Mastodon – Crack The Skye
If you’ve ever wondered what a Black Sabbath cover band would sound like doing a Rush impersonation look no further than Crack the Skye; although the cloned Ozzy vocals can be eyeroll-inducing and the concept – something about a paraplegic kid who can travel on the astral plane, falling through a wormhole and winding up in Russia where a cult puts his soul in Rasputin’s body and his killed and the Devil takes his soul and so on – is exhausting if you try to follow it…but the music itself is good – not too heavy metal, not too rock – and is creative and manages to stay interesting throughout.
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