Mastodon - Hushed and Grim ALBUM REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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While a lot more impressive than the preceding Emperor of Sand, Hushed and Grim does buckle under its own weight.
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FAV TRACKS: PAIN WITH AN ANCHOR, THE CRUX, MORE THAN I COULD CHEW, TEARDRINKER, PEACE AND TRANQUILITY, SAVAGE LANDS, GIGANTIUM
LEAST FAV TRACK: THE BEAST
MASTODON - HUSHED AND GRIM / 2021 / REPRISE / PROG METAL
6/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
I'm still convinced Melon didn't actually listen to Emperor of Sand
Its awesome
Eh idk
The only song that stuck with me was Roots Remain
That album rules, songs like roots remain and Jaguar god are top tier mastodon.
I still go back to that review every now and then just to get a laugh. It's literally one of the best Mastodon albums ever and has a Grammy to prove it. It's just bangers from start to end.
Probably not more than once
I just discovered Mastodon because of this album, and I’ve been listening to Leviathan and Crack The Skye on repeat all week. Those albums are both masterpieces imo.
those albums are garbage compared to ratitude though.
i prefer Once more round the sun
I do like some post-2009 mastodon stuff but comparing it to their 2004-2009 run is night and day. 3 10/10 records in a row, one of the most impressive runs in metal
No love for "Blood Mountain"?
100%
The way you described "The Beast" as Chris Stapleton being forced at gunpoint to sing with opeth... like it was meant to be an insult but honestly that sounds awsome
"Devil always made me, devil always made me sleep my child, oh, sleep my child."
It's the other way around. Chris Stapleton is singing with a terrible effect on his voice and Opeth is forced to be his backing band at shotgun point. It's much more likely that Chris Stapleton has a shotgun anyway.
The Beast is sooooo good though
I would listen to it
My fave song on the album right now
God, with the history of mastodon reviews and with his distaste for the singles, I was ready for a 3 lmao.
guess Mastodon just have an inclination to pick up worst songs to be a single, least to Me(lon) anyway.
he has awful taste
Distaste for the singles, he didn't say anything negative about them
@@hellrose18 A lot of them have been in worst tracks of the week vids
@@batman-sr2px Mastodon just picks terrible songs for singles; I found the ones for this release to be rather unimpressive, yet again, though not as shitty as eg. the ones for Emperor of Sand.
Haven't checked out the full album yet personally, but it seems like they're still in their post-Crack the Skye rut, although maybe not in as bad shape as they were on EoS.
"The Beast" is probably the best song on the record. I wish this album had more Brent vocals.
He has vox on 4 songs - 2 clean and 2 harsh. Hes in there where he fits.
I saw that he is making an album with Matt Pike, of Sleep and High on Fire.
I think he was quoted saying something like, he was holding back a bit and had stuff he didn't want on a Mastodon album.
So.. there is that. lol
I'm gonna see them and opeth.
@@thathandleistakentrythisone wich songs? I only see peace and tranquillity and the beast
They have this approach where everybody sings the parts they write if there's no reason for any other member to sing in them. And Brent says his influence in this album was minimal.
This album is a grower man, seriously one of there best works since Crack The Skye, its so damn good
I though everything after crack the Skye was lackluster. Your comment made me wanna try it.
@@PhreakPhantom once more round the sun is the only album that didn't smack me in the face. The rest will go down in history has some of the best metal put to record. These guys are musicians, musicians.
@@bobbyosborne2375 Once More Round the Sun is easily my favorite post-Crack the Skye Mastodon album
@@spamsingles5948 the singles are awesome fried in a skillet. Put that shit on a sandwich after a night binge drinking and the hangover is lessened by a factor of 10 the next day. (Don't screw up and not drink water with the sandwich.)
My first listen, it was a 3/5. Second listen, 4/5. Now, it's my favorite album from Mastodon along with Leviathan and Crack the Skye. I've been playing Hushed and Grim everday since release, it's definitely one of those albums that has to be listened to more than once.
