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MASTODON -"CRACK THE SKYE"
by George Georgiou (song292@yahoo.gr)



They have achieved every inch of respect offering each time an important gigantic shadow to the playground of the heavy sound monuments. Racing a long ride of real hard work and intelligent evolution as a band, Mastodon, after the legendary chapter of "Blood Mountain", had to face the challenge of their lives. Being the basic choice for the next real big thing in the world wide metal debates of the last year, Mastodon dare to place their severe personal point of view beside their classic influences of space and groovy hard sounds of the seventies, ending finally to a flowing album. Songs with all of their characteristic structures reveal a friendly filter of impressions, several surfaces of recordings meet into an attractive balancing result: producer Brendan O' Brien found the path to concentrate all the comets of the Mastodon universe and finally transform the gathering into the solar system of "Crack The Skye". A homogenius fireball of technical realism along with a natural flow of riff waves remain distant and friendly at the same time: melodically interesting to swallow your resistence and deep enough to stand against the rust of time. A weird, vivid story in the lyrics, a dizzy storyteller-mushroom of wormholes, a golden navel string, a world of spirits, Siberia and ...Rasputin, turns the final result to a supernatural spiritual trip where trandition and progress meet under the brave honesty of our heroes. Extaordinary tips across their soundscape their longest efforts, "The czar" and "The last baron", reinvent the complete metal history by being themselves at the same time. If there is a certain gate to wider audiences there is no more honest passage than this piece of troubled spirit and pure adrenaline...