Top Ten Best Mastodon Songs
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One of the songs which got me into Metal in the first place! First heard on Need for Speed, this is my all time favorite of theirs!
My favourite. Heard it first in Need For Speed
Best Mastodon song there is.
Need for speed. Mastodon�'s best song
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This song really takes me to this other place... Amazing vibe to it. Just great! And the lyrics! I'm at a certain point in my life where I can relate to them every bit, and this song helps me cope with my reality. Mastodon you make my life worth living!
Metal sounds so great with vocals that harmonize, like they were trying to prove they could sound good but won't get off their metal high horse and stop singing like they had a tracheotomy.
This is a song that you give to anyone who asks you for an introduction to good music! Mastodon have not released a single bad album and picking this over songs like Crack the Skye and Capillarian Crest or Ancient Kingdom or Megalodon is a choice I made purely cause the opening riff is one of the most striking and powerful arpeggios you would ever hear! A 11/10 for the bands discography as a whole
In my first album listening, I've felt that it's the best.
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This is the song that really got me into the band. It's legitimate heavy metal, but it's not obnoxiously loud or fast, and it sets their music apart from mainstream metal.
This song is the reason I love metal.
Mastodon's guitar work at its best! Doesn't get much better then this! Probably Brent Hinds' best solo.
ALLAHSİKEN SONG
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The thing that makes Crack The Skye so beautiful is how each song is a more and more intense experience as it goes, concluding with this masterpiece.
The first time I heard this I knew I'd heard the greatest track I'll hear in my whole life.
Took me a while to get my head around this son, but now I know, I'll probably never hear a better song in my life!
This song truly takes you on a journey... amazing.
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The song defines prog metal to me and it may fall second to Blood and Thunder but it deserves to be in the top 5 - PsychoSandman33
God damn, 10th? This is EASILY the most emotional song out of Mastodon's discography, Scott Kelly's vocals are simply amazing, and it is just plain beautiful.
Most intensely emotional song I've heard by them yet. Scott Kelly's vox are so good!

It sounds beautiful and threatening at the same time.
This forest is growing faster than I can tell. As much as I love Leviathan, Blood Mountain is still my favorite Mastodon album. 'tis excellent. - djh101
One of the best songs I've heard them produce. The way the smokey vocals match the hypnotic riffs is a wonder.
The opening riff is so good
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Remission is an underrated album. But that's not to say Leviathan and onward doesn't deserve the respect it has. Remission has some kick ass tracks, and this has to be one of the best. Love Mastodon.
Great riff and solo. This is one of very few songs in the WORLD that I just can't get enough of. This is an absolutely skull-crushing song.
Lol Last Baron above this master piece, sure, where are the real Mastodon fans?
THE REAL MASTODON SONG
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It's just beautiful and awe inspiring. The general feeling the song possesses just captivates anyone who listens.
This. Song. If someone asks me, "What is Prog-Metal? " I play them this song. Everything from acoustic beauty, to metal chords and gong strokes in the intro, this song is brutal and perfect.
The song has the most incredible atmosphere I have ever heard. It embraces me with such madness
That riff man enough said
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The best "headbanging" song of them.
A true mastodon fan would put this song in their top ten. "Five or higher"
Can't believe it's this low on this list.

This song is AWESOME why is it rated so low? What
The surf guitar parts, banjo picking, a guitar solo, just mastodon doing what they do best. Just an awesome song!
Ripping track! Monster riff near the end makes me smile
1. Strap on some overalls and play some hill billy music
2. Serious arpeggiation
3. Lock horns
4. Take a breath of fresh air
5. Get High on fire
6. Go Surfin'
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Awesome song, should be in the top 5!
I burned out my eyes, I cut out my tongue should be in the top ten better than curl of the burl
It's tough choosing the best Mastodon song, but my vote goes to this song. - 906389
Sick song! I love it!

One of the best songs and lyrics of this band
Has one of the best bridges to a song ever.

Send this song to someone who hasn't heard the band before to give them what really sums up Mastodon. Heavy, jeering and crazy song.
Great song from the Hunter! Their new album is awesome, os is this song!
This song is about the mixing a from cuting a especial part of a tree which worth a lot of money with the consuming oh meth with the money from the curl of the burl. It's a dificult song to understand but it is awesome
Its The Cuirl Of the Burl Its the way of the World!