I thought Mastodon was 10 years past their prime but this album surprised me. I never thought men in their late 40s could rock like this. I give the album an 8/10.
Wait for a new Meshuggah album.
Honestly... music knows no limits. Look at any musician at any age.. they can make a good album!
I give it a 10/10
What even is this comment? Like, wtf does that even mean lmao.
I think a lot of reviewers I have seen covering this album already haven't spent enough time with it yet. I would have agreed with this review and score after just one or two listens. Now, several listens beyond that I'm hooked on it, and it's one of my personal favorite albums of this year.
I couldn't agree more, I spun it all day on Friday, once or twice on Saturday, and off and on since then and it's almost immediately become an absolute favorite. Which is kinda crazy because I usually won't jump into new releases for at least a month and sometimes longer.
I haven't listened to it since my first playthrough but I do know that Mastodon always had that "Give it time" factor for their music. So although my knee jerk reaction is the above review, I do want to go back multiple times to let it all meld together first =D
This is true
It gets better every day for me
@@maxolydian9115 Same and I find myself humming/singing different parts of different songs every day haha
Yeah I wasn't very impressed with it the first time I listened. Some cool riffs/bridges, but it didn't do much for me. A week later it's all I've been listening to and I can't recommend it enough to people with similar musical tastes
I'm so stoked to see them coheadline with Opeth with Zeal and Ardor opening. Counting down the days.
hell yeah I’m seeing them the 30th in Arizona
Seeing them soon in Nashville and I can't fucking wait.
That sounds sickening, I didn’t know that was a thing that’s happening, nice!
could not be more hyped. most stacked lineup!!
@@mistybaylock for real dude I'm hyped to see what their sets will be
Their best album since CTS. Absolutely incredible stuff, didn't expect it to hit me as hard emotionally as it did. Really proud of what they've accomplished here.
Maybe it's because I'm not that sentimental, but I still think they haven't topped the Hunter. This album is too long, and songs just feel a bit one dimensional to me. Although they're quite good, I really don't understand people who constantly say this is one of their best albums etc.
above The Hunter?........
@@DoenerDuesentrieb Maybe overall currently. But it depends on my mood for what album I'm vibing with currently. I do love The Hunter though. So underrated.
@@twontonamo I feel you, I keep changing my rankings of best mastodon albums also regularly :D
CTS has been my favourite Mastodon album so far. Mainly because of the two epics The Czar and The Last Baron. But honestly this album may actually top it. The only track that I don't care for so much is Teardrinker and if such a song is the least good of 15 tracks then that kinda says it all.
He was building up the expectation of a 3 with his distaste for the singles to make us feel relieved with an overall 6. Melon using strategies.
Now do Limp Bizkit.
Spoiler
It’s a 10/10
@@macabre9484 I don't know about 10/10 but holy shit, it's not bad.
Oh wow, it’s only 32 minutes, I think I’m actually going to try it for old times sake.
I remember buying CSATHFW on CD when I was 15, thinking I was so fking cool, and my friends and I recorded home music videos of us breaking stuff to that album.. lol. I tried to re-listen to it, and to Significant Other, a couple years ago.. tried being the operative word. I doubt this will be my re-entry into fandom, but it’s short enough I’ll try it. At least Wes still looks “cool”..
@@nikolademitri731 come back with your thoughts if you decide to listen to it.
It's actually not bad. Crazy.
I'm in love with Hushed and Grim. The meaning and pain of loss behind it adds to the beauty and complexity it of it. I think it's great. Easily at least an 8.5/10. I think after 7 albums it's okay for them to break out of the norm and try new stuff.
...they have a norm?
Damn after what he thought of the singles I thought this would be a 3/10
What the fuck are you talking about, he had nothing but positive things to say about the singles
@@hellrose18 ... if you saw his weekly roundups you would know he didn't like pushing the tides and sickle and peace when he first heard them. So thats what I was referring to. He skipped teardrinker in the roundups. Sorry you got so upset... just chill man.
