Mastodon: 'Crack The Skye' Royal Edition Due In December

Atlanta progressive metallers Mastodon have set a December 15, 2009 release date for the new limited "Crack The Skye" royal edition featuring the official score.

The "royal edition" package includes the following:

Full-length "Crack The Skye" album

Full-length "Crack The Skye" score first time available on physical disc

Housed in gold stamped foiled digibook with brand new gold and black "Crack The Skye" exclusive artwork and packaging designed by Paul Romano

6" x 6" exclusively designed lithograph unavailable anywhere else

An instant download of the "Divinations" (Live at Xfm) and "Colony Of Birchmen" (Live at Xfm)

To pre-order a copy, go to this location.

"Crack The Skye" sold 41,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 11 on The Billboard 200 chart.

Mastodon fans responded with manic enthusiasm to the LP, snapping up every available copy of various limited-edition artifacts, including the deluxe tunnel book CD+DVD package, both color and double-disc 180gm gatefold vinyl pressings, plus a pair of CD single/T-shirt bundles.

Thanks for the report to Blabbermouth.net.

Comments

[Ribcage]

Neat. Although I'm pretty sure every Mastofan has some sort of the other thousand editions of this album.

[PcaKes]

Isn't it weird how the zippo is more expensive than the Gold edition?

[Kyle Crabbs]

This really pisses me off since I bought the first special edition pop-out one, and this one looks a bit cooler

[IROn 5L1nKY]

Hey, is there a way to buy the instrumental version of the album?
My friend showed me that he had the whole album, but without vocals, which I thought was kind of cool.

[isispelican]

best album ever!

[Hand Of Stone]

Bought it yersterday!

[LegsOnEarth]

overkill?

[GenerationKILL]

Have you heard these guys? or this album? Mastodon, Muse, Opeth, and Dark Tranquility are the most innovative musicians you could hear in years.

To hell with magazines writting crap about how much of "a genius jack white or Josh Homme is"

These guys are the future of music.

[Geormajesty]

GenerationKILL wrote:

To hell with magazines writting crap about how much of "a genius ... Josh Homme is"

These guys are the future of music.

Shows how much you know about these. Josh Homme is very good friends with the band and played guitar and sang backing vocals on the song 'Colony of Birchmen' and also appears as a bonus/hidden track at the end of 'Pendulous Skin'.

[Galvatron]

Does Gene Simmons manage Mastodon now?

I like this band and I have a few of their albums but I have seen them twice live and thought they did not deliver at all.

[GenerationKILL]

Geormajesty wrote:

GenerationKILL wrote:

To hell with magazines writting crap about how much of "a genius ... Josh Homme is"

These guys are the future of music.

Shows how much you know about these. Josh Homme is very good friends with the band and played guitar and sang backing vocals on the song 'Colony of Birchmen' and also appears as a bonus/hidden track at the end of 'Pendulous Skin'.

hey thanks! i already knew that, and i know hes good friends with the band, im saying im tired of hearing MAGAZINES write about how much of a genius he is while these guys go practically unnoticed for their virtousity in the mainstream world. Anyway, goes to show much you know about reading, because i never said the two artists hated eachother at all.

[Duality Ninja]

Galvatron wrote:

Does Gene Simmons manage Mastodon now?

I like this band and I have a few of their albums but I have seen them twice live and thought they did not deliver at all.

HAHAHAHAHA I see what you did there. On a side note, I haven't even bought this album yet, and now I have incentive to. These guys are absolutely amazing, as in the future of metal amazing. I only started listening to them before Crack the Skye came out, but never had a chance to buy it.