MASTODON - The Hunter
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- benfal99
- -What do you think? What's your thoughts about the new album?
I just listened it 2 times and ....mmmm, not sure. We're far from the genius "Crack the skye" ... maybe it will grow on me.
- d_rek0
Fmt?
- ********0
too soon.
- benfal990
well the album will be everwhere on the net in hours.
- fresnobob0
When you say stuff like: "It doesn't seem as proggy. There's moments, but it seems more riff-oriented. It seems a little more stripped down" and hire a white hip-hop producer/studio musician from the suburbs, you know you are only trying to make money.
Its all good though, at least Scott Kelley gets to cash in a little bit...
- CygnusZero40
Sounds like very dated 80s metal to me.
- Even the name of the band is corny 80s metal.CygnusZero4
- You have your metal incorrect.TheBlueOne
- So this sounds modern to you? Interesting.CygnusZero4
- 80s metal for sure.oktalk
- benfal990
Crack the Skye was amazing. The drummer is singing more often on this album and I think his voice is too clean and poppy for Mastodon. There are some good moments on the album and the album in all isn't bad at all. But we're under Crack the Sky, Blood Mountain and Leviathan for sure. Just a bit tho.
- * the drummer is singing more on The Hunterbenfal99
- One could expect the release to be a bit down from CTS. It's good to see they weren't trying to release Skye II.floccinaucinihilipil
- benfal990
they have a song where they make a reference to a Pink Floyd's song from DSOTM. That is cool.
- sublocked0
thanks for the heads up...just snatched it
- d_rek0
Anyone have a link for this? pweeeeese....
- andreuz0
Too soft, I prefer the Remission/Leviathan era, but not bad at all
- identity0
I really like their evolution over the last two albums.
This album is a definite step in the right direction.
- CygnusZero40
Just listened to some more on youtube. Love the goofy synchronized guitar solos. What is this 1983 Iron Maiden? Corny as hell.
- benfal990
its growing on me since yesterday... we will see...
- sublocked0
maybe they're back to smoking crack? like it's the 80s...
- Horp0
Fecking love the album sleeve.
- +1monospaced
- Agree, but why is there a notch on the T? This bothers me.gramme
- Gramme, just look at the overall effect, let go a little. You can do it. The world is imperfect and its okay.Horp
- The overall effect is great, no argument there.gramme
- I'm afraid I'm incapable of turning off the typographic queries, though I suppose I could keep them to myself.gramme
- :D grammemonospaced
- Knuckleberry0
Huge fan of all the albums before... but this is pretty bad. The musicianship is good, certain songs kind of seem just thrown together. But, the vocals are horrid and there is no way they will sing like this live. They had a hard time doing Crack the Skye vocals live and this is higher.
Bad times.
- They are looking to cash in. I'm ok with that, they deserve it.severian
- To say they had a hard time pulling off CTS vocals live is an understatement on par with, "this band has done a few drugs."floccinaucinihilipil
- ...drugs."floccinaucinihilipil
- benfal990
I listening to it like 12 times since 2 days. It's a good album. Crack The Skye was genius, so it's a little drop for me. And yeah, iam afraid the vocals will be awful live.
Needs more 'heavy' riffing. Otherwise those songs are complex and well written for sure. They know their shit.
- benfal990
Some of the voices are totally like Fear Factory, like the song "Bedazzled Fingernails"