Woah! You touched on Remission having a fire theme and obviously Leviathan representing water, which lead me to realize that their follow up has "mountain" in the title (earth) and then of course Crack The Skye being air. Very, very cool. Mind blown.
I remember seeing a vid of Brann (i think) talking about the elephant man themed songs. Basically they were fascinated by blurring of the line between man and beast. Kind of like their music. It can on the surface seem very harsh but there is a lot of heart and depth to their lyrics and message. I love Mastodon because of this. Their music can be very technical and intense but there always seems be a positive message. I love the themes of overcoming adversity.
I always just felt Joseph Merrick was just to tie together their first album Remission with Leviathan. Remission's outro track Is actually called Elephant Man. Also Elephant Man and Joseph Merrick are a couple of their most beautiful tracks from their respective albums.
I see Naked Burn as more of a backstory to the whale. The lyrics reference the book of enoc and follow how the nephillim were formed and how they died. I think in the context of this story Ahab see the whale as another beast that either wasnt killed along with the nephillim or was created to kill the nephillim.
Well done. This is exactly how I would break down the concept. The Norse belief in Thor and the serpent was used to describe high seas and storms. The hammer of Thor created the lightning, etc
@@joeycharron5183 yep. They're playing it at Riot Fest which makes up for that tour not coming to Chicago. So stoked. I just wonder if they'll actually play Joseph Merrick live or over the speakers. Fingers crossed it's the former.
Awesome! I was wondering when you were going to cover this album from one of my favorite bands. Now you need a Mastodon playlist to put the videos into. Have you thought about making videos for songs that are not part of the concept albums, just to give your interpretation of the song? Maybe something worth considering. I'm referring to any artist, not just Mastodon. Thank you for these videos. I listen to so much music day to day, that I stopped paying attention to lyrics nearly two decades ago, for the most part, so these videos help draw my attention back to the lyrics on some of my favorite albums, and help me get a better sense of the story as a whole. Thanks again, Jay! P.S. apart from Avantasia, you should check out some of the albums from The Ocean; Pelagial would be a good place to start. Since you like Mastodon, I'm pretty sure you're going to like this band.
Thank you! I probably should put these videos into a playlist. Do you have any recommendations for specific song explanations? I’ll check out The Ocean!
@@JJMetalhead right off the top of my head I can't think of one specific song, but it could be anything. Let's say one song from Mastodon or coheed that's from an album that is a non-concept, maybe a song that is ambiguous and left for interpretation, you can tell us how you personally interpret it. I think that people will like watching your videos even if they have their own interpretations to begin with. Oh, I think some candidate songs might be "Deathaura", "Juliet", and "No dream can heal a broken heart" from the band Nonata Arctica. These songs are all from the same album, but the album is not a concept album. Even though they don't do concept albums, their songs tend to have stories to them, some even link with each other. A personal favorite of mine is "White pearl, Black oceans", aside from the aforementioned songs. Going to post a second comment after this one.
@@JJMetalhead I think you're really going to enjoy Pelagial from The Ocean. The band's first albums featured different vocalist but after a certain album on worst they stuck with one specific singer. The album I recommended was initially conceived as an instrumental only album, because the permanent singer had problems with his vocal cords, but just before the album was fully recorded he was able to record vocals for it, so now the album has two parts, one song and one instrumental. The album's concept is about the different layers of the ocean, from the surface level down to the deepest at the ocean floor. The music reflects the different layers, and the lyrics deal with mental and emotional stability and self-reflection. This album actually came out with a sort of movie that takes you on the journey from the first track all the way to the last, and all the videos is just a person submerged in water, if I remember it correctly. You can find this video on RUclips. Just look for the ocean pelagial full video or full movie. Have fun!
Hello! Found your account with this video. Love the concept of telling stories behind concept albums. May I kindly recommend two albums for you to check out? Slugdge-Esoteric Malacology Slice the Cake-Odssey to the West
Oh I love Slugdge! And I’ve been meaning to do a video on Esoteric Malacology! I’ll have to move that one up on the list. I haven’t heard of Slice the Cake but I’ll check them out.
Just listened to this album 2 days ago, pretty cool! Needed to know the meaning behind of this moby dick story. Everybody says that it’s so important! Btw the country lick on seabeast is an absolute killer (min 1:20). Thanks for making this video!!
