Mastodon "Crack the Skye" 2025-08-22-Fresh Witness a band’s prehistory as

Witness a band’s prehistory as it plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming

Formed on their native Isle of Wight when they were just 14 years old

MI and Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound in Nashville in early 2014

Josh Wills

Rami Jaffee-and old friend Ben Kweller

Mastodon "Crack the Skye" 2025-08-22-Fresh Witness a band’s prehistory asMastodon has taken hold of the leadership of the New Wave of Progressive Heavy Metal. The band's 2006 major label debut Blood Mountain spun off a Grammy nomination and earned Top 5 Best Album of the Year nods from Kerrang!, Revolver and Metal Hammer, and a Top 10 Rolling Stone. Now Crack the Skye, it's fourth original studio album, mines subject matter from czarist Russia and astral travel to out of body experiences and Stephen Hawking's theories on