Crack the Skye专辑介绍
来自美国亚特兰大的泥浆前卫金属Mastodon将于3月24日发行第四张专辑《Crack the Skye》，并连同Metallica一起进行全球巡演。
乐队鼓手布兰-戴勒(Brann Dailor)在接受MTV采访时表示：“在我看来这是我们在一起做的最棒的一回，新专辑我已经听过很多遍了。”
在谈到新专辑名《Crack the Skye》时戴勒表示，新专辑取名《Crack the Skye》并不是为了纪念那支来自马里兰的被人忽视的前卫乐队Crack the Sky，而是为了怀念戴勒的妹妹Skye，他的妹妹在他很小的时候去世了。戴勒创作了新专辑中大部分的歌词。从头部伤势中恢复过来的的乐队吉他手布伦特-辛德斯(Brent Hinds)编写了所有的曲目。
新专辑此次还以豪华限量版的形式发行，限量版中将赠送一系列的专辑未收录作品，同时包装形式也非常特别。新专辑的封面叫作《a third dimension worm hole design》，由保罗-罗曼诺(Paul Romano)创作，他也是Mastodon乐队所有专辑封面的创作者。同时，豪华版将附带一张DVD，DVD中讲述了乐队是怎么评价新专辑中的每一首作品，同时还附带很多乐队照片。
在2月28日，Mastodon将会与Neurusis乐队以及其他乐队一同出现在Scion摇滚音乐节上。在新专辑发行之后，乐队将同METALLICA一起进行巡演。
Crack the Skye is the fourth studio album by American progressive metal band Mastodon, released on March 24, 2009 through Reprise Records. It features seven tracks and runs at 50 minutes and 3 seconds.
Musical and lyrical themes
Drummer Brann Dailor described the album as more "focused"[6] than its predecessor, Blood Mountain: "Maybe there was a deeper heart to this record that needed more exploring… We got more involved with feeling the vibe of the record and everything feels more creepy and spaced out and something special is going on."
Vocalist/bassist Troy Sanders said in an interview with Stereogum, "Crack The Skye is a departure from everything we've previously recorded in the sense that we kinda strapped on our aeroshells and departed from Earth for a while, and then captained to the ethereal element of the universe and kind of slept on the roof of the world for a while to get a perspective on this record. ... Basically we're exploring the ethereal world. We're dissecting the dark matter that dominates the universe, in a nutshell."[8]
When asked in multiple interviews Dailor said the record would tell a story dealing variously with the art aesthetics of Tsarist Russia, astral travel, out of body experiences and Stephen Hawking's theories on wormholes.[9]
"There is a paraplegic and the only way that he can go anywhere is if he astral travels. He goes out of his body, into outer space and a bit like Icarus, he goes too close to the sun, burning off the golden umbilical cord that is attached to his solar plexus. So he is in outer space and he is lost, he gets sucked into a wormhole, he ends up in the spirit realm and he talks to spirits telling them that he is not really dead. So they send him to the Russian cult, they use him in a divination and they find out his problem. They decide they are going to help him. They put his soul inside Rasputin's body. Rasputin goes to usurp the czar and he is murdered. The two souls fly out of Rasputin's body through the crack in the sky(e) and Rasputin is the wise man that is trying to lead the child home to his body because his parents have discovered him by now and think that he is dead. Rasputin needs to get him back into his body before it's too late. But they end up running into the Devil along the way and the Devil tries to steal their souls and bring them down…there are some obstacles along the way."[10]
Dailor has also said that "Crack the Skye" is meant as an homage to his sister, Skye Dailor, who commited suicide at age 14.
"My sister passed away when I was a teenager and it was awful, and there's no better way to pay tribute to a lost loved one than having an opportunity to be in a group with my friends and we make art together. Her name was Skye, so Crack the Skye means a lot of different things. For me personally, it means the moment of being told you lost someone dear to you, [that moment] is enough to crack the sky."