Please do all mastodon albums and if you haven’t already please do the great stone war by winds of plague it’s not an album you find a lot of info on and this is a great channel great work
So I got alot to say about this, fist off great job on all the research and explaining your interpretation of the story.I read the Moby dick book in 5th grade for Book it and was pretty bored with it to be honest untill Captain Ahab showed up and the description of him really intrested me. And then with all the crazy explanation of his experience with this huge sea monster and how it took is leg and sent him in to this Monomania "great word selection btw" really drew me into the story. I am really into monster movies so the idea of having a gozilla like monster being chased by on man with a chip on his sholder was exciting. When this album came out I really tried to get the references to the book, but I had a hard time cause of a coupple of songs i thought didn't fit in and having watched this video, Now i know why lol. I think its awesome that an old story like this can still inspire somthing this awesome in this erra kinda like how the Thor story was an inspiration for Moby Dick it's self. Great video Sry for the grammatical errors . Hard to text a long response.
It’s a fantastic album and I love when bands get into transforming literary classics into badass music. Ahab is definitely fascinating character. I think Mastodon did an exemplary job of embodying his psyche.
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Woah! You touched on Remission having a fire theme and obviously Leviathan representing water, which lead me to realize that their follow up has "mountain" in the title (earth) and then of course Crack The Skye being air. Very, very cool. Mind blown.
Oh shit, you're totally right!!
Crack The Skye is space, not air.
there's no air in space
crack the skye is supposedly aether which makes a lot of sense for the astral projection stuff. I'm not sure where the air album is yet
@@WFly101 Nope, it's aether.
I remember seeing a vid of Brann (i think) talking about the elephant man themed songs. Basically they were fascinated by blurring of the line between man and beast.
Kind of like their music. It can on the surface seem very harsh but there is a lot of heart and depth to their lyrics and message.
I love Mastodon because of this.
Their music can be very technical and intense but there always seems be a positive message. I love the themes of overcoming adversity.
Thats amazing. I agree, I love how they always have a positive message. Very wholesome dudes!
Came here by Punk Rock MBA's suggestion. Great work! Don't stop!
When they played with Coheed it was basically a dream show.
Agreed!!!
I always just felt Joseph Merrick was just to tie together their first album Remission with Leviathan. Remission's outro track Is actually called Elephant Man. Also Elephant Man and Joseph Merrick are a couple of their most beautiful tracks from their respective albums.
I see Naked Burn as more of a backstory to the whale. The lyrics reference the book of enoc and follow how the nephillim were formed and how they died. I think in the context of this story Ahab see the whale as another beast that either wasnt killed along with the nephillim or was created to kill the nephillim.
Oh, no way! I missed the book of enoch references but that makes sense and makes the story even more badass.
Well done. This is exactly how I would break down the concept.
The Norse belief in Thor and the serpent was used to describe high seas and storms. The hammer of Thor created the lightning, etc
I highly recommend everyone read the book. Even the "technical" chapters. It's a masterpiece. Great job breaking it down!
Yoo, ive been looking for a channel like this forever! Im so glad this exists!
Glad you found it!!
My favorite Mastodon album and one of my top 5 albums of all time. Hoping we get a 20th anniversary tour next year.
I'm from the future, and you guessed right buddy! 😮
@@joeycharron5183 yep. They're playing it at Riot Fest which makes up for that tour not coming to Chicago. So stoked. I just wonder if they'll actually play Joseph Merrick live or over the speakers. Fingers crossed it's the former.
this really fleshes out the listening experience for me thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I love that your art for Thor was Amon Amarth
How sweet this girl is; then, at the beginning of each video she always has a drink, she's nice :) excellent explanation of this album. Stay metal!
Very good Job! Love the content!!
Awesome! I was wondering when you were going to cover this album from one of my favorite bands. Now you need a Mastodon playlist to put the videos into. Have you thought about making videos for songs that are not part of the concept albums, just to give your interpretation of the song? Maybe something worth considering. I'm referring to any artist, not just Mastodon.
Thank you for these videos. I listen to so much music day to day, that I stopped paying attention to lyrics nearly two decades ago, for the most part, so these videos help draw my attention back to the lyrics on some of my favorite albums, and help me get a better sense of the story as a whole. Thanks again, Jay!
P.S. apart from Avantasia, you should check out some of the albums from The Ocean; Pelagial would be a good place to start. Since you like Mastodon, I'm pretty sure you're going to like this band.
Thank you! I probably should put these videos into a playlist. Do you have any recommendations for specific song explanations?
