{"id":55051,"date":"2017-04-28T20:17:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=55051"},"modified":"2017-05-04T22:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T22:55:20","slug":"album-review-mammoth-mammoth-mount-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-mammoth-mammoth-mount-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"MAMMOTH MAMMOTH – Mount The Mountain (2017) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAMMOTH MAMMOTH
Mount The Mountain<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNapalm (2017)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Before we had this drug adoring, Black Sabbath<\/a>-worshipping genre of music called \u201cstoner rock\u201d we had a little something called \u201cbiker rock\u201d, whose roots can be traced back to the 60s with, well, a substance infused, counter culture; acid rockers like Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf and, believe it or not, The Grateful Dead, and the nomad MCs who dug these bands.<\/p>\n

Hell, Blue Cheer was managed by a Hell\u2019s Angel named Gut, and lest we forget that infamous little festival called Altamont that Santana, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Jefferson Airplane and The Rolling Stones played that lives in infamy. By the mid-70s, however, biker rock was relegated to a section of pop culture wedged somewhere between the drive-in B-movie and the rural, honkey tonk, juke box.<\/p>\n

Why do I bring this up? Because that\u2019s where Australia\u2019s Mammoth Mammoth seems to fit in most comfortable \u2013 biker rock and gear head culture. Mount The Mountain<\/em> is just that. It\u2019s outlaw rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, it\u2019s unpredictable, it\u2019s dangerous, and so it\u2019s no surprise that the Mammoth boys refer to their sound as \u201cGood-time-murder-fuzz\u2026 that sometimes kills unicorns…\u201d<\/em> since Mount The Mountain<\/em> is the sheer embodiment of all hell breaking loose. Songs like \u2018Hole In The Head\u2019, \u2018Kickin\u2019 My Dog\u2019 and \u2018Hard Way Down\u2019 reek of stale beer and fistfights. It\u2019s a wall of guitar shred that knocks you over with the opening chords of the title track to the last song, a cover of Kylie Minogue\u2019s \u2018I Can\u2019t Get You Out Of My Head\u2019.<\/p>\n

At just 11 songs, clocking in at 44 minutes, this is one hell of a bad ass record; abrasive, 70s inspired, brawl music. These Aussie natives, known for living a hard life of \u201csex, drugs and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll\u201d have finally nailed that perfect record they\u2019ve been inching towards with earlier releases. \u2018Mount The Mountain\u2019 is all guts and glory with a few chipped teeth and a black eye to show off.<\/p>\n

Mammoth Mammoth\u2019s sound on this record has less to do with stoner rock and more in common with outlaw rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, as I mentioned before. Musically, this band feels more on par with the likes of Nashville Pussy, Hank Williams III and The Dwarves than, say, Holy Serpent or Tombstoned. Mount The Mountain<\/em> is a journey into danger, it\u2019s the perfect meeting ground of Bon Scott era AC\/DC and David Allen Coe; high intensity hard rock with a metallic edge, and if it has any stoner rock influence at all, maybe Orange Goblin, \u00e0 la Frequencies From Planet Ten<\/em> (1997), but that\u2019s stretching it a bit.<\/p>\n

I can appreciate this record for what it is and what Mammoth Mammoth has crafted, which is everything we\u2019ve talked about up to this point. It doesn\u2019t purport to be anything but denim and leather, biker rock. Mount The Mountain<\/em> deserves your attention and a serious spin at that. So, pour a pint and give the devil what he asks for \u2013 Mammoth Mammoth turned up loud.<\/p>\n

Theron Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MAMMOTH MAMMOTHMount The Mountain Napalm (2017)Rating: 8\/10 Before we had this drug adoring, Black Sabbath-worshipping genre of music called \u201cstoner rock\u201d we had a little something called \u201cbiker rock\u201d, whose roots can be traced back to the 60s with, well, a substance infused, counter culture; acid rockers like Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf and, believe it or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammoth-mammoth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55083,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55051\/revisions\/55083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}