“Leaving you behind with my lonesome song”
Crack The Skye is one of the first albums I bought with my own money, and it’s probably the one metal album that I got the most actual physical spins out of. It was my first choice of a CD to lend when doing exchanges with the few people who listened to physical media back in high school.
“Spiraling up through the crack in the sky
Leaving material world behind”
Despite Mastodon being one of my favorite bands, I only got to see them live this year, after Brent was no longer part of the band, and awesome as it was, no song from this album was played. It makes sense because so much of Brent’s irreplicable touch and soul is in this album, and it’s clear that the course of metal would not be the same without this man.
“Please take my soul to rest
So we can always be around”