@@hellrose18 Nothing but positive things? He put Sickle And Peace in the worst tracks section and said the vocals were terrible and called it "awful prog"
I've never understood the "sludge metal" label that gets put on Mastadon's music. Yeah the production on their early albums is super swampy and intentionally grainy, but the actual music and songwriting has far more in common with prog metal than anything else. They're kind of like Trivium and Dream Theater in the sense that while they do fit into a specific subgenre (in this case metalcore and prog metal), their sound and take on the genre is completely unique to them and them alone.
They have parts in their songs that sounds like sludge metal, for example the ending to pain with an anchor. Its chugging in drop A but the way it sounds is grainy and heavy, and that tremolo picking gives it an even more sludgier sound with its dissonance notes. Overall, mastodon are progressive with elements of sludge
Well if you havent heard remission you should
yeah comparing Mastodon to an actual Sludge band like Eyehategod is just....weird
@@hipbubble7685 Remission is way more prog than sludge
@@dreamsinthewitchhouse Thinking Mastodon is just pure sludge is weird, I wouldn't compare Inter Arma or Neurosis to Eyehategod either but that doesn't mean there's not some sludge in there.
Please consider doing a classics week review for Mastodon's Leviathan, we need a bit more modern metal on the roster and I can't think of a more deserving album
Well that's a shock lmao
Their best record since Crack the Skye imo
Please make a tier list or something like that ! The best Mastodon albums were released before you started with this channel .. Blood Mountain was such a masterpiece for me in the time it came out.
I love this record. it's at least a strong STROONG 8 in my book.
Agreed. It's a solid album.
The biggest problem is it’s as if he wants the band to stay stagnant in time from the way he talks, from what I said in another video of his. Mastodon says they want to move forward with their music and not be stuck in the box, yet you and some fans of them seem to want that? So in short, a reviewer that doesn’t go into an album with a fresh and open mind, is a reviewer I’m not likely to return to (if he had done that, then explained his gripes in comparison I’d understand, but here it just comes off half cocked). For somebody who supposedly loves sludge metal and all kinds of music, he sure doesn’t seem to understand anyones desire to change things up or allow himself to enjoy something different. All I can say is at least he’s consistent with my ranking having this one higher than The Hunter (and that album was pretty good), but this is lower than Once More Round The Sun? Not saying that’s an awful take, it is a bit strange though, but I’ll allow it.
Strong 4 on this reviewer.
This guy is a joke. I only return to his videos to hear what ludicrous shit he’ll say today
>Mastodon says they want to move forward with their music and not be stuck in the box
Every album they've released since Crack the Sky has been more and more 'inside the box' than the last until Hushed and Grim; what are you smoking?
>it’s as if he wants the band to stay stagnant in time
The shift from Crack the Sky to Emperor of Sand was absolutely not a progression. Change is not inherently good, and change for change's sake is not preferable to consistent greatness when the result of that change is shallow, uninnovative, and mediocre.
This is the *exact* same argument people use to defend Metallica's album St. Anger. Drastic change is called for when the present material is dated and low-quality; Crack the Sky was one of the most complete metal projects of all time, and the band's response was to never do anything as good again. That was a terrible call in hindsight.
This review is fair. Hushed and Grim is the best album Mastodon has released since their good albums back pre-2010, and their attempts at change have (until this point) left them feeling more and more generic as time goes on.
Eh? Mastodon is very derivative of themselves on this record, and I found it to be bland and unremarkable. Idk what new ground you think they're treading with this one, but I just don't hear it.
@@leitmotif6854 outside of the box from what they were doing earlier on their career, you might like their older work and I like it too, but I really appreciate this album’s wide range and willingness to do something else than sound like the same few songs.
Crack the Skye wasn’t as special to me as Hushed and Grim, The Hunter, or even Emperor of Sand to me at least, CTS seemed very short winded having a little over 50 minutes of run time, a lot of open notes and dead air between tracks, and only a few things to say in it. No offense to Brann and his loss but there had to be a bit more. While in my opinion the albums I’ve mentioned used it’s time a little wiser, incorporating more of the bands collective experiences as input into its lyrics, talking about multiple tragedies and conflicts in their lives than just one scarring and stretched out one.
