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Kerrang!Sep 28, 2017Immediate heaviosity is in short supply, but Cold dark Place instead offers plenty of alternate impact. [30 Sep 2017, p.52]
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Sep 28, 2017Taken together, Cold Dark Place affirms the band’s pursuit of technically ambitious rock with high production value, while continuing to disrupt traditional notions of genre and song structure.
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Sep 28, 2017The magnifying glass is on everything with this release, and it results in something distinguished and quite frankly mammoth.
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Oct 19, 2017Cold Dark Place is essential listening for any Mastodon fans who have followed the band into the 2010’s without an excess of griping. Folks who are still waiting for the group to go back and do another Leviathan or Blood Mountain, this maybe isn’t for you.
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Sep 28, 2017And yet, however thematically mired in misery, Cold Dark Place plays out as a triumphant march into the darkness: one man’s pain, collectively conjured and conquered.
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Sep 28, 20172017's ambitious full-length Emperor of Sand saw the progressive/sludge metal veterans delivering a heavy-hearted concept album about grief, and while Cold Dark Place's title would suggest an extension of that narrative, it's more of a loosely knit addendum that illuminates the latter outings' soul-searching proclivities by proxy.
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Positive: 16 out of 17
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Mixed: 0 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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Oct 29, 2021This EP is complete like any Mastodon album, a true masterpiece!
Reminds me of some childhood memories.... I don't know why. -
Jun 1, 2021
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Dec 19, 2017