Album Rating: 3.0

Damn Lucca beat me lol, back half of Magma is great

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

personal fave off Magma is Low Lands, which he def couldn't have gotten if Gojira didn't soften up their sound.

Album Rating: 3.5

Magma is a phenomenal album.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I only wish I loved Fortitude as much

Album Rating: 4.0

fortitude is better than magma

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I like the singles but the rest of Fortitude is just ok to me.

Album Rating: 2.0

Dear Crack the Skye: FACED. Oh Hi, Blood Mountain: Fucking FACED. Whats that Leviathan? Oh yeah, you just got FACED hard, although not as hard as the other two.

Creature lives is probably their worst song. What a piece of shit

yeah, this record gets a confusing amount of hate

been enjoying my revisit of their discog, pleasant surprises abound

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah this one bangs

Album Rating: 5.0

Never got the hate for this one. Is it top 3? Obviously not but there's so much fun here

Album Rating: 4.5

Underrated for sure

"fortitude is better than magma"

Incorrect.

I've been listening to this album this past week and it's pretty great to me. Dunno why the hate for this one

Album Rating: 4.5

It's definitely more accessible and less proggy than anything that came before, I think that's why, but it never came off as forced or pandering to me. It feels like a logical progression from Crack the Skye, like they were still trying new things for them. They did their proggiest album and then they wanted to do something more immediate and fun. And some of the weirdness and playfulness they always had is intact here. I think Once More 'Round the Sun is where things started feeling like they were going through the motions, but even that record is solid to me. Emperor of Sand is where they lost me.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Slightly above average album but they have unfortunately done worse

Album Rating: 3.0

It's just the curl of the burl

"Dunno why the hate for this one

mastodon copied the successful metallica model of having a super kickass driving single-type metal track as track #2, worked super well for first four albums (march of the fire ants, blood and thunder, crystal skull, divinations) and then..... curl of the burl. if you were a big fan of mastodon at the time you probably felt like they were the metal kings of the mid to late 2000s, and then.... curl of the burl.

maybe it's not a truly bad album but it gets hate because it marked the shift from metal mastodon into like, ford 150 commercial hard rock mastodon. same reason load and reload get what could probably be called undue hate

Album Rating: 4.5

Nah Curl of the Burl is great.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

I dont think budgie is saying curl of the burl is bad per se...but like he said it marked a drastic shift in their sound that a lot of fans at the time found jarring, myself included