Mastodon - Medium Rarities

[open face surgery]

Haven't been arsed listening to any of the albums but watched The Workhorse Chronicles last night and the making of Hushed and Grim just there. They always seemed to have a great buzz although H&G sessions seemed separate and more Brent just doing leads.

[ldj]

Listening to Crack the Skye atm, an album full of many epic moments but...

"How long, has it been, since we flew through shadows
I have, walked on, many other planets"

And the accompanying riff, just amazing.

[Pagan Saviour]

https://metalinjection.net/news/police-determine-brent-hinds-was-at-fault-in-fatal-accident?fbclid=IwY2xjawMnoRpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHYUVWVE5XcUNxTTBVQjhjAR5_5eDvreXKJ3e2EbIxEkVvPJB7gYPv10cPeuxNC3emfU3hKgwDRhOdh2JtlQ_aem_HUua6Cs51etaRZmzuzRYLQ

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Fuck me, still getting mad levels of feels listening to Mastodon at the moment, which has been a daily occurrence since the news. Weirdly, the best consolation is knowing how very unlikely it was the four of them would ever have made music together again even if this hadn't happened.

[ochoill]

Fuck me, still getting mad levels of feels listening to Mastodon at the moment, which has been a daily occurrence since the news. Weirdly, the best consolation is knowing how very unlikely it was the four of them would ever have made music together again even if this hadn't happened.

Have had them on a ton here too, not daily but significantly more than the past few months.

I wonder what the way forward is for the rest of them now, do they keep writing with the current replacement guitarist?  Do they write themselves and just have hired hands for live?

[ldj]

I don't know, I think with how close they were they definitely would have brought him back into the fold if he got his shit together. Fucking terrible all round for the lads though.

Seen a thing pop up on Reddit saying Bill posts to one of those patreon sites or something, a picture of him in a studio with Kurt Ballou from Converge, could be interesting if he produced.

[Trev]

Nah I reckon they would've got back together. Sacking him can't have been a decision they made lightly, they really appeared as a close knit bunch so he must have been an absolute nightmare to deal with professionally leading up to it

Couple of years apart, Brent gets himself sorted, big reunion album/tour...I'd say it was very possible

[Sworntothecans]

I don't know, I think with how close they were they definitely would have brought him back into the fold if he got his shit together. Fucking terrible all round for the lads though.

Seen a thing pop up on Reddit saying Bill posts to one of those patreon sites or something, a picture of him in a studio with Kurt Ballou from Converge, could be interesting if he produced.

Ballou'd be amazing for them. Bring back the heft of the early stuff a bit too.

[OpenSores]

I'm with you guys, I'm actually surprised by how sad his passing made me feel. Perhaps having followed them closely coming up and being of the same vintage.

I've Remission on here Leviathan next.

[Mooncat]

I've been listening to the first three endlessly, plus Crack the Skye here and there.

I'd never paid much attention to anything after that but finally gave the full run a go. Gotta say I wasn't a fan of the more accessible direction they were taking, but there's still lots of good stuff. The first track on Emperor of Sand was interesting in that it sounded heavily influenced by Lamb of God. It was even more LoG sounding than the track the two bands did together.

That first run of albums though, holy shit.

[ldj]

Once More Round the Sun is my favourite of the 'melodic' era, just great tunes.

The Hunter, while I understand the backlash, has great songwriting too, the production is just very shiny, guitars don't have that nice crunch they had on the albums before.

[Trev]

I like The Hunter, but it'd be my least favourite of the run after the big four. The Sparrow is fucking great though