@@cangrejopendejo4909 no disrespect but are you kidding? This album consistently throughout has the deepest lyrics and feelings that I’ve ever heard them at!!! The whole band was feeling stuff in this album. Not just one or two of them per song, it was felt in every beat, in every chord, in every word, in nearly every song that wasn’t meant to lighten the album and their morale up. This kind of cohesion has been rare for them in recent times and I’m fuckin here for it!
This is where I'd put my comment about how "such and such about the band is not a review, melon." While I find those comments funny and don't discourage them, it's probably more fitting for me personally if I just say thank you for helping me find so much cool music! I have discovered so much material I never would have without your channel, and I appreciate your thoroughness and devotion to music as an art form :)
Damn.
It's really refreshing to encounter sincerity in these comments, considering how much unfunny irony gets derivatively regurgitated. Unfortunately, there is no way to compensate for how much sarcasm I encounter on here, so I have decided to unsubscribe from Fantano and stop listening to music altogether. I hope you get better results than I did.
Dripping with irony.
@@kwhyland
Lmao
The mix on this album is interesting, guitars needed more body. The sickle and peace riff is killer tho
Yeah they just seem a little thin. I think it would be interesting to hear some of their rhythm guitar tracks played witha hollowbody ala Malcom or Izzy style.
I'm surprised he hasn't dropped his 10/10 limp bizket review yet.
6/10 review. You didn't even mention BY FAR the best track on the record??? More Than I Could Chew
He put it in his favorite tracks.
Fuckin' awesome song.
yeah there's been a few youtube reviewers that have this track oddly missing from their review.. I know it's in his written list, but to not talk about it in the review makes me question the rest of the review.
Sickle and Peace is probably my favorite Mastodon track to date!..
Great album!
personally, I love the beast. I don't think I have heard a song more "brent hinds" on any other album. to each their own I guess.
Have you listened to the new Porcupine Tree single? It absolutely SLAPS!
The new WHAT
@@Ratmatia their releasing a new record later next year as well
Slaps real hard
@@Ratmatia i literally just yelled this out loud 🤣
Easily an 8, but it was expected because of Lemon's Emperor of sand review. This album, just like any Mastodon album grows on you
The more I listen to this album the more I love it. I totally disagree about the volume/up front sound of the instrumentation/drums on Pushing the Tides. There is nothing worse than metal with way louder vocals than instruments imo.
Seems like everyone at this point expects them to scream their ass off on every record. In my mind the melody makes the song and this album, just like emperor of sand, is crammed full of it. Their records are like fine wine. They only get better with age. And anyone that only sat down through one playthrough, please for the love of God, keep listening. It always takes time hear everything that's to offer on the record. The 3 vocal attack sends the record over the top.
The Beast more like the BEST song on the album
I feel like the value of shorter albums cannot be understated. Especially in metal or prog. This album would have been a lot better if it were shortened to like, 45 minutes.
Like how I first wished Tesseract’s Sonder was longer, but later I really appreciated having less to digest and it grew on me
nah all the tracks are great you probably havent listened to it enough for it to fully register
It's not about length,it's all about how much filler is there.
No
I strongly disagree. Lateralus I think is 70 minutes and who doesn't love Lateralus? Lift Your Skinny Fists. Soundtracks/TBK depending on who you ask. Frances the Mute. Selected Ambient Works and Music Has the Right to Children. I think something extra special when you take a masterpiece and make it longer, as long as the songs are worth it. I also consider there to be a big difference in 60 minute vs 70 minutes on an album. Why I have no clue.
My dad had a musician friend who wasn’t very good but could certainly talk a lot and make himself sound important. He constantly overplayed (bass) and was overly opinionated in the rehearsal room. He went on to be a music critic for a local newspaper….giving some good reviews but mostly just feeding his ego like a self righteous asshat and judging others. He pissed off many good bands. You remind me of that guy.
