New Mastodon Album and Single - "Hushed and Grim" October 29th

[neurosis]

I'm sure they wish they could retroactively delete that asshole's parts now.

That was a tough situation. I love. Neurosis to pieces. Can't imagine how it must've felt for people who actually have a close relationship with the people in it.

 

[lattjeful]

OMRTS is definitely overlooked in their library, I'd put my rankings as:

1. Crack the Skye
2. Blood Mountain
3. Emperor of Sand

That top three is perfect. Emperor of Sand is so underrated among the rest of their discography imo. I think it's one of their best.

 

[JSKrev]

That was a tough situation. I love. Neurosis to pieces. Can't imagine how it must've felt for people who actually have a close relationship with the people in it.

I feel really bad for the other guys in the band. I don't think they had knowledge of it.

 

[Stiman]

I've pretty much only listened to Emperor of Sands and Hushed and Grim since I've only gotten into them over the last year and a half. But I REALLY love these albums. I'm a big fan of what having 3 singers does to the music. And I like all three of their singing.

Pretty pumped for the next album, and hope they do another studio documentary because that's what got me into them to begin with.

Edit:
I'm doing to give Crack the Skye a serious listen tomorrow based on people's descriptions here.

 

[Big Dumb Bitch]

I think y'all are the only ones I've seen ranking Blood Mountain at the bottom of their Big 4 albums, I'll throw my rankings up tomorrow at work when I'm bored but BM is a close 2nd for me after CtS.

I also listened to Hushed and Grim about a month ago because I forgot about it and I agree with Max, it should've been half as long. When the riffs hit, they fucking hit, but the majority of songs have filler verses, choruses, or bridges.

Blood Mountain is too riff salad for me in some parts but I haven't listened to it in quite a while so ima listen to it again and see if I feel differently. Sleeping Giant is easily one of my favorite Mastodon songs though. It's so good. Remission is my favorite because it's the angriest and most aggressive.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Blood Mountain, in retrospect, is a very transitional album. It's really good, but I think they were sort of prototyping the sound they would eventually nail on Crack The Skye.

Remission is just so heavy and angry and has such a frantic feel. Leviathan kept the heavy and made it a bit more fun, and I mean, what a fucking album: Blood and Thunder, Naked Burn, Megalodon, Aqua Dementia, Iron Tusk, Hearts Alive, it was like all singles and no fluff.

So it's not like Blood Mountain was bad, it's just with the first two LPs and the opus that is CTS, it's just a sort of the worst of the best you know?

 

[BlackMastodon]

I'm sure they wish they could retroactively delete that asshole's parts now.

That was a tough situation. I love. Neurosis to pieces. Can't imagine how it must've felt for people who actually have a close relationship with the people in it.

Holy fuck I had no idea this happened, what a piece of shit.

 

[fps]

I gave a (re) listen to their last few albums because of this thread, but my list hasn't changed:

1- Leviathan, because I like this one the most.
2- Crack The Skye is their best album, but I still like Leviathan the most.
3- Blood Mountain, because it's good but Leviathan and Crack The Skye exist.
4- Once More Around The Sun, because I thought they lost it after The Hunter but they still had a few good songs in them it seems. Also I like the album's cover.

Albums prior to Leviathan don't sound "like Mastodon" to me (whatever that means) and everything else is a blur and starts to sound all the same to me. I don't think they had anything interesting to say after Crack The Skye. Maybe they should wait 100 hundred years until they REAAAALLY have something worth recording to release new albums, like Tool does / did.

Also The Hunter is a piece of shit and it shows they used everything they had in Crack The Skye. I like the album's cover (and maybe two songs) though.

Also their videos are cool, no matter the album.

On the “everything is a blur” comment, I’d seriously give Emperor of Sand another go. It has the vibes.

 

[fps]

Blood Mountain, in retrospect, is a very transitional album. It's really good, but I think they were sort of prototyping the sound they would eventually nail on Crack The Skye.

Remission is just so heavy and angry and has such a frantic feel. Leviathan kept the heavy and made it a bit more fun, and I mean, what a fucking album: Blood and Thunder, Naked Burn, Megalodon, Aqua Dementia, Iron Tusk, Hearts Alive, it was like all singles and no fluff.

So it's not like Blood Mountain was bad, it's just with the first two LPs and the opus that is CTS, it's just a sort of the worst of the best you know?

Blood Mountain has kinda moved down the rankings for me recently. Brilliant out of the gate, some amazing moments, but some of the best bits are in whole songs that I don’t totally love. Pendulous Skin forever though.

 

[fps]

Not a big fan, but I agree that The Hunter sucked.

I am very fond of the first half. The second half, hmm.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Blood Mountain has kinda moved down the rankings for me recently. Brilliant out of the gate, some amazing moments, but some of the best bits are in whole songs that I don’t totally love. Pendulous Skin forever though.

Yeah, Pendulous Skin is definitely a top 10 or 15 for me in the catalog. When Blood Mountain is good it's good.