psychedelic as fuck...I love that part,...but really so many aspects of this song are insane....in the best possible way...the drums!!! so much work went into this song....magnificent...I learned the whole "live at the k pit" guitar....that took a damn while...want to tackle this one...I know it would be fun to play...
This album completely changed my outlook on music, and what was capable within an album. I wish the guys from Mastodon knew how much this album means to me.
Same, It's defiantly the album of theirs I have listened to the most. This album and Between the Buried and Me 'Colors' are always on my road trip rotation, then it will be like Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side of the Moon' to steady the heart rate.
Whenever aliens find the remnants of our long lost civilization, I hope they find Mastodon and save their music in their museums as we do to epics like Gilgamesh.
Yeah, this song is amazing. And you're so spot on regarding this album. This album alone outweighs what the vast majority of metal bands out there have or ever will accomplish. I also love Black Sabbath just as much as Mastodon and for similar reasons. Killing Yourself to Live, Paranoid, NIB, and Planet Caravan are my favorite Sabbath Tracks. I am fucking in love with Sabbath. Have been since I first heard them growing up. (Early 80s for reference). I got a few bands for you to check out. The two bands were heavily influence by Sabbath and are incredibly talented and unique in their own right. Both bands are fairly similar to Mastodon at times too. I put them both right up there with Sabbath honestly. That's my opinion at least. Anyway...Check out Electric Wizard and Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. Good intro songs to them are for Electric Wizard: Funeralopolis, Electric Wizard (self-titled song off their self-titled album lol), and Saturnine. For Uncle Acid: Deaths Door, Night Creeper, and Mt Abraxas. Mind Control is Uncle Acid's Crack The Skye, and Witchcult Today or Dopethrone (hard to pick) are Electric Wizard's. But yeah. Fucking love this track and album. Hail Mastodon! Also, if you end up liking the song Funeralopolis by Wizard... You may like the band DopeThrone. They are a super heavy sludge metal band. Chameleon Witch and Riff Dealer are two fantastic songs by them. And if you don't like any of this stuff then that's cool. Just like talking Metal music.
@@LemursManLemurs1 thanks for the recommendations, haven’t heard them before but I’ll check them out. I understand your passion for great music…beyond the mainstream shite played on commercial radio anyway! If you’re into prog rock, one band I’ll recommend whom you may not know is Karnivool from Australia (where I live). Best albums are Themata and Sound Awake. They haven’t released anything for quite a while but worth giving a go.
@@badmotorbreath5206 I'll give them a listen. Currently on shrooms and just jamming out to whatever suits my fancy. Some great Australian bands. I love Men at Work, The Chats, Tame Impala, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I'll let you know what I think. I dig prog rock so I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
@@LemursManLemurs1 yeah I can see the Kyuss comparison. They’ve also been compared to Tool, maybe also because of the name. By the way, just listened to Funeralopolis… holy cow, that is some deeply heavy material and it kicks serious ass. Just saw you know about King Gizzard …Nonagon Infinity and Infest the Rats Nest are favourites 👍🏼🤘
Take pride, Americans. When they criticize American metal for this or that, and fair enough, just remember that no one else in the world created this masterpiece but those southern boys from Atlanta.
Just went to their show in Boston. They played this whole album, and then a few more songs. But I wondered.. how are they gonna follow Baron? They went with Blood and Thunder and all my internal organs high fived each other
LYRICS: I'd guess they would say We could set this world ablaze Please, please take my hand, please take my soul to rest So we can always be around It is hard to see Through all the haze at the top of the trees Hold my head on stable ground Watch as the Earth falls all around Please, please take my hand, please take my soul to rest So we can always be around Faltering footsteps, dead end path All that I need is this wise man's staff Encased in crystal, he leads the way I guess they'd say we could set the world ablaze Please, please take my hand, please take my soul to rest So we can always be around I guess they would say We can set the world ablaze Hold my head on stable ground Watch as the Earth falls all around Take my black soul Alive in the fires that burn my skin Guide my eyes all through this maze I guess they'd say we could set the world ablaze All that I have seen Standing on the edge, the foot of precipice Floating in the sea Past the king of swords, quickly to the shore The last baron The last baron Ghost of man Surrounds me in my slumber I have no fear As your wing is my shelter Cyanide he craves Coursing through his veins, providing him with strength To see this to the end Afraid of psychic eyes, faith in mystic power The last baron The last baron Will he save me? Will he save me? I was standing staring at the world And I can't see it I was standing staring at the world And I can't see it I was standing staring at the world And I can't see it I was standing staring at the world And I still can't see it I was standing staring at the world And I can't see it I was standing staring at the world And I still can't see it All that I have seen Standing on the edge, the foot of precipice Floating in the sea Past the king of swords, quickly to the shore The last baron The last baron Ghost of man Surrounds me in my slumber I have no fear As your wing is my shelter Cyanide he craves Coursing through his veins, providing him with strength To see this to the end Afraid of psychic eyes, faith in mystic power The last baron The last baron Will he save me? Will he save me? Will he save me? I'd guess they would say We could set this world ablaze Please, please take my hand, please take my soul to rest So we can always be around It is hard to see Through all the haze at the top of the trees Hold my head on stable ground Watch as the Earth falls all around Please, please take my hand, please take my soul to rest So we can always be around Faltering footsteps, dead end path All that I need is this wise man's staff Encased in crystal, he leads the way I guess they'd say we could set the world ablaze
I prefer most of their other albums. I do love crack the skye, but I feel like I have to listen to the full album to get proper enjoyment out of it. I hope they play it all the way through on this tour though.
