Monday, January 29, 2007

Best Metal Album of 2006- Mastodon's Blood Mountain





I'll jump on the Mastodon bandwagon (which I've already been riding for about 2 months, anway) & bestow upon them my pick for Metal's Best Album of 2006 for their release, Blood Mountain.

I particularly like the tracks The Wolf Is Loose- for obvious reasons- & Sleeping Giants with its building intro particularly the slow, melodic piece beginning at 1:09 which is reprised as a bridge later in the song. Also, Capillarian Crest with it's zany, technical interlude jam session which gives way to a Sabbath sounding groove part which devolves into a pummeling Death Metal outro & the odd the vocals & slower grooving parts of Colony of Birchmen are also highlights on the album for me. Brilliant shit again from the boys in Mastodon.

Overall, I don't like it as much as their 1st two releases, Remission & Leviathan, but that is due to the fact that those had more double blast beats & pummeling riffage which I really dig now where as the newer release is definitely more musically diverse- not that that is a bad thing by any means b/c Mastodon is by far better than 99% of the crap that passes for "metal" on the radio & definitely one of the more interesting bands out there right now.

Track Listing:
1. The Wolf Is Loose
2. Crystal Skull
3. Sleeping Giant
4. Capillarian Crest
5. Circle Of Cysquatch
6. Bladecatcher
7. Colony of Birchmen
8. Hunters Of The Sky
9. Hand Of Stone
10. This Mortal Soil
11. Siberian Divide
12. Pendulous Skin

Saturday, January 27, 2007

I'm Lazy As Shit Now

Yet again, I slept past noon. Don't know what's got into me lately. Paxil makes me drowsy & all but sheesh, I just don't want to get up anymore if I have nothing to do...

That's alright. I'll rally for tonight for my debut drinking appearance at Lilian's . Cougars beware!

Friday, January 26, 2007

Hi!

I'm new.

I will rule (or annoy) the blogosphere.

Hope y'all can read.