So. Umm. WTF happened to Mastodon?!

[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...

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).

[DarkAxel]

Does that even still count as metal?

it hardly does and I don't think there's anything wrong with that

But yeah, even I, although I liked Hunter and the rest of this album, knew that this track was shit the first time I heard it i'm not lost

[foomanfat]

So, what's the general opinion on clean, melodic vocals in metal?

[dase]

Depends entirely on the band/style/whatever. NWOBHM would sound pretty silly with Cookie Monster vocals. But if corrupted had auto tuned whining over the top they'd sound toy as.

[gunslinger_burrito]

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).

I'll take leviathan as burrito metal.
Though I'm having difficulty understanding the progression from door guy metal through to kitchen metal. I thought it would be the other way around

[braaandooon]

All this talk of cookie monsters and waxed moustaches has me in a very particular mood this morning. Hatebeak is my folgers today, my co workers are absolutely hating it right now.

http://youtu.be/VwXKR9EWhXo

Embed-tarded on my mobile, but link is a metal outfit headed by a squawking parrot, what kind of metal would this be?

[Jakezor]

Shitting on Newspaper Metal?