It's so weird how tastes differ.
Diamond is *easily* my favourite song on Once More...
Or should I say - it's so weird how - whatever I really like - that's the one that ends up being the one that everyone hates.
It's actually so predictable that - in about 2000 - I discovered this new band and I really liked their album like a lot.
The next day on my music course - I heard some guy say he'd just heard this band that were " fucking shit ".
I didn't even need to ask as I knew 100% exactly what he was gonna say next and sure enough it was the band I really liked. . .
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EDIT
I like that Mastodon have done 7 official albums ( 8 if you count the Call Of The Mastodon compilation )... And they're still only in their early 40s.
They've got roughly another 10 years before they get to Metallica's age and if they keep releasing albums every 2.5 years that's maybe 4 more albums in that time.
I expect them to *gradually* slow down... But not to the point where we only get an album every 5 years. They're not big enough that they can live off an album sales for 5 years.
They need to tour to exist. Which I guess is good & bad. They probably tour comfortably though...
Also I think their discography is WAY more consistent than Metallica (
lol not exactly hard el oh el amirite )...
Emperor is their 7th official album and Reload was Metallica's 7th album.