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mojojasons
11-11-2008, 09:00 PM
I recently started listening to Mastodon and man these guys are AMAZING guitar players! Very odd and yet very interesting licks.

Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PraI-LTMpJ8
macheesmo3
11-11-2008, 11:19 PM
It's very interesting heavy stuff. ( and I'm not that into really heavy stuff much anymore in my old age.) There is some good live footage on youtube aside from that as well. If you watch it , they do a lot of pretty simple riffs layered and arranged in a vaery interesting way. pretty bad ass stuff.
The ;yrics are laughably ridiculous though . But who cares , they are like DeathKlok Heavy!
giannifive
11-11-2008, 11:53 PM
I'm not a metalhead, but I *love* Mastodon. The mix of heavy guitars, odd phrasing, complex song structure, and droning vox just do it for me.
jazzandmetal?
11-11-2008, 11:56 PM
I'm not a metalhead, but I *love* Mastodon. The mix of heavy guitars, odd phrasing, complex song structure, and droning vox just do it for me.

I AM a metal head and love Mastadon too. Can't wait for their new cd to come out.
DemonOfTheFall
11-12-2008, 12:31 AM
Great band, fantastic song. I still can't play that interlude. That riff gets me each time. Fingerpicked I believe - not clear from the video though.
mojoslide
11-12-2008, 07:42 AM
I'm not into metal at all anymore but like Mastadon too!
Phil M
11-12-2008, 08:16 AM
The drummer and guitarist (Bill?) are from Rochester and I've seen them in various bands. I remember over 10-12 years ago seeing the guitarist in a little 3-piece garage band--he couldn't have been more than 18 or 19 and he had a really great sound with the Les Paul through a JCM 800. Punky power chords and Berry/Thunders style leads.

THEN I saw him years later in a band called Lethargy (the Mastodon drummer was in that one too). WOW. He really progressed as a player and now look at him.
iggs
11-12-2008, 08:18 AM
MASTODON ROCKS!!!

:dude:dude:dude
mojojasons
11-12-2008, 09:44 AM
Brent Hinds plays banjo type licks... I read that he started on banjo so I guess that makes sense.

But another thing I like about them is that they have great tone.
TaronKeim
11-12-2008, 02:01 PM
Love Mastodon here... fantastic playing and song composition. Great tones and interesting song structures. Blood Mountain is one of my all time favorite albums, however when I'm in a more metal mood, their earlier releases get the call.

I love the clean-ish vocals they employed on Blood Mountain though, added a hillbilly shaman bent to their music.

If you're a fan of Blood Mountain though, the newest release from Burst, Lazarus Bird, is also a killer progressive album in a similar vein and I'm really enjoying it.

_TJK*