about this is good though, especially the drumming.

I don't think the sound is bad, as in Metallica bad. It's certainly got a high sheen to it though...

Well, its bad as in I cant listen to it at (comfortably) high volumes for long without fatigue. Not un-listenable, just unfortunate. The drums aren't as punchy as I'd like either, especially the kick. Idk man, the songs are there, I'm just picky about sound.

And yeah, not many records are St Anger bad.

OK, got through the whole thing tonight and gave it my undivided attention. At first only "Curl Of the Burl" made an impression, but now more songs are standing out ("All The Heavy Lifting," "Stargasm") and I think anyone foolish enough to compare this to Foo Fighters must have skipped the absolutely brutal and awesome "Blasteroid," but more than half of these seem like filler tracks. The title track is a super dud, and I'm not sure how I feel about "Creature Lives." I sorta wish they just made the good songs longer and left off some of these mediocre, unmemorable ones.

i think it's a solid album. tautly constructed songs with plenty of cogent guitar-based hook. not especially ambitious though, which is a bit of a shame given this band's usual propensity for really pushing the envelope. seems they took it a little easier on themselves this time round, thankfully not forgetting how to write memorable tunes in the process.

I think they were midway through putting together some kind of space-themed album and then the singer's brother died which changed the focus?

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^^ came here to post this

If my friend is into Mastodon and Baroness, who else should he listen to?

Kylesa?

Kylesa for sure. Black Tusk, High on Fire, Anciients, Bison BC and Kvelertak would probably all be in his wheelhouse.

Anciients.

Red Fang

Sleep