Cerebral and caustic, the structures built within the body of Marrow Deep are worth exploring

With Marrow Deep, Mastodon have delivered a powerful and musically challenging album, hinting at intriguing new directions for the band’s collective sound

On its first album since the death of guitarist and vocalist Brent Hinds, the metal band reckons with grief while gesturing toward the wild, energetic sound of its past

Thankfully it doesn't wallow, instead it kicks up the dust, rages at the circumstance, and keeps the course for where Mastodon were supposed to be heading anyway – the future

The band delivers a metal masterpiece in the wake of unfathomable loss

A great effort that pushes the band into new pastures, but, like Hushed and Grim, misses the mark in places

One of the many great things about Marrow Deep is that, like all great art, it doesn’t try to reduce or oversimplify its sentiments at the expense of their power

Recorded a week after the death of former bandmate Brent Hinds, the Atlanta metal crew mines their grief for one of their most emotional albums

Mastodon have never dropped a dud yet. They haven’t started here

The songwriting is more winding than ever, and for fans of sonic whiplash, it's here in spades. Marrow Deep is largely a triumph, a fitting tribute to their fallen founding father — and to heavy metal itself