Just heard an interview with Bill ward on eddie trunk from 2009 and bill suggested this song he said it's brilliant. Who can argue with a founding member of black sabbath.
This album still remains one of the greatest albums ever created. The lyrics, story, and musicianship are all top notch and of the highest quality. This song especially, it just sounds like epic conclusion song, whereas most albums the last song ends and you're just like "cool, good album its over". But this, this wraps up the journey and sounds like something that would play at the end of a 2 hour epic movie that just wraps up and ends in a glorious fashion so when it ends, you know the journey and story are over. Lucky enough to catch them a few years ago on the 10th anniversary tour of this album with Coheed & Cambria and they played this from start to finish and it was everything I had hoped for
This is the darkest, most psychedelic and mesmerizing album I've ever heard. Definitely forever in my Top 3 of all the albums Mastodon have released to date. What a great band, I'm an unconditional fan of these guys.
That YYZ reference at 6:00 and again at 6:13 blew my mind the first time I listened to it. This album is a great tribute to classic prog with a vivid and clear modern intention all over it that make it sound almost visionary. What a journey!
I've been listening to this for 13 years and it's still my favorite song. Does anybody else but me appreciate this masterpiece as much as I do? I don't know anyone that loves this song. It's a tragedy!
An album about the drummers sister's tragic death, a spiritual journey and a dramatic retelling of the story of Rasputin culminating in the best metal album ever. And don't try ans argue, this is a really important album to me because my parents put it on all the time when i was little and i still listen to it as inspiration for writing and help getting through shit
@@yoloswag6242 better to me, i grew up on Divinations and The Wolf is Loose, not Megalodon and Mother Puncher. Don't get me wrong it's an awesome set of albums but I'm definitely biased
I think crack the Skye is their best album. Other albums have some good songs but this one I played through about a hundred times at work. Especially the longer songs, just proves how musically gifted these guys are.
the second best album is blood mountain, crack the slye is their best album, their best songs are, the last baron, the czar, divinations and quintessence, mi favourite songs from the album, the song crack the skye is good too.
My all time favorite album period. Any genre, any artist - nothing else comes close. I worship and revere this album. This is the holy grail - Mastodon's epic: Crack The Skye.
Heard this for the first time at a mental hospital it was for an exercise. Literally made me look at the world differently now I listen to it literally every day thank you random staff member I’ll never forget you
Young adults nowadays just care about young thug, doja cat, and like playboi carti. Songs by them just “slap WAY HARDER” than anything these guys could ever write, didn’t ya know? Lmao it’s a great shame.
@@AllCopsAreBigchungus Anthony. Im actually a school teacher, and i can tell you that 20 years ago, when people where focusing on britney and fred durst, there were some young people listening to the first gojira albums, or even on mainstream rock, bands like BRMC or all them witches. Same happens today. Of course, most kids care about mainstream crap, but there are still the metalheads, the undergrounders, etc. Most of my students turn older, and come back to me saying.... "now i know who trent reznor is"
@@brentcrude8565 I wonder if you mean that you hope its an unforgettable experience. I've driven from Seattle to LA and its well, shit. I love driving lol
@@brentcrude8565 Mastodon and driving in both rural and outback Australia go together like Bread and Butter. I'm not sure what it is about them, but it just works really well
I remember being super pissed off ... 7 songs? Wtf. I got in to them right when Blood mountain released and had heard most of Leviathan. I bought the special album that you could open and look in to and see all the great art. Then I listened to it. Seven songs was plenty. Probably my favorite album from them.
