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These dudes rock :headbang: , anyone else like them ? Which CD should I purchase ? I have busted the old Slayer out and this band fits right in there from what I heard, any other stuff like this that I'm missing out on ?

 
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Their new one Blood Mountain is excellent, as is their last one, Leviathan. I hear the one before that is good too but I haven't gotten to it. Very solid band.

 
Their new one Blood Mountain is excellent, as is their last one, Leviathan. I hear the one before that is good too but I haven't gotten to it. Very solid band.
Cool, I'm picking them both up today, any other bands I need to hear ?
 
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I have "Remission", which I think is their first one. Also very good album. I tivo'd the conan ep but havent watched it yet.

 
Other bands to check out:

Lamb of God

High on Fire

Also, paging Carlton Gray and the bike seat sniffa for more metal talk.

 
Not in the same seam as Mastadon...but I like Primer 55. Hard, angst filled type stuff but more technical in the fact they add a DJ similar to Limp Triscuit.

Maybe some other guys in here can give a more detailed report.

 
Yeah I'm going to get beat down in the Metal Community, but I say check out Children of Bodom, earlier stuff is pretty dead on.

Ackercocke is pretty out there.

Morgana LeFay is great (Power metal).

Obviously Nevermore, At The Gates, and November's Doom are solid.

Crowbar's latest was a good listen.

 
Mastodon is my favorite band out now. Epic, old-school metal without falling into the wimpy ballady chorus' so many bands get into. Blood Mountain and Leviathan are amazing. I'm not as much into their first, Remission.

check out their website, Mastodonrocks.com to hear their stuff, streaming right from the home page.

:headbang: :headbang:

 
Protest The Hero - Kezia

Apart from the fact that the members of Protest the Hero were in their late teens when they wrote it, Kezia (pronounced keh-zai-yah) is an impressive album that greatly exceeds typical expectations. Protest frantically meld metal, punk, hardcore -- and a touch of emo -- into ten frenetic songs that often resemble a late-night metal show with Coheed & Cambria and At the Drive-In showing up as musical guests. While the guys refer to this eccentric effort as a "situationist requiem," the record is basically an aggressive concept album following the execution of the title character, Kezia, for a crime specifically unknown. Personal lyrics speak of morality and growth -- both directly and metaphorically -- as the music is divided into four sections, each from a different point of view: a priest, the gunman/prison guard, Kezia herself, and lastly, a so-called retrospective finale. Admittedly an interesting idea in itself, the songs deliver with or without this ambitious supporting notion. Sounding as if maximum emotion were packed into every second possible, each note of Kezia bleeds urgent passion -- from the searing vocals of Rody Walker to blistering guitar leads to acoustic midsong breaks to compelling harmonies and growls alike. "Heretics & Killers" begins by slapping fierce rhythms and harsh grumbles alongside the delicate edge of Walker's voice over acoustic guitars and Queen-esque background vocals. And "Turn Soonest to the Sea," seemingly about societal attitudes toward women, transforms over six minutes from a brutal metal attack to a soaring dose of empowerment via gang chorus, following a brief spoken word segment. Considering that Protest the Hero have admitted to writing music initially too complex for their abilities -- forcing themselves to learn the parts over time -- there's no denying the guys stepped up to the task they placed before themselves with Kezia. As such, fans of the more technical side of punk-influenced metal will also find the album hard to deny.

 
Picked up Blood Mountain.... :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Colony of Birchmen was the song they played on Conan last night.....

Come on Metal heads...GIVE ME MORE! :headbang:

 
Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, and Dream Theater are great if you want more progressive metal, although they're not quite in the style of Mastodon - each of the 4 is quite distinct, which makes them amazing. If you like those three, also check out The Faceless (much more hectic but in my humble opinion one of the best metal acts there is) and also check out In Mourning.

In fact, if you like Mastodon checking out In Mourning should be your first action.

 
These dudes rock :goodposting: , anyone else like them ? Which CD should I purchase ? I have busted the old Slayer out and this band fits right in there from what I heard, any other stuff like this that I'm missing out on ?
awesome band! all their stuff is good. atlanta boys. One of em is in El Myr getting drunk pretty much when not on the road. There was a Really cool write up on em in the Spin magazine and another creative loafing (atlanta alternative weekly) a few months back. some crazy back story.

any album is good. Leviathan and Crack The Skye are my two favs.

