RATING: 4.5 out of 5
Metal has unfortunately developed into something of a joke for most contemporary music fans, mostly as a result of the proliferation of radio-ready “heavy” genres such as rap-rock and nü-metal over the last few years. True metal, however, is neither as limp-wristed nor as brainless as its recent bastard progeny. Mastodon, from Atlanta, is at the vanguard of contemporary metal bands that don’t suck. Their recent release Leviathan, a metal concept album paralleling the story arc of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, is an enormous record, an amazingly loud behemoth of crushing precision chords that can make your head hurt with its dizzying rhythms and shifting, unconventional time signatures.
- Joaquin Black
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