Oh for sure. And Last Baron is their magnum opus. Easily the best song they've written. Even better than Blood and Thunder and Diamond In The Witch House (those two songs being tied for my 2nd favorite mastodon tracks
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 Oh for sure. A great track. All the tracks on that album are kick-ass. Same with Blood Mountain. There is a good reason they are both in my top 3 metal albums. 3rd place being DopeThrone by Electric Wizard. Funeralopolis being my favorite track on that album. Highly recommend them if you've never listend to em.
I want to become a cage fighter for a number of reasons but having this as my walkout is a big one. That intro is epic for hyping a crowd up for some violence
Because the band doesn't have a clear leader, they all feel equally important and work towards the songs&stories, not personal preferences. So, beauties like this are born
This album happens to be the perfect length for a 10km run. I only run in winter (I cycle the rest of the year), and usually set off at 6am withe goal of getting to work by 7am. In the cold and darkness the roaring fire that is this album just sets the perfect feeling and pace, and keeps me going. I've probably heard the whole thing a thousand times by now. It never gets old.
One wonderful aspect of this song is that it intentionally touches and brings closure to the first four albums. You can say the same of the entire album, beginning with the cover art having all four symbols, but this song really feels like a perfect epilogue.
@@topuscuatro It mentions the other three elements, for one (fires/set the world ablaze; the Sea; the Earth). There is also what sounds like nods to individual songs, like Crystal Skull. It all goes with the sense of finality of the whole song. The lyrics are about the past and going to rest, and the music sounds like mourning and warning at once.
@@AxiomApe It’s explicitly about air/ether/the void. The first four albums are a series and after that the band retired the classic cover design with the traditional logo/font/symbols; at least until Emperor of Sand, which is also meant to be about a single element, more or less - death.
Being a mastodon fan for years and sorta overlooking this album (idk how but i did) i finally have been giving this entire album an insane amount of attention, and holy shit. This is the best concept album i have ever heard, and definetly one of the very best top notch pieces of art i can think of.
Has to be one of my favorite Mastodon songs, a journey through the deepest weirdest corners of an alien world, especially Oblivion and this one always make me feel like I'm in a tiny little space ship on my way through wonders never seen before... Its that certain magic that made me fall in love with them, they later then convinced me with all their other stuff to like them even more
Thank you guys for this song and this entire, beautiful album. In a way, I'm glad I only recently listened to this, because my younger self probably would not have appreciated this masterpiece.
This was the first song I ever saw them play live. I know I'm a little late to the game, but these dudes are the real deal. They have a unique chemistry and have forged a new path for metal bands. There's no pretention; no bullshit. Yes, it's commercial. But so was Zeppelin, Ozzy, Megadeth, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, all the great metal bands.
@@kendalljensen4448 I'm pretty sure it was the tour for their Emperor of Sands, but they played a lot of their old songs, with Scott Kelly doing guest vocals on a fair few tracks
@@kendalljensen4448 I heard about this tour, I'll get a ticket if they come back to the UK, was a brilliant show. I just wish I'd had the money for a t-shirt or hoodie on the day
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Imagine listening to a 13 minute long song, and thinking to yourself. "Wish this was longer".
That’s every tool fan
@@chadhooker555 thanks for making me laugh man haha
@@gregorgilbert6972 no problem that’s what I’m here for.
It's not hard for me, I'm also a Dream Theater fan.
Siberian Breaks. I sometimes listen to that song for hours, imagining surfing on ice. Great thrills.
Imagine suffering a concussion and gaining psychic powers to write one of the best metal concept albums of the past 40 years.
If that was your job? Or not? Job means slave in languages not taught, but also they encourage you to not look into it...wild
8:19 Absolutely fucking out-of-this-world extraterrestrial alien riff from a higher dimension.
Funky syncopated polyrhythmic ostinato
Mastodon get all kinds of credit for being great songwriters, but lost in that is that they are fucking riffmasters.
You would totally dig Toska and Rabea Massaad's work in general. Check them out, if you haven't already.
My favourite riff from this song
psychedelic as fuck...I love that part,...but really so many aspects of this song are insane....in the best possible way...the drums!!! so much work went into this song....magnificent...I learned the whole "live at the k pit" guitar....that took a damn while...want to tackle this one...I know it would be fun to play...
THAT RIFF Button:
08:19
Dude it's like...where do all of those notes come from you know?
