Over the time, The Hunter has become my favourite album as well. It has the best production imo and even though most of the songs on it have a simpler structure than on the other albums, they groove the hardest. I love the drum sound on that record, it's one of the best I've heard anywhere. Also Stargasm gives me goosebumps everytime, even after like 100 listens.
It's a great song but I think this list is more about which songs MEAN the most to the Mastodon guys, which is kind of a different question than "which song do you think is the sickest song"
I love how Mastodon's music is so diverse and unique that the reason why someone listens to them can differ so much from person to person. Or even change over time. I initially got into Mastodon because of their more thrashy and heavy songs. But now I'm more of a sucker for those bluesy riffs Brent throws in. But overall, I love all their stuff!
Anyone else addicted to the song "The Beast" of the new album, it's such a unique song in their catalog, it channels some of what they were doing on the Cold Dark Place Ep, Brents voice is so unique, and the variety of guitars on this track whew !
Eyes of serpents is one of the most powerful mastodon performances they've ever done, feels like the watching something die. Gotta love the one flew over the cuckoos nest speech at the start of shadows that move as well!
Eyes Of Serpents is definitely my favorite from the new album, and quickly became an all time favorite song for me, so beautiful and the lyrics just get me every time.
The new album makes me wanna move to the mountains and just run through a Forrest to the top. There's a lot of psychedelic sounds in this one and I love it. My fav mastodon song is still pendulous skin for that very reason
It's okay Troy, you can admit Black Tongue is your favorite song. Amazing song bass wise and they have played it every time I've seen them live. It's a clear favorite song for him.
The thing that's mind-blowing about Mastodon is just how good they are all at writing individually, and it all comes together and meshes. If you've ever worked in a group, and tried to mesh ideas together with other people, you just know how difficult that can be. The fact they can put their ego's to one side and let it just happen, is what sets them apart. This is why their music will always be good no matter what they write, because each member has their own way of tackling a situation.
Got the wrong size shirt from an order and ignored when I tried to exchange it. Fuck your merchandisers, I’ll listen to artists who aren’t involved with scamming me
I remember watching a video when The Hunter was released and Brann was talking about what black tongue was about. Back then he said that the song was about a parrot being locked up in a cage.
Remission: Burning Man / Leviathan: Aqua Dementia / Blood Mountain: The Wolf is Loose / Crack the Skye: The Czar / The Hunter : The Sparrow / OMRTS : Chimes at midnight / Emperor of Sand: Andromeda / Hushed and Grim: More than i could chew.
Personally, I'd rather listen to a band that doesn't take themselves too seriously to the point they treat it lightly or jokingly than a band that takes themselves so seriously that their music actually is a joke.
