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Crack the Skye [2 LP Deluxe Vinyl with CD]
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If you're a die-hard Slayer fan, and like early Mastodon, you might not get on with this. If you are prepared to see a band develop their own niche and become masters of their own vision, then BUY THE RECORD!

There's not much I can add that hasn't been said, but I wanted to say a few things...

I would strongly recommended you get the CD+DVD: Crack the Skye (CD & DVD)

It is difficult to describe how incredible this record is. The musicianship, composition, arrangement, vision and (for want of better word) 'production', they are all superb. One *whole* album that tells a story but not so obviously as to not leave a sense of mystery.

(Scholars of late 19th and early 20th century history [which I suspect don't include Mastodon themselves] might have to force themselves to accept some considerable creative licence with the Rasputin references etc. But hey, it's art...)

Two other albums that are, for me, as close to dangerous perfection that I've heard this year are Sunn O)))'s Monoliths & Dimensions and Mono's Hymn to the Immortal Wind. If you don't mind experimenting away from the Mastdon path, I'd also recommend Wolves in the Throne Room's Black Cascade, Zu's Carboniferous, Tombs's Winter Hours, Black Bone Angel's Verdun, Eagle Twin The Unkindness of Crows and Snail's Blood.

(I assumed that the Shrinebuilder Shrinebuilder, Kylesa Static Tensions, OM God Is Good, Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone and Isis's Wavering Radiant albums were fairly obvious - but if not, check these out too.)

It's late, I'm delerious and I though "why not through in these 'why not try something a bit different' recommendations too" so I did: Crippled Black Phoenix The Resurrectionists & Night Raider, James Blackshaw The Glass Bead Game and KTL IV.

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