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Old 08-07-2010, 05:31 PM   #201 (permalink)
 
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I'm not sure whether I like Leviathan or Crack The Skye more. Crack The Skye has awesome melodies and a pretty interesting theme, but a raw, sludgy album about sea creatures is pretty hard to beat.
I'd choose Leviathan over Crack The Skye any day. The intensity of the music really suits the album concept, and what a concept it is. You can almost feel the sea-sickness coming on.
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Old 08-07-2010, 05:33 PM   #202 (permalink)
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I think both "Remission" and "Leviathan" were interesting rather than great, with too much emphasis on instrumentation ability than just writing great songs. saying that though, I loved the jazzy style drumming of Brann Dailor on those albums. "Blood Mountain" on the other hand is a great album with a great level of consistency throughout. I especially love the song "Colony of Birchmen"
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Old 08-07-2010, 05:36 PM   #203 (permalink)
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I'd choose Leviathan over Crack The Skye any day. The intensity of the music really suits the album concept, and what a concept it is. You can almost feel the sea-sickness coming on.
I think what I like about Crack The Skye is how uplifting it can be at times, but Leviathan does a great job of pairing concept with music. A great example is Aqua Dimentia. The opening guitar riff totally paints the mental picture of some crazy underwater struggle.
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Old 08-07-2010, 05:38 PM   #204 (permalink)
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Blood Mountain is probably their most complete album, it has a better flow and consistency than Remission and Leviathan. It really feels like you're on a journey going up Blood Mountain and meeting all these obstacles along the way. I love the really weird and different vibes the album has in places, like in 'Bladecatcher' and 'Sleeping Giant', it gives the album a real sense of depth.

Leviathan would be my next favourite, it just feels huge and completely bad-ass. It was also my first Mastodon album.
this, pretty much word for word (including Leviathan being MY first Mastodon CD)
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It'd be the same for me, word for word. Leviathan was also my first Mastodon album.
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Old 08-07-2010, 05:45 PM   #207 (permalink)
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Leviathan is a great starting place, I'd say.
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Old 09-23-2010, 10:36 PM   #208 (permalink)
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Does anyone here fully "get" Remission? I keep trying to convince myself that it's an awesome album and it just needs more listens, but I'll be damned if it isn't one of the most difficult works I've tried to make myself love.

I love Crusher/Destroyer, March Of The Fire Ants and Ol'e Nessie, but the rest seems far too dissonant and directionless.
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Old 09-23-2010, 11:02 PM   #209 (permalink)
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Does anyone here fully "get" Remission? I keep trying to convince myself that it's an awesome album and it just needs more listens, but I'll be damned if it isn't one of the most difficult works I've tried to make myself love.

I love Crusher/Destroyer, March Of The Fire Ants and Ol'e Nessie, but the rest seems far too dissonant and directionless.
Remission is not only the first Mastodon that I heard but also the first metal album that I bothered to listen to in a long time. So maybe I have a soft spot for it because of that. I took to it right away

It's still my favorite album of theirs. It came after the mess of early songs on which they got to know each other musically I guess. It's also probably my favorite metal engineering by Matt Bayless who I think sortra ruined a lot of good albums with his overly muddy sound.

But I think Bayless's finest work may be Remission. And Mastodon's too. I like the next 3 albums but I call Remission my favorite - most listened to for sure. I like metal to be a good combination of skill and raw aggression, and my preferred ratio isn't fully present on other Mastodon albums. It's there in certain moments on all the later albums but not ever as consistently as on Remission.
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Does anyone here fully "get" Remission? I keep trying to convince myself that it's an awesome album and it just needs more listens, but I'll be damned if it isn't one of the most difficult works I've tried to make myself love.

I love Crusher/Destroyer, March Of The Fire Ants and Ol'e Nessie, but the rest seems far too dissonant and directionless.
I`ve given it a number of listens and never quite got it. I actually don`t think there is too much to get either, and I think its extremely overrated. I think the drumming though is exceptional but I certainly agree with your directionless point about the album.
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