Mastodon is a weird band for me. Crack the skye is one of my all time favorite albums, possibly my absolute favorite. But the rest of their discography I’m not that into...
@@MegaLaban12345 Yeah, they keep on changing from album to album. One of their strongest qualities as artists IMO, even if I do miss their style of that era.
Guillaume Perez I do respect them for that fact aswell. And I do like their other stuff, it’s just that I absolutely love Crack the skye. The rest pales in comparison for me.
There's something really, genuinely spooky about Crack The Skye. The songs seem not so much written as channelled. Brent apparently wrote the album while recovering from a head injury, which included some mild brain trauma. Who knows what that can open.person up to? This album never fails to get an emotional response from me. It's like a part of the fabric of reality speaking.
@@andrepereira744 exactly. Everytime I see the comments of a prog metal (or whatever thing you wanna call it) song there are so many tool nonsensical comments. People can't seem to get that tool isn't the only band that makes "complex music". They are great but we gotta appreciate things for what they are
@@hojosconsal9913 it's pretty clear he's saying it's Mastodon's Magnum opus album, just like Lateralus is widely considered to be Tool's magnum opus. And Jim has reviewed and enjoyed a lot of Tool, so his comment is totally justified. He wasn't comparing the sound to Tool.
Ahhhh, Mastadon, for me one of the most underated bands of recent times. Halloween from Once More Round the Sun is well worth a listen. The drummer is like nothing else I've heard, dropping sick fills in all over the place.
Brann Dailor has got to be one of the top 5 best drummers of all time. Love this band. I wish so bad they would come close enough to home to see them live.
Their 10th Anniversary tour for this album was amazing, sounded even better than the original tour. Was happy that I didn't miss it this summer. Every song on the album is a classic, and watching them perform it all, in order, was truly an experience. One of my favorite albums of all time.
I knew at 11:17 you were in for a treat :). This is my favorite Mastodon album, and this song is my favorite. That transition at 11:17 is my favorite part, so much build up to it. RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
You should really watch the making of series for this album, it's posted on the band's official RUclips page. I think you will find it extremely fascinating.
Mastodon are very special indeed! They're fearlessly creative and refreshingly prolific. They hooked me with 'Sea Beast' many moons ago and I've never looked back. I think a lot of fans consider Crack the Skye to be their masterpiece but there's some trippy and really creative stuff on The Hunter too. Looking forward to more of their reactions!
Was really happy to see this one pop up on my suggestions. This is really their most amazing track. Then entire album blood mountain is a good starting place for this band, then you could go heavier with leviathan or more proggy with crack the skye.
love that you did this song. I went to see Tool in Manchester in 2006 i think it was, not knowing who the support act was, turned out to see Mastodon, hooked ever since. Toll were unreal to, amazing gig.
Some of my fave Mastodon tracks are "Curl of the Burl", "Thickening" and "Oblivion". I really groove with their modern southern influence being from the south myself. Peace...
The Hunter is a good album but its lack of long, progressive tracks makes it not as appealing to me. CTS remains their all-time masterpiece as far as I'm concerned.
For something a bit more technical/ridiculous of theirs I would suggest 'The Wolf Is Loose', some of the best drumming I've ever heard, every 4 bars there's a fill, it's insane.
This entire album is magnificent. I have been a mastodon fan since their first tour. Based on what I've seen of your videos I think you would probably enjoy this album (Crack the Skye) the most. Reactions aside do yourself a favor and give this a playthrough on your own time if nothing else. You will not be disappointed. Also the backstory behind this album is absolutely insane if you care to dig into it.
I love both. Crack feels more consistent and cohesive to me though. Blood Mountain has great songs in it but the overall momentum and flow of the album doesn't feel as smooth and spot-on as Crack does imo.
Great video! Crack The Skye is my favorite album of all time. Like others have suggested, The Czar is a fantastic song. As a guitar player, that has one of my all-time favorite guitar solos on it.
