Album Art of the Week: Mastodon – ‘Crack the Skye’
Designer Paul Romano has quite a few metal notches in his belt, and in looking at his corpus of work it seems that he unbuttons his palette when it comes to Mastodon. Not that we're complaining at all; the deep blues, bright reds, and varied textures are one of his great strong points and act as a trippy compliment to the band's prog-sludge beard metal.
Luckily, at least in the case of 'Crack the Skye,' it's not just post-modernism for the sake of being weird. There's a definite story arc, lyrically, that involves astral projections, divinations, time travel, turbulent Russian politics, and famous dead revolutionaries. Romano culls the already-abstract field of ideas, spits it out onto canvas, and continues to not disappoint.
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