ETA http://www.spin.com/articles/mastodon-bang-your-head (dude with big hoops is one getting ####ed up prolly 150 nights at El Myr. They have Crack the Skye on the Jukebox there. Funy to put it on in a string of 20 or so songs (for 5 bux etc) and have a guy in the band come in during one of their songs.

"Has anyone seen Brent?" It's 1:30 on a cold, rainy Friday afternoon in late February. The members of Mastodon had planned on meeting a half-hour ago at El Myr, a colorful, run-down Mexican cantina that serves as unofficial HQ for the band here in their hometown of Atlanta. Drummer Brann Dailor is less on the hunt for his missing bandmate than he is bemusedly giving voice to Mastodon's semipermanent state of being. Guitarist Bill Kelliher, who worked at El Myr in Mastodon's early days, is at the bar with his wife and young son. Dailor and bassist-vocalist Troy Sanders are chatting with friends about tomorrow night's show, a daylong outdoor metal festival the band will headline. Guitarist-vocalist Brent Hinds is nowhere to be found.

Dailor, who arrived promptly at 1:00, seems less than surprised. "He'll be here eventually, going, 'What? No one told me 1:00.' "

An hour later, Hinds ambles in, offering a wave and a sleepy smile from beneath his grizzled, reddish beard. His gut, barely covered by a blue, long-sleeved T-shirt, hangs over a pair of tattered black jeans, and for some reason, he's wearing a fingerless white driving glove on his left hand.

"Sorry I'm late," he says, taking a sip from the Tecate someone has already plied him with. "I was sure it was 3:00 when we were supposed to meet. I thought I was early."

At around 6:00, the band members head to the Masquerade Music Park to soundcheck for the show. It's their first real performance in support of their new, Brendan O'Brien–produced album, Crack the Skye. When they arrive, the California stoner-metal outfit High on Fire are onstage going through their own warm-up. Hinds first met HOF frontman Matt Pike in the late '90s when Hinds and Sanders' former band, Four Hour Fogger, opened for High on Fire.

"Matt and I ended up doing mescaline and playing Street Fighter for 27 hours," Hinds recalls. "Now he's one of my best friends." Later tonight, the two best friends will drunkenly slug it out on the sidewalk outside El Myr after Hinds accidentally knocks Pike's beer from his hand. ("It was just dude stuff -- he clocked me in the eye, I hit him in the ear," Hinds laughs.)

Mastodon owe High on Fire a debt for their very existence. It was at a High on Fire gig in 1999 where Hinds and Sanders met Dailor and Kelliher, both of whom had recently relocated from Rochester, New York, where they'd played together in several metal bands. Kelliher, who had seen Hinds play with Four Hour Fogger, invited him to come by their practice space to jam.

"Brent showed up so wasted he couldn't even play," says Kelliher. "He was just playing one note turned up really loud. Brann and I were like, '#### this guy.' " The next day, though, Hinds returned. "He grabbed one of my guitars and was playing all this cool ####. I was like, 'Where was this guy yesterday?' "Hinds brought Sanders aboard to play bass, and after Mastodon's original singer, Eric Saner, departed, Hinds and Sanders split vocal duties. An early EP, Lifesblood, released in 2001, set a high bar, synthesizing frenzied, intricate guitar work with tricky time signatures and sludgy riffs. Their first full-length, Remission, released the following year, expanded on those ideas, but it was 2004's Leviathan that began making noise outside metal circles: Ostensibly a concept record based on Moby-****, Leviathan was heavier and weirder than its predecessors, incorporating country, jazz, and Southern rock into the otherwise brutal onslaught. A jump to Reprise Records didn't alter the band's progression on 2006's Blood Mountain, which felt more polished and melodic while still offering throat-shredding howls, guitar heroics, and a Tolkien-on-crystal-meth story line to keep the faithful sated. Suddenly, Mastodon were everyone's favorite metal band: Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and the Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler-Zavala guested on the album, they opened for Metallica, and Dave Grohl couldn't shut up about them. The deep-grooved "Colony of Birchmen" was even nominated for a Grammy for Best Metal Performance.