Preach. You hit the nail on the head
Cope and seethe
Even as a long time Masto-fan it took me a good 5/6 listens before I was on board with this album. That said I still find it has some absolute duds. IMO its a mid-tier Mastodon album, better than most metal but nowhere near the heights of Leviathan, Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye.
As someone who really enjoyed emperor of sand I thought this was better. I'm cool with the direction they're going in with emperor, cold dark place and hushed and grim and am just fine with Leviathan BM and Skye being their best of the best. Who knows though, maybe scott kelly screams on every song next album lol
There's a lot going on with this record. It def needs multiple listen-throughs.
@@patrickmccabe2078 Scott Kelly joins Mastodon? I could see that possible. Maybe hoping for it too.
@@ZeBubba hes appeared on one song on every mastodon album since leviathan but didnt appear on hushed and grim although he did do vocals on their 2020 single fallen torches which makes his absence this time around make more sense
@@hipbubble7685 I know all this
This album has more of what hooked me in to love Mastodon than their past 4 records, but buckling under its own weight is accurate to me. They manage to build up such a grim and spooky vibe with a deep flavour of the oceanic heaviness from their first trilogy of albums, but I feel they do spoil it getting a bit too soft and boring for too many long passages that don't build anywhere as the album develops.
Mature, dense, by all accounts an 8, but I see how it could disappoint, everyone expects something else from Mastodon. Also, the mix is arguably lacking clarity, in a bad way.
Really solid review.
It’s a 9/10 for me. Almost a perfect album. Just wish there was more Brent Hinds on the vocals. Been a long time Mastodon fan and they’re only getting better with age. The album art is incredible as well.
Nah, they've been on a skid for a while now. Crack the Skye was their last decent record.
@@GreetTheSacredCow I mean that’s definitely subjective. I love both, Crack the Skye is my favorite album but I’ve also had over a decade with it. For Hushed and Grim I’ve felt such a connection and attachment to the lyrics and emotions of the album and it’s only been 6 days since it dropped. That’s pretty incredible, and in my personal opinion a strong sign that it’s indeed one of their strongest albums.
@@GreetTheSacredCow that's like, your opinion man.
@@GreetTheSacredCownein
Just started... Stop calling them sludge. They haven't been since Crack The Skye.
With that being said, I expected a worse score knowing your disdain for most modern prog. Thank God you actually sort of understood one.
@@tannerhuskins330 stop calling it peepee poopoo metal when its aktrchually grnch brcnhs ghhh metal
@@tannerhuskins330 Most "modern prog" of the trendy variety is pretty goddamn subpar though, so it's only appropriate to be dismissive toward it.
@@ileutur6863 haha I love that
mastodon u got another classic in ya i believe in u
This albums great
If it was shout and happy, it would've been a 10
I liked parts of this album. Definatly some of their best songs in years, but there was just too much filler imo. It didn't need to be a double lp, could have cut out almost half of the tracks and it'd be a good LP. Favorite track is "More than I could chew"
I agree with pretty much everything you said. "More than I could chew" is also my favorite track on the album.
Already feels like AOTY for me. Glad you finally liked something I hold dear! Hushed and Grim might be the best work since Crack the Skye imo. The only thing I don't agree on would be Gobblers, love that song, the later section of the song is so sexy.
This year has brought me strong releases from VOLA, Spiritbox, Jinjer, Gojira and Wheel for example but this might be my favorite of 2021.
Been listening since Remission, and this is a good album. I like new Mastodon. But if there's one thing I want to listen to after new Mastodon, it's old Mastodon.
Sadly we can only search for bands who sounds like old Mastodon
Baroness - First/Second per example
the beast is honestly one of the greatest performances by Brent, such a slick, crispy track with some crafty vocals. i love it so much
Yo, Anthony, can you do a review of the Rivers of Nihil Album that came out a few weeks ago.
Is it "Where Owls Know My Name?". I'm not familiar with RoN but that album kicked ass.
Sorry, Melon. I've already made up my mind about this one. It's definitely a strong 8.
You didn't need to click on this video at all then
Mastodon fans eat up any garbage that their band feeds to them.