What's great is the guy doing most of the singing in this song is also the lead guitarist, so the guy is doing both things really well, the bassist is the guy who does the deeper and growly vocals. The drummer also does a lot of singing but isn't in this song, he's usually doing the cleaner vocals, so this band is full of incredible talent to play their instruments as well as they do but also all do singing as well.
Thanks, Jim! I started listening to Mastodon at the start of this year and now they are one of my favorite metal bands ever! It’s been a while since you’ve listened to some Karnivool, I’d recommend Sky Machine, Aeons, or Alpha Omega, they won’t disappoint!
Just popping by to say Mastodon's latest album drops in a fortnight or so (29th Oct) and might be worth exploring. It's called "Hushed & Grim". They've released a couple of singles from it already. The producer is David Bottrill of Lateralus fame, so I've got high hopes.
Hearts Alive by Mastodon should be your next 'Mastodon' choice. Their heavier side. Song from their second album called Leviathan from 2004. Metal orgy. Pendelous Skin or This Mortal Soil are also phenomenal.
I love that Mastodon can write beautiful music to zone out to like this song, as well as bone crushingly heavy 4-minute headbangers like March of the Fire Ants.
The main, Ozzy sounding vocals is the lead guitarist, Brent Hinds, the vocals that are more of a clear roar is the bassist, Troy Sanders. Drummer Bran Dailor also takes a large part of vocals.
I’d highly recommend digging deeper into Mastodon catalog. I’ve seen ‘em live 4 times now I think.. How about 1 song from each album (they’re all pretty different) & run a poll for us to pick which song?
Long time mastodon fan. At first I didnt care for crack the Skye, or emperor and sand but with multiple listens they grew on me to become more than just good albums they are examples of what really talented musicians are capable of.
Porcupines are actually good climbers, they can be found high up in trees very often, so it's not that unusual. I've heard stories of people accidentally knocking them out of trees and landing on them, which is as horrible as you can imagine with a creature that has a back covered in spikes.
Mastodon isn't really a weird band name but the name definitely evokes an image more in-line with their earlier heavier music. If I had never listened to their music and heard the name I'd picture heavy and trodding gritty music. Which they still incorporate in their music but they're a far cry from their first album at this point.
Brent Hinds wrote it, he's just absolutely brilliant as a musician. I met him in Memphis at Mastodon and Rwake at the New Daisy Theater around 2002. Dude had big ass dreadlocks and smelled like weed and BO.
3 of many of my favorite things about this track are the surf-guitar parts for the velocity of flying through space they evoke, then the angular downshift and rising during "I was standing, staring at the world..", and that absolutely monstrous and iconic riff and groove the track drops into 🖤🖤🖤 There might be something wrong with me, but I can't get enough of people reacting to The Last Baron, always puts a huge smile on my face when someone gushes about my all time favorite track from my favorite album of all time from my all time favorite band. ☺️☺️☺️
This song is absolutely ridiculous. Is not music, is a piece of art. I remember the first time I heard it. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Thank you for your reaction. Brought those memories back!!
@HamsterCaster yea, but it doesn’t function as a closer so much as it does as an outro to the album or even to Hearts Alive. It’s kinda like how Liberation is the last song on Gojira’s Magma, but Low Lands functions much more as the closing song with Liberation being more of an outro to it.
I wish i could like this video every time you said something ive been saying for years like "They're creativity is out of this world" or "He's sort of like a Lemmy with more melody, or a slightly more naisly Ozzy". It would have a billion likes. But it will get there.
I actually played this CD yesterday for the first time in ages because I was in a metal mood and out of the blue your reaction appeared this morning.That insane middle section just blows my mind.Stll haven’t bothered to read or find out what the songs all about .Yes he does sound like Ozzy.
I become a Mastodon fan since this pandemic, listening to this song, Sleeping giant, roots remains, jaguar god and other more are helping me out to fight My depression and negative thoughts... Is something odd to explain...
