Mastodon | Leviathan Story Explained 

Came here by Punk Rock MBA's suggestion. Great work! Don't stop!

When they played with Coheed it was basically a dream show.

Woah! You touched on Remission having a fire theme and obviously Leviathan representing water, which lead me to realize that their follow up has "mountain" in the title (earth) and then of course Crack The Skye being air. Very, very cool. Mind blown.

I remember seeing a vid of Brann (i think) talking about the elephant man themed songs. Basically they were fascinated by blurring of the line between man and beast. Kind of like their music. It can on the surface seem very harsh but there is a lot of heart and depth to their lyrics and message. I love Mastodon because of this. Their music can be very technical and intense but there always seems be a positive message. I love the themes of overcoming adversity.

I see Naked Burn as more of a backstory to the whale. The lyrics reference the book of enoc and follow how the nephillim were formed and how they died. I think in the context of this story Ahab see the whale as another beast that either wasnt killed along with the nephillim or was created to kill the nephillim.

Well done. This is exactly how I would break down the concept. The Norse belief in Thor and the serpent was used to describe high seas and storms. The hammer of Thor created the lightning, etc

I always just felt Joseph Merrick was just to tie together their first album Remission with Leviathan. Remission's outro track Is actually called Elephant Man. Also Elephant Man and Joseph Merrick are a couple of their most beautiful tracks from their respective albums.

How sweet this girl is; then, at the beginning of each video she always has a drink, she's nice :) excellent explanation of this album. Stay metal!

Yoo, ive been looking for a channel like this forever! Im so glad this exists!

I was just looking for the album review, but this certainly will suffice! Great video!

Just listened to this album 2 days ago, pretty cool! Needed to know the meaning behind of this moby dick story. Everybody says that it’s so important! Btw the country lick on seabeast is an absolute killer (min 1:20). Thanks for making this video!!

this really fleshes out the listening experience for me thank you!

This was awesome thank you 🤘🏽🖤🎵💪🏽

I'm in love now

My favorite Mastodon album and one of my top 5 albums of all time. Hoping we get a 20th anniversary tour next year.

Damn i admire artists that can create stories into their albums, i can only write about myself lol

That is a great album indeed. I saw them on ozzfest 2005.

I love that your art for Thor was Amon Amarth

Awesome! I was wondering when you were going to cover this album from one of my favorite bands. Now you need a Mastodon playlist to put the videos into. Have you thought about making videos for songs that are not part of the concept albums, just to give your interpretation of the song? Maybe something worth considering. I'm referring to any artist, not just Mastodon. Thank you for these videos. I listen to so much music day to day, that I stopped paying attention to lyrics nearly two decades ago, for the most part, so these videos help draw my attention back to the lyrics on some of my favorite albums, and help me get a better sense of the story as a whole. Thanks again, Jay! P.S. apart from Avantasia, you should check out some of the albums from The Ocean; Pelagial would be a good place to start. Since you like Mastodon, I'm pretty sure you're going to like this band.

i absolutely love this album

dude this is all so cool🫶🏽🤟🏽

Hello! Found your account with this video. Love the concept of telling stories behind concept albums. May I kindly recommend two albums for you to check out? Slugdge-Esoteric Malacology Slice the Cake-Odssey to the West

Weird that they called the mastodon fossil a leviathan. Land monsters are usually called behemoths but I wasn’t alive back then so can’t say much.

Please do all mastodon albums and if you haven’t already please do the great stone war by winds of plague it’s not an album you find a lot of info on and this is a great channel great work

Heck yeah Mastodon lore🤘

So I got alot to say about this, fist off great job on all the research and explaining your interpretation of the story.I read the Moby dick book in 5th grade for Book it and was pretty bored with it to be honest untill Captain Ahab showed up and the description of him really intrested me. And then with all the crazy explanation of his experience with this huge sea monster and how it took is leg and sent him in to this Monomania "great word selection btw" really drew me into the story. I am really into monster movies so the idea of having a gozilla like monster being chased by on man with a chip on his sholder was exciting. When this album came out I really tried to get the references to the book, but I had a hard time cause of a coupple of songs i thought didn't fit in and having watched this video, Now i know why lol. I think its awesome that an old story like this can still inspire somthing this awesome in this erra kinda like how the Thor story was an inspiration for Moby Dick it's self. Great video Sry for the grammatical errors . Hard to text a long response.

Island and hearts alive are by far my favorite tracks. Also dang she cute af

really bummed i can't make the tour w Gojira

Wait... Wasn't your explanation of the first track just an explanation of what Moby Dick is about? 😅

girl u need to fuck with sound setting cuz ur videos are way too low