You will discover that Mastodon is one of those band that each song is different from the other, same for the albums so you might really like one and absoluptly hate another one! Very Prog!
This song is always crazy live. The chorus and the bridge after the guitar solo thing gets the crowd hyped up like crazy. "SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER!"
Absolutely. But I think Oblivion would be a better intro song. I did love March Of The Fire Ants from the first note though, and it still has a special place for me.
Mastodon is cool as hell..they're newer stuff is all about story telling and visual artistry within they're videos. The hunter is a great some off they're 3rd album about the singers brother. Kind of a sad song but its dope
Mastodon is one of my favourite bands and not really because of "Blood and Thunder". It's powerful and great for headbanging, but my intro song was "Asleep In the deep" That's really interesting and far more melodic one. And it's their later song, not from early years so it's not as heavy as Blood and Thunder. But it's very good and has interesting sound, it got me into the band and i fell in love with their different melodies and riffs and experiments. They have various music but have their own style at the same time! a talentend band!
Yeah lol, whenever I would go on a car ride with my dad when I was like 4 or 5, he would play his leviathan album all the time. For me I think it was megalodon .
Mastadon is through and through an album band if you listen to single songs it'll never make sense. If someone can actually listen (pay attention) and front to back remission and not get hyped when trainwreck plays.
I don't think he's ready for the earlier albums. He like Beyond Oblivion, though. I'd go back to Vengeance Falls ("Strife" imo) then maybe something off In Waves before Shogun/Ascendancy.
Finally some Mastodon! They are my favorite band and I've seen them live 5 times and they blow my mind every time. But I gotta say, all these reaction videos always react to the same Mastodon songs. The band is so diverse and has so much more to offer than Blood and Thunder and Oblivion. I'd like to see a reaction to maybe Megalodon or a recent song like Blue Walsh or Jaguar God.
Yes Alex finally you react to one of my favourite bands! Saw them live in Glasgow back in December and the pit was absolutely insane! Please react to Machine Head - Halo
Please listen to Ne Obliviscaris man. Seriously they are amazing. Best drummer I've ever heard and bassist and everyone are amazing. There's a good live version too and I'd love to see your reaction to their amazing skills.
Yes Alex well done you made it to mastodon been waiting for ever. You should watch a drum cover of this track to full appreciate what brann dailor is doing on the drums. He is like a machine gun on that kit and by far my fav drummer of all time.
"White whale; Holy grail" was what we were all chanting when they came onstage at the opera house in Toronto... amazing show, they were touring just after Crack the Skye dropped...blew my mind
BLIND GUARDIAN - IMAGINATIONS FROM THE OTHER SIDE please do it. PLEASE It's not some generic power metal song and lyrically it's not about some cliché fantasy story but it's about the loss of childhood, innocence, fantasy and fascination. The "narrator" can no longer hold onto them, and feels “stranded in the real world.” (pull up the lyrics for this) Oh and some extra information: The sound engineering/production was done by the same guy who did it for Metallica "Ride the lightning" "master of puppets" and "And justice for all"
I like this guy's videos more and more. I grew up with the bands he has been checking out and only later got into hip hop so it's interesting to see an opposite perspective.
Troy Sanders on Mastodon's early stuff is sort of an acquired taste if you don't know what to expect. I instantly loved his style when I heard Remission for the first time. It really sounds prehistoric, and gets you so hyped you chop down a mountain.
Mastodon first 4 albums, technically 5 of you count call of the mastodon their 1st album, were elemental themed. Leviathan being their 2nd full length (3rd with Call) was water themed. Crack the Skye, their 4th (5th with call), was air themed. Hope this helps
I love this song, clowns and all because its metal and clowns, together you have a multiplier of freaking people the (heck) out! I'd give a leg just to be casted into this video, its just sick!
The main clown in this video is named Laffo. He was in a band called "Greasepaint" with Puddles Pity Party (Big Mike Geier), who was a competitor on America's Got Talent last year. Puddles was in a prototype state in Greasepaint. Nothing like he is today. Both Mastodon and Puddles hail from Atlanta.
Yo its great you watched this first and are going straight into Oblivion. It will show you their rang as a band and if you watch "The Motherload" or "Show yourself" you're gunna be pulled in another more pop rock direction and be amazed that this was where they came from. Also do some good research on the Crack the Skye album its a sad story at its core but played out as an epic journey. Also HEELLLLS YEAH HE DID MASTODON!!
You HAVE TO do reaction to Serj Tankian - Harakiri, it's just so meaningful song with powerful and deep lyrics you will either cry or get so emotional to the point you'll eventually cry anyway. A MUST DO! And by the way, Serj Tankian is vocalist from System of a Down, band you already got to know.