My favourite Mastodon song. And off my favourite of their records. They really did something special with that one, I have to remind my self that was a collaboration between a group of people because it's so cohesive
seen them twice love them but I think the vocals might worry him they are very erratic especially the first album maybe he should ease in with something off future in who's eyes
@@JonaKebab true I didn't love the second album tbh I was a massive fan of of the first 2 ep's and the first album and when the second album came out nothing jumped out at me apart from the drumming on another sinking ship. When they came back after the 10 year hiatus I thought even though it was more commercialised they came back strong and the new vocalist has an incredible range
I'm late to the party, but the comparison of Brent Hinds's vocals to Ozzy is excellent. I never noticed it before today, but with headphones on it's hard to not hear the resemblance. Great review, BTW.
Fantastic video man! I completely agree with your comments at the end. I saw the title and I knew you'd absolutely love this track! As a recommendation there's a Japanese band called Sigh, I highly recommend you check them out! It's very hard to explain what they're like... But loosley picture a mixture of Opeth, Frank Zappa and black metal... They're kinda insane and it's amazing! For songs by them I recommend either Scarlet Dream or Amnesia I know you'll have a blast with this one! :)
First few Mastodon albums are amazing. Haven't listened to much of their new stuff. Saw them in Nottingham supporting Tool on their 10,000 days tour. Was an epic gig, back when you could smoke at concerts. Had to have the spliffs out. Lines of charlie on the sly. Good times been young :) Back to my suggestions. The Faceless - Autothiest Movement part 1 to 3 Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence disk two (its like 1 continuous song so you might need to sort something out with the 30 minute recording time on ya camera. Or split the video into 2 I suppose.) Cradle of Filth - Lord Abortion Carcass - Heartwork Thanks again Jim 👍
I never thought about the ozzy comparison with Brent’s vocals but I hear it now. Has anyone let him know that 3 of the 4 members are vocalists and to me gives them something I haven’t heard from that many other bands. My favorite active band for sure
The word Jim was looking for to describe Mastodon at the end of the video is "raw." Their music doesn't sound over-produced. It sounds like it was recorded directly from the soundboard at a concert, instead of being manufactured in a studio.
Thank you! I’ve been saying for years that he sounds like Ozzy. Not my favorite song from them, but it’s certainly solid. I’d be curious, Jim, now that you’re hoping to dive more into them, what you’d think of their *old* stuff. I prefer the newer proggy ‘70s Mastodon like this, but I don’t dislike their older stuff (Ahab, Blood & Thunder, etc) either, I just don’t listen to it as much. So please check out some of those songs as well. I’d also love to see how you reacted to the music video(specifically that version... you’ll see why...) of their song The Motherload from more recently.
Mastodon is very heavy and very progressive having a unique sound of their own. Having three of them singing lead vocals and using that ability even within single songs, give them great diversity. I also appreciate Mastodon for making pretty complicated music without sounding complicating. Many new band fall into that ditch of technical masturbation. if Monty Python could say 'masturbation' in 70's, I think I can use the word today...:o) (It's Monty Python's 50th anniversary this year! Let's do the Fish Slapping Dance!)
Keep reacting to them, their sound just grows and grows the more you listen I recommend The Czar, like everyone else has. For something heavier, try Colony of Birchmen
Hearts Alive..... the album proceeding this "Leviathan" in my opinion is their Magnum Opus. Most Mastodon fans I think jumped on the wagon during this album and there's no shame in that. They have some incredible musicianship.
1:39 Jim, I'm from Serbia, that's Serbian cyrillic and pronounce like ''sarma junkie'' (sarma - serbian traditional food). Anyway, The Last Baron is fuckin' FIRE, like whole Crack the Skye album. More recommendations for all: Elder - Legend Elder - Blind Atomship - Mothra Soen - Rival Meniscus - Mother Smallman - Labyrinth of Present Karnivool - Sky Machine, Change
One of the best progressive metal albums imo. Not a single bad song on it
The Czar is their best song
The Czar is the fulcrum around which this album (one of my all time favorites) revolves.
