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Mastodon Unleash 'Rasputin Rock' On Crack The Skye

Metal band take inspiration from unkillable Russian mystic.By James Montgomery Mastodon's Brann Dailor Photo: MTV News There are plenty of characters that pop up throughout Mastodon's epic Crack the Skye album, which hit stores Tuesday (March 24) — if you're not up to speed on the backstory, Masto drummer Brann Dailor explains it here — but there's perhaps no character as central to the entire story as Grigori Rasputin. There are several reasons for this. Most of them inv...

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21:31 on March 24 2009

New Reviews: Mastodon, The Decemberists, Peter Bjorn and John

Rolling Stone — Loudly leading the charge of new releases this week is Mastodon’s Crack the Skye, which garnered a four-star review from Rolling Stone. Setting out to reach their “Me... more info

05:17 on March 24 2009

Mastodon Unleash 'Rasputin Rock' On Crack The Skye

MTV.com News — Metal band take inspiration from unkillable Russian mystic.By James Montgomery Mastodon's Brann Dailor Photo: MTV News There are plenty of characters that pop ... more info

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17:17 on March 24 2009

Mastodon Unleash 'Rasputin Rock' On Crack The Skye

VH1 News — Mastodon's Crack the Skye was largely inspired by Grigori Rasputin, the Russian mystic who survived multiple murder attempts. more info

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01:22 on March 25 2009

Mastodon Channel Rasputin

Chorus.fm — *Mastodon* (http://myspace.com/mastodon) apparently were influenced (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1607613/20090324/mastodon.jhtml) by Rasputin during the creation of ... more info

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