I’ll check out The Ocean!
@@JJMetalhead right off the top of my head I can't think of one specific song, but it could be anything. Let's say one song from Mastodon or coheed that's from an album that is a non-concept, maybe a song that is ambiguous and left for interpretation, you can tell us how you personally interpret it. I think that people will like watching your videos even if they have their own interpretations to begin with. Oh, I think some candidate songs might be "Deathaura", "Juliet", and "No dream can heal a broken heart" from the band Nonata Arctica. These songs are all from the same album, but the album is not a concept album. Even though they don't do concept albums, their songs tend to have stories to them, some even link with each other. A personal favorite of mine is "White pearl, Black oceans", aside from the aforementioned songs.
Going to post a second comment after this one.
@@JJMetalhead I think you're really going to enjoy Pelagial from The Ocean. The band's first albums featured different vocalist but after a certain album on worst they stuck with one specific singer. The album I recommended was initially conceived as an instrumental only album, because the permanent singer had problems with his vocal cords, but just before the album was fully recorded he was able to record vocals for it, so now the album has two parts, one song and one instrumental. The album's concept is about the different layers of the ocean, from the surface level down to the deepest at the ocean floor. The music reflects the different layers, and the lyrics deal with mental and emotional stability and self-reflection. This album actually came out with a sort of movie that takes you on the journey from the first track all the way to the last, and all the videos is just a person submerged in water, if I remember it correctly. You can find this video on RUclips. Just look for the ocean pelagial full video or full movie. Have fun!
@@GrimAhren Awesome, will do!
Hello! Found your account with this video. Love the concept of telling stories behind concept albums.
May I kindly recommend two albums for you to check out?
Slugdge-Esoteric Malacology
Slice the Cake-Odssey to the West
Oh I love Slugdge! And I’ve been meaning to do a video on Esoteric Malacology! I’ll have to move that one up on the list. I haven’t heard of Slice the Cake but I’ll check them out.
This was awesome thank you 🤘🏽🖤🎵💪🏽
That is a great album indeed. I saw them on ozzfest 2005.
Just listened to this album 2 days ago, pretty cool! Needed to know the meaning behind of this moby dick story. Everybody says that it’s so important! Btw the country lick on seabeast is an absolute killer (min 1:20). Thanks for making this video!!
Damn i admire artists that can create stories into their albums, i can only write about myself lol
Please do all mastodon albums and if you haven’t already please do the great stone war by winds of plague it’s not an album you find a lot of info on and this is a great channel great work
Thank you for the recommendation! I love Winds of Plague and I didn’t know they had a concept album. Can’t wait to check it out!
dude this is all so cool🫶🏽🤟🏽
I'm in love now
Heck yeah Mastodon lore🤘
really bummed i can't make the tour w Gojira
Same!
Weird that they called the mastodon fossil a leviathan. Land monsters are usually called behemoths but I wasn’t alive back then so can’t say much.
So I got alot to say about this, fist off great job on all the research and explaining your interpretation of the story.I read the Moby dick book in 5th grade for Book it and was pretty bored with it to be honest untill Captain Ahab showed up and the description of him really intrested me. And then with all the crazy explanation of his experience with this huge sea monster and how it took is leg and sent him in to this Monomania "great word selection btw" really drew me into the story. I am really into monster movies so the idea of having a gozilla like monster being chased by on man with a chip on his sholder was exciting. When this album came out I really tried to get the references to the book, but I had a hard time cause of a coupple of songs i thought didn't fit in and having watched this video, Now i know why lol. I think its awesome that an old story like this can still inspire somthing this awesome in this erra kinda like how the Thor story was an inspiration for Moby Dick it's self. Great video
Sry for the grammatical errors .
Hard to text a long response.
It’s a fantastic album and I love when bands get into transforming literary classics into badass music. Ahab is definitely fascinating character. I think Mastodon did an exemplary job of embodying his psyche.
@@JJMetalhead I agree 👍🏻
Island and hearts alive are by far my favorite tracks. Also dang she cute af
Wait... Wasn't your explanation of the first track just an explanation of what Moby Dick is about? 😅
Yes.
girl u need to fuck with sound setting cuz ur videos are way too low
Lol, yeah a lot of my earlier videos are low quality sound until I got better equipment.
I was just looking for the album review, but this certainly will suffice! Great video!
It’s a great album! Not my favorite of theirs, but still great-plus it has a cool concept.