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Mastodon - Crack The Skye
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Release date: 24 March 2009
Style: Progressive stoner metal

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Disc I [CD]
01. Oblivion
02. Divinations
03. Quintessence
04. The Czar
    1 - Usurper
    2 - Escape
    3 - Martyr
    4 - Spiral
05. Ghost Of Karelia
06. Crack The Skye
07. The Last Baron

Disc II [Limited Edition DVD]
+ Making Of "Crack The Skye"
+ Track-By-Track Band Commentary
+ Photo Gallery

The Best Alternative Metal Album Of 2009
Top 20 albums of 2009: 4
Top 200 albums of all time: 164
Review Lyrics (7)

Line-up
Brent Hinds - guitars, vocals
Bill Kelliher - guitars, backing vocals
Brann Dailor - drums, vocals
Troy Sanders - bass, vocals

Session musicians
Rich Morris - keyboards

Guest musicians
Scott Kelly - vocals

Staff review by
BitterCOld
Rating:
9.0
Crack the Skye, the new opus from the Atlanta, Georgia quartet is an absolutely stunning release.

The band continued the sort of 'elemental' theme that has been present in their last couple releases, Remission (Fire), Leviathan (Water, duh), and Blood Mountain (Earth). Now, with Crack the Skye, the supposed fourth element, Air is represented.

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published 11.04.2009 | Comments (64)

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30.12.2014 - 01:15
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by _deepblack on 30.09.2014 at 00:48
they dont look like ordinary musicians and what do you think about the album ?

Pretty much what Marcel said. Not only do plenty of musicians in the stoner scene look like the Mastodon boys, but their fans also dress the part.

As for the album, I love it. Used to think not so highly of it, but then I stopped being a bitch.
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31.12.2014 - 07:33
Rating: 10
_deepblack
Written by Troy Killjoy on 30.12.2014 at 01:15

Written by _deepblack on 30.09.2014 at 00:48
they dont look like ordinary musicians and what do you think about the album ?

Pretty much what Marcel said. Not only do plenty of musicians in the stoner scene look like the Mastodon boys, but their fans also dress the part.

As for the album, I love it. Used to think not so highly of it, but then I stopped being a bitch.

thats what i thought about the album when i listened to it first 2 times but after some time i started loving it
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02.02.2017 - 21:06
Rating: 10
Necrodamus
This is a special album for me. It was my first real concept album and opened the door for me to progressive music in general. I have heard it performed live twice, each time a mesmerizing experience. Spectacular album all around.
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03.04.2017 - 16:37
Rating: 10
musclassia
God fucking damn the title track is incredible

I do really like the albums that came after this album, but none of them can really compare to the inspiration so fully on display in this album; 00s Mastodon was something else
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30.03.2019 - 23:40
Rating: 10
musclassia
They've recently uploaded part 1 of what will presumably be a series of retroactive videos they made whilst producing the album:



It's cool hearing them talk so positively about the album, knowing that it's actually go on to be held in the kind of esteem they were hoping for. Also nice hearing Brent talking quite a bit; he was barely in the Emperor of Sand making of documentary.
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