Il est un peu dans la lignée du précédent album en terme de voix et de musique, mais je le trouve assez plat et fade, et trop mou...
La production a l'air très bonne, mais je les trouve pas très aventureux les Mastodon avec les deux extraits pour l'instant à disposition....
R.I.P Ronnie James Dio !
"La culture, c'est comme l'amour. Il faut y aller à petits coups au début pour bien en jouir plus tard."
Pierre Desproges
Je l'ai écouté. Agréable à la première écoute, les deux singles fonctionnent bien et il y a des riffs sympas. Par contre il manque des morceaux longs avec des ambiances qui prennent au tripes. Peut-être un choix de leur part, mais je trouve ça dommage car la force du dernier album résidait pas mal dans les compos du style de "the last baron" ou "the czar".
Globox666 a écrit :J'ai l'impression au niveau des cris que c'est la bande son d'un film porno gay avec un mec derrière avec un gros chibre et un autre devant avec un tout petit trou de balle...
Plusieurs écoutes pour ma part, et la force de cet album c'est vraiment l'unité je trouve. Pas de morceaux "au-dessus" (comme l'écrivait féfé) mais un bloc dans ta face. Beaucoup de subtilités qui se révèlent au fur et à mesure des écoutes, des nouveautés harmoniques à défaut de nouveautés mélodiques car on est en plein dans le Mastodon que l'on connait même si le groupe a distillé quelques nouvelles influences dans la composition. J'éviterais de citer lesquelles pour laisser la surprise à ceux qui écouteront l'album.
"The Hunter", the new album from Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON, sold 39,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 10 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "Crack The Skye", opened with 41,000 units back in April 2009 to debut at No. 11. MASTODON's 2006 effort, "Blood Mountain", came in with just over 24,000 units — significantly more than the 8,000 first-week tally registered by its predecessor, 2004's "Leviathan" — which put it at No. 32.
Et quelle qualité, franchement !
Ils ont peut-être du recourir à pas mal de retouches en studio, mais que ça soit sonore ou visuel, rien à redire !
S'ils pouvaient nous sortir le concert en vidéo ça serait le pied, surtout que l'O2 Academy a vraiment l'air d'être une belle salle.
Nan puis l'affiche, quoi, réunir Mastodon, Opeth et Ghost d'un seul coup ça en jette !
Brent avait encore l'air d'avoir le pied dans le plâtre en tout cas, même si on sent que le montage a été revu pour éviter au maximum les plans dessus.
En revanche ils font la part belle à la Precision impeccable de Troy et le kit de Dailor en hommage à Randy Rhoads, que j'avais déjà trouvé très classe au Bataclan.
When you're this gig, they call you...
...But you can't find the time
Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON have just released a split seven-inch single with Canadian singer-songwriter Feist to celebrate Record Store Day. This very exclusive and highly anticipated pressing features MASTODON covering the Feist song "A Commotion", while Feist covers MASTODON's "Black Tongue". Both tracks are now available for streaming below.
"It's a wet dream to have MASTODON take one of my songs and put it into their massive machine," Feist told RollingStone.com.
"We didn't tell her what to do, and she didn't tell us what to do," says MASTODON guitarist Bill Kelliher. "'A Commotion' just kind of stuck out to me. I could hear the opening riff, a single A-note."
Feist told RollingStone.com that she based her decision on which MASTODON song to cover by finding a track whose lyrics resonated with her the most. "MASTODON fans would probably be disappointed to know that I actually didn't know MASTODON very well," She says. "I actually went onto one of those lyric websites, and I scrolled through 50 songs and just narrowed it down to the ones I thought I could wrap myself around the words. 'Black Tongue' is speaking in my kind of elemental language — about diamond and earth and sky. It's all just in a language that I already sort of speak lyrically. It was pretty easy to climb into that one."
In a recent interview with Sweden's Metalshrine, MASTODON drummer Brann Dailor explained how the single idea came about. "We did [the BBC television show 'Later... With Jools Holland'], and right after we got off stage, we went backstage and and we were in the hallway with [Feist], and she was talking to [MASTODON vocalist/guitarist] Brent [Hinds]. They were involved in a conversation and were just like, 'Yeah, let's do that! We should do it for Record Store Day!' Something out of left field and something we'd like to be involved with more of."
He added, "It's fun for us. I mean, most times we end up doing covers of bands that are already sort of heavy or that is already in that vein, like the MELVINS, THIN LIZZY, METALLICA, you know what I mean? What are you gonna do to those songs to make them your own? It's kinda difficult and especially with stuff like METALLICA or the MELVINS where we're so kinda familiar and in love with the versions that METALLICA and the MELVINS and THIN LIZZY have created, you wanna make it sound like theirs because that's what you're so used to hearing. You don't really wanna mess with it. With Feist, it's something that we could really play with and do something different with."
The cover artwork for the MASTODON and Feist split seven-inch single can be seen below.
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade