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Mastodon the gods of technical no ruled rock and
roll are back they have announced a new album called
‘Crack The Skye’ which is due for release
some time in the Spring of 2009 but for the people
who can’t wait that long for new material
from them, they have just announced and released
a new single from their forthcoming album and that
single is ‘Divinations’ and I have to
say it’s a cracking song.
As said above ‘Divinations’ is a
stunning song, it has so much going on and sounds
pretty damn random throughout, Mastodon are the
kind of band who don’t like to stay to the
same formula and really like to stir things up
by trying everything new and odd and they is exactly
what they have done here. ‘Divinations’
opening riff is played on banjo, it kind of reminds
me of that nasty scene from the film ‘Deliverance’
but I think that is the sound of a banjo in general
which has that effect on myself and many others.
Anyway a few seconds into the song the guitar
and bass smash into play with mammoth sounding
riffs and the drumming come sin like a man on
a mission, the chorus of the song is quite a catchy
solid rock chorus with Brent Hinds using his more
singing style than his scream his bollocks off
style, the guitar riff towards the end of the
song is mouth watering and one of the strongest
riffs I have heard from a band in a long time.
I remember a few years ago when Mastodon played
a really small club venue in Swindon called The
Furnace, the venue fitted 200 people in if you
were lucky and the band had the smallest dressing
room ever situated at the back of the venue where
they have to walk through all the fans to get
to it, now look at them they have toured with
most of the major rock bands in the world today
and are ready to release their much anticipated
forth studio album, it shows that hard work does
pay off.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Brann Dailor (Drums)
Brent Hinds (Guitar, Lead Vocals)
Bill Kelliher (Guitar, Vocals)
Troy Sanders (Bass, Lead Vocals)
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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