I've always loved that riff change. Feels illegal almost lol. I love music that challenges the listener to a degree. No cookie cutter music here
Stank face *ACTIVATED*
This riff makes my nostrils flare like the angriest llama.
Funky as the hell of a fuck. My girl always says i look sexy when playing this, even on acoustic guitar lol
Good to hear Ozzy sing again
Does sound a little like him doesnt it?
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 A lot of the instrumental bits sound like Steal this Album by SOAD
Sounds like Zach Wylde 2 me
@@jacobpickens4731 boom.
@@jacobpickens4731 kinda but zakk Wylde has a rougher voice tho
This album completely changed my outlook on music, and what was capable within an album. I wish the guys from Mastodon knew how much this album means to me.
Same, It's defiantly the album of theirs I have listened to the most. This album and Between the Buried and Me 'Colors' are always on my road trip rotation, then it will be like Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side of the Moon' to steady the heart rate.
They dont gaf bro lol
Theyre masons
They call us the Vulgar Masses
@@cammo777 I’ll be honest, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
@@brandosapien9016 i know bro, i know.
It’ll all be over soon.
@@cammo777 That’s a pretty weird thing to say.
Whenever aliens find the remnants of our long lost civilization, I hope they find Mastodon and save their music in their museums as we do to epics like Gilgamesh.
I would certainly hope that happens, that would be absolutely badass!
Mastodon crams more outrageously brilliant music in this one song than most other bands do in their entire discography.
Yeah, this song is amazing. And you're so spot on regarding this album. This album alone outweighs what the vast majority of metal bands out there have or ever will accomplish. I also love Black Sabbath just as much as Mastodon and for similar reasons. Killing Yourself to Live, Paranoid, NIB, and Planet Caravan are my favorite Sabbath Tracks. I am fucking in love with Sabbath. Have been since I first heard them growing up. (Early 80s for reference). I got a few bands for you to check out. The two bands were heavily influence by Sabbath and are incredibly talented and unique in their own right. Both bands are fairly similar to Mastodon at times too. I put them both right up there with Sabbath honestly. That's my opinion at least. Anyway...Check out Electric Wizard and Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. Good intro songs to them are for Electric Wizard: Funeralopolis, Electric Wizard (self-titled song off their self-titled album lol), and Saturnine. For Uncle Acid: Deaths Door, Night Creeper, and Mt Abraxas. Mind Control is Uncle Acid's Crack The Skye, and Witchcult Today or Dopethrone (hard to pick) are Electric Wizard's. But yeah. Fucking love this track and album. Hail Mastodon!
Also, if you end up liking the song Funeralopolis by Wizard... You may like the band DopeThrone. They are a super heavy sludge metal band. Chameleon Witch and Riff Dealer are two fantastic songs by them.
And if you don't like any of this stuff then that's cool. Just like talking Metal music.
@@LemursManLemurs1 thanks for the recommendations, haven’t heard them before but I’ll check them out. I understand your passion for great music…beyond the mainstream shite played on commercial radio anyway! If you’re into prog rock, one band I’ll recommend whom you may not know is Karnivool from Australia (where I live). Best albums are Themata and Sound Awake. They haven’t released anything for quite a while but worth giving a go.
@@badmotorbreath5206 I'll give them a listen. Currently on shrooms and just jamming out to whatever suits my fancy. Some great Australian bands. I love Men at Work, The Chats, Tame Impala, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I'll let you know what I think. I dig prog rock so I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
@@badmotorbreath5206 Listening to Goliath off Sound Awake. I dig it so far. They kind of remind me of Kyuss.
@@LemursManLemurs1 yeah I can see the Kyuss comparison. They’ve also been compared to Tool, maybe also because of the name. By the way, just listened to Funeralopolis… holy cow, that is some deeply heavy material and it kicks serious ass. Just saw you know about King Gizzard …Nonagon Infinity and Infest the Rats Nest are favourites 👍🏼🤘
These people know how to close an album
Its almost too perfect, as if rest of the album isnt great enough they laugh in your face while slamming this masterpiece on us mortals
Take pride, Americans. When they criticize American metal for this or that, and fair enough, just remember that no one else in the world created this masterpiece but those southern boys from Atlanta.
They voted for Joe Biden
@@Mattwarszawa Considering the only real alternative was Trump, good for them lmao
@@Mattwarszawa no they didn't, did they?
@@Mattwarszawa I didn't know you could vote as a band
🤘🏼🤘🏼speak brother 🤘🏼🤘🏼
7:35 is one of the most titanic passages of metal music I have ever heard. This album is so immaculately arranged.
