![]() ![]() While the band entire have added their voice to one song or another, the majority of the band’s songs are sung by guitarist Brent Hinds and bassist Troy Sanders. So much like its predecessor in The Hunter, Once More ‘Round the Sun features Mastodon flexing their vocal chords more than ever. This migration from aggro-beast on efforts like Lifesblood and Remission to prog-sludge globe-trotters and network television stars, to a band who are nearly as admired and accessible as prog-tinged rock/metal acts Tool and Opeth, it’s been an unparalleled evolution that’s witnessed Mastodon hitting all the right notes, time and time again. ![]() However, with the advent of their sixth full-length record, Once More ‘Round the Sun, the band has effectively killed off any last prog remnants of their Leviathan, Blood Mountain, Crack the Skye trilogy, while continuing in the more refrain and alternative-heavy species of… The Hunter. However, in spite of its squatter height, the plant-eating and forest-dwelling mastodon was, more so than the mammoth, heavily muscled, a characteristic that did little in delaying its eventual extinction as a victim of human hunting.Ī sludge-hybrid quartet of similar shagginess, Atlanta’s Mastodon are nowhere near extinct, even if the numbers of humans hunting their albums continues unabated. 10,500 years) American mastodon was a distant relative of today’s African elephant and the equally shaggy-looking, equally extinct wooly mammoth, two creatures to which the mastodon was of a (slightly) shorter build. Belonging to the genus of Mammut, the long-extinct (approx. ![]()
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