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best thing ever?
y/n: y
That is pretty damn sweet.As did I.
Though maybe I'm some sort of degenerate, I liked Blood Mountain better.
-Wilhelm
That is pretty damn sweet.As did I.
Though maybe I'm some sort of degenerate, I liked Blood Mountain better.
-Wilhelm
"Heftigt"
Yeah that is essentially the best Mastodon song.
I am kind of terrified of their next album, because now they're all famous and wealthy and shit. IMAGINE THE DRUGS THEY ARE DOING RIGHT NOW
See that's where you're wrong.
"Heftigt"
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ55keTJTUQFunnily enough, that was the first Mastodon song I ever heard (courtesy of that very film clip). They didn't play it live when I saw them though. =/
best
video
ever
I dreamt that I was going to see Mastodon at this years Roskilde Festival. Oh how I cried.
Seriously it's just bullshit nu-metal.
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.
Guys, I really want to love Mastodon. I want to, so badly. I think I might have to see them live to do it, though, because their albums are just slightly too straightforward for me. I keep finding myself thinking "I could be listening to OM right now and the groove would feel better" or "I could be listening to Electric Wizard right now and it'd be heavier" or "I could be listening to 5ive right now and it'd be more interesting." It's not that they're trying too hard, or that they're not good at what they do ... they've nailed their sound down to a T and they're probably better at it than anyone else. But I just can't make the jump from passively appreciating their musicianship to actively loving the music they make.
Also Dimmukane, the reason I say it is over-produced pap is because it is "metal" that is made for and sold to the lowest common denominator of metal fans, and as Khar pointed out pushed by the mainstream media and touted as revolutionary when they are just doing what other, better bands have done before them but not nearly as well. Also my liking of BM has nothing to do with me disliking music that sounds as if it was written and recorded with the sole intention of making money.
Yes, a concept album on Moby Dick is an awesome idea, I just wish someone else thought of it first.
One of the tracks from Leviathan, "Blood and Thunder," was featured in the soundtracks for the racing video games Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Project Gotham Racing 3, as well as Saints Row for the Xbox 360. It was also a license song in the Japanese arcade music games "Drummania V and Guitarfreaks V". The track features Neil Fallon, of Clutch fame, on lead vocals during the last verse of the song. He is not featured in the music video. Mastodon opened for Clutch during several tours in the band's early career.
After the release of Leviathan, the band went on to play in The Unholy Alliance tour in 2004 in Europe with Slayer, Slipknot and Hatebreed....Mastodon toured as part of the North American The Unholy Alliance tour with Slayer, Children of Bodom, Lamb of God and Thine Eyes Bleed
SLAYER
LESS THAN JAKE
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL
TAKING BACK SUNDAY
MASTODON
Blood Mountain
Rating: 8.7
...There's plenty afoot in the metal underground-- it's the mainstream version that desperately needs a new set of heroes. While junior-high faves Ozzy Osbourne, Guns n' Roses, and Metallica look like they could no longer eat the rich without gnawing on their own fatuous fingers, Mastodon are on the cusp of arena-sized success. The Atlanta quartet's already released two excellent full-lengths, 2002's Remission and 2004's Leviathan, as well as formative material in 2001's Lifesblood EP (which resurfaced earlier this year on Call of the Mastodon). If Blood Mountain, their brilliantly upsized and unrelenting third album, doesn't confirm their position as the greatest big-time metal crew on earth, I demand a state-by-state recount....
Blood Mountain
4/5 stars
Metal excess is back: exhibit A this month is Blood Mountain, the follow-up to Mastodon's 2004 breakthrough, Leviathan, which took Herman Melville's Moby Dick and refashioned it into one hell of a heavy sea chantey. The Atlanta band consists of four guys who look like tattooed auto mechanics, but they sound like they should be wearing capes and spitting fire. Blood Mountain transforms potentially lame self-help bromides about overcoming great obstacles into a sternum-rattling sci-fi journey through a land infested with all manner of beasties, including a cyclops ("Circle Cysquatch"), warrior tree people ("Colony of Birchmen") and some sort of sleeping giant. Underneath all this medieval blood and thunder are actual tunes brimming with roller-coaster riffing ("Bladecatcher" merits an Air Guitar Hall of Fame nomination), lost-in-the-catacombs dreaminess ("Sleeping Giant") and blinding shafts of acoustic-powered star shine ("Pendulous Skin"). Melody matters as much as mayhem, and the treacherous tempo shifts are navigated brilliantly by drummer Brann Dailor, who turns "Capillarian Crest" into a giddy chase through a blinding snowstorm. Yes, sometimes more is better.
Nominees:
Muse
Bullet For My Valentine
Trivium
Mastodon
Dragonforce
MASTODON, who hail from Atlanta, GA, will be playing songs from their critically acclaimed current album "Blood Mountain", including the No. 1 metal and Grammy-nominated single "Colony of Birchmen". The band was recently tapped as a "Discover & Download" artist on MTV.
fuck yeah Download festival :D ill be there :D Mastodon and Lamb of God, with Maiden headlining \m/ :D
i agree with you there, man. i don't see the similarities between Mastadon and these other bands that have been mentioned.
i still don't think Mastodon are quite as good as they're hyped up to be, but they certainly don't warrant a comparison to Slipknot or Lamb of God. that's just mean.
No, but who a band tours with is normally an excellent pointer as to what they sound like and to who their fans are. Tours aren't put together by chance. Mastodon aren't going to be touring with Slipknot and Lamb of God if fans of those bands hate them, are they?
2. Lamb Of God isn't exactly a bad band
hipsterism
So yeah, people who like Mastodon seemingly tend to like Isis, Meshuggah, Pantera, Porcupine Tree, Tool, Iron Maiden, early Metallica and Nine Inch Nails
Oh, and everyone jumping down my throat with attempts at withering remarks the moment I break in on your circle jerk about a band that, even if I do concede that they are "ok" in the grand scheme of things (afterall, they're no Drowning Pool which I had the misfortune to hear earlier), are not as great as you guys are making them out to be doesn't smack of hipsterism. Not at all, right?
The early stuff is awesomely badass, although not as subtle and progressive as their later material. Good soundtrack for kicking people's asses though.
I must admit I think "Hearts Alive" is their best, being the hopeless prog dork that I am.
The next album will kick ass, I am certain.
But they are mostly contemporary trashy sludge metal. Which rocks.
Leviathan is in no way conceivably bad.
Mastodon are fucking awesome.
Khar, shut up, Mastodon are fantastic, you are wrong, shut up, dude.
(Mastodon are fantastic)
Seriously we are being douches.