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Crack the Skye

Album

Crack the Skye

Mastodon

2009Metal · Music · Rock · Hard Rock

This prog-metal beast will leave you dazed and confused, in the best ways imaginable.
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Details

Release date
Record label
Reprise
Tracks
7

℗ 2009 Reprise Records

Tracks

  1. 1
    Oblivion
    Mastodon
    5:44
  2. 2
    Divinations
    Mastodon
    3:39
  3. 3
    Quintessence
    Mastodon
    5:27
  4. 4
    The Czar: I. Usurper, II. Escape, III. Martyr, IV. Spiral
    Mastodon
    10:54
  5. 5
    Ghost of Karelia
    Mastodon
    5:24
  6. 6
    Crack the Skye
    Mastodon
    5:54
  7. 7
    The Last Baron
    Mastodon
    12:58

About this album

Traveling from Czarist Russia to deep space and back again, Crack the Skye is a conceptually ambitious ride to the outer reaches of progressive metal. Along the way, Mastodon unload pure heaviness. In just under 11 minutes, “The Czar” blends cosmic psychedelia and crazy-muscular sludge riffs. Far shorter, yet no less ambitious, “Divinations” opens with old-time banjo before cutting to screaming twin guitars and some of Brann Dailor’s most furious drumming. Needless to say, the rest of the album is just as powerful.