Mastodon reveal album artwork, stream new track
Crack The Skye due Spring 2009
Atlantan metal dudes Mastodon have unveiled the artwork for forthcoming album Crack The Skye. No release date is confirmed as yet, but the album - Mastodon's forth - is due this Spring.
Brendan O'Brien (Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Audioslave) produces, and Neurosis frontman Scott Kelly guests on one song.
The album is typically Mastodon, with the artwork once again by Paul Romano, the artist who delivers every Mastodon album cover.
Beards, rainbows, see-through bears - it's got the lot.
Here's the cover.
Hear new track Divinations here.
Mastodon support Metallica on their summer 2009 tour.
Get the MusicRadar Newsletter
Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, deals, features and more, direct to your inbox? Sign up here.
“It didn’t even represent what we were doing. Even the guitar solo has no business being in that song”: Gwen Stefani on the No Doubt song that “changed everything” after it became their biggest hit
"There was water dripping onto the gear and we got interrupted by a cave diver": How Mandy, Indiana recorded their debut album in caves, crypts and shopping malls
“It didn’t even represent what we were doing. Even the guitar solo has no business being in that song”: Gwen Stefani on the No Doubt song that “changed everything” after it became their biggest hit
"There was water dripping onto the gear and we got interrupted by a cave diver": How Mandy, Indiana recorded their debut album in caves, crypts and shopping malls