Critical reception
Crack The Skye received extremely positive reviews from fans and critics alike. Total Guitar awarded the album a 5/5 rating, describing it as "even more ambitious in scope and sound than 2006’s Blood Mountain. Embracing elements of prog and country, but above all classic rock, Hinds and Kelliher literally add new dimensions to the band’s ever-expanding sound." Decibel who awarded Blood Mountain as their number 1 album of 2006, gave Crack the Skye a 7/10 rating as reviewer Joe Gross responding that "Crack is clearly designed as a grower, not a shower, the sound of a band that grew tired of people not responding to their ground game, so they put the ball in the air. Who knows when it will come down?" Clash's review was particularly glowing in its praise for the album, saying "no metal release of 2009 is likely to be as important as ‘Crack The Skye’." The review praised the album's expansive sound and emotion, and finished by claiming that the album is "surely destined to become the stuff of legend." Reviewer Nate Chinen of the New York Times noted the album's "ambitious vision and vivid execution"
乐队鼓手布兰-戴勒(Brann Dailor)在接受MTV采访时表示：“在我看来这是我们在一起做的最棒的一回，新专辑我已经听过很多遍了。”
在谈到新专辑名《Crack the Skye》时戴勒表示，新专辑取名《Crack the Skye》并不是为了纪念那支来自马里兰的被人忽视的前卫乐队Crack the Sky，而是为了怀念戴勒的妹妹Skye，他的妹妹在他很小的时候去世了。戴勒创作了新专辑中大部分的歌词。从头部伤势中恢复过来的的乐队吉他手布伦特-辛德斯(Brent Hinds)编写了所有的曲目。
新专辑此次还以豪华限量版的形式发行，限量版中将赠送一系列的专辑未收录作品，同时包装形式也非常特别。新专辑的封面叫作《a third dimension worm hole design》，由保罗-罗曼诺(Paul Romano)创作，他也是Mastodon乐队所有专辑封面的创作者。同时，豪华版将附带一张DVD，DVD中讲述了乐队是怎么评价新专辑中的每一首作品，同时还附带很多乐队照片。
在2月28日，Mastodon将会与Neurusis乐队以及其他乐队一同出现在Scion摇滚音乐节上。在新专辑发行之后，乐队将同METALLICA一起进行巡演。
Crack the Skye is the fourth studio album by American progressive metal band Mastodon, released on March 24, 2009 through Reprise Records. It features seven tracks and runs at 50 minutes and 3 seconds.
Musical and lyrical themes
Drummer Brann Dailor described the album as more "focused"[6] than its predecessor, Blood Mountain: "Maybe there was a deeper heart to this record that needed more exploring… We got more involved with feeling the vibe of the record and everything feels more creepy and spaced out and something special is going on."
Vocalist/bassist Troy Sanders said in an interview with Stereogum, "Crack The Skye is a departure from everything we've previously recorded in the sense that we kinda strapped on our aeroshells and departed from Earth for a while, and then captained to the ethereal element of the universe and kind of slept on the roof of the world for a while to get a perspective on this record. ... Basically we're exploring the ethereal world. We're dissecting the dark matter that dominates the universe, in a nutshell."[8]
When asked in multiple interviews Dailor said the record would tell a story dealing variously with the art aesthetics of Tsarist Russia, astral travel, out of body experiences and Stephen Hawking's theories on wormholes.[9]
"There is a paraplegic and the only way that he can go anywhere is if he astral travels. He goes out of his body, into outer space and a bit like Icarus, he goes too close to the sun, burning off the golden umbilical cord that is attached to his solar plexus. So he is in outer space and he is lost, he gets sucked into a wormhole, he ends up in the spirit realm and he talks to spirits telling them that he is not really dead. So they send him to the Russian cult, they use him in a divination and they find out his problem. They decide they are going to help him. They put his soul inside Rasputin's body. Rasputin goes to usurp the czar and he is murdered. The two souls fly out of Rasputin's body through the crack in the sky(e) and Rasputin is the wise man that is trying to lead the child home to his body because his parents have discovered him by now and think that he is dead. Rasputin needs to get him back into his body before it's too late. But they end up running into the Devil along the way and the Devil tries to steal their souls and bring them down…there are some obstacles along the way."[10]
Dailor has also said that "Crack the Skye" is meant as an homage to his sister, Skye Dailor, who commited suicide at age 14.
"My sister passed away when I was a teenager and it was awful, and there's no better way to pay tribute to a lost loved one than having an opportunity to be in a group with my friends and we make art together. Her name was Skye, so Crack the Skye means a lot of different things. For me personally, it means the moment of being told you lost someone dear to you, [that moment] is enough to crack the sky."
Critical reception
Crack The Skye received extremely positive reviews from fans and critics alike. Total Guitar awarded the album a 5/5 rating, describing it as "even more ambitious in scope and sound than 2006’s Blood Mountain. Embracing elements of prog and country, but above all classic rock, Hinds and Kelliher literally add new dimensions to the band’s ever-expanding sound." Decibel who awarded Blood Mountain as their number 1 album of 2006, gave Crack the Skye a 7/10 rating as reviewer Joe Gross responding that "Crack is clearly designed as a grower, not a shower, the sound of a band that grew tired of people not responding to their ground game, so they put the ball in the air. Who knows when it will come down?" Clash's review was particularly glowing in its praise for the album, saying "no metal release of 2009 is likely to be as important as ‘Crack The Skye’." The review praised the album's expansive sound and emotion, and finished by claiming that the album is "surely destined to become the stuff of legend." Reviewer Nate Chinen of the New York Times noted the album's "ambitious vision and vivid execution"
Crack the Skye专辑歌曲
- disc 1