Blog: Muso's Guide

Mastodon - The Hunter By Stuart Anderson Given the monumental success of Mastodon 's melancholic, unabashedly progressive and indefatigably conceptual Crack the Skye back in 2009, you'd be forgiven for expecting The Hunter (their fifth album to date) to raise their brand of musical abstraction to such dizzying heights that even Alain Robert would think twice about attempting to conquer it. Instead, our Atlanta metal heroes draw sonic inspiration from their previous and, arguably, more accessible swampy and doom-inflected masterpieces Leviathan [...]