@@xwhite2020 Like most metal fans, I thought I was goin crazy reading the commenta under the songs from new album. Not one person disliked any of the songs? Seriously? Come on....
As someone who's in love with Blood Mountain (their peak imo) it was hard to me to really enjoy this album at first... then a cat who I've been loving for almost 15 years died and BOOM I felt the album in my flesh, blood and soul, I couldn't explain how harmonized I felt to this album. The album isn't perfect, there's things I don't like in it, I think Mastodon could have made a more technically deep and interesting album BUT this album approaches its theme almost perfectly, the fact it's a long, almost neverending, mix or regret, sadness, frustration and anger really invoke how mourning can feel -> you feel blocked, unable to move forward while inside you're going through a lot of different postures and emotions. The last song of the album is P E R F E CT, it really feels like dawn, the light is slowly coming back, soothing the pain while you accept that you lost something you'll never have again and yet understand there's more to live, your trip doesn't end there.
I give it 8/10
Favorite song : The Crux ; More Than I Could Chew ; Eyes of Serpents ; Gigantium
Nice man. Sorry about your cat.
I’m seeing them on november 18th and i’m so excited. its gonna be a crazy show
That's awesome, I've seen Mastodon twice once with Opeth and then with Gojira. Mastodon kicks ass live, two of the best shows I've ever seen🤘
Straight up I love this album. I truly think it's the best since crack the skye and can contend in the same discussion as remission and blood mountain
Skeleton of Splendor is actually my favorite song on here, a really eye opening track that reminded me of my mentality in a recently ended torturous relationship
This man really is the internet’s BUSIEST music nerd
I bet in about 2 years, people will be talking about how underrated this is and that it’s one of their best albums ever. This album is the definition of a grower as it has many winding and dense compositions that make up 90 minutes of time. There is a lot to unpack with this one and I think it will be highly regarded in the future as one of their best works to date. I personally don’t think there’s any filler to be found here.
For what i've seen people liked a lot this album. In my opinion this album is easly their best of the post Crack The Skye.
Completely agree. I love everything they’ve done. He’s wrong about Emperor. Same as that album I love this more and more with each listen. I think I will like this one a bit more when said and done despite being not quite as Kelliher heavy. I’m happy this is more collaborative than emperor and therefore better overall. I would like some more Brent vocals but he did say he lives for the solo so maybe he just wants to jam more than sing. But I do love his West End Motel and Fiend Without a Face projects even though and because they’re nothing like Mastodon. Mastodon has ruled the last two decades for me in music.
I feel like Mastodon has completed its transition into full on Dad Metal
what
I think if they cut this to a single disc I would I love the album, but as is it’s a solid effort and a welcome addition to the catalogue. I feel very hit and miss with the softer tracks, some truly lovely ones mixed with really boring ones. Love the heavier tracks and feel like mixing them in with the best softer/emotional cuts would’ve been awesome
My thoughts exactly.
Yeah a good 3 or 4 of the worse softer ones could've easily been cut for a more concise and overall better album experience
@@leviathan3630
What does Gigantium has to do in a Mastodon album? And as a closer??!!!
Or Dagger?
Personally love The Beast. Brent's vocals in a country context make so much sense and his verse on that song in context with the pandemic hit me in my soul. I also feel like his guitar tone has always been secretly country as hell from the outset. If they leaned into this sound more often I feel like it would play out better.
Completely agree with a 6. I wish he’d do a classic review on Crack the Skye or Leviathan or something considering all their best output happened before he started this channel
He mention leviathan once in a sludge metal starter pack
I think he should do a tier list
@@ABVARGASTNT Yeah, but I think he said it wasn’t his favorite Mastodon record. Prolly just a case of it being their most influential. Not sure what his fav would be cause I’ve never listened to a Mastodon album
@@-k-b- S tier - CTS, Blood Mountain; A tier - Leviathan, B tier - Remission, Hushed and Grim; C tier - OMRTS, Emperor of Sand; D tier - The Hunter
@@BEASTAGEv2 Good picks, mine personally:
S) Crack The Skye, Leviathan
A) Remission, Blood Mountain
B) Call Of The Mastodon, One More Round The Sun
C) The Hunter
E) Emperor Of Sand (I genuinely did not dig that album at all, tried listening to it again recently and honestly thought it sounded even worse).
