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Pope, DO NOT watch it. I turned it on when I got up this morning and my partner was like "what the hell is this?"
She was right.
I had to quickly redeem Mastodon by playing mother puncher.
I'm really disappointed because the new stuff is super straight, tuned high (not my biggest beef, but it's done so boring and radio-friendly), sung strangely and basically doesn't sound like Mastodon at all.
It seems ultra-consumeristic with all the orange endorsement and lame as balls harmonies.

When Ceremony came out with their album Zoo I had the same reaction; An OK album if it wasn't by Ceremony.
UNDER-WHELMING.

Corey Y wrote:I hate the attitude of "don't be a pussy!" when it comes to beer flavors. There's enough out there to pick something that tastes great to everyone. If I was going to drink just to get drunk, there's plenty of cheap midwest American brews that are unremarkable but inoffensive to my mouth. Drinking beer just to get wasted is inefficient anyway though.

Yeah I'm definitely not trying to have a negative attitude toward all y'all who don't like IPAs or any specific beer style. I tend to hear a lot of people who don't like IPAs because they drank a really old one or a bad one and so they have a very skewed idea of what the style is really like, so I just glean what they didn't like about what they had. Drink whatever you want! Heck, drink water! Or Isopropyl if you's a man, apparently

That new Mastodon song is wack.

Brann's singing voice reminds a lot of Paul Chain.

I never got into Mastodon at all.

Sabbath and Sleep, however, are the bees' knees.

wildebelor wrote:Pope, DO NOT watch it. I turned it on when I got up this morning and my partner was like "what the hell is this?"
She was right.
I had to quickly redeem Mastodon by playing mother puncher.
I'm really disappointed because the new stuff is super straight, tuned high (not my biggest beef, but it's done so boring and radio-friendly), sung strangely and basically doesn't sound like Mastodon at all.
It seems ultra-consumeristic with all the orange endorsement and lame as balls harmonies.

When Ceremony came out with their album Zoo I had the same reaction; An OK album if it wasn't by Ceremony.
UNDER-WHELMING.

Glad you say partner.
People always give me the weirdo beardo look any time I say partner in reference to the woman I'm married to, get with the fucking program people.

On the subject of beer...

Sometimes I drink piss water but when I don't.... I do enjoy Founders quite a bit. Dirty Bastard is a phenomenal beer. Hands down one of my favorites. Great for cooking sausage in before plopping it on the grill for some good charred outsides.

With IPAs it was really a matter of finding something that I liked and then expanding from there. Now I like some better than others. I started with Bell's Two-Hearted. Bell's makes Oberon. Oberon is basically piss but they knock it out of the park with Two-Hearted. If you want to try an IPA that is probably more palatable to the plebs then I recommend it. Since then I've grown to like IPAs a lot.

Got to tour Founders brewery recently. Dope little spot, expanding more. Shit is cray cray. Tried some of the first batch of Breakfast Stout on the year so that was cool. Couple buddies working there. If any of y'all find yourselves in my neck of the woods we will be drinking there and eating delicious sandwiches. They don't DOOM there but beer and good food generally get my stamp of approval.

How everyone is shitting on Mastodon just now... that's exactly how I felt when Leviathan came out. I honestly felt the band died with Remission... their only true and good album. After than was thumbs down. I got leviathan it was def way simplified so really hearing how everyone is hating this "new" direction... I hear that album with just cleaner vocals.

beer/alcohol... no care.

lol lessons on being a jerk guitarist.

guy I won the Krank from turns out to be a fucking pile of shit and refuses to accept the money I paid for the amp and refuses to talk, time to get him kicked off ebay.

and with that I went on and won this:


for 77 bucks... also it was the one on reverb for 599. I know it was because it's the exact same pics. no one else would set up an amp on a crate with some burlap like it's some farmsex photoshoot.

