MASTODON

Release Year: 2015
Artist Origin: USA
Style: groovy progressive stoner heavy metal

with unique ideas traditionally in spades, acknowledged stoner/heavy metal icons from Atlanta reach their culmination era, each time taking a different track to creative approach of their music, and the fifth full-length [2011] is not an exception at all: shorter and technically less complex songs give way to heavier emphasis on inflaming rhythmics, melodic chord progressions and hook-filled arrangements, while anthemic choruses crown their dare and challenging cinematic vision, enhanced by colourful promotional videos in addition, where smart, serious, densely composed, shredding and groovy tracks make the listener feel confident and bravely liberate from conceptual boundaries, much like the band members do with this outstanding recording; recent European black vinyl pressing comes with a pro-printed lyric insert