I cannot stop listening to this band at the moment. "Seabeast" is surely set to become one of my favourite songs of all time. And i have finally after years of pondering picked up a copy of 'Moby Dick' and started reading it because of Leviathan.

I was playing records in a bar/club earlier tonight (i won't call it deejaying as i know some people on here seem to hate that thought) and i played "Mother Puncher" off Remission. Some guy who was in the middle of a heated discussion with his lady broke off mid conversation to stand up and shout "fucking mother puncher!" and swing his 'air-axe' to the mighty riff. His girlfriend stormed out in a huff, but he came and shook my hand before attempting to follow her.

Hail the good ship MASTODON!

NOT CRAP!!!


Does anyone get an Unwound thing from some of the slower, melodic songs?

Especially off of "Remission"?

The type of band that with every listen, sounds better and better. I'd suggest new listeners to immerse themselves into Mastodon to fully appreciate 'em. And "Remission" has to be a top 10 greatest metal album ever.

I'm listening to "Blood Mountain"....the first song bored me to tears, but it quickly got back onto typical Mastodon genius thereafter. I can see this album will remain true to the "you have to listen to it again and again and again to fully appreciate" territory Mastodon walks in.

NOT CRAP to the max.
I'll probably be alone on this one, but I also like the covers they have.
That Moby Dick drawing for Leviathan is fucking cool.

NOT CRAP. I really like their metal approach, and i can listen to it anytime i want something heavy and it won´t bore me at all.

rachael wrote:(I was honestly more impressed with Keelhaul)

Not a minority opinion, I think. Keelhaul are an amazing band, especially live, and they get a lot of converts at every show. EyeHateGod has never really done anything for me.

I was lucky enough to see Mastodon in a 100-person club before they blew up, on a bill with a bunch of soundalike hardcore bands. WOW. This was when they were still wrapping up their set with a volcanic cover of "Emerald."

don't really listen to their records, but they sure made up for it when High on Fire didn't make it over the border

not crap

Mastodon started with more guts and a clearer sounding vision. They seemed to have traded the rock onslaught/metal harmonies and ogre-like vocals for more prog-sounding experiments and melodic/questionable nu-metal sounding vocals. Remission and Lifesblood Ep, mostly not crap. High waffle factor on Leviathan and what I've heard of the new stuff. I can mostly stomach the prog, but not that new approach to vocals. If this is Mastodon finding itself, I think I liked the seeds of it much better.

Fucking awful fucking band. One of the dumbest live sets I've ever seen in my life.

shit

but what a drummer!