TAKE A LEAK: NEW MASTODON SONG (!)

January 5th, 2009 at 12:29pm
Kip Wingerschmidt

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Needless to say, we are all very psyched to ingest the rapidly approaching new Mastodon album, the self-proclaimed “more under the rock category” Crack the Skye, which will hit shelves in the next couple months (no official release date yet, but I’m told sometime in March). And if you’re interested in Mastodonian things such as track listings and awesome interviews with band members, let alone video interviews from our interweb bretheren, well…you know what to do.

But if you wanna hear a taste of the newly new newness, you can proceed to HERE (courtesy of “Metal Bastard’s MP3 Blahg” — read full post here). Apparantly, the track is called “Divinations”, it will indeed appear on the new album (according to the always-reliable blogosphere), and this recording is from this year’s Bonneroo Festival, where I hope Mastodon melted the faces of hordes of unsuspecting hippies…literally.

The music sounds pretty solid (and definitely incorporates the band’s usual flavor), but honestly the vocals seem a little hurting, almost as if whoever is singing (’cause it doesn’t really sound like the band’s vocalists, so I’m wondering slightly if this is one of those hippy-dippy jam-a-thons, with someone from Spearhead or The Disco Biscuits filling in with their hemp-lined pipes…) is straining to hit all those high notes.

That said, this is the almighty Mastodon, and therefore they are more than worthy of several allowances…any song newly added to the band’s live set must not have been played out very much thus far, so we may have to give our homies a license to grow into performing the new ditties. Lord knows they’ve earned it.

Happy Monday…now get back to work, fuckface — I’m not paying you to listen to music and beat off.