Then on September 10, 2007, hours after playing "Colony of Birchmen" with Homme at the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas, Hinds got into an altercation with System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian and rapper Reverend William Burke (real name: William Hudson), a member of Odadjian's side project, Achozen, outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.

"All I remember is walking through the Mandalay Bay with my shirt off with Jesse [Hughes] from Eagles of Death Metal," Hinds says. "Then I remember being asleep for three days and having these really blissful, out-of-body feelings. Then, when I woke up, it hurt like ####."

Mastodon's publicist insists Hinds was "cold-cocked," but Odadjian, speaking publicly for the first time about the incident, says Hinds had been harassing Odadjian intermittently throughout the night before he spotted Odadjian and Burke outside the hotel.

"He ran up and tackled me," says Odadjian. "I know Brent meant no harm. He was just somewhere else mentally. He kept saying, 'I love you. I love your bass playing,' and then coming at me." Eventually, Odadjian says, Hinds took a swing at Burke, and Burke swung back. "All of a sudden, I see Brent fall and hit his head on the curb." Hinds sustained a serious concussion and brain hemorrhaging as a result, and was plagued by vertigo for nine months. Beyond Hinds' injuries, the incident seemed to shake the band's foundations.

"We felt a little fragile," says Kelliher. "Everything had been going so well. I mean, I knew this would happen someday—Brent is a loose cannon and gets into trouble, he's got his demons, but usually everything ends up okay."

Despite the severity of his condition, Hinds wasn't much chastened. "The doctors said I had to quit drinking for a couple months, because otherwise your brain or your concussion or whatever won't heal properly," he says. "I was back doing drugs and everything by 28 days. But I don't drink as much as I used to, I don't smoke crack anymore, and I don't do tons of ####### pain pills."
 
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Welcome to the weekly SPIN.com feature "Name That Band!" in which we get the inside stories behind the mysterious monikers of some of our favorite artists. (See past episodes of Name That Band! here.)

This week: metal maestros Mastodon, who kick off a spring tour April 16.

Why Mastodon: "We were sitting around at my apartment putting our little brains together," recalls guitarist Bill Kelliher, "when [guitarist-singer] Brent [Hinds] looked at the Bantha skull tattoo on my arm -- that's a symbol that you can see on Boba Fett's arm in The Empire Strikes Back -- and he said, 'What's the name of that creature that's like a prehistoric elephant?' I replied, 'A Mastodon?' We all looked at each other and said, 'That's it, that's the name.' We knew right then and there."

Previously Rejected Names: "We had a list of a lot of names. Let's see, we had Abra Cadaver, Everyday I'm Dead, Savage Hamper, Rabid Taxi, and Fishy Joe and the Pickles."

Best Band Names Ever: "The Jesus Lizard is cool -- a reptile that walks on water. Neurosis is a great name for a band, too. High on Fire, Slayer, Motorhead, and Metallica are probably the greatest names in metal."

Worst Band Name Ever: "Our keyboardist [Rich Morris] was in this great band but they had a really bad name. As good as they were, I think that worked against them. They were called Cream Abdul Babbar. You have to be creative and really name your band something that defines who you are, like a glimpse of what's in the package."

 
Crack the Skye is one of the best metal albums to come out in the past couple years. Great from start to finish. :confused:

 
Serious question for metalheads. Do you actually enjoy the growled, guttural vocals that seem to be so commonplace with most of these bands?

I find that I like the heavy sound of the guitars, bass and drums in moderate doses, but the vocals are almost always a deal breaker. I would explain what they remind me of, but I don't want to be insulting to my good metal-loving friends.

 
Yeah I liked The Hunter better than the previous one, whatever the hell it was called

Serious question for metalheads. Do you actually enjoy the growled, guttural vocals that seem to be so commonplace with most of these bands?
Wouldn't say enjoy.. I'm cool with Mastodon's vox, they aren't obnoxious like the real guttural death-growly crap, just a dude singing/yelling in a low pitch.Mastodon fans, a couple albums released this year by King Giant and Orange Goblin that you may like. I like em anyway. Kinda early Clutch-y, kinda Mastodon-y
 
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Yeah I liked The Hunter better than the previous one, whatever the hell it was called

Serious question for metalheads. Do you actually enjoy the growled, guttural vocals that seem to be so commonplace with most of these bands?
Wouldn't say enjoy.. I'm cool with Mastodon's vox, they aren't obnoxious like the real guttural death-growly crap, just a dude singing/yelling in a low pitch.Mastodon fans, a couple albums released this year by King Giant and Orange Goblin that you may like. I like em anyway. Kinda early Clutch-y, kinda Mastodon-y
I have to admit I didn't really distinguish between the two.
 