It’s been 10 years since this album came out. One of my favorite metal concept albums \m/
Hail Satan brother
\m/
Yeah, It has been nice.
12 years now?
This is the album that opened me up to metal. So glad I gave it a chance.
Me too good sir! 🤘
Just went to their show in Boston. They played this whole album, and then a few more songs. But I wondered.. how are they gonna follow Baron? They went with Blood and Thunder and all my internal organs high fived each other
Matt Moves Mountains that's crazy man blood and thunder is an all time favourite!
Think of my Dad when I hear this. Wish he could've heard it. He would've loved it.
12 years without you. May we meet again in some way or form.
#RIP to your pops... he's listening. Trust me. Energy never dies, only transforms.
love to you bro
I think of my father as well and how he would've loved this song ❤ He passed away last month. Rest In Peace to your father ❤🕊🙏🏻
Top 10 songs of all times, not a shadow of doubt.
You are correct.
LYRICS:
I'd guess they would say
We could set this world ablaze
Please, please take my hand, please take my soul to rest
So we can always be around
It is hard to see
Through all the haze at the top of the trees
Hold my head on stable ground
Watch as the Earth falls all around
Please, please take my hand, please take my soul to rest
So we can always be around
Faltering footsteps, dead end path
All that I need is this wise man's staff
Encased in crystal, he leads the way
I guess they'd say we could set the world ablaze
Please, please take my hand, please take my soul to rest
So we can always be around
I guess they would say
We can set the world ablaze
Hold my head on stable ground
Watch as the Earth falls all around
Take my black soul
Alive in the fires that burn my skin
Guide my eyes all through this maze
I guess they'd say we could set the world ablaze
All that I have seen
Standing on the edge, the foot of precipice
Floating in the sea
Past the king of swords, quickly to the shore
The last baron
The last baron
Ghost of man
Surrounds me in my slumber
I have no fear
As your wing is my shelter
Cyanide he craves
Coursing through his veins, providing him with strength
To see this to the end
Afraid of psychic eyes, faith in mystic power
The last baron
The last baron
Will he save me?
Will he save me?
I was standing staring at the world
And I can't see it
I was standing staring at the world
And I can't see it
I was standing staring at the world
And I can't see it
I was standing staring at the world
And I still can't see it
I was standing staring at the world
And I can't see it
I was standing staring at the world
And I still can't see it
All that I have seen
Standing on the edge, the foot of precipice
Floating in the sea
Past the king of swords, quickly to the shore
The last baron
The last baron
Ghost of man
Surrounds me in my slumber
I have no fear
As your wing is my shelter
Cyanide he craves
Coursing through his veins, providing him with strength
To see this to the end
Afraid of psychic eyes, faith in mystic power
The last baron
The last baron
Will he save me?
Will he save me?
Will he save me?
I'd guess they would say
We could set this world ablaze
Please, please take my hand, please take my soul to rest
So we can always be around
It is hard to see
Through all the haze at the top of the trees
Hold my head on stable ground
Watch as the Earth falls all around
Please, please take my hand, please take my soul to rest
So we can always be around
Faltering footsteps, dead end path
All that I need is this wise man's staff
Encased in crystal, he leads the way
I guess they'd say we could set the world ablaze
Thank you kind sir 😎 📜 👍
The perfect album. The perfect song. Perfect tones. Perfect arrangements. Perfect singing. Literal perfection.
This album is their Opus magnum. And this song is the culmination of it. It's like a mystical dream.
6:53 this guitar riff sounds so good
8:19 best riff of all time
This is how mankind should be remembered . Fuckin crushed it
8:20
Move this man to the top
God that riff is magnificent
@@Crysta1Pisto1 it's the panty dropper
turns into a White Zombie song all of a sudden
I love that the whole song is a mazelike buildup to this
10 years! ... it's timeless. it might be one of the best things we as a species have had the chance to experience.
I prefer most of their other albums. I do love crack the skye, but I feel like I have to listen to the full album to get proper enjoyment out of it. I hope they play it all the way through on this tour though.
@@ATthemusician They are. Can't wait to see them in LA 🤘🏻
@@lhuerta2010 hell yeah, getting VIP for them again. Getting alll my super rare Mastodon records signed 😏
They just confirmed they're playing the full album!
Andrew Mystic the album is definitely one that must be played all the way through
That sweet triangle action at 5:35 is the real MVP in this song
Always reminded me of Rush - Yyz from guitar hero
I literally read your comment at THE EXACT SAME TIME it happened. That was some epic synchronicity.
