Remission (album)
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2002 |
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| Label (s) | Relapse Records | |||
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11 |
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50 min 17 s |
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Matt Bayles & Mastodon |
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Zero Return Studios in Atlanta |
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Remission is the debut album by US progressive metal / sludge band Mastodon . It was released on May 28, 2002 by Relapse Records .
Emergence
Most of the songs on the album were written long before their first release. "Trainwreck", for example, comes from the time when Eric Saner still played in the band. "Workhouse" was first performed in July 2001 in Memphis . "Trampled Under Hoof", "Trilobite", "Where Strides the Behemoth", "Crusher Destroyer" and "Mother Puncher" were first broadcast on the WMFU radio station on August 7, 2001.
At the beginning of the song "Crusher Destroyer" you can hear the roar of a Tyrannosaurus rex from the movie Jurassic Park, as well as Lex who takes the name of her brother "Timmy!" shouts while their car is under attack.
background
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As with the three subsequent albums Leviathan , Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye , the main theme of Remission comes from the four-element theory . Still, Troy Sanders once said that the album is loosely based on the theme of fire and is actually not a concept album . Leviathan deals with water , Blood Mountain with earth and Crack the Skye with the aither , which the Greek philosopher Aristotle described as the quintessence of the four elements.
In an interview in 2004 with the online magazine Lollipop , Brann Dailor explained how Remission helped him come to terms with his sister's death:
"My sister committed suicide when I was 15 (she was 14) ... I was never able to put that stuff anywhere. All that pain I was carrying inside. The pain of losing her had always been there. With Today Is The Day, there was a lot of anger involved. After that, I didn't want to be angry. When I start playing in Mastodon and moved to Atlanta, there was a big personal healing. Mastodon had a lot to do with that. That's one of the main reasons that the album is titled Remission. Remission means forgiveness and healing. Mastodon helped me do that: Forgive a lot of things that happened in my life. "
Republication
The album was re-released on October 21, 2003. At the same time, the music video for "March of the Fire Ants" was released, which was played very often at Uranium and Headbangers Ball and is of a very dark style.
A deluxe edition of the album, u. a. with the cover song "Emerald" by Thin Lizzy , was released as digipak along with a bonus DVD. This included the recording of a live set from the Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia on December 1, 2002, along with other previously unreleased material.
reception
Remission received mostly positive reviews e.g. B. by Brian O'Neill from Allmusic , who particularly praised the technical finesse.
Bryan Haywood from Pitchfork Media praised the perfect production of the album and in particular the high (technical) talent of the musicians in the quartet.
"They drop in just enough [mathematics] to keep the arrangements flavorful, but not so much as to overload the vintage guitar riffs with Dream Theater-like complexity. And then they counterbalance it with some nice, old-fashioned, Sabbath-style metal attitude. [...] The complete package sounds timeless, but in that unbelievable way that you've never heard before. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ SM: MASTODON (TROY SANDERS / BILL KELIHER). Terrorverlag, accessed on November 22, 2013 (English).
- ↑ Pia: Mastodon. Lollipop, accessed November 22, 2013 .
- ^ Bryan Haywood: Mastodon: Remission. Pitchfork Media , accessed November 22, 2013 .