Bill Kelliher (the rhythm guitarist) has said that Leviathan was inspired by the water element, keeping in line with the four elements of their first four albums, namely fire for Remission, water for Leviathan, earth for Blood Mountain and air for Crack the Skye. I heard you comment on Brann's drumming, and he's incredible. I absolutely love this song, but I didn't start out here (started out on Emperor of Sand, inb4 "not real metalhead" crucifixion) and I didn't love it when I first heard it. I'd say you have to already like the band to appreciate this song. Check out some of the newer stuff, I know you'll appreciate it.
Top 3 you MUST react. - As I Lay Dying - My Own Grave (Brutal and Melodic) - August Burns Red - Beauty in Tragedy (Powerfull lyrics) - Feed Her To The Sharks - Shore of Loneliness (Amazing Clean Vocals)
ändrew Salter how is as i lay dying gay? Bullet are ok on my opinion. I like some of their songs. Im not into a lot of metalcore either. I like killswitch, parkway and as i lay dying. And personally i think that as i lay dying is the best metalcore band out there. Now personally i dont like sabbath and gojira. I respect their work, i would listen to them on the radio in the car or something but i dont like them as much as other bands. I know that im gonna get hate for that but im gonna say one more thing which there is no way that someone would not tell me to kill myself. I dont like pantera. I dont like some bands either but i would never call another band gay just because i dont like their songs.
You are what's wrong with Metal now, i listen to Death and other heavy stuff too but you have to remember that not everyone likes that. The world doesn't revolve around you.
Check out Knocked Loose - Billy No Mates // Counting Worms and Code Orange - Forever They are both way different than anything you've listened to yet, you definitely have to check out some Hardcore Bands. Stagedives and high fives!
Basing Leviathan on Moby Dick was inspired by the band's love/hate obsession with touring. They love playing live, but hate travelling and being away from their families. The white whale is a metaphor for the white van they used to tour in, in their early days. You should react to The Motherload and if you wanna check out another track from Leviathan, you should give Megalodon a listen.
This is definitely one of their best songs, but honestly, "Roots Remain" off of their newest album is not only one of their best songs... it's one of the best songs ever written in their style imo. Great tune and definitely worth a listen.
It’s a huge request because they’ve never really been big but Light This City! They just got back together and released there first new album in 10 years it’s really worth a listen.
You will discover that Mastodon is one of those band that each song is different from the other, same for the albums so you might really like one and absoluptly hate another one! Very Prog!
This. For example I LOVED Crack the Skye front to back. The rest of their music, no thanks.
SaralaAnne What about Emperor of Sand
CosmicG777 I wasn't a fan. I gave it a shot but it fell flat
CosmicG777 it felt like "The Hunter part 3" for me.
RERDITI RÉRTHZ Which album did you feel like was The Hunter pt. 2?
This song is always crazy live. The chorus and the bridge after the guitar solo thing gets the crowd hyped up like crazy. "SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER!"
Mastodon - March Of The Fire Ants
Absolutely. But I think Oblivion would be a better intro song.
I did love March Of The Fire Ants from the first note though, and it still has a special place for me.
YEEEESSSSS It's unfortunate the production quality is such poop for that album, but it is, imo, their best work.
Mastodon is cool as hell..they're newer stuff is all about story telling and visual artistry within they're videos. The hunter is a great some off they're 3rd album about the singers brother. Kind of a sad song but its dope
"Singers brother" I mean you're not wrong lmao
@@floatingdisembodiedhead8975 huh?
Mastodon is one of my favourite bands and not really because of "Blood and Thunder". It's powerful and great for headbanging, but my intro song was "Asleep In the deep" That's really interesting and far more melodic one. And it's their later song, not from early years so it's not as heavy as Blood and Thunder. But it's very good and has interesting sound, it got me into the band and i fell in love with their different melodies and riffs and experiments. They have various music but have their own style at the same time! a talentend band!
Yeah lol, whenever I would go on a car ride with my dad when I was like 4 or 5, he would play his leviathan album all the time. For me I think it was megalodon .
Mine was Divination but damn Leviathan still blows me away.
Mastadon is through and through an album band if you listen to single songs it'll never make sense. If someone can actually listen (pay attention) and front to back remission and not get hyped when trainwreck plays.
Mastodon is fire🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
NEED FOR SPEED: MOST WANTED!!
