5 Mastodon Creature Lives (the hunter, 2011)

No strangers to the realms of fantastical beings and monstrous beasts with music to match both, the most surprising thing about the atlantan quartet’s journey into the murky depths of the amazon is how genial it all sounds. taken from their streamlined 2011 masterpiece The Hunter, Creature Lives may well be the simplest song in Mastodon’s catalogue, the trippy synths and blissful choral vocals written by troy Sanders and Brann Dailor for bandmate Brent hinds as a touching tribute to his love of the 1954 Universal monster classic, Creature From The Black Lagoon.

CHOICE LYRIC: “I saw the creature fall / Into the swamp from which he spawned”