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Mastodon
Also Playing: The Dillinger Escape Plan and Red Fang
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Sat Nov 12
8 pm
Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Red Fang at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom
Prog is a nebulous term that only gets fuzzier as time goes on, but Mastodon embodies the best qualities of the genre while stamping its own unique features on it. The group’s fourth full-length, 2009’s Crack The Skye, came three years after Blood Mountain, and peeled back some of the layers of sludge and gloom that shrouded its predecessor. Mastodon has long chained itself to the concept-album format synonymous with prog, but this year’s The Hunter feels like an emancipation party, with unrelated songs about meth-head lumberjacks and fucking in outer space. Just about every genre hybrid involving metal and batshit-insane technicality has been attributed to the pioneering New Jersey act The Dillinger Escape Plan—mathcore, metalcore, tech-metal, experimental metal, and so on—and with good reason: DEP plays supremely intricate jazz-time hardcore that also blows brains and batters ears.
The Rave/Eagles Ballroom 2401 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Prog is a nebulous term that only gets fuzzier as time goes on, but Mastodon embodies the best qualities of the genre while stamping its own unique features on it. The group’s fourth full-length, 2009’s Crack The Skye, came three years after Blood Mountain, and peeled back some of the layers of sludge and gloom that shrouded its predecessor. Mastodon has long chained itself to the concept-album format synonymous with prog, but this year’s The Hunter feels like an emancipation party, with unrelated songs about meth-head lumberjacks and fucking in outer space. Just about every genre hybrid involving metal and batshit-insane technicality has been attributed to the pioneering New Jersey act The Dillinger Escape Plan—mathcore, metalcore, tech-metal, experimental metal, and so on—and with good reason: DEP plays supremely intricate jazz-time hardcore that also blows brains and batters ears.
Updated 11/01/2011
