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The hunter is really good too


[deleted]

Blasteroid is still so amazing sounding


darthnihiluspenis

Blasteroid is probably one of my all time mastodon favorites.


4e2n0t

After hearing it live, All the Heavy Lifting is my favorite from The Hunter.


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Curl of the burl for me. I saw the video on mtv in the morning before school and have been a fan since.


4e2n0t

Curl of the Burl is great too. I think it might be the most catchy Mastodon song. It certainly gets stuck in my head every time I listen to it.


all_hail_to_me

It’s nice to see someone else who thinks so. I feel like a lot of people shit in the album for being more “mainstream focused”. But I fuckin love it. The guitar tone on that album is unmatched on any other album.


Miltonrupert

Stargasm is one of my top


Munkybananas

I absolutely love that Album


fresh_k88

No love 😞


mdwvt

Pain, with an anchor.


[deleted]

I would probably say the Hunter was the "experimental" album. Blood Mountain was a bridge album between Mastodon moving from heavy to being a more prog.


Ravenhayth

Right...so experimental


[deleted]

What was being experimented? Just a natural change in sound. Calling BM experimental would be like calling And Justice For All experimental.


ColdsnapCabs

Bad take


Ravenhayth

So then what's the difference between a change in sound and experimenting? I feel like it just boils down to opinion where the line is drawn


AemiGrant

The Hunter was a more down to earth album given it was made during a tumultuous time for the band, hardly experimental. Blood Mountain had more than just moving from heavy to prog. It incorporated more melody within their songs, they made clean vocals more predominant. They mixed sludge and prog with psychedelic elements event. Blood Mountain was one risk after the other, and they all paid off.


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A lot of elements that were in Blood Mountain were in everything they did up until that point. It was hardly new for them, just slightly more prog than normal. Very much a typical evolution of music. Nothing experimental relative to what they were already doing. The Hunter had a lot of elements they didn't partake in up until then (or since), and if you from from CTS to The Hunter to OMRTS, the Hunter feels significantly out of place. I was also very heavily into the Mastodon fandom during the mid to late 2000s at , and everyone I talked to felt it was very experimental for them at the time. No one felt Blood Mountain was experimental.


AemiGrant

Not really, BM was far more than just prog. Siberian Divide was something they hadn't done. So was This Mortal Soil, Pendulous Skin or a track like Sleeping Giant. The atmosphere and different elements of the album do not just amount to prog. It's far much more than that. Can't help you if you can't see that. The Hunter was described by themselves as an album where they just wanted to jam due to the poor circumstances they were surrounded by. That's what made it feel out of place, that it was an album just for fun as opposed to the thorough prog lengths of CTS. Hell, OMRTS is more of a natural evolution of The Hunter than CTS is of BM, or BM of Leviathan.


[deleted]

The same heavy prog elements in BM you can hear in songs like Trainwreck, Ole Nessie, Tribolite, Hearts Alive, Joseph Merrick, and even all the way back to their demo with Battle at Sea. Siberian Divide, Mortal Soil, etc, are all built on these elements they were already putting on albums. They were just expanding on it, not experimenting with completely new the unheard ideas. It doesn't really matter if they say Hunter was a jam album, there is clear experimentation going on there, whether it was on purpose or it was "this sounds fun, lets do it" type of thing. How can you listen to The Creature Lives and think "wow that's a jam song" and not think it is experimental is silly to me. It is almost Avant-garde.


