Best Mastodon

Mastodon’s Leviathan is a complex progressive metal album exploring themes of obsession and destruction through a narrative inspired by Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. The record showcases the band’s signature blend of heavy sludge riffs with intricate song structures and dynamic shifts. It gained sign...

"Blood Mountain" is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Mastodon, released in 2006 through Reprise Records. As a concept album, it follows a protagonist's perilous quest to reach the summit of a massive mountain to find a crystal skull. The music blends progressive structures wit...

Released in 2017, "Emperor of Sand" is a concept album by the American heavy metal band Mastodon. The narrative follows a man sentenced to death in a desert, serving as an allegory for mortality and the band members' personal experiences with cancer diagnoses among family and friends. The record fea...

"Hushed and Grim" is a 2021 double album by the American heavy metal band Mastodon, boasting a total runtime of over 86 minutes. The record serves as a somber, introspective eulogy for the band's longtime manager, Nick John, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2018. Expanding upon their establ...

The Hunter is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Mastodon, released in 2011. The record deliberately departs from the lengthy, epic conceptual structures of their previous albums in favor of shorter, more direct hard rock compositions. It was produced by Mike Elizondo and is dedicat...

Once More 'Round the Sun is the sixth studio album by American metal band Mastodon, released in 2014 and produced by Nick Raskulinecz. It combines the group's progressive-metal foundations with shorter song structures, melodic vocals, and prominent hard-rock hooks. The album includes the singles "Hi...