Yeah I liked The Hunter better than the previous one, whatever the hell it was called

Serious question for metalheads. Do you actually enjoy the growled, guttural vocals that seem to be so commonplace with most of these bands?
Wouldn't say enjoy.. I'm cool with Mastodon's vox, they aren't obnoxious like the real guttural death-growly crap, just a dude singing/yelling in a low pitch.Mastodon fans, a couple albums released this year by King Giant and Orange Goblin that you may like. I like em anyway. Kinda early Clutch-y, kinda Mastodon-y
I have to admit I didn't really distinguish between the two.
mastodon actually kinda sings now. very clear on the lyrics on the hunter IMO. And Crack the skye too
 
Yeah I liked The Hunter better than the previous one, whatever the hell it was called

Serious question for metalheads. Do you actually enjoy the growled, guttural vocals that seem to be so commonplace with most of these bands?
Wouldn't say enjoy.. I'm cool with Mastodon's vox, they aren't obnoxious like the real guttural death-growly crap, just a dude singing/yelling in a low pitch.Mastodon fans, a couple albums released this year by King Giant and Orange Goblin that you may like. I like em anyway. Kinda early Clutch-y, kinda Mastodon-y
I'll definitely check them out. Mastodon is the last band this old metalhead has been able to get into. I love the slow grinding with repetition like Clutch or Prong back in the day. You can't put Mastodon in that "cookie monster" vocal category, except for their first album Remission. It was interesting that in that great VH1 series Metal Evolution, they put Mastodon into the Progressive category which I guess I have to agree with. Not thrash, speed, death, very unique. The first time in quite a long time that I can focus strictly on the drummer for extended periods of time too. That guy is amazing.They're the best band out there now, imo.
 
Yeah I liked The Hunter better than the previous one, whatever the hell it was called

Serious question for metalheads. Do you actually enjoy the growled, guttural vocals that seem to be so commonplace with most of these bands?
Wouldn't say enjoy.. I'm cool with Mastodon's vox, they aren't obnoxious like the real guttural death-growly crap, just a dude singing/yelling in a low pitch.Mastodon fans, a couple albums released this year by King Giant and Orange Goblin that you may like. I like em anyway. Kinda early Clutch-y, kinda Mastodon-y
I'll definitely check them out. Mastodon is the last band this old metalhead has been able to get into. I love the slow grinding with repetition like Clutch or Prong back in the day. You can't put Mastodon in that "cookie monster" vocal category, except for their first album Remission. It was interesting that in that great VH1 series Metal Evolution, they put Mastodon into the Progressive category which I guess I have to agree with. Not thrash, speed, death, very unique. The first time in quite a long time that I can focus strictly on the drummer for extended periods of time too. That guy is amazing.They're the best band out there now, imo.
You might like that Red Fang album, from Quint's linkNone of these bands are quite in Mastodon territory, but it's the best metal stuff I can find lately. King Giant has some great guitar work for a bunch of nobodies.
 
Serious question for metalheads. Do you actually enjoy the growled, guttural vocals that seem to be so commonplace with most of these bands?I find that I like the heavy sound of the guitars, bass and drums in moderate doses, but the vocals are almost always a deal breaker. I would explain what they remind me of, but I don't want to be insulting to my good metal-loving friends.
This post is why I made sure to read the thread before posting. Leviathan is a great album musically but the guttural vocals are just awful. The same can be said of Opeth's magnificent Still Life - great music, stupid front man pretending to be Beelzebub.
 
