New Mastodon album?

[guitarded_chuck]

I just listened to the new single Divinations, and yeah its ****ing sick.

So is it a part of a new album coming soon?

[The Feeding]

god i hope not...never been a fan

[malaise]

yeah

New album is called Crack the Skye

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Cracktheskye.jpg/600px-Cracktheskye.jpg

When asked in multiple interviews Dailor said the record would tell a story dealing variously with the art aesthetics of Tsarist Russia, astral travel, out of body experiences and Stephen Hawking's theories on wormholes.

This paired with the fact that I used to be pretty into Mastodon is enough for me to probably check it out.

[The Feeding]

loved Leviathan, not a fan of anything since...too spacey wierd prog idk and the vocals turned me off

[malaise]

As I've aged I guess I've kinda grown out of their style, but I used to listen to Leviathan all the goddamn time.

[The Feeding]

oh yeah it's killer. The only prog metal i'll even stomach is Opeth..if you count that, well and progressive DM

[rasputin]

that's not the actual album cover is it because it's ****ing stupid

[Cardboard Urinal]

apparently it is. i thought it was some 12 yr olds fanart but alas! its foreal

[EdgeOfSanity]

Hi, welcome to two months ago!...

But for real, the album comes out in a couple of months...

I actually don't mind the cover art...

[Grumma]

It's different.

I'd like it except for the 2 dudes. both seem a bit weird in the photo

[Gnarmageddon]

torche >

every time

[Skyler]

yeah the album art is ****ing hideous

hope this leaks soon

wasn't too big on blood mountain but it was still pretty good i guess

[Zengeance]

The album art is AMAZING. I think they're going for the 80's tattoo parlour/mystic shop look. And nothing screams metal to me more than that.

[lauriej]

"screaming metal" isnt always good, look at king diamond

[interviewer02]

loved Leviathan, not a fan of anything since...too spacey wierd prog idk and the vocals turned me off

this exactly. The story for the new album is good, too bad the music isn't going to be great.

[sleepless]

That album artwork is sick.

Fools know nothing about proper design.

[Stevie]

sup3r sikkq

[EdgeOfSanity]

"screaming metal" isnt always good, look at king diamond

The King shits on anything that you listen to.

[Stevie]

i thought taht mastaton artwork wash fotoshp ****

[lauriej]

The King shits on anything that you listen to.

hahaha you keep telling yourself that kiddo

[Cocaine]

The concept for this album is probably one of the single most ridiculous things I've ever read.

There is a paraplegic and the only way that he can go anywhere is if he astral travels. He goes out of his body, into outer space and a bit like Icarus, he goes too close to the sun, burning off the golden umbilical cord that is attached to his solar plexus. So he is in outer space and he is lost, he gets sucked into a wormhole, he ends up in the spirit realm and he talks to spirits telling them that he is not really dead. So they send him to the Russian cult, they use him in a divination and they find out his problem. They decide they are going to help him. They put his soul inside Rasputin's body. Rasputin goes to usurp the czar and he is murdered. The two souls fly out of Rasputin's body through the crack in the sky(e) and Rasputin is the wise man that is trying to lead the child home to his body because his parents have discovered him by now and think that he is dead. Rasputin needs to get him back into his body before it's too late. But they end up running into the Devil along the way and the Devil tries to steal their souls and bring them down…there are some obstacles along the way.

[Porklips]

Sounds like a Bill and Ted movie.

[Gontificator]

mastodon

[Clunge]

Mastodon.