Palasr: "Mastodon - Crack the Skye is a muddy awful mess. The mastering is utter shit. There are so many good metal albums sonically, but this isn't one of them though musically it's quite good."
You must not own the 45 rpm double LP? It sounds pretty damn good to my ears. Plus, you have to consider that there is a helluva lot going on within those songs. The music on CTS is pushing in all kinds of directions - unlike, say Norah Jones.
Can you give me some examples of metal albums that you think are sonically great? I know a few, but they're pretty scarce in my collection.
And Mastodon did record CTS on analog tape, in case you're interested:
http://www.eqmag.com/article/double-fantasy-adversity/may-09/95529
You must not own the 45 rpm double LP? It sounds pretty damn good to my ears. Plus, you have to consider that there is a helluva lot going on within those songs. The music on CTS is pushing in all kinds of directions - unlike, say Norah Jones.
Can you give me some examples of metal albums that you think are sonically great? I know a few, but they're pretty scarce in my collection.
And Mastodon did record CTS on analog tape, in case you're interested:
http://www.eqmag.com/article/double-fantasy-adversity/may-09/95529