So. Umm. WTF happened to Mastodon?!

[DarkAxel]

I'm not bothered by it. It's not their best but I don't dislike it either.

But, I also think that Crack the Skye is by far their best album - like to an extent that I hardly even think of it as in the same category as their other albums. And nobody agrees with me on that so idk. Wasn't into Remission or Blood Mountain. Love Leviathan.

Love Leviathan, Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye all the same
Never liked Remission
Enjoyed Hunter quite a lot
Enjoyed the new one even more - not as much as the holy trinity, but still

yes - Mothership is probably my least favourite track off the record... But there are things that reach the stars for me as well (Ember City anyone?)

[Iommic Pope]

I just stopped by to say that I can confirm Gojira's power and dominance.

If you name yourself after the great nuclear death lizard himself, you better bring it. Or else I would be disappointed in you.

Bring it they do, sir.

[benjuro]

I was a big fan for a long time, loved Remission and saw them touring for Leviathan and Blood Mountain, and used to look forward to new albums from them...I couldn't even make it through the newest one.

[foomanfat]

I like the new record, but I also thought that The Hunter was pretty rad. I came into Mastodon during Blood Mountain times, so that's still my preferred record.
Wasn't into Crack The Skye at all. Seemed like so much self-indulgent prog.

[WayToHip]

Sorry ladies the Anaconda video shoot is that way --->

To you?
The vocals are shitty, and the video is so bad, it's funny. I'm in the "being campy and 2014" camp.
This is a heavy pop song.
Light on the heavy though.

[braaandooon]

Speaking of heavy pop, should check out the last 35 seconds of the track Aunt Lisa, this is the steaming pyle of dogshit that really ruins this album for me, most of the other songs I enjoy. Aunt Lisa link below...

http://youtu.be/pVrl6c4I8qs

[jrmy]

I was wondering / semi-dreading when this thread would be started...

... I really dig the album.

[braaandooon]

I still love me some studio mastodon, I've been a fan since the call of the mastodon lp. Maybe I have high expectations, maybe not, my main gripe is the live performances the last few times round I've seen them, just completely uninspiring, which in return uninspires me to pay for travel, lodge, and tickets. Like what was said earlier in this thread, performing pretty much turned into a shitty day job for the band, thats the impression I get anyways.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Speaking of heavy pop, should check out the last 35 seconds of the track Aunt Lisa, this is the steaming pyle of dogshit that really ruins this album for me, most of the other songs I enjoy. Aunt Lisa link below...

http://youtu.be/pVrl6c4I8qs

Huh. Weird.
To me this song is 100% more interesting than "the motherload"
Not great, just kinda like decent prog rock
EDIT: I didn't listen to the last 35 seconds before posting this. That is some stadium style, anthem-ass butt rocking going on. No me gusta.

I really just dislike the poppy songs. They sound really uninspired to me. I think what I dislike about newer Mastodon is what I dislike about newer Boris (blasphemy, I know) and that's the shiny production.

To me, producing metal in a really shiny way is like what the Twilight movies did to vampires. Taking something gritty, mean, dark, etc and "taming" it. Adding glitter.

[braaandooon]

Anytime Mastodon reminds me of Gwen Stefani, is a bad day for music. The chanting at the end of that song is so B-A-N-A-N-A-S, if ya know what I'm saying.

[futuresailors]

Does that even still count as metal?

[Jakezor]

Sorry ladies the Anaconda video shoot is that way --->

To you?
The vocals are shitty, and the video is so bad, it's funny. I'm in the "being campy and 2014" camp.
This is a heavy pop song.
Light on the heavy though.

doh! forgot this forum is right avatar, I have it set to left side avatar so it is the same as every other forum in existence.

[Twangasaurus]

While we are on the topic of favorite Mastodon albums Blood Mountain pretty much single handedly got me into metal so... yeah, I like Blood Mountain a lot. Honestly, the new album is pretty much the only album of theirs that I have heard that I have disliked (haven't listened to Remission though). Hunter was pretty fun but obviously the end of the Mastodon as I knew them.

[jamesmikelly]

I didn't hate it. They didn't expect me to take a second of it seriously and I didn't. I feel like because of them going full beer commercial rock I actually am enjoying this song more than The Hunter material, which tried to walk the line between the past and future and didn't satisfy me at all. Nothing I'll jam in my spare time, will definitely make my friends watch the video and crack up at the guitar solo's psychedelic booty scenery.

[dase]

Does that even still count as metal?

possibly waxed mustache metal, although the super clean vocals are even pushing it out of that range. Maybe into end of season highlights reel metal? They've definitely gone door guy metal (remission), had a stop off at burrito metal (leviathan) through to line cook / kitchen metal (crack the skye).