The chorus is the best Ozzy Osbourne dig the man himself hasn't done in eons. "The Motherload" is this album's equivalent to "Curl of the Burl" last time around on "The Hunter", but this time, MASTODON uses their jacked-up harmonies and soaring choruses to drag their cumbersome sonic might upwards. All that being said, what MASTODON attempts and easily achieves on "Once More 'Round the Sun" is to streamline instead of go mainstream.
Brann Dailor alone throws out more fills per second than any vanilla pop-rock drummer could possibly handle. Not yet, anyway.įirst and foremost, MASTODON is way too hyperactive with their parts to ever be considered a straight-up rock band. Unlike what SUPERTRAMP and GENESIS did ages ago, MASTODON hasn't taken the immediate pickup junction leading to the radio friendly highway. What MASTODON tinkered with on "The Hunter" and now even further on "Once More 'Round the Sun" is a natural evolution for a band that can only have so much more to say as a sludge prog giant. This band and OPETH represent the pinnacles of metal for this generation, and in MASTODON's case, the proof is in the sludge pudding yet again with their new album "Once More 'Round the Sun". Rare is the occasion when a band as complex and progressive as MASTODON is sacrifices none of their core identity while transitioning to the major markets. MASTODON's continued inching toward an accessible rock sound is no doubt going to be met with enmity by some, which sucks, considering they play at a higher level than damned near anyone in metal music.
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