Mastodon is a weird band for me. Crack the skye is one of my all time favorite albums, possibly my absolute favorite. But the rest of their discography I’m not that into...
@@MegaLaban12345 Yeah, they keep on changing from album to album. One of their strongest qualities as artists IMO, even if I do miss their style of that era.
Guillaume Perez I do respect them for that fact aswell. And I do like their other stuff, it’s just that I absolutely love Crack the skye. The rest pales in comparison for me.
@@MegaLaban12345 #metoo. I always come back to CTS.
Just do the whole crack the skye album. Feels like a crime not to.
Me every time I try to listen to one song off crack the Skye. Haha.
Crack the skye is mastodons dark side of the moon.
There's something really, genuinely spooky about Crack The Skye. The songs seem not so much written as channelled. Brent apparently wrote the album while recovering from a head injury, which included some mild brain trauma. Who knows what that can open.person up to? This album never fails to get an emotional response from me. It's like a part of the fabric of reality speaking.
@@peachmelba1000 The album was dedicated to Brann's deceased younger sister, Skye, so there's that. He was in a dark place writing this.
should be
One of the finest metal record that exists.
The Czar and Hearts Alive are both fantastic follow-ups to this song
I wish every time I heard this song, it was the first time. It's just beautiful, what a journey and full of surprises.
i saw Mastodon support Tool back in 2006. good times
Crack the skye is the Lateralus of Mastodon
Two of my favs
Don't bring Tool to this,man(Mastodon almost got several Lateralus,btw). Crack the skye is amaizing by itself
@@andrepereira744 exactly. Everytime I see the comments of a prog metal (or whatever thing you wanna call it) song there are so many tool nonsensical comments. People can't seem to get that tool isn't the only band that makes "complex music". They are great but we gotta appreciate things for what they are
@@hojosconsal9913 Well said,mate!
@@hojosconsal9913 to be fair I think he was using it more as analogy for this being their best work in his opinion
@@hojosconsal9913 it's pretty clear he's saying it's Mastodon's Magnum opus album, just like Lateralus is widely considered to be Tool's magnum opus. And Jim has reviewed and enjoyed a lot of Tool, so his comment is totally justified. He wasn't comparing the sound to Tool.
Man, their music is so rich. And so generous.
This is Premium Metal.
"That's a lot going on" is a huge understatement especially seeing how small Brann's kit is. Brannctopus in full effect!
IMO Crack The Skye is Mastodon at their most sophisticated. It's just an amazing album from start to finish. I love it.
Love this song so much. Since you acknowledged me twice, I will thank you twice.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Ahhhh, Mastadon, for me one of the most underated bands of recent times. Halloween from Once More Round the Sun is well worth a listen.
The drummer is like nothing else I've heard, dropping sick fills in all over the place.
Braun is a genius (Brent, Bill, and Troy are also musical geniuses)
Brann Dailor has got to be one of the top 5 best drummers of all time. Love this band. I wish so bad they would come close enough to home to see them live.
He is very very good. Sometimes I think he plays too much, if you know what I mean. But I forgive him that because he's so good!
Their 10th Anniversary tour for this album was amazing, sounded even better than the original tour. Was happy that I didn't miss it this summer. Every song on the album is a classic, and watching them perform it all, in order, was truly an experience. One of my favorite albums of all time.
Fuck it's been out ten years already?
Christ.
I knew at 11:17 you were in for a treat :). This is my favorite Mastodon album, and this song is my favorite. That transition at 11:17 is my favorite part, so much build up to it. RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
You should really watch the making of series for this album, it's posted on the band's official RUclips page. I think you will find it extremely fascinating.
