Hushed and Grim Mastodon

• 1 Pain with an Anchor 05:01
• 2 The Crux 04:59
• 3 Sickle and Peace 06:17
• 4 More Than I Could Chew 06:51
• 5 The Beast 06:03
• 6 Skeleton of Splendor 05:04
• 7 Teardrinker 05:20
• 8 Pushing the Tides 03:29
• 9 Peace and Tranquility 05:55
• 10 Dagger 05:12
• 11 Had It All 05:25
• 12 Savage Lands 04:24
• 13 Gobblers of Dregs 08:34
• 14 Eyes of Serpents 06:49
• 15 Gigantium 06:54
• Total Runtime 01:26:17

Info zu Hushed and Grim

Die Südstaaten Metal-Institution Mastodon hat ihr neuntes Studioalbum angekündigt: "Hushed And Grim". Ihre letzten drei Albumveröffentlichungen - The Hunter (2011), Once More Round The Sun (2014) und Emperor of Sand (2017) - stiegen allesamt direkt in die Top-10 der US-Billboard-200 ein. Nach vier Jahren Wartezeit können sich die Fans auf reichlich neues Material freuen: Mit Hushed And Grim legen Mastodon nämlich ihr erstes Doppelalbum vor! Zuletzt hatten sie 2017 das gefeierte Album Emperor of Sand veröffentlicht, das der seit über 20 Jahren aktiven Band nach zuvor vier Nominierungen den ersten Grammy Award bescherte (in der Kategorie "Best Metal Performance"). In USA kam das Album auf Platz 7 der Charts, in Deutschland und UK auf Platz 11. Im Radio bescherte ihnen derweil die Single "Show Yourself" mit Platz #4 in den amerikanischen "Active Rock"-Charts den bislang größten Airplay-Erfolg. Das neue Album Hushed And Grim entstand im Verlauf des letzten Jahres in ihrer Heimatstadt Atlanta. Produziert von David Bottrill (u.a. Tool, Rush, Muse, Peter Gabriel), klingen Mastodon darauf so ambitioniert und ausladend wie nie - denn die 15 Songs decken alles von Rock und Psychedelic über Punk und Metal bis hin zu Alternative und Prog ab, verschnürt von der einzigartigen Chemie, die zwischen diesen vier eingeschworenen Rock-Virtuosen besteht. Visuell werden diese neuesten Kompositionen übrigens wieder einmal vom Künstler Paul Romano (Remission, Leviathan, Call of the Mastodon, Blood Mountain, Crack The Skye) interpretiert, der auch das Artwork zum neuen Studioalbum beigesteuert hat.

"MASTODON in Spielfilmlänge, aber nicht minder kurzweilig und mit denselben Anziehungspunkten ausgestattet wie ehedem - "Hushed and Grim" ist keine zu einem Album gewordene Tagesordnung, aber auch kein Stilbruch, und dürfte erfolgstechnisch zu einem Selbstläufer werden… ob auch ein Klassiker, dafür sprechen konkret die meisten der oben genannten und beschriebenen Nummern. In jedem Fall handelt es sich für den Vierer aus Atlanta um ein diskografisches Highlight, das länger nachhallen wird." (Andreas Schiffmann, musikreviews.de)

Mastodon

Mastodon
are an explosive, unbridled force. Possessing an uncanny song-writing sense, fearless innovation, unparalleled technical ability and a bottomless pool of raw talent and creativity, Mastodon are inarguably one of the most exciting new bands to form in the last 10 years.

In order to re-focus and regroup after leaving TODAY IS THE DAY in 1999, drummer Brann Dailor and guitarist Bill Kelliher opted to move back to their hometown of Rochester, New York. There, Dailor and Kelliher united with their former band Lethargy for a swansong show and demo. With the final chapter in Lethargy closed, the musicians moved to Atlanta, Georgia in January 2000 for a new start.

Only three weeks after arriving in Atlanta, Dailor and Kelliher met bassist Troy Sanders and guitarist Brent Hines at a High On Fire show that Hinds put on in his basement. Dailor and Kelliher had almost a decade of playing and touring experience together; Sanders and Hines had a half-dozen.

Within a few weeks of forming, the quartet's intense songwriting chemistry generated a myriad of hard-hitting songs. These songs merely touched the surface of the outfit's boundless well of ideas.

Under the name Mastodon, the group recorded their first demo in June 2000. With a new demo in hand, the band started a tireless tour schedule, covering most of the Eastern US as well as playing numerous regional dates supporting Queens Of The Stone Age, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse and many others. Mastodon's exceptional live performances impressed to such an extent that within months a contract was inked and the band welcomed to the Relapse family.

Mastodon's exceptional live performance impressed Relapse to such an extent that within months a contracted was inked, and Mastodon welcomed to the Relapse family.

In the spring of 2001, Mastodon once again blazed through the Eastern U.S. with Eyehategod, Keelhaul and Burnt By The Sun. Mastodon blew the doors off every venue along the tour, leaving a whole new contingent of music fans awestruck and hungry for more. Their formidable live reputation helped land them a summer tour again through the East Coast and Midwest, where they linked up with The Fucking Champs. The tour lead them through innumerable festivals (Milwaukee Metalfest, Hellfest, World Series of Metal, and Mid-South Metal Fest) whose attendees witnessed an entirely new form of power and intensity.

In August, Mastodon's Relapse debut EP "Lifesblood" hit with adamantine force. "Lifesblood" illustrated the band's incredible technical prowess, memorable hooks, and earthshaking ability to rock that they had been delivering night after night in club after club.

Not only did "Lifesblood" put them on the map, it proved once and for all that Mastodon were their own band with a sound and vision that defied categorization.

Eager to continue moving forward, Mastodon honed their new material and entered Man Or Astroman?'s Zero Return Studios in Atlanta with producer/engineer Matt Bayles (Isis, Burnt By The Sun, Pearl Jam) in October, 2001 to record their first full-length "Remission".

If "Lifesblood" was just the eye-opening introduction, Mastodon certainly awakened the slumbering heavy music scene on "Remission". "Remission" bridges the soulful and technical as herculean yet incisive song-writing is effortlessly fused with an expansive and emotive tenor. Creative, distinct, graceful and strong, Mastodon's "Remission" features the traits of a benchmark release, a standard to which others will be held and ultimately measured by. Rarely is rock so pure and hard-hitting.

Songs such as the galloping "March Of The Fire Ants", the beautiful "Ol'e Nessie", "Mother Puncher"'s labyrinthine guitar workout, and the punishing "Workhorse" are nothing short of insta-classics, and the albums remaining seven tracks are not far behind.

The quartet dug into their roadwork hard upon the release of "Remission". First a two-month North American Tour supporting High On Fire, followed by strings of dates supporting Hatebreed, Clutch, and Five Pointe O followed. The quartet finished out a busy 2002 with a Japanese Tour with High On Fire and a quick Eastern US run supporting The Dillinger Escape Plan.

The Melville's 'Moby Dick'-based new album 'Leviathan', recorded in Robert Lang Studios and Litho Studios in Seattle under the aegis of producer Matt Bayles is scheduled for late August 2004.

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