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Mastodon Cracks the Skye, announces new tour

Atlanta’s Mastodon stroke again this month with a new album, Crack the Skye, that shows their increasing talent (As if they didn’t have enough already) as musicians. This album, conforming to the rest of the band’s discography, follows a concept: It tells the story of a paraplegic whose only means of locomotion is astral travel – a paranormal concept of an out-of-body experience- who burns out his link to his body by flying too close to the sun and then strives to return to his body.

Mastodon succeeded in giving an out-of-this-world feel to their music with Crack the Skye. It gives an incredible setting to the story told within the songs, and gives the impression of flying high within the clouds, and alternates these musical, agreeable trips with harcore, crash-and-burn returns to earth which keeps us hooked from the first song of the album to it’s very end.

Multimontreal quote: 4.5/5

Mastodon will be touring to promote their new album and will stop by Le National on May 2nd.

Mastodon’s Myspace page

Mastodon is:
Brann Dailor (Drums)
Bill Kelliher (Guitar)
Troy Sanders (Bass/Vocals)
Brent Hinds (Guitar/Vocals)