@@MaximumBob same lol
Just heard an interview with Bill ward on eddie trunk from 2009 and bill suggested this song he said it's brilliant. Who can argue with a founding member of black sabbath.
TH-cam "Are you still listening" at 7:20 into the video... FUCK YOU TH-cam OF COURSE I AM!
Cool
like wtf did i press stop? fuckers...
@@thomasplacentia5201 ur good
This album still remains one of the greatest albums ever created. The lyrics, story, and musicianship are all top notch and of the highest quality. This song especially, it just sounds like epic conclusion song, whereas most albums the last song ends and you're just like "cool, good album its over". But this, this wraps up the journey and sounds like something that would play at the end of a 2 hour epic movie that just wraps up and ends in a glorious fashion so when it ends, you know the journey and story are over. Lucky enough to catch them a few years ago on the 10th anniversary tour of this album with Coheed & Cambria and they played this from start to finish and it was everything I had hoped for
This is the darkest, most psychedelic and mesmerizing album I've ever heard. Definitely forever in my Top 3 of all the albums Mastodon have released to date. What a great band, I'm an unconditional fan of these guys.
this is the greatest song ever written.
That YYZ reference at 6:00 and again at 6:13 blew my mind the first time I listened to it.
This album is a great tribute to classic prog with a vivid and clear modern intention all over it that make it sound almost visionary. What a journey!
THANKS! thought i was the only one thinking about it. Just discovered Mastodon´s work...
@@wellyfanfarro Same here! Huge Rush fan over here.
Moreover it is said that they got also inspired by king crimson and pink floyd 🤘🤘
Love that YYZ reference too!
don't forget about "No Quarter like"guitar
I've been listening to this for 13 years and it's still my favorite song. Does anybody else but me appreciate this masterpiece as much as I do? I don't know anyone that loves this song. It's a tragedy!
I'm with you, man! I saw these guys perform this entire album in Austin 13 years ago today with Dethklok..Amazing show!
I listen to this song almost everyday
Same, this is pure gold! This and "chimes at midnight"
with you
Im woth you the song is awesome
An album about the drummers sister's tragic death, a spiritual journey and a dramatic retelling of the story of Rasputin culminating in the best metal album ever. And don't try ans argue, this is a really important album to me because my parents put it on all the time when i was little and i still listen to it as inspiration for writing and help getting through shit
Better than leviathan? It's debatable! But this is freakin gorgeous!
@@yoloswag6242 better to me, i grew up on Divinations and The Wolf is Loose, not Megalodon and Mother Puncher. Don't get me wrong it's an awesome set of albums but I'm definitely biased
It's superb music, your parents have taste!
@@emmaphilo4049 damn straight!
(Is mildly envious of your parents) 😄
An absolute masterpiece of an album.. completely flawless from beginning to end.
I think crack the Skye is their best album. Other albums have some good songs but this one I played through about a hundred times at work. Especially the longer songs, just proves how musically gifted these guys are.
Crack The Skye is amazing, but I feel the same way about Emperor of Sand as well.
I love The Czar, it’s awesome
@@that_one_dude_3541 the czar is an amazing experience from start to end.
@@sabonesjones yeah ikr
the second best album is blood mountain, crack the slye is their best album, their best songs are, the last baron, the czar, divinations and quintessence, mi favourite songs from the album, the song crack the skye is good too.
My all time favorite album period. Any genre, any artist - nothing else comes close. I worship and revere this album. This is the holy grail - Mastodon's epic: Crack The Skye.
Brent rose like a phoenix and wrote this album
Same here brother, this is the one. This album has gotten me through so much in life. Nothing will ever come close to this album.
Also my favorite of all time, and I'm not a even huge metalhead. It's fucking out of this world.
Agreed. They very wisely decided not to even try to outdo this record. Perfection.
Y'all are badass.
Heard this for the first time at a mental hospital it was for an exercise. Literally made me look at the world differently now I listen to it literally every day thank you random staff member I’ll never forget you
3:11 Dude, I love Mastodon.
Future generations will still praise songs like Hearts Alive or The Last Baron. They are just too damn much...
You would hope so but unfortunately people are forgetting how good the Beatles are now a days.
Young adults nowadays just care about young thug, doja cat, and like playboi carti. Songs by them just “slap WAY HARDER” than anything these guys could ever write, didn’t ya know? Lmao it’s a great shame.
