The Hunter at number two makes me feel good about it. I look forward to listening to it on tuesday.
Curl of the Burl and Black Tongue are definitely not representative of the entire album. Some of their best material is on this album. I freaking love it. Brad is insane thinking this is Mastodon's Black Album.
It confirmed to me though that only Dwellings will beat sleepmakeswaves.
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edited September 2011
Uhm: Remission=Kill 'em All: rawest and heaviest Leviathan=RTL: Most complete and most aggressive Blood Mountain=Master of Puppets: uh oh, gettin' proggy! CTS=AJFA: PROG AS FUCK Hunter=Black Album: hey can I get a hit single in this bitch?
A friend of mine observed that Mastodon is following Metallica's career trajectory album by album. I concurred, but said that progged-out Metallica is best Metallica and it kind of neutered Mastodon.
So yeah....this is totally the Black Album. A better Black Album, but a Black Album nonetheless.
This is one of the most ludicrous things I've seen all year. He's just a disgruntled Mastodon fan who they fell out of favor with as time went. He's just pretending it's their fault and not his.
Uhm: Remission=Kill 'em All: rawest and heaviest Leviathan=RTL: Most complete and most aggressive Blood Mountain=Master of Puppets: uh oh, gettin' proggy! CTS=AJFA: PROG AS FUCK Hunter=Black Album: hey can I get a hit single in this bitch?
A friend of mine observed that Mastodon is following Metallica's career trajectory album by album. I concurred, but said that progged-out Metallica is best Metallica and it kind of neutered Mastodon.
So yeah....this is totally the Black Album. A better Black Album, but a Black Album nonetheless.
This is one of the most ludicrous things I've seen all year. He's just a disgruntled Mastodon fan who they fell out of favor with as time went. He's just pretending it's their fault and not his.
Yeah, I don't agree with that at all. Just because Curl of the Burl is probably the most accessible song they've written doesn't make this their sell-out album.
I will update my list next week, but The Hunter will place high. Very very high.
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edited September 2011
I'm listening to the Sparrow now and this has to be one of my favorite Mastodon songs. Riffs + Solo + Structure is all droolworthy, and it's heavy as shit at times. Brann's fills are godlike the whole way through.
EDIT: On spin 5, and Stargasm is also a top 10 song from 2011.
1. Hunters - From Birth To Soil 2. Light Bearer - Lapsus 3. Obscura - Omnivium 4. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will 5. Indian - Guiltless 6. Protest The Hero - Scurrilous 7. Revocation - Chaos of Forms 8. Opeth - Heritage 9. Mastodon - The Hunter 10. Scale The Summit - The Collective 11. Born of Osiris - The Discovery 12. Sleepmakeswaves - ...And So We Destroyed Everything 13. Helms Alee - Weatherhead 14. Hollywood Undead - American Tragedy 15. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I 16. Horseback - The Gorgon Tongue 17. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft 18. Moonlit Sailor - Colors In Stereo 19. Maybeshewill - I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone 20. Radar Men From The Moon - Intergalactic Dada & Space Trombones 21. Samael - Lux Mundi 22. Gigan- Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes 23. Dropkick Murphys - Going Out In Style 24. The Allstar Project - Into The Ivory Tower 25. The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch 26. Red Fang - Murder The Mountains 27. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah 28. Machine Head - Unto The Locust 29. Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care 30. Long Distance Calling - S/T 31. Dark Castle - Surrender To All Life Beyond Form 32. Septic Flesh - The Great Mass 33. The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual 34. Decapitated - Carnival Is Forever 35. Book of Black Earth - The Cold Testament 36. Neuraxis - Asylon 37. Krallice - Diotima 38. Burzum - Fallen 39. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal 40. Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All 41. KMFDM - WTF?! 42. Demonaz - March of the Norse 43. Deicide - To Hell With God 44. Darkest Hour - The Human Romance 45. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising 46. Altar of Plagues - Mammal 47. Tyr - The Lay of Thyrm 48. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light 49. Blackguard - Firefight 50. Denizen - Whispering Wild Stories 51. Becoming The Archetype - Celestial Completion 52. Last Chance To Reason - Level 2 53. Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows 54. Wizard Smoke - The Speed of Smoke 55. Weedeater - Jason... The Dragon 56. Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst The Ashes 57. Anaal Nathrakh - Passion 58. Gallhammar - The End 59. Wormrot - Dirge 60. Crowbar - Sever The Wicked Hand 61. Stratovarius - Elysium 62. Amorphis - The Beginning of Times 63. Abysmal Dawn - Leveling the Plane of Existence 64. Times of Grace - Hymn of a Broken Man 65. Emmure - Speaker of the Dead 66. Winds of Plague - Against the World 67. DevilDriver - Beast 68. We Came As Romans - Understanding What We've Grown To Be
---EPs--- 1. Felipe Arcazas - Introduction To The Subconscious 2. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogue 3. The Heavy Co. - The Heavy (Please Tune In) 4. Dirge Within - Absolution 5. Undersmile - A Sea of Dead Snakes 6. Within The Ruins - Omen 7. Beyond The Dust - New Dawn
It's still actually settling with me that something beat out Lapsus.
