![]() ![]() On Mastodon’s new album, Emperor of Sand, the band look that legacy in the eyes by doling out sludge and sheen in equal measure, making the most of famed producer Brendan O’Brien’s past successes with bands like Stone Temple Pilots (“Steambreather”) while getting straight-up primal on the pummeling “Scorpion Breath.”īut being in a bubble has its purposes, too. Perform for long enough and eventually a legacy presents itself. Their “White Walker” contribution to the second Game of Thrones mixtape, meanwhile, was a no-brainer. ![]() That might explain how a band as heavy as Mastodon finds themselves recording a song for Monsters University and soundtracking the seething rage that underscores the sub-prime mortgage housing crisis in The Big Short. More impressive still, they’ve managed to stay intact for all these years, thanks to good, old-fashioned hard work.Ĭrafting songs that live in other realms infused Mastodon with the ability to sound both timeless and immediately relevant (the word “timeless” in this case is best understood in its literal definition: work that literally exists outside of time). Over 17 years they’ve devoted an album each to exploring the four classical elements of air, water, fire and earth, recorded a tribute to singer Brent Hinds’ late brother and looked at death in the abstract. The vast scope of any given Mastodon record builds self-contained worlds of heady metaphor and myth specific enough to induce visuals, but vague enough to mean a lot of things to a lot of people. ![]()
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