Album Rating: 4.0

they seem to be quite creative and productive, too. Many songs on the way

Album Rating: 4.0

@Beardog oh god, it works too well haha



I have the biggest soft spot for this album. Blasteroid, Stargasm, The Sparrow... yeah, don't get how this underwhelmed people. Every track has something amazing in it.

Album Rating: 4.0

In 2011 I got to listen for the first time albums by Opeth and Mastodon. Both Heritage and Hunter got a huge backlash, but I happened to enjoy them, free from the burden of their previous work.



The Hunter rocks hard and has some of the greatest moments from Mastodon (e.g. the part where Troy screams ''Just clooose your eyeeeeeeeeeees... Let me teeeell you that everything's fiiiiiiiiiiiiinneeee'')

Album Rating: 4.0

Early opeth and mastodon suck my balls, especially Opeth. It's a crime to have them tagged as "death metal". They're just bad and pretentious prog rock with harsh vocals thrown into the mix...

Album Rating: 4.0

It's not that bad, haha. It's a matter of preference, but I agree, I dig Opeth from Still Life and on.

Album Rating: 4.0

My first experience with Mastodon was in 2009 with CtS. The whole place was buzzing with their new album. I bought it and i remember i didn't like it at first. But the reason i didn't like it was because i was listening without headphones; CtS is one of the few albums out there that is a whole lot better when listening via headphones. There's so much stuff going on. I think it's easily Mastodon's best record. It pisses on their previous albums.

Album Rating: 4.0

"They've been working on new stuff. Hopefully a full album in the near future"



Hopefully, it would be a bouncy and poppy record with a little bit of jazz 'n' country thrown here and there. And moar of those hillbilly vocals, please.



Fuck this metal shit.

Album Rating: 4.0

CtS was an apocalypse for me as well. I would jam it literally ALL DAY for months. But I like all of their albums, even Remission (which is too harsh for me) has some amazing stuff.



>Hopefully, it would be a bouncy and poppy record with a little bit of jazz 'n' country thrown here and there. And moar of those hillbilly vocals, please.



I wouldn't mind that, tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

I know YOU wouldn't mind. But a lot of people want to hear the same junk recycled over and over again. That's why a lot of people would be pissed, hahaha



Personally, I would like to see that just to see sputnik being pissed once more.

Album Rating: 4.0

Nah, I think the userbase here is a lot more open-minded than we give it credit for. I remember the days of Metal Hammer GR forum, where operatic vocals in metal were considered A BLASPHEMY and that metal should be left PURE (of course not by all, but I can remember some strange guys thinking like that)

Album Rating: 4.0

I bet most of these guys would suck Halford's balls. It's weird to have such objections. Operatic vocals in metal are as old as metal itself.

Album Rating: 4.0

"Nah, I think the userbase here is a lot more open-minded than we give it credit for"



Don't vow on it. Take a look at the forums. Most people criticize the fact that they don't play metal in the vein of their first days.

Album Rating: 4.0

well, yes, that's true. But their EP Cold Dark Place was praised, and it didn't bring the metulz

Album Rating: 4.0

Cause it was an ep...

Album Rating: 4.0

Early Mastodon and Opeth rule tho



@rockandmetaljumkie dunno why you're singling out early Opeth as being more prog than death, post Still Life Opeth was like that too.

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't have an appropriate answer tbh, it's just the way i perceive their music. They just sound more like a prog band with death vocals to me

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, I agree that they're definitely more prog metal w dm influences than pure dm. But they've *always* been like that is what I'm saying. All the way from Orchid to Watershed.

Album Rating: 4.0

i agree, my comment was a reference to all those people who tag them as a death metal group

Album Rating: 3.0

"CtS was an apocalypse for me as well. I would jam it literally ALL DAY for months."

I remember my iTunes play count for CtS being like 1,800+ while still at school that year. so for seven tracks, that was the whole album three times a day for four months.

Album Rating: 2.5

all mastodon is good mastodon



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