Well that's the worst Mastodon cover they've done.

I dun like it

Not as good as their other covers, which are some my favourite album covers ever.

that's... interesting

Eeeeeeeeewwwwwww should have stuck with romano

I actually think it's pretty cool

badass-looking god you guys are pansies

trippy

It looks super cheesy until you realize the guy makes legit wooden carvings like this. That's pretty badass.

and you guys bitch way too much about stupid shit like album art. it doesn't make a fucking difference honestly.

not sure yet, i think i kind of like it. it does stand out compared to a lot of other covers.

It reminds me of one of those Chinese puppet things.

"It looks super cheesy until you realize the guy makes legit wooden carvings like this. That's pretty badass."

You won me over.

Doesn't matter what the album art looks like, the album itself will be awesome

what the fuck guys that looks awesome. fuck off.

i kinda like it

It's cool but Leviathan is still one of my all time favourite album covers (that special edition artwork was amazing)

Awesome cover.

Yeah this is the original carving...wicked.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=224122644266897&set=a.224122640933564.66515.199907496688412&type=1

Awesome cover.

i like it

Really like it. Don't think it's better than the other covers 'cause these are terrific, especially Leviathan... but, originality +1.

not a fan, I think Romano's stuff is absolutely awesome. But I guess they get points for doing something new

I think mastodon looked at Crack the Skye and said "Shit we can't really top that, so let's start dicking around, and make a fun, far less serious record." Also, if you've seen the tracklisting, I think you'll find that agrees a little with what I'm saying.

awesome.

all signs point toward this album being awesome

Rad as hell. Kind of has a native american vibe.

this band is talented, people giving a shit about whether it'll be better or worse than previous releases are wasting their time when mastodon's pretty well stated that this is going to be a 180.

Well, it would be hard to make an even proggier album than Crack The Skye :]

Gonna rule.

LOL hilarious cover

If it wasn't obviously a 3d render, and more vector-like, it'd be awesome.

Damn a band for trying something new

I think it'd look better if they got Stacey Rozich (cover artist for the latest Earth album) to do it.

holy shit that is incredible. like, what a great album cover. very excited to buy this now.

Favorite album art of the year.

art looks like it's perfect for CURLING SOME BURL.

this is fucking sweet

The only thing I find "off" with it is... why the runic-inspired lettering?

very interesting. i like it.

I fucking love this. I hate when people bitch about it. It's cool art, and it's a good band, who cares.

I really don't understand why people like this

It's good dude, shut up

it looks cool in a way.... it'd be better if they stuck with Paul Romano.

Legos?

not bad at all.

but it's just so

not

metal

ew

its metal as fuck

the only reason you could call it not metal is cause its like legos


but theres nothing wrong with legos so

album will be so trippy

but legos are danish

Legodons

ooooo I'm cool witdis

not fussed on this, but the track that got put out the other day sounded promising. Reminded me of leviathan.

Deathbound is left over from the Crack The Skye recordings right? It's not on the new album

isn't it? i thought it was a sample of the new one :-s confused now

I'm pretty sure it's a one off free song for the 'Adult Swim Singles Program'. but idk what that is

Deathbound will not be on the new one, it was a leftover

is it leftover from these sessions or crack the skye though?

Crack. It was just used for that Adult Swim thing

wtf is that

that's what I just said

ahh, i was getting excited thinking they were going to bring the grittier sound back. Although to be honest Crack the skye is my fave mastodon album

The colors seem a little off to me but I like it.

That is an amazing album cover.

Did this guy seriously butcher the classic 'Mastodon' band name font....

Cover is shit, sorry.

awesome artwork!

Dammit I wanted the puppets from the leftover track video on the cover!

I think it's rad as hell.

I think anyone who says otherwise doesn't have a good sense of art/design. This is honestly the most iconic looking album art they've done. This feels like it has a lot of potential. Don't get me wrong, Paul Romano is incredible and I love all the art he has done for them, but it was time for a change and I think this was a great change.

Is this the year of metal bands releasing albums with crap artwork? This isn't as bad as the Opeth cover though.

A big risk even for Mastodon. This one might just be Too Extreme!

LOL omg nice pun LOL

i think the rest of the user base is looking at a completely different cover.

yer jus gay

lol it's funny. Pretty cool though.

It's not bad actually. 2011 Year of the weird ass artwork.

Cool

that's a terrible cover

That's awesome, I always love their artwork.

i like it, very different indeed but i fancy it, also worst news article ever written in the history of the English language

The artwork is badass.

I really like it.

They had to change art styles because Opeth stole theirs.

Also

That horse thing has three mouths. What.

i like it

Call me pedantic, but if Paul Romano did a version of this cover, it would be better. Why switch now?

Fucking pedantic asshole

It looks like lego... and i love lego

Needs moar Romano.


Ray Romano, to be exact. Everybody loves him.

Not sure if like, something is off about it. I prefer this guy's other piece that they've been using as a backdrop recently, would have been a cooler cover: http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/264576_10150244886542948_5748157947_7240531_735517_n.jpg

Thats the fuckin best thang i ever saw, shut the fuck up haterz

looks like the second part of that Puscifer cowboy album. Its like the SAME!

I prefer this guy's other piece that they've been using as a backdrop recently, would have been a cooler cover: http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/264576_10150244886542948_5748157947_7240531_735517_n.jpg
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I might be a prick and use that as the cover on my itunes. Y'know, cause I'm a pedantic asshole.

pretty cool

I like it.

thats not that bad. i've seen worst things in real life, ie. lady gaga's skull.

YES YES YES so sick, this screams Guernica to me

I love it tbh

doesnt touch Crack The Skye

Looks like a poor 3D rendering of a barn animal's facial expression as it gets rammed up the a**.

This reminds me of the 80's Judas Priest BAD album covers.

Just release a damn song!

Mastodong always had the best album covers... until now.

shithouse

awful

i hope the album is better than the artwork

yeah, although they nailed it with that deathbound puppet vid

Its kinda cool. I think they should have kept the gold Mastodon logo though. Its cool that the deer thing is an actual carving though

This has grown on me but its just disappointing not to see another great Romano piece

need this on a shirt

this fucking rules its a horse with like 4 mouths fuck yeah

that is true

EP cover, sure.. ALBUM COVER- fuck no.

metal.