Mastodon are very special indeed! They're fearlessly creative and refreshingly prolific. They hooked me with 'Sea Beast' many moons ago and I've never looked back. I think a lot of fans consider Crack the Skye to be their masterpiece but there's some trippy and really creative stuff on The Hunter too. Looking forward to more of their reactions!
Was really happy to see this one pop up on my suggestions. This is really their most amazing track. Then entire album blood mountain is a good starting place for this band, then you could go heavier with leviathan or more proggy with crack the skye.
love that you did this song. I went to see Tool in Manchester in 2006 i think it was, not knowing who the support act was, turned out to see Mastodon, hooked ever since. Toll were unreal to, amazing gig.
My fave Mastodon album. Nice pick Jim!
Some of my fave Mastodon tracks are "Curl of the Burl", "Thickening" and "Oblivion". I really groove with their modern southern influence being from the south myself.
Peace...
Thickening is so underrated, was so awesome to see them play it for that adult swim show they did last year.
Their albums are usually concept albums and are best listened to start to finish. Crack the Skye is phenomenal, but my fav is probably The Hunter.
The Hunter is a good album but its lack of long, progressive tracks makes it not as appealing to me. CTS remains their all-time masterpiece as far as I'm concerned.
I really wish The Hunter got more love among the Mastodon fanbase. It's an awesome album!
The atmosphere that is present during the entirety of The Hunter is incredible
Finally a Mastodon reaction video that isn't Oblivion or Blood & Thunder. This must be one of my favorite songs from them, excellent reaction!
Thanks so much for this, Jim! I love this band so much and not a lot of music reaction channels give them a try. So thanks a lot!
For something a bit more technical/ridiculous of theirs I would suggest 'The Wolf Is Loose', some of the best drumming I've ever heard, every 4 bars there's a fill, it's insane.
Capillarian Crest too!
I mean Brann does a fill at least once every two bars in each of their songs haha.
This entire album is magnificent. I have been a mastodon fan since their first tour. Based on what I've seen of your videos I think you would probably enjoy this album (Crack the Skye) the most. Reactions aside do yourself a favor and give this a playthrough on your own time if nothing else. You will not be disappointed. Also the backstory behind this album is absolutely insane if you care to dig into it.
Most people like Crack the Skye more, but I think Blood Mountain is a much more solid prog album and even a little heavier.
I can go for both any time, and add Leviathan to the mix
Blood Mountain is one of their best 🤘
I love both. Crack feels more consistent and cohesive to me though. Blood Mountain has great songs in it but the overall momentum and flow of the album doesn't feel as smooth and spot-on as Crack does imo.
CTS is unarguably more prog, and BM is unarguably far heavier. Both are remarkable and classic records that’ll stand the test of time.
alphaenemy way heavier.
Great video! Crack The Skye is my favorite album of all time. Like others have suggested, The Czar is a fantastic song. As a guitar player, that has one of my all-time favorite guitar solos on it.
What's great is the guy doing most of the singing in this song is also the lead guitarist, so the guy is doing both things really well, the bassist is the guy who does the deeper and growly vocals. The drummer also does a lot of singing but isn't in this song, he's usually doing the cleaner vocals, so this band is full of incredible talent to play their instruments as well as they do but also all do singing as well.
Thanks, Jim! I started listening to Mastodon at the start of this year and now they are one of my favorite metal bands ever! It’s been a while since you’ve listened to some Karnivool, I’d recommend Sky Machine, Aeons, or Alpha Omega, they won’t disappoint!
Love this song/band...glad you are reviewing it!
A dollop of Mastodon is always welcome on my plate. 🤘
High Road is a fave of mine.
Just popping by to say Mastodon's latest album drops in a fortnight or so (29th Oct) and might be worth exploring. It's called "Hushed & Grim". They've released a couple of singles from it already. The producer is David Bottrill of Lateralus fame, so I've got high hopes.
Dry Bone Valley! It takes me to a psych trip everytime along with this song.
