New Mastodon for the gang...

for those interested.....


Remember that story from your childhood about the chicken who thought the sky was following, rounded up all a bunch of animal friends, and went to tell the king, only ultimately to be eaten? Alright so maybe I'm getting some of the plot wrong and I don't really remember the meaning of the story, but it doesn't matter all that much. I just wanted to use the sky is falling reference because early next year, Mastodon plan on at least cracking it with a brand new album. Whether this means the sky actually fall however, of course remains to be seen.

Silliness aside, and based on the actual spelling of the Atlanta metal outfit's forthcoming studio endeavor, Crack The Skye, there's a very real possibility that everything I just wrote made no sense whatsoever and the title actually relates to something like prog rockers Crack the Sky. But hey I'm all for entertainment so even if I just embarrassed myself, at least it's something. What we do know is that the Brendan O'Brien produced album, Mastodon's fourth overall, will be released on Reprise Records and features seven tracks, highlighted by a four-piece track titled "The Czar"?. The song apparently examines the album's lyrical theme, Czarist Russia.

In an interview with Blabbermouth, bassist/singer Troy Sanders described the follow up to 2004's Blood Mountain's as fitting within the rock category, while still remaining "pretty epic and involved, extremely layered, broad, melodic, dark, and creepy."?

When we met up with [producere] Brendan [O'Brien], he had heard some of our demos and he liked some of the rock elements that we had with our stuff. We told him that we were interested in recording, quote, "?a classic rock record that will hopefully have a long shelf life and have solid songs from start to finish, and that will live a lot longer than just listening to it a few times and shelving it.'

So it is going to be more of a rock kind of Count Chocula-meets-DEEP PURPLE thing. That's kind of what we're saying.

Crack The Skye Tracklist:
01. Oblivion
02. Divinations
03. Quintessence
04. The Czar
(I) Usurper
(II) Escape
(III) Martyr
(IV) Spiral
05. Ghost of Karelia
06. Crack the Skye
07. The Last Baron


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If any of you guys have ever heard their version of Thin Lizzy's The Emerald, you know they can do the classic rock thing. I'm so excited for this. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]

That cover is great, one of my favorite songs they do.

They play it live a lot. I've seen them live 5-6 times and they've probably played it 3-4 of those times.

I love those guys... every time I listen to them, it's like I lose my metal virginity all over again