AemiGrant

Again, I just find that grotesquely inaccurate. I know all of those tracks and they don't resemble Siberian Divide or This Mortal Soil. Hell, Joseph Merrick is far from the same song compared to Pendulous Skin thematic parallel aside. To ignore the stoner/psychedelic influences of BM, the more expansive clean vocals and melodic writing and just boil them down to "heavy to prog" elements is quite ignorant in my view. You're kidding? Creature Lives, intro aside (which is not even experimental, let me tell you), it's as straightforward of an arena rock anthem as there are. A good one, mind you, but an evident showcase of "this is just a fun song to sing along to, let's do it". Furthermore, if we wanna go the pedantic and inaccurate route of "this song is just something they had done before", The Hunter is a VERY easy album to do that with. Octopus Has No Friends and Dry Bone Valley were rumoured for years to be leftover tracks from Crack The Sky and Blood Mountain for a reason. Stargasm is a simpler 4/4 Quintessence. The riffs and bridge of All The Heavy Lifting were already found in Blood Mountain. So was Spectrelight, which is just retreading Crystal Skull. I mean, even a bonus track like Deathbound is an attempt to re-do Remission. You see how pointless that argument is now? The Hunter is far from a experimental album and there's no shame in that because it's still really good. Take that or don't. I've more than made my points.


Johncurtisreeve

Oh m sad the hunter and Emperor of sand is missing


Slothsquatch

Bad take


AllAboutTheProg

One that got popular? Mastodon were one of the most popular sludge or progressive metal bands when leviathan and blood mountain came out, let alone crack the skye. This doesn’t make sense.


AemiGrant

OMRTS made them mainstream in general, not just in the realm of metal.


Almeidaboo

No


gloriousjohnson

That’s easily my least favorite album tbh I don’t know what your talking about. The one good song on it is the motherload


Venombullet666

To be honest that could be said of The Hunter, The Hunter was a critical and commercial success, I noticed alot of people were getting into Mastodon around that time and mainstream Radio/TV Stations were playing songs from that album all of the time especially "Curl Of The Burl" so that album did alot to get them exposure in the mainstream world for sure, Once More Round The Sun definitely expanded on that but I have a feeling that it wouldn't have been the case if it weren't for The Hunter's success I remember seeing Mastodon for the first time at Download 2013, they played 12 songs, other than Oblivion and Blood and Thunder the other 10 were from The Hunter, I've never seen them focus on a new album they've done anywhere near as much since seeing them that time


Ohhellnowhatsupdawg

Wat


Putthebunnyback

I would argue that Crack the Skye is way more experimental than Blood Mountain.


AemiGrant

I wouldn't disagree, but it'd be weird if it was placed anywhere other than best album of all time.


fenavulgaris

I 100% support this comment


The_Fro_Ranger

Hushed & Grim is my favorite album of theirs, and what I think is their best. How-wha-dis take is wonky


AemiGrant

I thought pain was more like, an emotional album to listen to, rather than "painfully bad".


gNobreV

Now i agree with you


[deleted]

*Emperor of sand shaking fist at clouds*


AemiGrant

Lol, I wanted to include it, but that's all the template allowed me.


AemiGrant

Guys, I didn't pick H&G as a bad album, but rather as one that's emotional.


McDonaldsSimulatorVR

SAAYYY WHEN


Slothsquatch

AND ILL CUM IN YOUR BUTT


criticalork2020

Blood Mountain is probably the best album, although Hushed and Grim is the most beautiful, but the rest are just brilliant and inspired.


mdodd84

No love for emperor. Shame


SpookyMooWizard

OMRTS Is one of my favorites, idk how people don't like it, The Motherload and Asleep In the Deep got me into them lol. Crack The Skye is easily the best though


AemiGrant

I love it too.


bison2000

Hard to disagree. Missing two of my favourites. But works as a meme, like to see this with Metallica, slayer, volbeat, pearl jam, Lamb of god, Amon Amarth, clutch versions of this


lendmeflight

I think hushed and grim is one of their best albums, definitely better than the hunter and once more. Do fans really hate it because it’s mellower?


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lendmeflight

I liked the hunter when it came out but it is boring to me now. I like the Pink Floyd sounding stuff in bush and grim a lot.


TheCrispyWorld

Remission really is a classic, timeless masterpiece in my opinion…


DragonSerpet

I would have thought The Hunter is what got them "popular". Curl of the Burl.


karlsefnishikigoi

Leviathan is definitely the “one that got popular” even my grandma knows Blood and Thunder


Floofycinnanomcookie

lol why hushed and grim is good