The Czar, Sleeping Giant, and Oblivion would all be good reactions following this one. Hearts Alive is a fantastic song but quite far away in style.
Marcus wood Hearts Alive is their magnum opus as well as their best era for me. 2004-2006.
One of my favorite albums, Mastodon are phenomenal!
This song is the perfect closer to a beautiful album.
Hearts Alive by Mastodon should be your next 'Mastodon' choice. Their heavier side. Song from their second album called Leviathan from 2004. Metal orgy. Pendelous Skin or This Mortal Soil are also phenomenal.
I love that Mastodon can write beautiful music to zone out to like this song, as well as bone crushingly heavy 4-minute headbangers like March of the Fire Ants.
this was sooo enjoyable! My best friend showed me mastodon back in 2016, and now thay are all over my walls.
The main, Ozzy sounding vocals is the lead guitarist, Brent Hinds, the vocals that are more of a clear roar is the bassist, Troy Sanders. Drummer Bran Dailor also takes a large part of vocals.
I’d highly recommend digging deeper into Mastodon catalog. I’ve seen ‘em live 4 times now I think.. How about 1 song from each album (they’re all pretty different) & run a poll for us to pick which song?
Long time mastodon fan. At first I didnt care for crack the Skye, or emperor and sand but with multiple listens they grew on me to become more than just good albums they are examples of what really talented musicians are capable of.
This is the album closer Jim... Check out the Middle masterful piece called "THE CZAR"
Tread Lightly is an amazing Mastodon song, I think you'd dig it Jim!
Saw this whole album played back in June. Absolutely amazing.
So glad you decided to do Mastodon! :) awesome
You could review any song off that album, or just do the whole thing at once. Welcome to the Mastodon rabbit hole, great review!
Great Reaction! You definitly feel the music!
About bloody time dude! That whole album is fantastic.
I'd argue that Porcupine Tree is a much weirder bandname than Mastodon.
Porcupines are actually good climbers, they can be found high up in trees very often, so it's not that unusual. I've heard stories of people accidentally knocking them out of trees and landing on them, which is as horrible as you can imagine with a creature that has a back covered in spikes.
Mastodon isn't really a weird band name but the name definitely evokes an image more in-line with their earlier heavier music. If I had never listened to their music and heard the name I'd picture heavy and trodding gritty music. Which they still incorporate in their music but they're a far cry from their first album at this point.
Love the King Crimson moment in the middle part of the song. Fire.
Isn’t it great how bands sometimes pay homage to their influences? Yes, wonderful.
Never heard this one before but it's a masterpiece. Love it!
Brent Hinds wrote it, he's just absolutely brilliant as a musician. I met him in Memphis at Mastodon and Rwake at the New Daisy Theater around 2002. Dude had big ass dreadlocks and smelled like weed and BO.
Ugh! What’s that smell? That, Jim, is the smell of talent. Oh....
Used to be really into mastodon, great reaction Jim.
3 of many of my favorite things about this track are the surf-guitar parts for the velocity of flying through space they evoke, then the angular downshift and rising during "I was standing, staring at the world..", and that absolutely monstrous and iconic riff and groove the track drops into 🖤🖤🖤
There might be something wrong with me, but I can't get enough of people reacting to The Last Baron, always puts a huge smile on my face when someone gushes about my all time favorite track from my favorite album of all time from my all time favorite band. ☺️☺️☺️
Opeth - Burden
Love your channel Jim
One of my all time faves :D.
Love this band, love this reaction.
2 singers...
Hinds: Ozzy
Sanders: Lemmy
Fun Fact; they are also the guitarist and bassist respectively
These guys have 3 singers, Brann does a lot of the more catchy melodic stuff and is doing background vocals on this.
@DabberDan brent hinds plays guitar and sings, troy sanders plays bass and sings. and brann dailor plays drums and sings. he wasnt talking about ozzy.