@@filthy-hobbit Don´t kill me. I don´t adore the beatles that much, eventhough i can relate to their magnificent contribution
@@AllCopsAreBigchungus Anthony. Im actually a school teacher, and i can tell you that 20 years ago, when people where focusing on britney and fred durst, there were some young people listening to the first gojira albums, or even on mainstream rock, bands like BRMC or all them witches. Same happens today. Of course, most kids care about mainstream crap, but there are still the metalheads, the undergrounders, etc. Most of my students turn older, and come back to me saying.... "now i know who trent reznor is"
@@AllCopsAreBigchungus let them have their era🤷♀️ they ll get old too and some of them will open up to other music along the way
Tool and Mastodon. 2 best bands!
This album has got me through so many 14 hour outback Australian solo road trips
That's incredible. I bet it's an unforgettable experience.
@@brentcrude8565 I wonder if you mean that you hope its an unforgettable experience. I've driven from Seattle to LA and its well, shit. I love driving lol
@@brentcrude8565 Mastodon and driving in both rural and outback Australia go together like Bread and Butter. I'm not sure what it is about them, but it just works really well
Why are you driving that many 14 hours trips lmao, do you need to cross the country to see family or something?
That’s the fucking dream that
Minds are being melted on this album
I remember being super pissed off ... 7 songs? Wtf. I got in to them right when Blood mountain released and had heard most of Leviathan.
I bought the special album that you could open and look in to and see all the great art. Then I listened to it.
Seven songs was plenty. Probably my favorite album from them.
7 songs say so much
all killer no filler
Oh for sure. And Last Baron is their magnum opus. Easily the best song they've written. Even better than Blood and Thunder and Diamond In The Witch House (those two songs being tied for my 2nd favorite mastodon tracks
@@LemursManLemurs1 I think The Czar is my favorite.
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 Oh for sure. A great track. All the tracks on that album are kick-ass. Same with Blood Mountain. There is a good reason they are both in my top 3 metal albums. 3rd place being DopeThrone by Electric Wizard. Funeralopolis being my favorite track on that album. Highly recommend them if you've never listend to em.
This is one of the best metal tracks ever.
8:18 STONKS
8:19 DAT RIFF ! ! !
The most laid back, insanely hyper-cool soundtrack to the day I walk over all my dead opponents, impervious to their bullets and daggers...
Akash GG Lmao what
With a username like yours, you could say that Anakin was simply Hot for Teacher after their fight.
I want to become a cage fighter for a number of reasons but having this as my walkout is a big one. That intro is epic for hyping a crowd up for some violence
That breakdown is the best ever put to an album.
The first 3 minutes of this song always makes me cry...Such beautiful melodies...
Happy anniversary boys. Here's to another 10, 20, 30 years. Cheers!
Dude, that profile pic is my phone wallpaper. DVNE Asheran. Hablás español?
Well I came to Mastodon this year. Better late than never. I am in love, head over heels.
This music gives me strength through crappy times
I just heard this for the first time right now, and feel like a part of my life's destiny was to find this relic.
This album is a work of art.
An absolute masterpiece
That didn't feel like 13 minutes, damn, time really did fly while listening to this masterpiece.
this is what i was searching for
Why are all of Mastodon's songs spiritual experiences?
They have unlimited access to DMT.
Because the band doesn't have a clear leader, they all feel equally important and work towards the songs&stories, not personal preferences. So, beauties like this are born
Weed.
@@brienmaybe.4415 hmmmmmmmm DMT does indeed rock
MUSIC MUTA MUSIC MUTA
Yep, this was my favourite closing track from them for a long time. But they finally managed to top it with their latest magnificience "Jaguar god".
Jaguar God is amazing.
This is easily one of the best pieces of music I ever had the pleasure of listening. Outstanding.
This album happens to be the perfect length for a 10km run.
I only run in winter (I cycle the rest of the year), and usually set off at 6am withe goal of getting to work by 7am.
In the cold and darkness the roaring fire that is this album just sets the perfect feeling and pace, and keeps me going.
I've probably heard the whole thing a thousand times by now.
It never gets old.
8:18 THAT RIFF AAAHHHHHHHH SO FUNKY
so much of what they write just moves my soul like nothing else has in a very long time.
Mastodon forever.
This song used to make my drive to work like a journey into space
In my opinion 'Crack the Skye' is still their best album and one of the best Prog-Metal albums that I know
The riff at 8:18 is soooo sick....it will pull you out of any mood!
