★★★★★
With eleven consistently excellent tunes, Mastodon's sixth full-length, Once More 'Round The Sun is nothing if not an exercise in subtly edging towards the mainstream without ever sacrificing any of their considerable metal pedigree. After all, few bands experience as much "don't, whatever you do, sell-out" pressure as Mastodon seem to - from a portion of their fan-base that just can't get their collective heads around anything since the band's 2002 debut Remission...
- thequietus.com
2014-07-12
★★★★★
Mastodon's sixth is probably going to polarize fans the way their last album, The Hunter, did (and Crack The Skye to a lesser degree). It continues in the direction of that 2011 effort, with completely clean vocals and dense guitar riffage layered into thick sludge, but with even fewer hooks and thrilling riffs. The music still branches off into proggy places, especially in the latter half, but nothing hits hard or is remotely memorable. Troy Sanders and Co...
- nowtoronto.com
2014-07-09
★★★★★
It's been approximately 10,000 years since a mastodon was seen on Earth. Known for their resemblance to modern-day elephants and now-extinct mammoths, the mastodon roamed what is now known as North America until it was a victim of both predation and climate change. Mastodon, however, has been roaming the world since 2000, with their first recorded evidence being 2002's Remission...
- www.punknews.org
2014-07-10
★★★★★
"Though I confess to never having been a Mastodon fan, I will say with hand on heart that this is an absolutely fantastic album." As unbelievable as it may seem, it's been ten years since Mastodon released sophomore album, "Leviathan," the concept record revolving loosely around the classic novel Moby Dick. In that time Mastodon has propelled itself to become one of the biggest names in modern heavy metal music, with albums such as "Crack the Skye" and "The Hunter" earning excellent reviews...
- www.metalunderground.com
2014-07-11
★★★★★
Mastodon's sixth is probably going to polarize fans the way their last album, The Hunter, did (and Crack The Skye to a lesser degree). It continues in the direction of that 2011 effort, with completely clean vocals and dense guitar riffage layered into thick sludge, but with even fewer hooks and thrilling riffs. The music still branches off into proggy places, especially in the latter half, but nothing hits hard or is remotely memorable.
Troy Sanders and Co...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2014-07-08
★★★★★
Atlanta's finest took a tentative step sideward with its last album
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-06-26
★★★★★
Props to Mastodon for deviating from the well-trod metal path of making every new album heavier than the last. Continuing down the road they embarked upon with 2011's The Hunter, America's most mainstream metal act has doubled down on melody, harmony and verse-chorus-verse, and crafted something of a sister album, albeit with less adventure. Every song on Mastodon's sixth album cops at least a little from the band's past material--sometimes a lot...
- filtermagazine.com
2014-06-27
★★★★★
For years now, Mastodon has largely been considered one of the best bands in modern day metal, but more recently we've been hearing the same sentiment from fans that should sound familiar to just about anyone who uses the internet: "I like old Mastodon better." It's true, The Hunter wasn't their best output, but there were still plenty of outstanding moments on there, and the new hard rock indebted sound they harnessed sounded pretty damn good on them...
- absolutepunk.net
2014-06-26
★★★★★
From the beginning, it was clear that Mastodon were never meant to be just another sludge band. Had they decided to get perpetually stoned and cycle through a minimal sequence of drop-A power chords, the quartet could have gone on to earn Down-level renown based on instrumental ability alone. Instead, they took the transcendent route, using their filthy guitars to conjure terrifying worlds...
- pitchfork.com
2014-06-25
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