Steven Jakobsen thought I was the only one lmao
Best video game soundtrack hands down!! Hand of Blood too and Blinded in Chains!
yep totally mental! \m/
Most wanted 4 life
Guitar Hero: Metallica
Dio - Holy Diver, Rainbow in the Dark, Last in Line, Push, Gates of Babylon
Gakgaming Gates of Babylon is Rainbow! But yeah those songs and Stargazer by Rainbow
Dio had the rights to it and performed them live. They do sound a lot like the stuff Dio would record later on.
Stand Up And Shout 🤘
Shadow of the wind.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Farewell Mona Lisa
ljijljijljijl yes Man!!!
This will leave him speechless
Alexander P. Schildknecht That's what i'm going for.
43% burnt imo
Alexander P. Schildknecht if that would left him speachless... what a about then Destro's Secret!
PANTERA - I`M BROKEN !!
please react !!
I wanna see a Floods reaction vid.
Fear of the Dark (Live Rock in Rio) - Iron Maiden
Jinjer - Who Is Gonna Be The One (Live)
just stop
david jones I get that it's repetitive but you could say the same to lots of other people that have been requesting songs for ages.
david jones If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
david jones Who lit the fuse on your tampon?
Go on, Alex!) Keep it up!)
Trivium - SHOGUN
RighteousNicky he isnt ready for that he should 1st listen to kirisute gomen
I don't think he's ready for the earlier albums. He like Beyond Oblivion, though. I'd go back to Vengeance Falls ("Strife" imo) then maybe something off In Waves before Shogun/Ascendancy.
Like light to flies doesn't get enough love.
I second this also by trivium In Waves
And plague flowers the kaleidoscope by Ne Obliviscaris
so much yes
I was first introduced to this song through NFS Most Wanted and it got me hooked to the band. Oh the Nostalgia.
SAME!
Finally some Mastodon! They are my favorite band and I've seen them live 5 times and they blow my mind every time. But I gotta say, all these reaction videos always react to the same Mastodon songs. The band is so diverse and has so much more to offer than Blood and Thunder and Oblivion. I'd like to see a reaction to maybe Megalodon or a recent song like Blue Walsh or Jaguar God.
Fire from the gods // excuse me
Noah Big scooter literally requested this song on his last video before this one lol
YEAAAAS
Noah Big scooter YES
yes
Those guys are rad as hell. Got to meet them last year. Super cool guys.
Yes Alex finally you react to one of my favourite bands! Saw them live in Glasgow back in December and the pit was absolutely insane! Please react to Machine Head - Halo
React to
All That Remains - This Calling
MrBlackbooi Yes!
MrBlackbooi good song
🙋
Dio- Holy Diver
Clay Megaw Awesome song!
That would be great
Yes, yes!! Masterpiece of a master singer.
What a classic
Alex also has to listen to Van Halen and Black Sabbath.
VERMILLION PT1 AND 2 😭😭😭❤❤❤ Please please
Slayer - Season in abyss
Please bro🤘🤘
The entire album, not the song. Do a 50 minute react video, lol. One of my all time favorites.
Slayet dead skin mask
Endrita Hazrollaj Indeed! Cheers for this lady
Sleeping Giant by Mastodon is an amazing song!!
I glad you payed attention to the comments on that pole and are giving us both songs, probably the best way to handle that, so good on you.
Please listen to Ne Obliviscaris man. Seriously they are amazing. Best drummer I've ever heard and bassist and everyone are amazing. There's a good live version too and I'd love to see your reaction to their amazing skills.
In flames: cloud connected
Solid. Ordinary Story would be cool too.
Mastodon - Oblivion
Mastodon - The Last baron
Congrats on 90K all the HEFNERDS know this is the reaction home! Best community on UA-cam ;)
Ghost - *Cirice* (or *Rats*🐀🐀🐀) pls🙏
IMBROGL1ONE yes
Mike F Thanks
Stop with that shit band
Femto, Argumentate please.
Circle, damn yes
I was actually just thinking today, that you should listen to this song. Glad you did!
Finally! So glad you got to it
Definitely one of my top bands ever. Got the Blood Mountain album cover tattoo on my arm. So badass!!
Aerials - System of a Down
Love? - Strapping young lad
Waking the Demon - BFMV
Deadhead(live at Royal Albert hall) - Devin Townsend project
I like the way you think. DT gets no love on the reactions vids.
I have very much enjoyed your journey into metal bro. You're a beast
Ghost - Cirice
Jonathan Davis - What It Is (you reminded me of this song in the video haha)
You're too good to us Alex with the double Mastodon today!
Yes Alex well done you made it to mastodon been waiting for ever. You should watch a drum cover of this track to full appreciate what brann dailor is doing on the drums. He is like a machine gun on that kit and by far my fav drummer of all time.