One wonderful aspect of this song is that it intentionally touches and brings closure to the first four albums. You can say the same of the entire album, beginning with the cover art having all four symbols, but this song really feels like a perfect epilogue.
Could you please explain this??
@@topuscuatro It mentions the other three elements, for one (fires/set the world ablaze; the Sea; the Earth). There is also what sounds like nods to individual songs, like Crystal Skull. It all goes with the sense of finality of the whole song. The lyrics are about the past and going to rest, and the music sounds like mourning and warning at once.
@@LegionHimself Yup. And this one being Air /Ether
It’s how I always interpreted it anyways lol
@@AxiomApe It’s explicitly about air/ether/the void. The first four albums are a series and after that the band retired the classic cover design with the traditional logo/font/symbols; at least until Emperor of Sand, which is also meant to be about a single element, more or less - death.
Being a mastodon fan for years and sorta overlooking this album (idk how but i did) i finally have been giving this entire album an insane amount of attention, and holy shit. This is the best concept album i have ever heard, and definetly one of the very best top notch pieces of art i can think of.
I love their vocal harmonies
That is the best riff I've ever heard in my life.
A perfect example of how to close an album. Legendary.
It's amazing how this track just drags you in and engulfs you. Happy anniversary!
Dudes I'm listening for the first time. This blends my every piece of music taste into one song. Duuudes
Still my favorite Mastodon song!
Same here.
This song is such an absolute masterpeice.
Instant flow state, where did the 13 minutes go?
One of the seminal albums that taught me to love Metal.
Easily one of the best songs of all time
Totally agree
My vote is in
Hey. It's 2022. And I float in the sky whenever I listen to this
It's hard to see you up there, throughout the haze at the top of the trees. Be careful not to crack the skye :)
@@umbranoctis4348 hahaha!
I guess they would say, "We can set this world ABLAAAAAAAAAAZZZE!!!!"
This song is pure space rock:
childhood astronaut
dreams baptized in vastness of
oceans of night sky
How could I have missed this band for so many years? How?
The opening section gives me so much nostalgia it’s unbelievable
What a masterpiece. One of the best songs I've ever heard
Has to be one of my favorite Mastodon songs, a journey through the deepest weirdest corners of an alien world, especially Oblivion and this one always make me feel like I'm in a tiny little space ship on my way through wonders never seen before... Its that certain magic that made me fall in love with them, they later then convinced me with all their other stuff to like them even more
One helluva masterpiece right here.
This is my 4 year old son's favorite song!
so?
Mr Jinx Your kid has great taste!
My 6 year old son hates metal.
When I was 4 I was into John Denver. Now 49, my journey has brought me here. High five to your 4-year old for getting here so quick.
@@leehopkins4783 John Denver's Awesome :')
The Pink Floyd of metal. One of my top 5 favorite bands of all time and I'm not even close to being a metal head.
Thank you guys for this song and this entire, beautiful album. In a way, I'm glad I only recently listened to this, because my younger self probably would not have appreciated this masterpiece.
I can totally relate on this my friend.
Some kid in my school vibes to this, sent it to me. It's not giving
Their best song/album. Period
Totally agree
Your opinion. Period.
The perfect riff doesn't exi..... 8:19
This was the first song I ever saw them play live. I know I'm a little late to the game, but these dudes are the real deal. They have a unique chemistry and have forged a new path for metal bands. There's no pretention; no bullshit. Yes, it's commercial. But so was Zeppelin, Ozzy, Megadeth, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, all the great metal bands.
cannibal corpse, commercial? 🤣😂😅
So sad that you never played this live in Jan, still had an amazing night, thank you for the music Mastodon
Was it part of the 10 year anni tour?
@@kendalljensen4448 I'm pretty sure it was the tour for their Emperor of Sands, but they played a lot of their old songs, with Scott Kelly doing guest vocals on a fair few tracks
@@kidgoku31 Ah thats pretty sick there current tour is for Crack the skye 10th anni they are playing the whole album.
@@kendalljensen4448 I heard about this tour, I'll get a ticket if they come back to the UK, was a brilliant show. I just wish I'd had the money for a t-shirt or hoodie on the day
I find their bottomless well of creativity simply baffling.
This album reminds me of Crimson King.. so epic, typical song structure thrown out the window for this album that is fucking operatic.
Good comparison.
I can't believe it's been 10 years. Wow.
this song is a testimony of aeons coming and going like the tides of the sea, a beacon of human consciousness
Such a damn good album!!
best 13mins ever
One of my favs! Awsome!
Song shudders my soul
Beautiful.
Masterpiece.