Leviathan and Call of the mastodon are their best. by far. I haven't heard the new one, but i heard brann cut back on the drum fills and they got a keyboard player.
sounds like a completely different band to me.
also do not like the vocals on divination
I'd say the vocals have definitely changed. I'm actually liking them more. He definitely didn't cut back on his fills, they are still on here in great numbers. He did however, add a lot of groove but it fits the sound perfectly IMO. A few listens so far and I'm liking this a LOT more than Blood Mountain.
This album is like 6 different variations of Colony of Birchmen. What happened to sludge?
I liked that it was thrashy ass sludge.
Check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZX_1X4YJXU&eurl=http://www.metalsucks.net/
Mastodon's new video sounds amazing.
They have two vocalists, Brent and Troy. Brent does all the vocals on CTS and all the soft vocals in previous albums, and Troy does all the harsh vox. Brent's voals are fine, but like most people I prefer Troy's tenacity and fire, so it really sucks that Troy only sings on one song on the whole album :/
Troy definitely sings on more than one song. Brann even has some vocals on Ghost of Karelia. Brent also did screams on Lifesblood/Remission, so I don't know where you got that info.
I feel like this album is so far away from anything they did before conceptually. It sounds like a completely different band.Well they have this thing where they go through different "elements" with each album, like Remission is fire, Leviathan is water, Blood Mountain is earth, and Crack the Skye is aether, which is why their sound has got lighter and less heavy, but it makes up for it by being their most progressive release to date. I suggest you dont think of them as a sludge band anymore and think of them more as a progressive metal band.
Troy definitely sings on more than one song. Brann even has some vocals on Ghost of Karelia. Brent also did screams on Lifesblood/Remission, so I don't know where you got that info.
No. Apart from the fact there is a large amount of clean vocals on the album, there really isn't any basis for claiming that.This album is like 6 different variations of Colony of Birchmen.
It was just a sweeping generalisation. I know Brent screams in previous albums, but it's only really here and there and his screams are whiny and mildly annoying.The only vocals that stand out tbh are Kelly's in the title track, other than that it's difficult to really distinguish between Brent and Troy :/
Walls1441 said:I guess this is just another band that i won't be seeing live in a few years when they no longer play their older stuff (circa ARCH ENEMY)
yeah but all these songs are >5 minutes give them another album like this next year or the year after and they will probably just play mother puncher/blood and thunder then stick heavily to Blood mountain and CTSI don't think this is going to happen. They still play a lot of material off of Lifesblood and Remission etc as of last year.