Description
Fourth album from the successful American progressive metallers and follow up to their 2006 major label debut 'Blood Mountain'. That album, while their most successful, drew criticism from some fans for its seeming lack of focus. This album seeks to remedy that issue by having a unified concept in which an astral traveller wanders the spirit realm, exploring themes from quantum physics to Czarist Russia, and musically is as complex, brutal and enthralling as their earlier work.
Product Details
- Artist
- Mastodon
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- WEA/REPRISE
- WOW HD Sales Rank
- #157
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 2009
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 2009
- Number of Discs
- 1
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #149
- Cast & Crew
- Mastodon (Music Performer)
- Brendan O'Brien (Producer)
- Darren Tablan (Sound Engineer)
- Nick DiD (Sound Engineer)
- Tom Tapley (Sound Engineer)
Press Reviews
Amidst blistering tritone riffs and arpeggiated chords is a group keener to explore sonic harmony than crank the distortion. CRACK THE SKYE is an epic trek across the space-time continuum, entirely on Mastodon's terms Paste
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir most mainstream to date....A sprawling prog-metal masterpiece....Richly rewarding... Q (Magazine) (p.107)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Oblivion
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Divinations
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Quintessence
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Czar, the (Usurper/Escape/Martyr/Spiral)
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Ghost of Karelia
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Crack the Skye
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Last Baron, The