Everything else I either haven't heard all the way through or at all
Sickle and Peace is my favorite song on this album. It’s so weird and different. I love it.
I fucking love this album
Name and picture check out.
Genuine question and not an attack. How much time do you spend with these albums before putting a review out?
Just like Bullet for My Valentine, I discovered Mastodon from Need for Speed Most Wanted. Which makes this weekend all the more strange to me.
Lots of critique on the technical/recording aspects, which are certainly valid. But, it's simple why this is their best effort since CtS (and maybe even as good as Leviathan): this record start to finish is soaked to the bone in emotion, heart, soulfulness. To me, those are the qualities that make CtS & Leviathan stand out so much and seemed absent in EoS, Hunter, and OMATS. There are multiple tracks on here that had me on the verge of tears, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Definitely a great record, one of the best in metal this year.
How did he not mention how terrible the mixing was? He brought it up for all the singles that came out before the album - how terribly mixed they were., but had nothing to say about the mixing of the album on this review.
Save that for Baroness. I hear everything perfectly well.
@@guitearist The mixing on Baroness’s albums is fine. It’s the god awful over compressed wall of sound production that’s the problem.
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When I listen to your reviews, I do the opposite, especially if I don't know the band, because I know that everything you say is absolute nonsense. This is one of the best albums I ever heard...
Seeing these guys in about a week and a half with opeth. I was pretty impressed with this release
Very impressive, Melon.
This made me hit that upworthy link.
Will you review the new Porcupine Tree single “Harridan” anytime soon? Cuz, what a comeback..
Closure/continuation is gonna be aoty no doubt
He doesn't like modern prog/Steven Wilson, so I doubt he'll like it. Tbh I don't even think the song is that great apart from the drumming. It's like a mix of The Incident (PT's worst album) and Holy Drinker (worst song on Raven). Hopefully the album is more akin to In Absentia/Deadwing.
This album is great, and I think the best of the ones after Crack the Skye (although I really like Once more, and the Cold Dark Place EP). I feel like they could've don't a bit of fat trimming and it would've ranked among their best. Great variety with most songs are worth their inclusions; but a few are longer than they need to be. Anthony is dead wrong about sickle and peace, that's a fucking amazing song.
wheres the limp bizkit review melon?
fr
I hope a review for the new Kayo Dot record is coming up!
Doesn't even mention the best track on the album, More Than I could Chew.
They played it live when they came near my city! So good. Have you taken a look at the music video?
Gigantium just brings the tears for me. Such a beautiful ending to a heartfelt album imo.
Teardrinker is one of my favorite songs.
It’s really catchy (not in a bad way) and I love it. Especially the ending solo and the dual guitars after Brann is done singing.
Sickle and Peace is my favorite song on the album
I've been trying to get into Mastodon for years now and Hushed and Grim was probably my best swing with them despite its extended length.
I don't know what about it clicked with me, maybe it's sound was tuned just the right way for me, but I dug it
favorite tracks?
mastodon has taken me some time as well, if u want a conceptual, prog af top to bottom project, go crack the skye. if u want fun, surreal catchiness from outer space, once more round the sun. if u want bare and very solid colorful and heavy riffs, go leviathan or blood mountain. the song Elephant man from remission is honestly one of their best ever too, always a good pick
Same.
@@batman-sr2px "The Crux", "More Than I Could Chew", "The Beast"
ANTHONY WE NEED A MASTODON TIER LIST
Didn’t even mention “Had It All.” First Mastodon song to make me tear up since Crack The Skye, so damn beautiful
theneedledrop is Pitchfork in video form
Well its a step up for sure. When Teardrinker came out as a single, it gave me a lot of hope. So I am a bit disappointed that the album itself is a bit bloated and not all there.
