Since there is a new album coming out and I don’t want to go to the other site to see rankings how about posting some here?
Personally a fan of the earlier stuff, I’ve never really clicked with Branns vocal contributions and have checked out in recent years but will miss Brent’s vocals and guitar contributions immensely.
- Blood Mountain
- Leviathan
- Remission
- Crack The Skye
- Hushed and Grim
- Cold Dark Place EP
- The Hunter (Ok)
- Emperor / One More Around the Sun (Bleh)
- Call of the Mastodon (Not really listened)
Blood Mountain grew on me as an album, overtaking the obvious choice. Hushed needs a bit of culling, The Hunter is a bit scattershot and the last two listed are not my cup o tea/.
I have to work out where I put the new album in the mix.
I think it goes above Hushed and Grim - as it sounds similiar, without the bloat. But having heard this, it solidifies the new brent-less sound that was there on H&G, so I’m moving cold dark place above - so
I moved the The Hunter up in the rankings. Both it and H&G have songs I’d rather werent on the album, so it is a case of which has the better songs of those that remain… And the latter has less great songs as it has less Brent, whose contributions for me were part of the draw. I’ve only just realised this tbh.
Also I have given Crack the Skye a recent thrash. The Last Baron is killer, it takes the epic-ness of Hearts Alive but expands with their newer songcraft. It doesnt move any higher because for me Quintessence kills the flow of the album dead.