BarryP wrote:
Mastodon is the shit!!!
I've got tix to see them next month at Festival Pier with Primus.
When I first heard Mastodon, it was their Leviathon album, and I liked it a lot. Then..........meh....I didn't care anymore. Then, about a year ago I was cleaning the house and somehow three consecutive Mastodon albums ended up playing through Youtube and I got freakin' hooked! They are one of the few bands that I'll sit at work and listen to 3 hours of the same band.
Really good stuff from them.
I like Avenged Sevenfold better, though. Especially when they had James "The Rev" Sullivan (d. 2009) and then Arin Ilejay (joined in 2011, left in late-2014) on the drums. Ilejay had superlative double-bass/ride cymbal skills. And M. Shadows (singer) and Synyster Gates (lead guitar) are two of the best in metal rock history. Definitely top-100 of all time.
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