Mastodon

I've previously gotten myself into trouble (on Google+) with the "metal community" by expressing my snide comments about Mastodon but that's certainly not stopping me from posting them here, as well.

I understand that, technically, the guys from this band are talented, passionate musicians however, when I hear them I can only think, "Yeah - I liked this band better when they were called The Deftones."

Also. They may "rock hard" but they will never fall into the category of "metal" for me.

And far be it from me to say anything about "progressive" metal / rock / whatever (as I love me some early Queensryche) but Mastodon is seriously too proggy for my taste; I don't need 15 minutes of nerdy, musical masturbation in the form of aimless guitar noodling. My thrash metal brain just gets bored and distracted and when I snap out of my trance I keep thinking, "Wait. This song is still going on? Why hasn't it ended? When are we going to get to the end?"

Wanna fight? Don't bother. I don't care, at all, about trolls.