Crack the Skye (Deluxe Version)
Mastodon
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iTunes Review
This Brendan O’Brien-produced album ambitiously pieces together epic metal songs arranged with progressive tempo and key changes. The lyrics unravel a fantastical story about a paraplegic who can only travel out of body. He burns his anchor to reality and is lost in space until getting sucked through a wormhole and into the spirit world where ghosts send him to Tsarist Russia, putting his soul inside Rasputin’s body (who is murdered after trying to usurp the czar). The protagonist’s soul must then fly home while the Devil tries to trick him. The dark and brooding “Oblivion” unfolds with otherworldly sonic textures orbiting around jet fueled guitars, bludgeoning rhythms, and the menacing croons of Troy Sanders and Brent Hinds braiding together on darkened harmonies. The relentless juggernaut that is “Divinations” plays and pounds more fiercely than any other cut here. Scott Kelly of Neurosis fame sings the title track with a blood gargling timbre before “The Last Baron” bookends the album by bringing it all together with weighty closure.
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by Slasher 10102Better than most of the songs I have heard.
AMAZING
by Nikelodeanmastadon is paving the way for the future of metal
they are our metal messiahs
the czar is a very inspirational piece
An unbelievably good follow up to Blood Mountain
by FleshyHeadedMonkeyA masterful, complete release, with no weak spots from start to finish. I actually wake up in the morning with songs and/or riffs from this CD stuck in my head. I think Blood Mountain had more raw energy than Skye, immediately apparent in the reduction in scream vocals on this latter release. But the genius and complexity of each song's structure and the liquid-smooth flow from one track to the next is even more enthralling than Mountain. The whole CD runs into one big song in my mind, so it's hard for me to even assign a track name or number to my favorite parts. Long ago, I would have thought that a bad thing, but in the case of Skye, it's a tribute to how well each song maintains and progresses the theme of the album while at the same time being so complicated that I could just as easily convince myself there are 100 different short songs as one big long one. That said, I think parts of Oblivion ("How can I tell you I failed/Tell you I failed"... and then into the chorus), and the "Let it go" bits of Quintessence are the parts that are most often right there in my brain when I wake up in the morning.
If you liked Blood Mountain and you think by comparison Skye is too tame or too prog, I would say rip some of the tracks into a player and let yourself be exposed to it a few more times without really focusing on it. That's what originally won me over (I didn't like it compared to Mountain the first time I heard it). Now it's become one of my two favorite releases of the year.
Biography
Formed: 1999 in Atlanta, GA
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '90s, '00s
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- $12.99
- Genres: Rock, Music, Hard Rock, Metal
- Released: Mar 20, 2009
- ℗ 2009 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
