Title: Crack the Skye Artist: Mastodon Label: Reprise / WEA Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 093624979098 Genre: Rock, Heavy Metal Release Date: 2009-05-05 Number of Discs: 1
Vinyl LP pressing. 2009 release from the Atlanta-based Heavy Metal outfit. Mastodon has taken hold of the leadership of the New Wave of Progressive Heavy Metal. The band's 2006 major-label debut Blood Mountain spun off a Grammy nomination and earned Top 5 Best Album of the Year nods from Kerrang!, Revolver and Metal Hammer, and a Top 10 Rolling Stone. Now Crack the Skye, it's fourth original studio album, mines subject matter from czarist Russia and astral travel to out-of-body experiences and Stephen Hawking's theories on wormholes for an unrepentantly heavy aural assault that will shake the heavens.
Tracks: 1.1 Oblivion 1.2 Divinations 1.3 Quintessence 1.4 Czar: Usurper/Escape/Martyr/Spiral 1.5 Ghost of Karelia 1.6 Crack the Skye 1.7 Last Baron
