Ifeel like I got introduced to Mastodon in completely the wrong way - I readabout them before ever listening to them. Their drummer, Brann Dailer, wants toplay drums like Randy Rhodes played guitar, to the extent of having a polka dotdrum kit to match Randy’s famous guitar. Loving the intent behind his playing,I picked up their most recent album at the time, Blood Mountain​, without even knowing what they sounded like. I was14, a freshman in high school, and from the massive drum fill that pummels youin the first few seconds, I became a part of their cult. If you aren't familiarwith the band, immediately prior to this album Mastodon had released ​ Leviathan, a concept album chroniclingthe story of Moby Dick in a way noother band or storyteller has.

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Zip Code lyrics - Black Knights. Black Knights 'Ghost Dog' soundtrack. Zip Code Song Lyrics Dr. West Coast, nigga. Ghost Dog after the gun bark. Here's a book to read, like weed'll leave your brain sparked. Plant seeds, caught three to seam, got dark. What to wear - all black as Ghost Dog wears, or camouflage as RZA wears (see photo below) What to eat/drink - a chocolate ice cream cone, preferably on a park bench as Ghost Dog does What to watch - the movie Ghost Dog, or any other of the many samurai movies out there What to listen to - music by RZA and/or the Wu Tang Clan. FINAL THOUGHTS: The soundtrack to Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai doesn't hold up nearly as well as I had hoped. Thanks to his focus on the lesser-known facets of the Wu-Tang diamond, a good majority of these tracks aren't memorable in the least, and some of the songs spin off in wild directions that, while proving that The RZA was.

They gave the book a soundtrack and mood thatnobody knew it needed. It allowed you to internalize the mentality of these charactersin unheard of ways, and for some like myself, introduced me to Moby Dick as more than a reference Iwould see on TV or in movies.

With ​ BloodMountain Mastodon took their newfound success and came out with an albumthat was even darker, heavier, and more progressive than ​ Leviathan​. Above all else this album accomplished the ultimategoal - getting this kid to have a deep love of heavy metal ever since. Whenthis album starts it grabs you by the hair and drags you into a snowy cave tobegin the experience that is BloodMountain. The Joseph Campbell-inspired story is that of an unnamedcharacter in search of the Crystal Skull to put atop the Blood Mountain - whichhe will later find out has dire consequences.

On his journey he has to fightvicious monsters and overcome obstacles that could most definitely take hislife. As our hero ascends the mountain, he comes across a Sasquatch that cansee into the future and a colony of half-tree people, the Birchmen. Allof this seems utterly mad until you listen to the music that is behind it. Thedrum performance by Brann Dailer sounds like the footsteps of our hero as he isrunning for his life. Bill Kelliher’s guitar playing gives life to the mountainthat is trying to protect itself. Troy Sanders' bass and Brent Hinds' guitar providemeaning and vivid images of what our hero is facing, while both of them onvocals (along with an array of guests) give the illusion of hearing voices and hallucinations.As a kid I wasn’t searching for all of that, I was just into it for the music.It wasn’t like anything I had heard before. The only metal music I knew at thetime was Iron Maiden and some Metallica, but this album had very clear nods tosome other favorites of mine like Yes and King Crimson, references that I heardbut wasn’t able to really place.

It was the first time I was able to hear theinfluence of prog bands in heavy music and it didn’t seem forced, it was just apart of their musical language. Bythe time the album is in the final stretch with songs like 'The MortalSoil,' our hero gets warned of the dangerous territory and his fate as heis approaching the peak, but that won’t stop him. 'Siberian Divide'is where this album metaphorically peaks, our hero almost reaching the top, butfailing as he starves to death underneath an avalanche. 'Pendulous Skin'takes us out of the physical body of our hero as he ascends into the afterlife,which is what was meant to happen all along. No man is ready to conquer theBlood Mountain. After this album ends, and you look back on the trials andtribulations of our unnamed hero, it feels like the kind of folk tale that you canproject your own meaning onto.

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Whatever your Blood Mountain is, even if youdon’t succeed in making it to the peak, there is still a lot that went into thejourney. All that you learned about yourself on this journey wasn’t necessaryfor getting to the peak of Blood Mountain, but they are things you now have foryour journey into your next life which you are now ready to conquer.