So hard to choose when there isn't a single Mastodon song I straight up don't like. Today I'm feeling hearts alive - BronzeWolf96
A modern medal epic that epitomizes Mastodon's awesome power and storytelling.
Mastodon's finest in the form of an epic crushing song. Simply amazing music which mirrors the ocean in its power and beauty.
Awesome-O!
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The drumming, the guitars, the lyrics, EVERYTHING on this track is just perfect in the most godly ways, possibly the most intense album opening song in the history of music? I think so. Possibly the best song from their hands down best album
I think that this is just a great wrap up of all their styles. Really great work and VERY inspirational riff.
All I can say is wow to this tune. Immense. Best album opener ever? Awesome drums and guitar work.
Such a sick opener, better opener then blood and thunder
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The Hunter may not be the most exciting Mastodon album but this is one hell of a track. - bigmike137
This song got me into Mastodon, it's the first one I ever heard and it is absolutely amazing
This song is a masterpiece and I believe it should be in the top 5.
If you grew up in the Mojave Desert you would vote for this. Fits the reality of the deep desert perfectly.
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great hard intense
Awesome song! Great drums!
This song perfectly displays Mastodon's abilities. Beautiful, thick guitar riff, amazing drums, and some of the most intense yet wonderful vocals Mastodon ever produced.
What a stand out killer track from mastodon superb display of drums with terrific vocals.
Sludgy and intense. Song that got me into the band thanks to Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on the original Xbox.
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This song makes me feel like I'm in a cloud... I absolutely love it
Absolutely beautiful song. These guys are geniuses
Worlds best music is this...

Really love the moody chorus by Brann here! And those riffs are killer!
My favourite track of OMRTS, has a really distinct opening riff and great soloing section at the end! - petrucci75hammet

This and Siberian Divide are the 2 songs from Blood Mountain that are swept aside from the others. Their actually one of the most unique and beautiful mastodon songs ever written - bigmike137
How is this song so low on the list!? The intro to this song is beautiful and it's hands-down my favorite song from Blood Mountain!
This song is so orgasmic it causes me to implode with euphoria
I like the intro and the ”holy land” part
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Yeah Capillarian Crest should not be this low. The crazy fast hybrid picking is awesome! Not to mention the drumming is excellent too! This songs makes you want to do some damage! Mastodon at their best and one of my favorite songs by them!
I cannot understand why this is so low. Greatest guitar work ever heard on a Mastodon song, hands down.
It's a shame... This song should be, at least, in the top 10! Amazing work on the drums for this song.
How can this be so low?
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Do you like face-rippingly heavy metal music?
Listen to this. - cjWriter1997

Another amazing song by mastodon. Top twelve for sure
Probably ranked so low because it is still new..

Deserves a rank in top 10 at least! 22nd is underrated for this song!
Fantastic song! Even 13th is too low for this one

Jesus this song rips my body apart
This is probably the heaviest mastodon song. - Metalmaniakkk

This song gets very intense, very quickly. And that's why I love it

35?! This song is so underrated
So good. Listen to this or you'll die
The black sheep of crack the skye when its just as good as oblivion or divintations



BEST MASTODON SONG, a true classic, play it 99 of the time live.. why? because its metal



This song should be higher
When I hear this I think in the dr octopus of spider man
The album closer of their 2014 album, Once more 'Round the Sun. This song is very dark, yet epic.
One of the darkest yet most well written mastodon song and should at least be in the top five. Excellent song featuring additional vocals by Scott Kelly the frontman of heavy metal band Neurosis which gives it an even more eeire feel and sound. Let's get this to be in the top five!


Not their best but it is awesome! Lets get this near the top 15
The brilliant opener for 'Once More 'Round the Sun'

This song should easily make it to top 10 but I wonder why it's not even in the top 35 songs that appear in this thread.
This is my favorite song on the new album.. Chill for Mastodon, but brilliant tone and substance with the guitar solos. Great for long drive playlists.

Really good


Mastodon crafts rich prog again! Brings you back to Crack the Sky with all the refinements they picked up over the years (like singing). Hands down best track of Emperor of Sand

Never really got into their stuff until I heard this song, I love the chorus with the simultaneous sludgy vocals. I think this song is extremely underrated!
This is an amazing song!
This song got me into the band! The video is a cat getting stoned... come on guys
Probaly the best from their new album


Absolutely relaxing, as all this album, but very reflexive. Is just a bit more amazing that the other incredible songs of this band.
I'm officially convinced that no one who has voted on this list is a mastodon fan. Only their most publicized songs are in the top ten. Do yourself a favor and listen to some Mastodon, starting with this song. If you don't eargasm, you're beyond my help.
The best Mastodon song. Period. It's so relaxing. It has their best chorus.
How is this song so low, at least should be in the top 10 in my opinion
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Great song how come no one knows it

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