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Points: 3150 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2012 at 23:48
Originally posted by ole-the-first ole-the-first wrote:

Crack the Skye is absolutely fantastic, Leviathan and The Hunter are great too, but not that awesome. Blood Mountain is kinda too simplistic for me.

Take a listen to Blood Mountain again? it's not simplistic,lolLOLLOL
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Points: 3150 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2012 at 21:20
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? what are you referring to?


Music is most important in Prog so it really doesn't matter, take a looka Gordon Haskell he sounds high and terrible on "Lizard" but it doesn't matter does itLOLLOLLOL
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speaking of "high and terrible"
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

speaking of "high and terrible"



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In my opinion, CTS is a prog masterpiece. It's fresh, it's catchy' it's innovative. Actually, best modern prog album, beside SLS by Riverside for me. But since I've heard " The Hunter " I do not consider them prog anymore. They dissapointed me a little bit with that LP because I knew that it might be hard to beat CTS. But the fact that they have gone for commercial rock songs is too much for me. I expected them to even go further with unique prog sound that they seemed to found. But well, you can't have everything. I will give them one last chance with a new album, approximately for 2013 release.

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Originally posted by ProgKev ProgKev wrote:

In my opinion, CTS is a prog masterpiece. It's fresh, it's catchy' it's innovative. Actually, best modern prog album, beside SLS by Riverside for me. But since I've heard " The Hunter " I do not consider them prog anymore. They dissapointed me a little bit with that LP because I knew that it might be hard to beat CTS. But the fact that they have gone for commercial rock songs is too much for me. I expected them to even go further with unique prog sound that they seemed to found. But well, you can't have everything. I will give them one last chance with a new album, approximately for 2013 release.

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They probably will show up with another prog moden day masterpieceWinkWink
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Originally posted by ProgKev ProgKev wrote:

In my opinion, CTS is a prog masterpiece. It's fresh, it's catchy' it's innovative. Actually, best modern prog album, beside SLS by Riverside for me. But since I've heard " The Hunter " I do not consider them prog anymore. They dissapointed me a little bit with that LP because I knew that it might be hard to beat CTS. But the fact that they have gone for commercial rock songs is too much for me. I expected them to even go further with unique prog sound that they seemed to found. But well, you can't have everything. I will give them one last chance with a new album, approximately for 2013 release.

Cheers.

Just because they weren't prog rock songs doesn't make it a bad album, which it isn't. It's okay to change styles. 
Plus i'm not sure what you mean by giving them "one more chance", for what? If they don't make another progressive metal that blows your socks off you will ignore them as a band? 
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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2012 at 19:36
Originally posted by ProgMetaller2112 ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

? what are you referring to?


Music is most important in Prog so it really doesn't matter, take a looka Gordon Haskell he sounds high and terrible on "Lizard" but it doesn't matter does itLOLLOLLOL


to me vocals are an element of music and just as important. I also have no problem with the vocals on Lizard.
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2012 at 19:39
Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

Originally posted by ProgMetaller2112 ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

? what are you referring to?


Music is most important in Prog so it really doesn't matter, take a looka Gordon Haskell he sounds high and terrible on "Lizard" but it doesn't matter does itLOLLOLLOL


to me vocals are an element of music and just as important. I also have no problem with the vocals on Lizard.

Agreed.
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Of course that genre has nothing to do with individual overall album response. But " The Hunter " is full of modern- straight- to-face metal, with triggered,clinic sound that I hate. And that dissapointed me. It's to contemporary for me, it doesn't even contains any Sludge moments. What I meant by saying that I will give them one last chance ? You can see above. If they make another album like " The Hunter " then I am gonna focus only on their discography up to " Crack The Skye ". Because I don't want forcing myself to listen to something that is completely not in my taste.  You got it ?
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Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

Originally posted by ProgMetaller2112 ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

? what are you referring to?


Music is most important in Prog so it really doesn't matter, take a looka Gordon Haskell he sounds high and terrible on "Lizard" but it doesn't matter does itLOLLOLLOL


to me vocals are an element of music and just as important. I also have no problem with the vocals on Lizard.


ok sumdeus I have a major problem with Haskell he sounds like he's high and like Stewie Griffin from Family Guy


Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - January 08 2013 at 00:05
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Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

Originally posted by ProgMetaller2112 ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

? what are you referring to?


Music is most important in Prog so it really doesn't matter, take a looka Gordon Haskell he sounds high and terrible on "Lizard" but it doesn't matter does itLOLLOLLOL


to me vocals are an element of music and just as important. I also have no problem with the vocals on Lizard.


i don't want to think of Stewie singing for any rock band it sounds hideous in my opinion
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I think they are great. On their way to being one of the biggest names in metal / prog.
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I mostly just like the drumming on Blood Mountain but overall it's my favorite album of theirs followed by crack the skye. The Hunter is just OK...

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Saw Mastodon twice in concert (Heavy MTL and on tour with Opeth), and even though they are obviously great musicians, I find their music blank and uninspired.  The concert they played with Opeth sounded like they played the same song over and over again ; at the very least the first five songs had exactly the same tempo (very poor choice of material in my opinion), it left me wanting for their gig to end ASAP. Highly overrated band, in my humble opinion.
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Where is a prog in Mastodon albums? I didn't listen it at all. This band IMO playing modern metal.
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I like the drummer, AWESOME in fact. But although some of the stuff catches my ear, it doesn't stay caught for long....unfortunately...
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Points: 9872 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2014 at 09:24
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Originally posted by charles_ryder charles_ryder wrote:

Where is a prog in Mastodon albums? I didn't listen it at all. This band IMO playing modern metal.



Crack the Skye is their most progressive album. Listen to it if you want their progressive metal material. 
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Yes, I changed my opinion: Crack the Skye is a worthy album. Thank you, Horizons!
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