Also back in north carolina for the week. had to stay in town till 12pm monday to basically babysit the shredders hired to destroy a ton of records and then go rent a car and drive up here straight from then. I got in at 10:30pm... which is actually better time than I expected. I'm turning around friday and have to leave like at 2am so I can get back in town by noon to turn in the car, go pick up my groomsman suit and go to a wedding rehearsal for my friend who's wedding is sat.
fuck

D.o.S. wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grHWgUjbWKo[/youtube]

#RushSwag2014

BOO...not for fans of Mastodon.
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Alright so here is my view on Mastodon as they are today, not that anyone cares.

I think that we WANT to keep liking what they put out, because their first albums ruled. Because they started off on a great and heavy foot, and were really unique, blah blah blah.

As they got bigger and bigger the more they started changing, and of course if you're offered a shit ton of money from a major record label you're going to taylor your sound to whatever you need it to be so that your music still gets put out and you still get that check.

I still hear bits and pieces of original Mastodon in that new track, specifically on Brent's solos. And honestly, I think if they went under a different name other than Mastodon right now, we wouldn't think it's that bad. Yeah, we probably wouldn't listen to it any other way, but it's the previous albums that we have in our head that make us disappointed with this new stuff. I'd rather hear new Mastodon on a local rock station than the other stuff that has been on. That's the way I look at it.

Did I enjoy the track? Here and there. I didn't think it was completely horrible, but it wasn't bad.

fuck ya. booze talk. im a cheap beer expensive tequilia kinda guy. cheap beer = more amp money.

I honestly am not bothered by the new track cause it sounds like stuff they have already been doing. I'm indifferent to it, I def don't find it bottom of the barrel cause to me that was a long time ago. I thought Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye were pretty nice but I think I've spent maybe 3 or 6 spins on them total since they have came out. Just not worth returning to often. leviathan even less.

First three Mastodon records are great, and Leviathan's the best one. To say otherwise is madness.

wildebelor wrote:Pope, DO NOT watch it. I turned it on when I got up this morning and my partner was like "what the hell is this?"
She was right.
I had to quickly redeem Mastodon by playing mother puncher.
I'm really disappointed because the new stuff is super straight, tuned high (not my biggest beef, but it's done so boring and radio-friendly), sung strangely and basically doesn't sound like Mastodon at all.
It seems ultra-consumeristic with all the orange endorsement and lame as balls harmonies.

When Ceremony came out with their album Zoo I had the same reaction; An OK album if it wasn't by Ceremony.
UNDER-WHELMING.

Love that Mother Puncher.
Where Strides the Behemoth, also winning.
No intention of watching that new one, I tend to agree with Skully, though. If someone threw large piles of money at me on the condition that I had to change my tune somewhat, I'd find it pretty hard to knock back and continue to work a day job and tour in brutal, primitive, hard-slogging fashions. Especially with a family to support. They've done their hard yards, they're capitalising. Most rational people would do likewise. Such is life.

Which Ceremony are you talking about, just for clarification?

My shoulder is fucking out on me again. Giving me the goddamn old man shits.

CEREMONY the HC band from California, Rohnert park was an awesome album.
But yeah, I'd probably be inclined to attempt to make it work - but I feel Mastodon are just belting out crap now.

Also, SLK - I had a trace elliott Speed Twin 50 for a while. They have an AWESOME gain channel!

Cool, I was hoping you weren't talking about a different Ceremony....







...who suck.

wildebelor wrote:Also, SLK - I had a trace elliott Speed Twin 50 for a while. They have an AWESOME gain channel!

Sweet, I'm glad to hear that. For 77 bucks couldn't pass it up.

D.o.S. guess I'm just madness but that's what everyone told me back in the day when it was released and I spent the entire time frowning. Brian's drumming was subdued on it and that really soured me on it overall. The next two it was busier like his older work and that's what made me like those two more.


I only recognize and care about the netherland death metal ceremony

ShaolinLambKiller wrote:

I only recognize and care about the netherland death metal ceremony

That's ok, I wasn't thinking about them either.
Just making sure Belor didn't know someone my old band gigged with before I launched a tirade of defamatory comments.