Album Review: Mastodon - The Hunter

After four outrageously epic, high concept albums it appears that the most daring thing that Georgia’s Mastodon could do is make a straight-forward rock record. That may have been their intention but nothing is ever straight forward with this psychotropic metal quartet. After 2009’s jaw dropping Crack The Skye there was little room for the band to go upwards (they travelled to space, hell, and Tsarist Russia in album’s crazy back story) so they have spilled sideways instead. The result is The Hunter, an album built on contradictions and a sheer lack of common sense.

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