First time to Mastodon "Last Baron" (reaction episode 113) 

I would heavily recommend doing Crack The Skye in its entirety, phenomenal album

You'll have a blast discovering the versatility this band has. Multi-part epics like this and turn the corner into straight-up heavy danceable bangers. Amazing band! Three vocalists in the group as well, adding another layer of sauce to an already tasty Sonic buffet!

I will never get tired of seeing people react to Mastodon's drums

Dailor is the king of drum fills and one of the few who can get away with using it excessively.

Their magnum opus, for sure. 9:17, that RIFF. Next: Isis - Threshold of Transformation Elder - Blind Cynic - Carbon-Based Anatomy

Commenting on a video I love for the algorithm. :) Also yeah Brann is one of my top 5 living drummers in metal.

You can't easily place the singer's voice ... Because everyone sings in Mastodon. Only one of the two guitarists does not sing, all the other members take turns singing. Each has a part depending on the type of voice required.

First time I ever heard them was in concert '06 when they were supporting Slayer. The only band I really came for that night was Lamb of God but Mastodon were the only one that stuck with me after I left. Immediately bought Leviathan the next day and they have been one of my favorites since. Saw them play Crack the Skye straight through on that tour as well (also had Between the Buried and Me and Baroness at that concert, one of the best I've ever experienced). Watching Brann Dailor play drums live is an otherworldly experience.

My favorite song on one BONKERS album. The storyline, the music, the vibe are truly something never replicated, not even by the mighty Mastodon themselves. And everyone, all hail The Riff. You know the one.

Your pt.2, suite of songs comment is definitely on point. This entire album is conceptual. There are melodic themes that persist throughout its entirety.

THANK YOU for finally doing mastodon. subscribed. i believe they're one of the most important bands in prog/metal right now. very great musicianship. i'd recommend "jaguar god" from their latest lp emperor of sand. stay safe dean!

The opening pair of the Once More 'Round The Sun album, namely "Tread Lightly" and "The Motherload" are amazing tracks that I strongly recommend you listen to.

Mastodon's new album Hushed and Grim is fantastic!

my first mastodon song as well. just heard it around a year ago and now they are my most listened to band on spotify. definitely a band you should react to more of. i recommend the czar, north side star or hearts alive

This and your "The Czar" reaction videos earned you an instant subscribe. This album is amazing. If you don't care for the singing, there is an instrumental version of this album! But I would guess you're thinking of Ozzy Osbourne for some of the lead vocals

Definitely have to do more of their albums. Btw loving the reactions 🐺

The production on this album is flawless and the instrumentation is damn near perfect

you mentioned volta, i think they toured together once & the keyboard player from volta also played with mastodon. ❤️ rip ikey

Thanks for mentioning "sounds like Ozzy", i LOVE Brent's singing and knew it sounded familiar but could not place it. It was Ozzy style the whole time!

I love mastodon..especially since they all are singers in the songs genius stuff..keep reacting to them my man you will not be disappointed!

YES! I suggested this song a while back....thanks for giving it a go. Going to listen with you now.

I only just started listening to these guys with the latest album. Now I’m totally kicking myself for outright ignoring one of the best bands I’ve ever heard! Amazing

The album is SO GOOD. I'm so happy you've done this!! hopefully this leads to more Mastodon in the future! Also my semi-regular reminder to check out Elder!

I love how polite the room he's in is, but how unearthly heavy the song he's listening to is HAHAHA

If Mastodon doesn’t make you feel something while listening you don’t have a pulse! Insane the feeling and vibe only Mastodon can produce!

Subbed point " Kind of The Mars Volta frenetics" - Never made that connection, but it's there. Well spotted.

Nice one Dean 👌👌👌 Take your pick on this band. Bran Dailor the drummer does an awesome duo with Danny Carey from Tool. Totally off the top of their heads.

Like many have said, Crack The Skye is a concept album. You have to listen to the whole thing, kudos on picking up on that at the beginning!

First TOOL now mastodon. My 2 faves!You sir just earned a subscription.

One of my favorite Mastodon songs. So much great music from these guys. Loved your reaction. 🤘🏽

+1 for Crack the Skye as a full album react. Great album.

Haha love that “drummer sure is energetic” Brann Dailor is one of the best drummers I’ve heard.

This kind of stoner metal is called "sludge" - epic, heavier and often more progressive and intricate than regular stoner rock. For another great band in the "genre" try Baroness

Ooh, yeah! Mastodon! Another very unique progressive metal band that's getting better and better album by album. Can't wait the next one!

HELL YEAH. Now do The Czar!

Great choice for an introductory track.

dang, you keep reacting to bangers. this is my favorite song by mastodon ❤️

What a heavyass song to first get introduced to mastodon with!! DAMN (for anyone who has it as first. But can't imagine. I mean if your listened to album order) and when I say heavy I don't necessarily mean like heavy metal (to which this is pretty heavy though) but more so......idk....like emotional and spiritual I guess haha. This is kinda like their masterpiece track it's sorta like starting at a final boss in a game😂😂 ok it's either this or Hearts Alive🤸 I wanna say both (the beginning of this fucking song is so dark feeling) AWESOME VIDEO fellow!!😎

This is a great song of theirs to listen to as your first song. It's displays their skill very well.