Been looking forward to this for ages 😆
Mastodon - Jaguar God
Yes! One of my favs from them
Sabaton- to hell and back
You should do a with video / react to Mike from Become the Knight
Kalven Bonin That would be awesome but I don’t think Mike would do that.
Ooeeh nicee, this was my first metal song i could play on guitar and got me into metal! Awesome! Now imma watch the vid :)
So i love this song. One of my favourite metal songs, i also played it on one of my exams on drums😅
Aaaawwww our little hip hop head is growin in to a full grown METALHEAD... Good job...
"White whale; Holy grail" was what we were all chanting when they came onstage at the opera house in Toronto... amazing show, they were touring just after Crack the Skye dropped...blew my mind
BLIND GUARDIAN - IMAGINATIONS FROM THE OTHER SIDE please do it. PLEASE
It's not some generic power metal song and lyrically it's not about some cliché fantasy story but it's about the loss of childhood, innocence, fantasy and fascination. The "narrator" can no longer hold onto them, and feels “stranded in the real world.” (pull up the lyrics for this)
Oh and some extra information: The sound engineering/production was done by the same guy who did it for Metallica "Ride the lightning" "master of puppets" and "And justice for all"
React to APOCALYPTICA - I'M NOT JESUS feat. COREY TAYLOR!!
You dive deep enough into Mastodon, they love to mess your mind. Everything they do trippy and bizarre as hell.
I like this guy's videos more and more. I grew up with the bands he has been checking out and only later got into hip hop so it's interesting to see an opposite perspective.
As I Lay Dying - Left Behind + The Sound of Truth! Double reaction!
Isaac Duplantis Wait. As I Lay Dying minus Left Behind Plus The Sound of Truth?! Is this what math has come to now?????
Maximo K. 😂😂
Isaac Duplantis I mean the American school system is fucked. Especially math and history. Algebra is useless. 😂😂😂😂
Maximo K. True
Troy Sanders on Mastodon's early stuff is sort of an acquired taste if you don't know what to expect. I instantly loved his style when I heard Remission for the first time. It really sounds prehistoric, and gets you so hyped you chop down a mountain.
Motionless in White - Eternally yours
Vortex Sergi ♡♡♡
I'm so glad hip hop /rap people are opening there minds to others genres faith in humanity is restored
Mehuggah - Straws Pulled At Random
Alexander P. Schildknecht - mehuggah huh?
oAPXo he started with bleed so he may just continue
Knocked Loose - Billy No Mates // Counting Worms
Kublai Khan - The Hammer
Listen to Kublai Khan for your Texas brethren! They're from Dallas!
Neil from Clutch really kills with his part...
I've been asking for almost a month straight! Time for As I Lay Dying! Overcome and/or My Own Grave!
Deftones - Back to School. I'm gonna keep asking for it until you react to it.
Greg Schmidt fuck yes! Dude that’s my favorite Deftones song
Knife Party by Deftones!
Cool video bro!!! greetings form mexico!!!
Hey alex you gotta react to some machine head darkness within or locust audio
Jonny Soder darkness within both versions would be awsome
Mastodon first 4 albums, technically 5 of you count call of the mastodon their 1st album, were elemental themed. Leviathan being their 2nd full length (3rd with Call) was water themed. Crack the Skye, their 4th (5th with call), was air themed. Hope this helps
The first song I ever heard by Mastodon. I've bee hooked ever since.
4:23
*Confused head bopping intensifies*
I love this song, clowns and all because its metal and clowns, together you have a multiplier of freaking people the (heck) out! I'd give a leg just to be casted into this video, its just sick!
I also appreciate how when you were talking about clowns and said you would rather look at something else... the next scene was nasty toilet shot 🤣
The main clown in this video is named Laffo.
He was in a band called "Greasepaint" with Puddles Pity Party (Big Mike Geier), who was a competitor on America's Got Talent last year. Puddles was in a prototype state in Greasepaint. Nothing like he is today.
Both Mastodon and Puddles hail from Atlanta.
boi the whole ALBUM's about Moby Dick, half their albums have storylines
Yo its great you watched this first and are going straight into Oblivion. It will show you their rang as a band and if you watch "The Motherload" or "Show yourself" you're gunna be pulled in another more pop rock direction and be amazed that this was where they came from.
Also do some good research on the Crack the Skye album its a sad story at its core but played out as an epic journey.
Also HEELLLLS YEAH HE DID MASTODON!!
