new mastodon?

[dorian gray]

awesome.....my favorite band for the past couple years

 

[Mr_Haze]

After 2009's Crack the Skye – a harrowing epic inspired by the suicide of Dailor's sister and the near-fatal brain hemorrhage Hinds suffered after a drunken fistfight – the band was ready to cut loose. Case in point: "Blasteroids," a punk-metal sprint that includes repeated howls of "I wanna drink some fucking blood!"

The band expect as many as 14 songs on the final album. Already, they've also got "Curl of the Burl," a swaggering, deep-grooved rocker in the Queens of the Stone Age mold, and "The Octopus," whose cascades of dizzying guitar licks work toward a massive, anthemic chorus. Then there's "Stargasm," which lays galloping riffs over stadium-size drums. "It's about fucking in space," says Dailor, who devised a sci-fi story line for The Hunter — but the concept was ultimately scrapped.

Adds Dailor, "Brent was like, 'Fuck all that! Let's just have fun."

"Kids are going to get in trouble to this album," Mastodon guitarist-vocalist Brent Hinds says of the Atlanta metal band's fifth LP, The Hunter (due later this year). "They're going to break speakers, pop springs on their beds and get drunk and nude in public."

Mastodon and High on Fire cds have been rockin' in my car for the past 3 years straight. I find Mastodon's material to be real growers so I'm going to reserve judgement until much after the release, I just hope their "lets just have fun" run at it doesn't suck.

 

[lurch70]

the riff and drum fills at the beginning of that new track are total Slayer worship ... and then it all falls apart.

 

[swizzlenuts]

http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/08/1...ans-but-i-know-i-like-this-new-mastodon-song/


Not digging this much at all.

 

[lurch70]

hahha ... this sounds like some later day bad Ozzy

 

[neal]

yeh not diggin this new one on first listen, wtf is this whoa ohh whoa ooooh bullshit? i really hope they're puttin out the pussy songs first, and some others will have some of that 'old heaviness' they been talkin about. i dont expect them to revert to Remission levels of chaos, but gimmie some heavy riffs and crazy drum fills please.

buuut like dude said above all mastodon albums are growers so i guess we'll just see what we see wont we

 

[swizzlenuts]

It has leaked, if you care.

http://prophetofdeath.blogspot.com/2011/09/mastodon-hunter-2011.html

 

[swizzlenuts]

lmfao at Creature Lives

 

[Agalloch]

Yeah I've been listening all morning and surprisingly I enjoy it. I need more listens to determine how much but I'm digging it right now.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Oh fuck this poppy shit! Curl the Burl? OOOOOOOOh, ahhhhh, oooooh, ya ya ya oooh, stfu! Now I need to listen to some Remission stuff to cleanse my ears and accept this band once more.

 

[Krilons Resa]

this shit is fuggin' turrible.

 

[dorian gray]

Listening to this right now. Blows.

 

[lurch70]

didn't I tell you guys this on page 1?

 

[dorian gray]

All my favorite bands released albums this year and all have sucked or nearly sucked.

 

[dorian gray]

lmfao at Creature Lives

heh. Just heard this for the first time. wtf

 

[Agalloch]

I think all of you need to give this album some more spins. It's a grower and much better than any of you have given it credit for.

 

[dorian gray]

hmm...ok

 

[swizzlenuts]

The album does grow quite a bit. I went from thinking it was pretty bad to think it's okay/good. It's definitely enjoyable because it's so damn catchy. However, you can't really think of it as Mastodon anymore; it's like a band combing Crack the Skye and Grunge

 

[dorian gray]

the last track is pretty good

 

[swizzlenuts]

I feel bad, but Curl of the Burl has really grown on me. I doubt I would like this album if I wasn't a Mastodon fan.