A few weeks ago, I saw my favourite metal band, Mastodon, playing at The Sound Academy as a part of The Adult Swim Tour. Although I said that Mastodon is a metal band, they are much more than that. They play experimental-pyschedelic-stoner-metal. What a term, eh? Well that's what they are. They're from Atlanta and they just released their fourth LP, Crack The Skye, which is what a lot of people would call the metal album of the year. It has 7 songs but is 40 minutes long.
The Concert was a part of The Adult Swim Tour, which featured 2 Co-headliners, Mastodon, and this virtual metal band Dethklok--a cartoon on Adult Swim called Metalocalypse. I got to the concert 15 minutes before Mastodon's set, so I decided to check out the merch and, I have to say, I've never seen so many tshirts for two bands. Dethklok was selling at least 20 different t-shirts plus posters, hats, cds, and a ton of other random stuff, and Mastodon had about 12 tshirts. Dethklok was the last band to play, but it was clear that more than 2/3 of the crowd was for Mastodon, judging from the amount of shirts they sold.
As soon as I bought a Mastodon tour poster I ran towards the stage through the side bar and nabbed a decent spot, just as they were getting on stage. There was this massive screen at the back of the stage instead of having a large banner. On the screen they had clips of old fashioned movies plus a bit of their own animation to go along with the music. They played their new album Crack the Skye in it's entirety, for half of their set, and then an assortment of songs from their previous albums for the other half.
I love seeing this band live because whenever you hear them, the music takes you to places, so to see this music being played live for me is absolutely insane. The mosh pit was really funny because there were like ten 14-year-olds who were moshing, so everyone else stopped and the pit looked incredibly soft while the kids thought they were totally bad ass. Mastodon's drummer, Brann Dailor, is one of my favourite drummers, so it was awesome to see how crazy he plays live.
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