Masterpiece!

Colony of birchman, jaguar God, steembreather, oblivion, march of the fire ants are all great tunes to just name a few

Sounding like a Black Sabbath/ King Crimson Mix! Love this music. Really good

I've always thought brent sounds like ozzy. This was confirmed when I played mastodon in the car with my sister, it was her first thought as well

I like how you let all the song run it's course.

Oh yeah! Thank You! :)

Yes!!!!!!!! Finally

1:56 Ozzy Osbourne

next song Hearts Alive? Or Trilobite for discovering the roots of this band... Then Asleep in the Deep or The Motherload with Videos (for the lulz).

If you can listen to crack the sky while doing mushrooms without crying you are the man

Brilliant. Somewhere around 6 mins in and you realise that typing is slower than the changes that are happening.

Another band with a great drummer

Another great band.

Dude, if you're doing stoner metal you gotta listen to The Sword. Them and Mastodon are like the OGs. I reccomend anything off of Age of Winters or God of Earth which are both almost entirely based on Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire. Not many bands can pull of basing albums off of books but Wolfmother does a lot of LOTR and Mastodon did Moby Dick so anything is possible lol.

Mastodon:The Hunter

I don't think you would like all of their stuff but I think you would like the whole Crack the Sky album

Classic Mastodon always sounds like unrefined creativity right on the cusp of exploding.

YES. Crack The Skye is up there with the first 4 Mars Volta albums for me. They did something really special here. Songs like Ghost of Karelia are just sublime. I was always surprised at how cohesive this record is, like it's hard to square the fact that it's four people and not one. In a different way to how on volta records, you do get a sense that there's many people throwing what they've got at it and it can be very chaotic.

totally get what you mean about the "part 2" thing. this one always feels like part of a dark souls concept album to me lol listen to the lyrics it lines up so well if you know the lore.

Do more mastodon!

DAT RIFF

I haven't watched this one yet, but I will be soon. In the meantime, I have a question about the last track on Tellurian album. I know you squeeze in tracks between your album reviews, but it's been about a week, so just checking to see if you overlooked it. Thanks, and sorry to be a pest. 🙄

That Drummer is Brann Dailor, little brother of Danny Carey, sort of

You did it!!! 6k!!! 🎊🎖️🎉 And so soon after being awarded Elbow Status at the 1st annual Jenny Awards, 2020.💪 🎪 Impressive! 🎪 👏😯👏"Ooh!"😃👏😃👏 😯👏😯👏😀👏😃"Ahh!"

That's pretty interesting, since most reactors out there usually start their Mastodon journey with "Oblivion", the opening track of this album. You started with the last - longest and "busiest" - track. And you got the point pretty quickly: it does sound quite psychedelic on purpose, since this album represents the element "aether" (most Mastodon albums roughly represent an element, such as fire, water, etc.), not to mention things like astral travel, which is part of this album's concept. As many have said here, it's Mastodon best album (at least for me it is) and it truly deserves a full listen/review. I've seen many people comparing Brent Hinds' vocals to Ozzy's, but everyone in this band sings. Bassist Troy Sanders always shared lead vocals with Brent since the beginning of the band (you can hear him in this track on sections such as "ghost of man..." and "will he save me.."). Drummer Brann Dailor started taking lead vocal duties as well in this album. Rhythm guitarist Bill Kelliher usually performs backing vocals. So it's quite interesting to see everyone having a contribution and making the sound more diverse. "Crack the Skye" is usually considered an album that divides Mastodon's career. There's before CTS, with the band playing a much heavier sound with growling vocals, then there's after CTS, with them playing a more melodic brand of music with clean vocals. There's a lot of good stuff to be found on both eras. You mentioned the drummer here... Brann is quite contained in this album, actually! He used to be totally unleashed during the band's first era lol, and he's a beast at what he does. In all honesty, everyone in this band is pretty good at what they do.

you should look check out the cover of Rush's Anthem on RU-vid done by members of Mastodon, Primus, Coheed and Cambria, Mutoid Man, etc. Is amazing!

Psychedelic for sure. I believe most of these riffs were written by Brett Hinds when he was in the hospital for a head injury. Like a I'm going to die head injury. In his hallucinations he must have touched another plane of existence.

of OZZY?

Please listen to Elder - Sanctuary They're a mix of sludge, doom and stoner metal, but very progressive

next song you should do is gigantium

If you like Mastodon listen to Baroness.

Quite a doozy for a first reaction to a band, but I do love this song!

Late 2 this Video. Seen Mastodon.....Stopped. Can't go wrong with this Band.

I like when Brent sings more

But what did the shark think?

sorry to spam with comments but also there's three guys singing in this band lol

It's probably a good band but this one did not catch my ears. And this was first discovery i made with you :) There are so many suggestions i wanna make but i rather wait if some of my suggestions come naturally.

great band, great songs. if they just would get the transitions better, they could match the best.

Dont like Mastadon too busy nothing to sink my teeth into. Stiff and i dont remember anything after listen.

Great song. Terrible song to be introduced to the band. Not indicative of what they sound like.