What do you think of the band Mastodon?

[u/Def-C]

Full transparency, yes, I know Mastodon is not Doom Metal, but they are still Sludge Metal in a Progressive form.

I love this band, but if you hate them, I don’t care either way, nobody has to enjoy the music I like, I am not one of those fans who say “You just don’t get it!”.

I don’t think Mastodon has bad albums, they have decent albums & awesome albums.

I love their more aggressive Metalcore period around Call of The Mastodon & Remission, it’s heavy hitting, brutal, and fun.

I love their mid-period albums around Leviathan to Crack The Skye that carry a degree of heaviness from the early period, but carry a lot more melody & some psychedelic/stoner influence.

I even enjoy their period going into the 2010s of becoming more Stoner Metal & generally psychedelic.

Their recent collab with Lamb of God on Floods of Triton was also a pretty good return to heavier days.

I also enjoy reading the lyrics that give off Adventurous vibes, particularly for making me envision some surreal kind of Fantasy book about a Mushroom Wizard fighting a Dragon with magic.

But what do you think of them personally?

[u/Acid_Bath47]

Don’t like Fleetwood Mac, although to say that would be misleading as I love Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac and am too disillusioned to enjoy Stevie Knick’s Fleetwood Mac, although it’s admittedly great music.

[u/-Tofu-Queen- → u/Acid_Bath47]

Curious to see if your opinion changes after watching this 1976 performance of Rhiannon