Album Rating: 2.0

Wrong Mastodon thread bro.

Album Rating: 4.0

I appreciate your wrong opinion but I appreciate mine more

Album Rating: 2.0

Ily bro but this album is dog shit lmao.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

the cover is a bad starting point

Album Rating: 3.5

it's not great aside from the last 3 tracks or so like that other guy said

Album Rating: 4.0

Probably the only album I have rated this high that starts as poorly as this does, but the back half is so good idc about having to put up with Show Yourself

Album Rating: 3.5

Steambreather would be up there with a better chorus

Album Rating: 4.0

Good album. Steambreather riff is so simple but one of the band’s more infectious and impactful riffs IMO. Can never forget it.

Album Rating: 2.5

Blow yourself is a hard 1, aye

Album ain’t that bad otherwise, probably peaks higher than Mushed & Grim

Album Rating: 3.0

Agreed on Steambreather. Chorus hits hard too, imo.



Still say this album does what the Hunter did, just worse. Someday people will come around on that one, I swear.

Album Rating: 3.0

ehh i think this one’s a bit more consistent than the hunter. plus this has jaguar god.

Album Rating: 1.0

This album sucks ass.

Album Rating: 4.0

Huh?!

Album Rating: 1.0

I hate Mastodon so much. They should've called it a day after releasing Crack The Skye.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

In retrospect yeah, but hating them seems...strong

Album Rating: 4.0

wow looks like vlad is making a strong play for smok's horrible take throne

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't think they should have called it a day, but their music is missing the bite and experimentation that it previously had. Moments from Emperor and Hushed give me hope that we could still get a more aggressive album in the future, but the clock is certainly ticking.

Album Rating: 1.0

I seriously don't get the appeal, like, why do Sputnik Music users love Mastodon's post-2011 catalogue so much? I used to be a huge fan of their music up until CTS. When they teased the album art of The Hunter back 2011 I thought it looked amazing and after hearing the singles I wasn't sure I was enjoying their music as much as before, however, I did give it a shot. Fast forward to 2014, the same situation happened with OMRTS, album art looked incredible, I gave High Road a listen and thought it was good even though it was different than their previous output and more akin to The Hunter. Once the album dropped in it's entirety, I was once again disappointed. The same thing happened to me with Emperor of Sand and Hushed and Grim. People can enjoy all kinds of music, even music that I don't care for or "don't get", I simply don't want to pretend stuff like Show Yourself is enjoyable to me, no matter how many mental gymnastics I have to convince myself to enjoy it.



tl;dr I miss the old Mastodon.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Our man is still in the "anger" phrase of grief.

Album Rating: 4.0

I miss old Mastodon too. There's an energy within their first four albums that hasn't been matched since. And I completely agree that their poppier songs ("Show Yourself", "Teardrinker") are far from the best thing in their catalogue. But when Emperor of the Sand dropped, my mom had just gotten a pretty scary cancer diagnosis, and so everything on that album just hit. It was a different Mastodon sound, but the emotional gravitas was there. Hushed and Grim didn't quite have that connection to my personal life when it hit, but I really loved songs like "More than I Could Chew", "Pushing the Tide", and "Had it All." Their sound has aged, but there are still plenty of riffs and songs that hit hard.