Of course. Forgot Brann does sing as well. And if you can guess who he sounds like, comment down below.
@DabberDan But Ziggy did...
Brann sounds like James Labrie
This song is absolutely ridiculous. Is not music, is a piece of art. I remember the first time I heard it. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
Thank you for your reaction. Brought those memories back!!
Is music not art?
one of my fav band of all time up there with tool,alcest,slayer and gojira.
@Ben Great taste, Alcest needs more attention!!! 🤘
@@gojirarules1547 yesssss!
Alcest needs a LOT more attention
i love how every reaction to mastodon, and every friend i intro to mastodon always says reminds me of ozzie
Should listen to Hearts Alive next, is the last track off their album Leviathan which is based off the novel Moby Dick. Their best album imo.
Joseph Merrick i last track.
@HamsterCaster yea, but it doesn’t function as a closer so much as it does as an outro to the album or even to Hearts Alive. It’s kinda like how Liberation is the last song on Gojira’s Magma, but Low Lands functions much more as the closing song with Liberation being more of an outro to it.
I wish i could like this video every time you said something ive been saying for years like "They're creativity is out of this world" or "He's sort of like a Lemmy with more melody, or a slightly more naisly Ozzy". It would have a billion likes. But it will get there.
I actually played this CD yesterday for the first time in ages because I was in a metal mood and out of the blue your reaction appeared this morning.That insane middle section just blows my mind.Stll haven’t bothered to read or find out what the songs all about .Yes he does sound like Ozzy.
Such a great song, such a great band!
Great song. You should check out their track 'The Wolf Is Loose'. It's a shorter song but the drumming is incredible on it.
Dan yup!!
More Mastodon!
Yup.... Blood Mountain I think....
I become a Mastodon fan since this pandemic, listening to this song, Sleeping giant, roots remains, jaguar god and other more are helping me out to fight My depression and negative thoughts... Is something odd to explain...
My favourite Mastodon song. And off my favourite of their records. They really did something special with that one, I have to remind my self that was a collaboration between a group of people because it's so cohesive
Great reaction as always Jim.
Though don’t forgot, tomorrow is the Sikth day of the week (please react to Sikth!) 😅
‘Part of the Friction’ or Where Do We Fall?’
seen them twice love them but I think the vocals might worry him they are very erratic especially the first album maybe he should ease in with something off future in who's eyes
James Dean it’s why I was thinking ‘Where do we fall?’ - it’s a stunning song, not too erratic, beautiful vocals, and some incredible musicianship!
@@JonaKebab true I didn't love the second album tbh I was a massive fan of of the first 2 ep's and the first album and when the second album came out nothing jumped out at me apart from the drumming on another sinking ship. When they came back after the 10 year hiatus I thought even though it was more commercialised they came back strong and the new vocalist has an incredible range
I'm late to the party, but the comparison of Brent Hinds's vocals to Ozzy is excellent. I never noticed it before today, but with headphones on it's hard to not hear the resemblance. Great review, BTW.
Fantastic video man! I completely agree with your comments at the end.
I saw the title and I knew you'd absolutely love this track!
As a recommendation there's a Japanese band called Sigh, I highly recommend you check them out! It's very hard to explain what they're like... But loosley picture a mixture of Opeth, Frank Zappa and black metal... They're kinda insane and it's amazing!
For songs by them I recommend either Scarlet Dream or Amnesia
I know you'll have a blast with this one! :)
Oh, and my next mastodon suggestion would be The Czar, Halloween, or This Mortal Coil
love this album, i remember some of my friends hated it back then, its always been my fav of theirs
intronaut - fastworms
Sikth - the aura
both bands very unique and amazing sounds
Ive listened to the album, one more trip round the sun, a lot! This is way different tho. I love this
Great reaction!
You need some Enslaved, react to Hindsight!