28. Machine Head - Unto The Locust 33. The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual 36. Neuraxis - Asylon 52. Last Chance To Reason - Level 2 64. Times of Grace - Hymn of a Broken Man
Actually I haven't listened to a full album in forever cause I worked so friggin much in the summer and now I figured it's not even worth updating cause I've missed so much and don't feel like getting around to it again.
So I finished The Hunter just now. I'm faded as fuck and figured I'd listen to it. And even high...meh. Cool album, but it's just kinda strung together and flows with no memorable parts. However, Spectrelight is still probably the best Metal song I've heard this year, and Bedazzled Fingernails caught my attention. Has a dope ass Jazzy Cynic feel to it. 6/10.
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So I finished The Hunter just now. I'm faded as fuck and figured I'd listen to it. And even high...meh. Cool album, but it's just kinda strung together and flows with no memorable parts. However, Spectrelight is still probably the best Metal song I've heard this year, and Bedazzled Fingernails caught my attention. Has a dope ass Jazzy Cynic feel to it. 6/10.
So I finished The Hunter just now. I'm faded as fuck and figured I'd listen to it. And even high...meh. Cool album, but it's just kinda strung together and flows with no memorable parts. However, Spectrelight is still probably the best Metal song I've heard this year, and Bedazzled Fingernails caught my attention. Has a dope ass Jazzy Cynic feel to it. 6/10.
Every song has a memorable part, that's what makes this album so great..... <_>
So I finished The Hunter just now. I'm faded as fuck and figured I'd listen to it. And even high...meh. Cool album, but it's just kinda strung together and flows with no memorable parts. However, Spectrelight is still probably the best Metal song I've heard this year, and Bedazzled Fingernails caught my attention. Has a dope ass Jazzy Cynic feel to it. 6/10.
Every song has a memorable part, that's what makes this album so great..... <_>
Comments
What about new Vektor?
I will update my list next week, but The Hunter will place high. Very very high.
EDIT: On spin 5, and Stargasm is also a top 10 song from 2011.
2. Light Bearer - Lapsus
3. Obscura - Omnivium
4. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
5. Indian - Guiltless
6. Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
7. Revocation - Chaos of Forms
8. Opeth - Heritage
9. Mastodon - The Hunter
10. Scale The Summit - The Collective
11. Born of Osiris - The Discovery
12. Sleepmakeswaves - ...And So We Destroyed Everything
13. Helms Alee - Weatherhead
14. Hollywood Undead - American Tragedy
15. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
16. Horseback - The Gorgon Tongue
17. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
18. Moonlit Sailor - Colors In Stereo
19. Maybeshewill - I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone
20. Radar Men From The Moon - Intergalactic Dada & Space Trombones
21. Samael - Lux Mundi
22. Gigan- Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes
23. Dropkick Murphys - Going Out In Style
24. The Allstar Project - Into The Ivory Tower
25. The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch
26. Red Fang - Murder The Mountains
27. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
28. Machine Head - Unto The Locust
29. Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
30. Long Distance Calling - S/T
31. Dark Castle - Surrender To All Life Beyond Form
32. Septic Flesh - The Great Mass
33. The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual
34. Decapitated - Carnival Is Forever
35. Book of Black Earth - The Cold Testament
36. Neuraxis - Asylon
37. Krallice - Diotima
38. Burzum - Fallen
39. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
40. Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
41. KMFDM - WTF?!
42. Demonaz - March of the Norse
43. Deicide - To Hell With God
44. Darkest Hour - The Human Romance
45. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
46. Altar of Plagues - Mammal
47. Tyr - The Lay of Thyrm
48. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
49. Blackguard - Firefight
50. Denizen - Whispering Wild Stories
51. Becoming The Archetype - Celestial Completion
52. Last Chance To Reason - Level 2
53. Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows
54. Wizard Smoke - The Speed of Smoke
55. Weedeater - Jason... The Dragon
56. Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst The Ashes
57. Anaal Nathrakh - Passion
58. Gallhammar - The End
59. Wormrot - Dirge
60. Crowbar - Sever The Wicked Hand
61. Stratovarius - Elysium
62. Amorphis - The Beginning of Times
63. Abysmal Dawn - Leveling the Plane of Existence
64. Times of Grace - Hymn of a Broken Man
65. Emmure - Speaker of the Dead
66. Winds of Plague - Against the World
67. DevilDriver - Beast
68. We Came As Romans - Understanding What We've Grown To Be
---EPs---
1. Felipe Arcazas - Introduction To The Subconscious
2. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogue
3. The Heavy Co. - The Heavy (Please Tune In)
4. Dirge Within - Absolution
5. Undersmile - A Sea of Dead Snakes
6. Within The Ruins - Omen
7. Beyond The Dust - New Dawn
It's still actually settling with me that something beat out Lapsus.
inb4notsayingmuchlolololololol
And had I not heard The Blackening, I MH would be higher. The same reason applies for why The Powerless Rise wasn't high up on last year's.
Actually I haven't listened to a full album in forever cause I worked so friggin much in the summer and now I figured it's not even worth updating cause I've missed so much and don't feel like getting around to it again.