Review
Mastodon play as if metal never lost the “heavy” prefix. They devote their second album to a song-cycle about Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, a notion that seems ripped from some long-lost Led Zeppelin notepad. The Atlanta quartet decide what’s been durable in the history of hard rock and consolidate it into one walloping group sound, a collection of harmonies, rhythms, riffs and textures from Neurosis to Alice in Chains to Metallica to Sabbath to Zep to (no kidding) the Beatles. (A second disc includes several tunes in 5.1 surround sound.) Smart, serious, densely composed, shredding and grooving and elegiac by turns, Leviathan needs a few listens before it can be absorbed; when it does, it can become ambrosial.
DOWNLOAD: “Blood and Thunder,” “Aqua Dementia,” “Joseph Merrick”
DOWNLOAD: “Blood and Thunder,” “Aqua Dementia,” “Joseph Merrick”
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