Mastodon

Crack the Skye Crack the Skye is the fourth studio album by American progressive metal band Mastodon , released on March 24, 2009 through Reprise Records. It features seven tracks and runs at 50 minutes and 3 seconds. The album debuted at...

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On the gold-selling "Skye" - the spelling and the title track are an homage to Dailor's older sister, who passed away as a teen - the band branches out even further, expanding its style palette and splitting the vocal duties among three...

In this article: Brann Dailor, Bill Kelliher, Brent Hinds, Genesis, Jar Jar Binks, Troy Sanders, Blood Mountain, and Beach Boys

...dealing with dead Russian Czars, crossing over to the afterlife and time travel. It's Mastodon's simultaneously most experimental and infectious offering to date. The Atlanta foursome went to Hell and back to carve this tome, and Troy was very...

In this article: Troy Sanders, Time travel, Atlanta, Ether, and Reprise Records

Leviathan (album) Leviathan is a concept album by Progressive metal band Mastodon , released in 2004 by Relapse Records. The album is based on the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick, with the songs: "Iron Tusk", "Blood and Thunder" "I Am Ahab"...

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...out of 5) "Mastodon has earned its place at the forefront of progressive metal with a mix of headiness and brawn...but the ambitious vision and vivid execution of 'Crack The Skye' doesn't feel like a departure for this band. And if letting...

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...of progressive metal with a mix of headiness and brawn. "Crack the Skye" is the band's fourth album, completing a cycle of work tied to the elements: fire, water, earth and now air. Fantastic in every sense, the album is also girded with...

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...protests the capture and search for Nessie. American progressive metal band Mastodon have a song entitled "Ol'e Nessie", named after the Loch Ness Monster, on their 2002 album Remission. The Judas Priest song "Lochness " from their 2005...

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A dauntingly dense and intricate, utterly single-free progressive-metal concept album involving astral projection, demons, medieval Russian cults, Rasputin and other weird matters, intelligible, one suspects, only to the members of Mastodon.

In this article: Opera House, Toronto, Flu virus, Grigori Rasputin, Jim Balsillie, Bill Kelliher, Troy Sanders, Brann Dailor, and Blood Mountain

"The Workhorse Chronicles" is a DVD release by American progressive metal band Mastodon released on February 21, 2006 through Relapse Records and marks the band's final release through the company, before signing up to Warner Bros.

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