Mastodon "Jaguar God" (reaction episode 213)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
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In this video I react to Jaguar God by Mastodon.
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Crazy how 1 solo at the END of the album can tie in the whole album story line. This one never fails to bring a few tears to the eye. Out of sheer beauty. Jaguar God really touches the soul🖤
It was a tough task coming to terms with just one song and I’m so happy I thought about it as long as I did. Looking forward to many more. 😊
I totally get that
Dean, the song is the final song from their 2017 concept album Emporer of Sand. They won a grammy for the opening track "Sultan's Curse".
The album is about cancer, as 3 of the members of Mastodon had family members who were diagnosed prior to making the album. The drummer's grandmother and the rhythm guitarist's mother passed away, and the bassist's wife survived.
The story is The Emporer gives the protagonist cancer and the songs tell his journey for a cure.
He is near death at the start of Jaguar God. The acoustic part is about how the lead guitarist Brent Hinds feels about himself, but it fits the story. The 2nd part is where the protagonist meets the Mayan Jaguar God. He praises him and the Jaguar God sends him to the Emporer's throne room. If the protagonist touches the Throne Of Maladies, he is cured. But he dies just before he can touch it, leading to the outro solo and the Emporer's laugh
Love that whole album! 💕
@@jennifer9047 Word To The Wise is the most underrated song off the album imo
@@PHLCoffeeSnob yeeeeesss! Word to the wise is SUCH an underrated song!
Minor correction: the Jaguar God is actually Aztec, not Mayan, but other than that it was a nice overall explanation.
I do think mastodon are massively under rated
By whom? They're one of the most successful sludge bands and certainly the biggest prog-sludge band (or have I missed out?). Or maybe you're just wishing for greater success within the mainstream for this kind of music?
@@progperljungman8218 I was thinking the same thing, haha
I like when a band is "underrated" It means their songs don't get thrashed to death on the radio
The whole Emperor of Sand album is a masterpiece!
Man I tell ya, the West End Busker really is quite talented and has beautiful voice, when you can understand him.
i recommend hearts alive off of leviathan next, or north side star from their cold dark place ep. they have too many songs to choose from, so many can just whisk you away to another realm. mastodon is easily one of my favorite bands. always excited to see you react to their music
here are some more songs that i feel you would particularly enjoy
this mortal soil / siberian divide
asleep in the deep
steambreather
stargasm
march of the fire ants
seabeast
Sebastian is my sons name! I love it so much. Had a dog named Sebastian 30-40 years ago lol. Amazing song and thanks for the react!
One of my favorites from Mastodon! Great pick!
If you like acoustic guitars and great solos, cold dark place is the song you need
Great album. Lots of stand out tracks on it, no filler.
absolutely love mastodon, but word to the wise off of this album is the worst thing they've ever made
Roots remain is a masterpiece.
@@ninjax9675 I beg to differ, this track is a killer! But that's also me loving every single track from this album, even the usually hated, radio-friendly _Show Yourself._
@@fabioriato loved hushed and grim but still don't see too much in this album. I will say andromeda and roots remain are especially killer
This is an excellent pick from a band with a large catalogue of excellent songs
The solo at the end killed me
Such a great song, roots remain is the best in the album for me but this song rules, anyway nice video man, enjoy all the mastodon stuff.
A true masterpiece. Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽
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I'll second that. Whole album is bad ass, but that's one of my favs
if not the whole album i highly recommend Hearts Alive off of LEVIATHAN!
I remember the first time I heard Mastodon. It was around midnight one Saturday/Sunday night watching Headbangers Ball, circa 2006 and I was still just branching out my metal taste, from Metallica and Pantera. I wasn’t really feeling the Nu Metal scene as much as everyone else. Slipknot just wasn’t doing it for me tbh. That’s when the music video for “The Wolf is Loose” came on. And it was weird. Colonial America, horse-carriging down a mountain while something was chasing him. I then heard the bridge/solo of that song and immediately fell in love. I didn’t know what it was about them that really struck me. Maybe it was the Primal/barbaric mood their music set back then. I have YET to be disappointed. I was never into Dream Theater - style Prog Metal. Something about out of place keyboard samples and random sounds/corny vocals just doesn’t cut it for me either. If there IS such a thing as “Prog” Metal.. than it is Mastodon. To me they do it the right way. A way THATS only been done in the past by bands such as Rush. And Brann may be the modern day Neil Pert. Though, Brann would probably disagree.
I really haven't delved all that much into mastodon besides my reactions and I have one album. In good time I will though. I've had lots of catching up to do.
The solo is outstanding
Jaguar God is a good song and people rightfully lose their minds for the last "proggy" section of the song. But, Mastodon's catalogue is so much better than this! You've already listened to Crack the Skye in its entirety, but I'd urge you to visit their earlier albums at some point. Leviathan and Blood Mountain are genre-defining albums and IMO get to the quintessential Mastodon sound.
Agree with everything said here. Once More Around The Sun is an album that deserves much attention as well. Awesome feel to that album. Tread Lightly and Diamond In The Witch House are goldmines.
@@kmsharley75 Diamond in the Witch House is absolutely monstrous, what a great album closer that was. Made me wish for a whole Mastodon x Scott Kelly album
@@jinxie1080 one of their most underrated songs, the most neurosis sounding of any of their songs too Imo. The performance they did with Scott Kelly for live in the kpit was glorious
@@puppetmaster8551 That performance was actually the one that made me finally get into DITWH. It sounded so out of place in the album for me even after multiple listens. Then there was this performance, and everything made sense.
Nice one! I love this 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽 Cynic Kings of Those Who Know por favor amigo 🙏🙏🙏
I love your doing so much Mastodon! Check out this band and have your doors blown open “THE PHYSICS HOUSE BAND” please do a review on them. You won’t be disappointed. Thank you for doing what you do. I appreciate it!!
Actually just did one by them
I actually requested a Physics House Band song and Dean just reacted to it in December. Cheers!
@@deanwolfechannel what did you think about them?
Good stuff.. want to hear more
@@deanwolfechannel absolutely. I’ll have to look up your review of whatever song you did. I definitely would like to here a lot more of your reviews by them. I’m happy with all the Mastodon you’ve done and continue to do.