Mastodon's Fourth Studio Album Crack the Skye Reissued for Its 15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition on Colored 2LP + Blu-ray Box Set. Disc 1 Is the Original Album Remastered While Disc 2, Crack the Skye: The Score, Features Instrumental Versions of Each Track. The Box Also Includes a 24x24 Poster, 10x10 Sheet With Four Individual Custom-Designed Magnets and a 12 page Booklet.

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Celebrating a landmark body of work, iconic GRAMMY® Award-winning heavy rock band Mastodon proudly presents Crack the Skye (15th Anniversary) editions out October 4, 2024. The group have carefully assembled the ultimate vision of their groundbreaking 2009 concept album, Crack The Skye. Boasting a bevy of exclusive and essential extras.

15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Mastodon's fourth studio album, Crack the Skye, on 2LP colored vinyl. Disc 1 is the original album remastered while Disc 2, Crack the Skye: The Score, features instrumental versions of each track. Originally released in March 2009, the album features "Oblivion", "Divinations" "The Last Baron" and more. The deluxe editions feature brand-new artwork designed by the band's long-time collaborator, Paul Romano.

The Blu-Ray disc includes Crack the Skye: 10th Anniversary Animations, Crack the Skye: The Movie & The Making of Crack the Skye.

The box also includes a 24x24 Poster, 10x10 sheet with four individual custom-designed magnets and a 12 page, 12x12 booklet.

Mastodon—Troy Sanders, Brann Dailor, Brent Hinds, and Bill Kelliher—initially unveiled Crack the Skye on March 24, 2009, and its influence has only expanded over the last 15 years. It marked the band’s first Top 15 debut on the Billboard 200 and concluded 2009 on a myriad of Year-End lists. Metal Hammer and Rock Sound both hailed it as “Album of the Year,” and Time placed the record in its Top 3. Christened “superb” by Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times went on to attest, “Mastodon has earned its place at the forefront of progressive metal with a mix of headiness and brawn…but the ambitious vision and vivid executive of ‘Crack the Skye’ don’t feel like a departure for the band.”

A high watermark of sonic unpredictability, Crack the Skye fascinates with its mind-blowing soundscapes, visionary storytelling, and elite riffing. The group stretched their sound to staggering heights by introducing the three-headed cosmic vocal interplay of Sanders, Dailor, and Hinds. Processing real-life tragedy, this living and breathing opus alternates between vignettes of astral projection, interdimensional conspiracy, and a glorious transformational apotheosis. The LP elevated Mastodon to another stratosphere altogether and left an indelible imprint on rock music in 21st-century rock in its wake.