I hate to sound like "that fan" but I hope that this means Mastodon is "back on track" so to speak. Mastodon is full of talented people and produce such a good sound to waste on more albums like EoS or even The Hunter (as much as I like that album for what it is).
Teardrinker is a top 10 Mastodon song for me
I might just be biased because they're one if my favorite bands, but for me with Mastodon, it doesn't matter what they do. I tend to feel like whatever they try to do they pull off perfectly, be it a facemelter like Crusher Destroyer, a psych dream like Creature Lives or a true blues tune in Cold Dark Place. I love picking out who influenced what, knowing the different styles of each member.
iv been listening to mastodon since 2002 and i love their music they are seriously creative and seriously talented mastodon is the pink floyd of heavy metal its true i said it even my former co worker agrees with me
lmao i always find watching reviews interesting as someone will have a completely different take than you, like my by far favorite track was Gobblers of Dreg lol
Remission, Leviathan & Blood Mountain remain my quintessential Mastodon experience. Couldn't get into anything from them post that trilogy.
big mastodon fan. honestly think its their best.
Still can’t believe he rates Hunter higher then Emporer of Sand
They should have cut Dagger or Had it All. Apart from that, amazing album, 8.5/10.
I never thought I would say this, but where is the limp bizkit review?
As a huge Mastodon fan boy. Very fair review. I’m hoping I’ll continue to like it even more as time goes on.🤘🏼
Another melon metal review, another miss.
This is easily their most ambitious and probably best album since Crack the Skye, and at least a 7.8/10. Bare minimum.
Still think a harsh vocal counterpoint would enhance these compositions
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Fantastic record. A lot better than their previous 3, and they are decent too. Mastodon's poorer albums are many bands masterpieces.
Well said, their 'worst' albums are more like their 'least good' albums.
This dude claims to be a music nerd? Emperor of sand was one of their best. Top 3 for me. Beast is fucking awesome. Don't let this guy's opinion deter anyone from checking that one out. Every song on this album, besides Dagger, kicks ass. The last 4 songs are the best ones on the whole album. It's up there with crack the Skye for me.
I love Dagger. Teardrinker is the one song I could live without. But overall I think this album is a masterpiece.
After bouncing off Emperor of Sand, I was really happy with how this album turned out.
The chorus for teardrinker is epic, beautiful, and sorrowful all at the same time. You can't tell me any different.
think this is my fav of their albums. i have been listening to it nonstop since it released last year. ive been a mastodon fan since I first heard them in about 2005 when I was 13. think I have a weird palette though because everyone seems to talk about Once More Round the Sun as their best album and its by far my least fav. HaG > CtS > EoS > BM > Leviathan > Remission > The Hunter > OMRtS for me
I agree it's a bit long winded, but some of the songs just go so hard on this.
I recently had a 6 hour joyride across South Dakota and listened to nearly nothing but this record. (Wall Drug, it's coming up!)
I did not like Emperor of Sand. So this was an incredible breath of fresh air. Best new Mastodon since possibly Crack the Skye, I would rank it in my top 3 of their records.
I feel like when bands become established someone whispers in their ear that they've got to cut the melodrama, self awareness, theatricality, and "overacting." At some point they stop arguing and just do what they're told until it becomes their own philosophy. I've seen so many bands start out with daring and apocalyptic earnestness and they always eventually settle on something markedly less exciting. I feel like that's happened to Mastodon, although this record is still very, very good in my opinion.
I wanted to point out this review does not mention that Kim Thayil of Soundgarden fame contributes to this record. Also, there is a viola, cello, French horn, violin, and sarangi on this record.
why do you think crack the skye is their best?
@@batman-sr2px I consider Crack the Skye to be equal to Once More Round the Sun. It's just my opinion.
@@sittingyak I'm not sure I've ever seen CtS insulted like that before.
I don't think I've ever had so much anticipation for an album with such a massive let down. It's not even Mastodon anymore IMO. Allegedly their next album is going back to the heavy but I have my doubts
To each their own. It's my 3rd favorite Mastodon album behind CTS and Blood Mountain
I dig the album. Only wish Brent would've sang more!