You HAVE TO do reaction to Serj Tankian - Harakiri, it's just so meaningful song with powerful and deep lyrics you will either cry or get so emotional to the point you'll eventually cry anyway. A MUST DO! And by the way, Serj Tankian is vocalist from System of a Down, band you already got to know.
Mastodon did an entire concept album based on Moby Dick called "Leviathan" and Blood and Thunder is just one track from it.
Congrats on 90k! I just have one request: The Coma Machine by Between the Buried and Me. That’s all I have to say about it. You’ll understand why.
Now! Finally! Yeah, man!
As i lay dying-my own grave!!! Cheers from México!
Bill Kelliher (the rhythm guitarist) has said that Leviathan was inspired by the water element, keeping in line with the four elements of their first four albums, namely fire for Remission, water for Leviathan, earth for Blood Mountain and air for Crack the Skye. I heard you comment on Brann's drumming, and he's incredible. I absolutely love this song, but I didn't start out here (started out on Emperor of Sand, inb4 "not real metalhead" crucifixion) and I didn't love it when I first heard it. I'd say you have to already like the band to appreciate this song. Check out some of the newer stuff, I know you'll appreciate it.
Finnally my FAVORITE BAND, gets some love.
Now that you've done Mastodon I'm gonna say, Fire from the gods
Machine Head - Locust!
Top 3 you MUST react.
- As I Lay Dying - My Own Grave (Brutal and Melodic)
- August Burns Red - Beauty in Tragedy (Powerfull lyrics)
- Feed Her To The Sharks - Shore of Loneliness (Amazing Clean Vocals)
As I Lay Dying!!! PLEASE!!!
Isaac Duplantis yes yes yes
Isaac Duplantis as i lay dying gang alex upload a post saying which song we are dying to hear. I think we need to tell him there.
austrian death machine just for the fun of it
ändrew Salter how is as i lay dying gay? Bullet are ok on my opinion. I like some of their songs. Im not into a lot of metalcore either. I like killswitch, parkway and as i lay dying. And personally i think that as i lay dying is the best metalcore band out there. Now personally i dont like sabbath and gojira. I respect their work, i would listen to them on the radio in the car or something but i dont like them as much as other bands. I know that im gonna get hate for that but im gonna say one more thing which there is no way that someone would not tell me to kill myself. I dont like pantera. I dont like some bands either but i would never call another band gay just because i dont like their songs.
You are what's wrong with Metal now, i listen to Death and other heavy stuff too but you have to remember that not everyone likes that. The world doesn't revolve around you.
AnGeL ViVaLdI my dude. I notice you like solos with melody. That's literally what all his songs are
Check out Knocked Loose - Billy No Mates // Counting Worms and Code Orange - Forever
They are both way different than anything you've listened to yet, you definitely have to check out some Hardcore Bands. Stagedives and high fives!
Obitvary Code Orange would be soooooo dope!
Yeah Alex do what this guy says
Two videos in one day? You know how to treat us right
Everyone always freaks out on Mastodons production lol It sounds exactly how they want it to
Type 0 Negative - Christian Woman
From what I believe it wasn't just Blood and Thunder that was based on Moby Dick, but the entire album that it featured on.
React to Ice Nine Kills, they are amazing.
Daniele Recalcati please. Yes please.
The American Nightmare
Omg hell yes
YES! He should start with Me, Myself & Hyde!
PlexyPanda even better!!
You should listen to sound city ft Corey Taylor
Brandon Green adventures oh yes alex would love that one!!
Basing Leviathan on Moby Dick was inspired by the band's love/hate obsession with touring. They love playing live, but hate travelling and being away from their families. The white whale is a metaphor for the white van they used to tour in, in their early days.
You should react to The Motherload and if you wanna check out another track from Leviathan, you should give Megalodon a listen.
MOST WANTED!
I like your style dude.
This is definitely one of their best songs, but honestly, "Roots Remain" off of their newest album is not only one of their best songs... it's one of the best songs ever written in their style imo. Great tune and definitely worth a listen.
Every Mastodon song is different from the rest. There's so much variety. Asleep in the deep is one of the easier songs to listen to
They had a series of albums based on the classical western elements, earth (Blood Mountain), water (Leviathan) and air (Crack the Skye).
THANK YOU
My man! Gotta check out Clutch now, Mastodon and Clutch have been fairly close since both of their inceptions.
Pull me under by dream theater. Great vid
Asleep in the deep!! The video alone is trippy as fuck!
It’s a huge request because they’ve never really been big but Light This City! They just got back together and released there first new album in 10 years it’s really worth a listen.
I love the groove the drums bring to this song.
Mastodon is the only band that have all members do vocals.. Great band