Feist and Mastodon - 2012 Feistodon (split)

Band : Feist and Mastodon

Album : Feistodon

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Indie | Sludge | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

1. Feist - (Mastodon Cover)
2. Mastodon - A Commotion (Feist Cover)

Indie pop darling Feist and metal band Mastodon have combined forces for Record Store Day in an effort called Feistodon. The two-track split 7" will feature the musicians coverings songs from the other.The collaboration is genius and the covers are ideal. Feist puts her sweet crooning voice to Mastodon's raging "Black Tongue" and Mastodon's absolutely destroys Feist's "A Commotion" in the best way possible.

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The Flaming Lips And Mastodon - 2012 A Spoonful Weighs A Ton (Split)

Band : The Flaming Lips And Mastodon

Album : a spoonful weighs a ton (Split)

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Rock | Sludge | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

 01 - the flaming lips - a spoonful weighs a ton
02 - mastodon - a spoonful weighs a ton

 

Baby pink split 7" single: both sides are the song "Spoonful weighs a Ton" - the Lips' 1999 original on the A, and a brand new Mastodon cover on the flip. Note the classic Reprise Record label for the B-side.
This is Mastodon's cover.

 

 

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Mastodon - 2011 The Hunter

Band : Mastodon

Album : The Hunter

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Progressive | Metal | Sludge

Tracklist :

1 Black Tongue
2 Curl of the Burl
3 Blasteroid
4 Stargasm
5 Octopus Has No Friends
6 All the Heavy Lifting
7 The Hunter
8 Dry Bone Valley
9 Thickening
10 Creature Lives
11 Spectrelight
12 Bedazzled Fingernails
13 The Sparrow

Mastodon have never gone the safe route. Herman Melville's Moby Dick, human-eating tree people, Rasputin, Stephen Hawking, wormholes - topics that aren't exactly the stuff of metalhead dreams, but they've all informed the band's ambitious string of concept albums. And so it comes as a bit of a surprise, on the band's fifth studio release, The Hunter, that the Atlanta-based quartet tackle the concept of...nothing. Or, in other words, anything and everything - wherever their fertile, mind-expanded little minds want to roam. Which, as it turns out, is pretty damn far, indeed, as one listen to the new LP bears out.

While adopting a blissful, scattershot thematic approach, the group - bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders, guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds, guitarist Bill Kelliher and drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor - have sharpened their instrumental attack, one which still manages to straddle the line between hardcore, blitzing metal and progressive rock but now does so, in many cases, within the confines of three minute-songs. Three minutes? Wow, that's pop-tune length! How can any band switch things up so dramatically in such time? Mastodon can, and they do so effortlessly, seamlessly... They play it as it lays, and it's not a sacrifice, it's where the day takes them.

In a further break with tradition, the band, who previously worked with rock stalwarts Brendan O'Brien and Matt Bayles, opted to have Mike Elizondo, whose credits include Eminem and 50 Cent, helm The Hunter - and the results are magnificent. All of the group's mind-melting riffs and rhythms are intact, and if anything, they're magnified, glorified, made somehow more ginormous. It's Mastodon made digestible for the whole world...and the world just might be the better for it. -Joe Bosso

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Mastodon - 2004 Leviathan (Special Edition)

Band : Mastodon

Album : Leviathan (Special Edition)

Release Year : 2004

Genre : Progressive | Metal | Sludge

Tracklist :

1. "Blood and Thunder" (Feat. Neil Fallon)
2. "I Am Ahab"
3. "Seabeast"
4. "Ísland"
5. "Iron Tusk"
6. "Megalodon"
7. "Naked Burn"
8. "Aqua Dementia" (Feat. Scott Kelly)
9. "Hearts Alive"
10. "Joseph Merrick"

Bonus Audio DVD
1. "Naked Burn" (5.1 Surround Sound)
2. "Aqua Dementia" (5.1 Surround Sound)
3. "Hearts Alive" (5.1 Surround Sound)
4. "Where Strides the Behemoth" (Live)
5. "Battle at Sea" (Live)
6. "Thank You for This / We Built This Come Death" (Live)
7. "Crusher Destroyer" (Live)

Leviathan is a concept album by progressive metal band Mastodon, released in 2004 by Relapse Records. The album is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick, with the songs: "Iron Tusk", "Blood and Thunder", "I Am Ahab" and "Seabeast" released as singles. Three magazines awarded it Album of the Year in 2004: Revolver, Kerrang! and Terrorizer.
Leviathan was also released with an Audio DVD in a limited edition set with a black and gold slipcase. The album brought Mastodon great critical acclaim and, thanks to the ensuing tour, a considerably larger fan base. Leviathan had sold 103,000 copies by September, 2006. Guitarist Bill Kelliher considers this album to represent the water element.

Musically speaking, Leviathan simply scores across the span of the heavy metal menu. The guitar work employed swivels and rolls effortlessly in and out of divergent styles--- thrash, progressive, melodic death, NWoBHM, southern prog, and even the sporadic foray into the types of scale work used in neo-classical. The compositional texture is rather like what might occur if the various styles used in heavy metal formed a musical coalition of sorts, not separate, but equal. Even still, these are masterfully synthesized by Mastodon into something distinct to the ears of even the most jaded listener, revealing a fresh and novel approach. The sound is hard, but refined. The arrangements are complex, yet maintain a savage and raw feel. Few take the time to appreciate just what sort of task, by implication, the production of Leviathan itself involved, by way of sound mix and mastering.  Respectively, Matt Bayles and Alan Douches should be regarded as names to look out for, based upon the exquisite performance they gave, behind the controls of Leviathan.

One final note - drummer Brann Dailor's snare fills on Leviathan deserve special mention. He has a very precise technique and the way he intersperses quick little bass drum licks with fluid, single stroke snare rolls is beyond impressive - it is awe-inspiring. At times I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. Mastodon's Leviathan is one monster of a record... 

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