Oblivion (EP)
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Publication |
November 4, 2009 |
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| Label (s) | Reprise Records | |||
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Title (number) |
6th |
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running time |
27 min 1 s |
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Studio (s) |
Southern Tracks Recordings |
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Oblivion is the fourth EP by US progressive metal / sludge band Mastodon . It was released on November 4, 2009 via Reprise Records .
Emergence
The theme song was written for the album Crack the Skye , which was released on March 20, 2009. The album was in the recording studio in Southern Tracks Recordings Atlanta added and was designed by Brendan O'Brien produced. In addition to the studio version of the theme song, the EP contains live recordings of the songs Divinations , The Bit and Colony of Birchmen as well as the music videos of the songs Oblivion and Divinations . The song The Bit is a cover version and originally comes from the band The Melvins .
Track list
- Oblivion - 5:46
- Divinations (live) - 3:21
- The Bit (live) - 4:55
- Colony of Birchmen (live) - 3:59
- Oblivion (music video)
- Divinations (music video)
reception
Reviewer Reini from the online magazine Stormbringer.at described Oblivion as “the most catchy piece of music that Mastodon have ever released, of course with twists and turns and surprises, but the chorus would thunder from zero to a hundred in the brain”. For Yan Vogel from the online magazine laut.de , Oblivion combines all of the band's trademarks and offers an incomparable mammoth sound.
Oblivion reached number 30 on Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs .
The music video for the theme song was released by the Kerrang! Awards 2009 as best music video. The US online magazine Loudwire named the theme song the best metal song of 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ reini: Mastodon - Crack the Skye. Stormbringer.at, accessed on October 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Yan Vogel: Mastodon - Crack the Skye. laut.de , accessed on October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Mastodon Chart History. Billboard , accessed October 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Dan Martin: Slipknot triumph at Kerrang awards. The Guardian , accessed October 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Loudwire Staff: Best Metal Song of Each Year Since 1970. Loudwire , accessed October 5, 2018 .