Well it just sounds a lot like bands like Lamb of God, heavier System of a Down stuff, Slipknot, Killswitch Engage (who I would describe as nu-metal) and bands like that. Let's be fair I prefer black metal over all other types of metal and Mastodon obviously isn't my thing. If you guys want to listen to really shit music please go ahead, I'm not going to stop you, I was just really disappointed that after all that hype Mastodon were basically total wank.