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    MASTODON

    Sep 17, 2020 3 minutes

    Medium Rarities

    REPRISE

    Celebratory odds & sods from Atlanta’s prog-metal masters

    MASTODON ARE THE quintessential modern metal ‘album’ band. That makes Medium Rarities a strange proposition - after all, how do you process a compilation release from a band whose 20-year career is often typified by drastic shifts in tone between records? By packing it with characteristic brilliance, of course.

    The tracks on each point to serving specific sectors of Mastodon’s fanbase. Prog musos can gorge on the luscious tonal banquets of instrumental playthroughs of or , whereas fans of more meaty fare can and . But ultimately, this compilation’s strongest offerings come from the titular rarities; whets the appetite for things still yet to come, while , featuring Butthole Surfers vocalist Gibby Haynes, is a gloriously unhinged fuzz-punk-metal mash-up coming on like the Surfers’ 2.0.

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