Cheers from Egypt \m/
First few Mastodon albums are amazing. Haven't listened to much of their new stuff. Saw them in Nottingham supporting Tool on their 10,000 days tour. Was an epic gig, back when you could smoke at concerts. Had to have the spliffs out. Lines of charlie on the sly. Good times been young :)
Back to my suggestions.
The Faceless - Autothiest Movement part 1 to 3
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence disk two (its like 1 continuous song so you might need to sort something out with the 30 minute recording time on ya camera. Or split the video into 2 I suppose.)
Cradle of Filth - Lord Abortion
Carcass - Heartwork
Thanks again Jim 👍
I never thought about the ozzy comparison with Brent’s vocals but I hear it now. Has anyone let him know that 3 of the 4 members are vocalists and to me gives them something I haven’t heard from that many other bands. My favorite active band for sure
Crack the skye and emporer of sand are their best albums. But i like them all, this is my top 3 bands of all time: AIC, TOOL, Mastodon, Blind melon
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Check out The Czar. Masterpiece.
The word Jim was looking for to describe Mastodon at the end of the video is "raw." Their music doesn't sound over-produced. It sounds like it was recorded directly from the soundboard at a concert, instead of being manufactured in a studio.
Spot on with the Lemmy comparison.
Thank you! I’ve been saying for years that he sounds like Ozzy.
Not my favorite song from them, but it’s certainly solid. I’d be curious, Jim, now that you’re hoping to dive more into them, what you’d think of their *old* stuff.
I prefer the newer proggy ‘70s Mastodon like this, but I don’t dislike their older stuff (Ahab, Blood & Thunder, etc) either, I just don’t listen to it as much.
So please check out some of those songs as well.
I’d also love to see how you reacted to the music video(specifically that version... you’ll see why...) of their song The Motherload from more recently.
Mastodon is very heavy and very progressive having a unique sound of their own. Having three of them singing lead vocals and using that ability even within single songs, give them great diversity. I also appreciate Mastodon for making pretty complicated music without sounding complicating. Many new band fall into that ditch of technical masturbation. if Monty Python could say 'masturbation' in 70's, I think I can use the word today...:o)
(It's Monty Python's 50th anniversary this year! Let's do the Fish Slapping Dance!)
Good choice sir!
Goodness at 11:16
Fantastic song. Love the whole album but this is a highlight.
Man, this track has everything. Maybe a bit too repetitive, but it really soars.
Best Song 2000 Years EVER
Anything off the first album is killer. Steambreather is epic too.
You've got to do Hearts Alive by Mastodon. It's probably the greatest song I've ever heard
Keep reacting to them, their sound just grows and grows the more you listen
I recommend The Czar, like everyone else has. For something heavier, try Colony of Birchmen
Would like to strap a step counter to Brann's kit and check the result!
Ember City by them is amazing one of the best they have done for years
Love the song, sooo catchy and emotional. I really love Emperor of Sand as a whole, the emotion really comes through on some of the choruses there.
Hearts Alive..... the album proceeding this "Leviathan" in my opinion is their Magnum Opus. Most Mastodon fans I think jumped on the wagon during this album and there's no shame in that. They have some incredible musicianship.
Nice song choice. Mastodon is a whirlwind of talent! Please check out more Gojira and Mastodon!
Mastodon - Sleeping Giant
Gojira - Oroborus
Their tone is spot on.
Never realised how much this sounded like king crimson. Sooo good...
Jim, you should lend an ear to Arcadea, drummer Brann Dailor's side project. It's basically Mastodon with synths instead of guitars. Good stuff!
1:39 Jim, I'm from Serbia, that's Serbian cyrillic and pronounce like ''sarma junkie'' (sarma - serbian traditional food).
Anyway, The Last Baron is fuckin' FIRE, like whole Crack the Skye album.
More recommendations for all:
Elder - Legend
Elder - Blind
Atomship - Mothra
Soen - Rival
Meniscus - Mother
Smallman - Labyrinth of Present
Karnivool - Sky Machine, Change