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March 4th, 2009 | 
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Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor has already gone on record calling Crack the Skye, the band’s forthcoming album, “my favorite thing that we’ve ever done.” And in this Billboard story, Dailor goes on to flesh out the album’s completely nutso concept a little further: “It’s about a crippled young man who experiments with astral travel.” Also somehow involved: Wormholes, Rasputin, a “golden umbilical cord.” “It’s all metaphors for personal shit,” Dailor helpfully points out.
Unifying album concepts, of course, are nothing new to the Atlanta metal overlords. Their 2004 classic Leviathan, for instance, was somehow based on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Fortunately, though, every past Mastodon album works as pure intuitive thundering brutality, and you don’t have to be into the concept to get it.
The band sure is proud of their latest long-player, though. On their upcoming North American club tour, they’ll play the album in its entirety. But they’ll also play older songs, so you don’t have to worry about leaving a Mastodon show without hearing “Blood and Thunder”.
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