The Hunter (Remastered) Mastodon

• 1 Black Tongue 03:27
• 2 Curl of the Burl 03:40
• 3 Blasteroid 02:35
• 4 Stargasm 04:39
• 5 Octopus Has No Friends 03:48
• 6 All the Heavy Lifting 04:31
• 7 The Hunter 05:17
• 8 Dry Bone Valley 03:59
• 9 Thickening 04:30
• 10 Creature Lives 04:41
• 11 Spectrelight 03:09
• 12 Bedazzled Fingernails 03:08
• 13 The Sparrow 05:30
• Total Runtime 52:54

Info for The Hunter (Remastered)

Mastodon haben noch nie etwas auf konventionelle Art und Weise getan. Schon vor mehr als zehn Jahren, als andere Bands noch den Metal aus den 80ern wiederkäuten, haben sie ihren ganz eigenen, höchst anspruchsvollen Stil entwickelt. Und während sich die Musikwelt darauf konzentrierte, möglichst leicht verdauliche Singles zu produzierten, schrieben Mastodon großartige, komplexe Konzeptalben. Die Band selbst ist überwältigt von der Masse an positivem Feedback, das von überschwänglichen Kritikern bis hin zu öffentlichem Lob von Ikonen wie Metallica, The Melvins, The Flaming Lips oder auch CeeLo Green reicht. Aber anstatt sich auf diesen Lorbeeren auszuruhen, sprengen sie ihre eigenen musikalischen Grenzen und schöpfen ihre Kreativität weiterhin voll aus.

Mit The Hunter hat die Band, die mit den Alben Remission, Leviathan, Blood Mountain und Crack The Skye die Hardrock-Szene des 21. Jahrhunderts maßgeblich geprägt hat, ein weiteres weltbewegendes, energiegeladenes Meisterwerk erschaffen. Auch wenn bisher jedes Album seinen Vorgänger hinsichtlich der Erwartungen an musikalische Innovation und Verkäufe übertroffen hat, ist The Hunter ihr bislang ehrgeizigstes Werk. Brent Hinds (Gitarre/Gesang), Brann Dailor (Schlagzeug/Gesang), Troy Sanders (Bass/Gesang) und Bill Kelliher (Gitarre) haben ein Album kreiert, dass einfach anders ist selbst für Mastodon-Verhältnisse. Während sie auf ihren bisherigen Platten immer eines der vier Elemente als roten Faden gewählt haben, geht es auf The Hunter eher darum, das zu tun worauf man Lust hat, als einer bestimmten Storyline zu folgen. 'We ve always had this umbrella or a theme that we ve written everything under, sagt Troy. To us, it made sense as one cohesive story. This time, we freed ourselves up to try something new. It was really the next step for us, and I m glad we took it.'

Diese neue Spontanität ist auf dem gesamten Album spürbar - vom melodischen und doch harten Blasteroid bis hin zur wilden, kraftvollen Single Curl of the Burl , von schönen Harmonien zu dämonischen, düsteren Growls; The Hunter steckt voller Überraschungen!

„Die einzige Metalband der Gegenwart, auf die sich alle einigen können - zu Recht." (musikexpress)

Brann Dailor, drums, vocals
Brent Hinds, guitar, vocals
Bill Kelliher, guitar
Troy Sanders, bass, vocals

Recorded at Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, California; Doppler Studios, Atlanta, Georgia
Produced by Mike Elizondo

Digitally remastered

Mastodon
are an explosive, unbridled force. Possessing an uncanny song-writing sense, fearless innovation, unparalleled technical ability and a bottomless pool of raw talent and creativity, Mastodon are inarguably one of the most exciting new bands to form in the last 10 years.

In order to re-focus and regroup after leaving TODAY IS THE DAY in 1999, drummer Brann Dailor and guitarist Bill Kelliher opted to move back to their hometown of Rochester, New York. There, Dailor and Kelliher united with their former band Lethargy for a swansong show and demo. With the final chapter in Lethargy closed, the musicians moved to Atlanta, Georgia in January 2000 for a new start.

Only three weeks after arriving in Atlanta, Dailor and Kelliher met bassist Troy Sanders and guitarist Brent Hines at a High On Fire show that Hinds put on in his basement. Dailor and Kelliher had almost a decade of playing and touring experience together; Sanders and Hines had a half-dozen.

Within a few weeks of forming, the quartet's intense songwriting chemistry generated a myriad of hard-hitting songs. These songs merely touched the surface of the outfit's boundless well of ideas.

Under the name Mastodon, the group recorded their first demo in June 2000. With a new demo in hand, the band started a tireless tour schedule, covering most of the Eastern US as well as playing numerous regional dates supporting Queens Of The Stone Age, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse and many others. Mastodon's exceptional live performances impressed to such an extent that within months a contract was inked and the band welcomed to the Relapse family.

Mastodon's exceptional live performance impressed Relapse to such an extent that within months a contracted was inked, and Mastodon welcomed to the Relapse family.

In the spring of 2001, Mastodon once again blazed through the Eastern U.S. with Eyehategod, Keelhaul and Burnt By The Sun. Mastodon blew the doors off every venue along the tour, leaving a whole new contingent of music fans awestruck and hungry for more. Their formidable live reputation helped land them a summer tour again through the East Coast and Midwest, where they linked up with The Fucking Champs. The tour lead them through innumerable festivals (Milwaukee Metalfest, Hellfest, World Series of Metal, and Mid-South Metal Fest) whose attendees witnessed an entirely new form of power and intensity.

In August, Mastodon's Relapse debut EP "Lifesblood" hit with adamantine force. "Lifesblood" illustrated the band's incredible technical prowess, memorable hooks, and earthshaking ability to rock that they had been delivering night after night in club after club.

Not only did "Lifesblood" put them on the map, it proved once and for all that Mastodon were their own band with a sound and vision that defied categorization.

Eager to continue moving forward, Mastodon honed their new material and entered Man Or Astroman?'s Zero Return Studios in Atlanta with producer/engineer Matt Bayles (Isis, Burnt By The Sun, Pearl Jam) in October, 2001 to record their first full-length "Remission".

If "Lifesblood" was just the eye-opening introduction, Mastodon certainly awakened the slumbering heavy music scene on "Remission". "Remission" bridges the soulful and technical as herculean yet incisive song-writing is effortlessly fused with an expansive and emotive tenor. Creative, distinct, graceful and strong, Mastodon's "Remission" features the traits of a benchmark release, a standard to which others will be held and ultimately measured by. Rarely is rock so pure and hard-hitting.

Songs such as the galloping "March Of The Fire Ants", the beautiful "Ol'e Nessie", "Mother Puncher"'s labyrinthine guitar workout, and the punishing "Workhorse" are nothing short of insta-classics, and the albums remaining seven tracks are not far behind.

The quartet dug into their roadwork hard upon the release of "Remission". First a two-month North American Tour supporting High On Fire, followed by strings of dates supporting Hatebreed, Clutch, and Five Pointe O followed. The quartet finished out a busy 2002 with a Japanese Tour with High On Fire and a quick Eastern US run supporting The Dillinger Escape Plan.

The Melville's 'Moby Dick'-based new album 'Leviathan', recorded in Robert Lang Studios and Litho Studios in Seattle under the aegis of producer Matt Bayles is scheduled for late August 2004.

This album contains no booklet.