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'jamny said:
'JZilla said:
Yeah I liked The Hunter better than the previous one, whatever the hell it was called

Serious question for metalheads. Do you actually enjoy the growled, guttural vocals that seem to be so commonplace with most of these bands?
Wouldn't say enjoy.. I'm cool with Mastodon's vox, they aren't obnoxious like the real guttural death-growly crap, just a dude singing/yelling in a low pitch.Mastodon fans, a couple albums released this year by King Giant and Orange Goblin that you may like. I like em anyway. Kinda early Clutch-y, kinda Mastodon-y
I'll definitely check them out. Mastodon is the last band this old metalhead has been able to get into. I love the slow grinding with repetition like Clutch or Prong back in the day. You can't put Mastodon in that "cookie monster" vocal category, except for their first album Remission. It was interesting that in that great VH1 series Metal Evolution, they put Mastodon into the Progressive category which I guess I have to agree with. Not thrash, speed, death, very unique. The first time in quite a long time that I can focus strictly on the drummer for extended periods of time too. That guy is amazing.They're the best band out there now, imo.
You might like that Red Fang album, from Quint's linkNone of these bands are quite in Mastodon territory, but it's the best metal stuff I can find lately. King Giant has some great guitar work for a bunch of nobodies.
Lovin' them both. I like the southern influence. Definitely more Clutch than Mastodon but it's good ####. :thumbup: Rage of Angels video kicks ###. C'mon. Charles Bronson? Respect!
 
Some metal songs I've unearthed in the past couple of years that I kept... I can't tolerate the death growl, so none of that here:

(live performance)
 
'JZilla said:
'jamny said:
'JZilla said:
Yeah I liked The Hunter better than the previous one, whatever the hell it was called

Serious question for metalheads. Do you actually enjoy the growled, guttural vocals that seem to be so commonplace with most of these bands?
Wouldn't say enjoy.. I'm cool with Mastodon's vox, they aren't obnoxious like the real guttural death-growly crap, just a dude singing/yelling in a low pitch.Mastodon fans, a couple albums released this year by King Giant and Orange Goblin that you may like. I like em anyway. Kinda early Clutch-y, kinda Mastodon-y
I'll definitely check them out. Mastodon is the last band this old metalhead has been able to get into. I love the slow grinding with repetition like Clutch or Prong back in the day. You can't put Mastodon in that "cookie monster" vocal category, except for their first album Remission. It was interesting that in that great VH1 series Metal Evolution, they put Mastodon into the Progressive category which I guess I have to agree with. Not thrash, speed, death, very unique. The first time in quite a long time that I can focus strictly on the drummer for extended periods of time too. That guy is amazing.They're the best band out there now, imo.
You might like that Red Fang album, from Quint's linkNone of these bands are quite in Mastodon territory, but it's the best metal stuff I can find lately. King Giant has some great guitar work for a bunch of nobodies.
have you heard volbeat?
 
'JZilla said:
'jamny said:
'JZilla said:
Yeah I liked The Hunter better than the previous one, whatever the hell it was called

Serious question for metalheads. Do you actually enjoy the growled, guttural vocals that seem to be so commonplace with most of these bands?
Wouldn't say enjoy.. I'm cool with Mastodon's vox, they aren't obnoxious like the real guttural death-growly crap, just a dude singing/yelling in a low pitch.Mastodon fans, a couple albums released this year by King Giant and Orange Goblin that you may like. I like em anyway. Kinda early Clutch-y, kinda Mastodon-y
I'll definitely check them out. Mastodon is the last band this old metalhead has been able to get into. I love the slow grinding with repetition like Clutch or Prong back in the day. You can't put Mastodon in that "cookie monster" vocal category, except for their first album Remission. It was interesting that in that great VH1 series Metal Evolution, they put Mastodon into the Progressive category which I guess I have to agree with. Not thrash, speed, death, very unique. The first time in quite a long time that I can focus strictly on the drummer for extended periods of time too. That guy is amazing.They're the best band out there now, imo.
You might like that Red Fang album, from Quint's linkNone of these bands are quite in Mastodon territory, but it's the best metal stuff I can find lately. King Giant has some great guitar work for a bunch of nobodies.
have you heard volbeat?
Their Beyond Hell / Above Heaven album is great.
 
Like High Road. Only heard it, and really discovered this band, because of iRadio and Spotify. I mean, I had HEARD of them, but had no clue what their music was like until recently.

 

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