There is a paraplegic and the only way that he can go anywhere is if he astral travels. 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.
We're dissecting the dark matter that dominates the universe, in a nutshell." Basically we're exploring the ethereal world. 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. . 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." During the composition of the record, Brent Hinds listened to In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson every day as inspiration, while Dailor and Troy Sanders listened to Pink Floyd's Animals. The band in Southern Tracks recording studio in Atlanta, Georgiaĭrummer Brann Dailor described the album as more "focused" than its predecessor, Blood Mountain: "Maybe there was a deeper heart to this record that needed more exploring . Because the elements of fire, water and earth have already been represented by the band's first three albums Remission, Leviathan, Blood Mountain and the band's seventh album Emperor of Sand, respectively, the element of air is the only classical element which has yet to be represented by a Mastodon album, as their follow-up studio albums The Hunter and Once More 'Round the Sun do not represent an element, nor are they concept albums.Ĭrack the Skye is the first studio album to feature drummer Brann Dailor as the band's third lead vocalist. Īccording to an interview on the DVD The Making of Crack the Skye, this album represents the element of aether, which is represented by the souls and spirits of all things, a theme closely related to the context of the album.
It had sold 200,000 copies in the US as of September 2010, making it one of their highest-selling albums to date. In Australia, the album debuted at number 19. The album debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200, selling 41,000 copies in its first week. Crack the Skye is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Mastodon, released on Mathrough Reprise, Sire and Relapse Records.
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