Mastodon - Live on WFMU - 07-08-01

Label: Bootleg
Year: 2001

From the legendary(?) Diane Kamikaze's Fun Machine radio program on the legendary(!) WFMU radio broadcast station in the legendary(you're reaching) Jersey City, NJ, on the legendary (it's my wife's birthday!) 8th of July, 2001...it's the legendary Mastodon!
Cycling through most of the demo material (later rebranded as Call Of The Mastodon) and a couple cuts off the as-yet unreleased Remission album, the band remind all doubters of their unbridled power and fury. The swampy haze of their sludge doing nothing to dull the blade of their finely honed metallic battle-axe, wielded with the jarring feral intensity of noise rock (they were originally billed as "ex-Today Is The Day" you'll remember). This is the band going all out in an attempt to suck all of the oxygen out of the room, crushing you under the weight of their merciless attack.
Bands don't get much better than these guys.

DL