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Rating: Even before debuting with the remarkable "Remission", Mastodon released this EP titled "Lifesblood" in 2000. Are you familiar with the sounds of their debut album? Well, here too, Mastodon works hard to create chaos, but without melodic or elaborate elements as would be present in their later work: in this quarter of an hour of music, it's just pounding, and it only takes the first track "Shadows That Move" to make that clear.
However, this EP presents some curiosities: it is full of samples. Before the start of the first track, you can hear Jack Nicholson's voice from the wonderful film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; in the intros to "We Built This Come Death" and "Battle At Sea", you can hear clips from the Nuremberg Trials, and finally, in "Hail To Fire", the sample is taken from the film "The Dancin' Outlaw". The only track without a sample is my favorite, which is "Welcoming War", featuring a frenzied riff that's not bad at all.
In conclusion, if you already know and love early Mastodon, this EP certainly won't offer you anything new; whereas, for those who don't know this band and want to start from the beginning (as I did), it will offer a quarter of an hour of pounding music.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Shadows That Move (03:53)
The us rhythm blows a diseased river flow
Yeah it's going to blow a change within you
The us rhythm blows
With change we'll explode
And live
02 Welcoming War (02:46)
Lost in a world
A guided eye to strengthen weakness
Throat in noose pain
Feel it constricting a lost love
Welcome to war
And it grows
Ocean lure
Fire of mankind
Universe
Throw it away
Destroyer of worlds found pain
Welcome to war
And it grows
03 We Built This Come Death (02:30)
Now you see all this time
Work nine to five
Monday thru friday i'm singing
I sing the blues for you
Now i'm standing in the pouring rain
My feet are cold but i cant complain
And i wonder how you have been
I need you love i miss you so
I know it's right but it's always strange
How i scream
All this life's worth all the while
Heartache and slave driving pain
I sing the blues for you
Now im standing in the pouring rain
My feet are cold but i can't complain
And i wonder how you have been
I need you love i miss you so
I know it's right but it's always strange
04 Hail to Fire (02:12)
All see light in oceans black
Go seek find the red seas fire
Blow ship by those sail blind
Choosing one loosing blood
You try exchanging
No i dont think so
Cannot escape me
No sound reason
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