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NEW MASTODON TRACK IN SPLATTERHOUSE TRAILER?

 Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at 12:30pm by

splatterhousePreface: this is purely speculation and we do not have confirmation that the music below is, in fact, a new Mastodon track!

That said, it would certainly appear that the background music in the trailer for the forthcoming video game Splatterhouse is new Mastodon music. Let’s look at the evidence:

1) In a preview piece about the game, IGN reports that “The soundtrack is all Mastodon all the time. In fact, Rick will be wearing a Mastodon t-shirt before hulking up and going all crazy-like.” Furthermore, Gamespot.com confirms that “US heavy metal band Mastodon has also been brought in to provide audio work for Splatterhouse.”

2) Members of Mastodon were signing autographs at the Splatterhouse booth at the New York Comic-Con last week.

3) It sounds like Mastodon.

Take a look at the video game trailer, featuring at least a good solid minute of audio, after the jump:

So… Mastodon… yea/nay? If yea, thoughts?

Thanks to MS Maniac Toxteth O’Grady for his excellent sleuth work.

-VN

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  • Scott

    That looks so fucking metal.
    Did he piledrive a giant squid and then chase a centipede made of human torsos? Brutal.

  • Muzikwhore

    This looks pretty sic and New Mastodon sounds awesome!

  • Byron W.

    Can’t say I think it is…
    Dunno, doesn’t seem to fit…

  • martin

    nope. at least that song isn’t on the new mastodon album.

  • http://www.roxwel.com Pick-Axe Bobby

    Sounds to me that 1 )Mastodon is in fact in the game and 2) they had not yet cleared the rights to the new songs for this trailer, so a studio band did an imitation of Blood and Thunder. The riff is really similar.

  • Toxteth O’Grady

    All I know is that I will have to get whatever system they release this on. total brutal.

  • g

    Anyone who has done drum programming recently will recognize those drums as DRUMKIT FROM HELL and as FAKE.

    So NO it doesn’t sound like mastodon.

  • g

    pleebs

  • g

    i guess the guitar parts sound like mastodon actually, i guess its possible brann programmed the drums or something but that doesn’t strike me as a very mastodonish thing to do

  • Bicro
  • Miroslav

    I don’t know, but my gut feeling says that this isn’t Mastodon. Maybe the riffs are similar, but this sound/production is nothing similar to their new track Divinations.

    Maybe they made it/record it in their home studio, special for this game, who knows :)

  • http://www.last.fm/user/groverXIII/ groverXIII

    I don’t think it’s Mastodon. Good stuff, but doesn’t really sound all that much like Mastodon to me. While the riff is solid, Mastodon riffs tend to be much more over-the-top and all over the place. So, I’m going to declare shenanigans.

  • nrich

    yeah those are definitely programmed drums via drumkit from hell, mastodon never sounds like that

  • KRKN

    My guess is “NO”. The guitar tone is a little too overproduced, AS ARE THE DRUMS! And I could count the ridiculous drum fills on one hand, so I also declare shennanigans.

    Who knows though, Brendan O’Brien very well could have made Mastodon sound like that. Not sayin’ it’s bad, just sayin’

    The majority of the bigger riffs seemed too even.

  • dicknballs

    nope, not mastodon. take the dick out of your ears guy.

  • JonBonSlovie

    Just play some Splatterhouse for the Turbo Graphix 16

  • http://www.kuk.nu rumpan

    metalasucks sucks. what a bunch of fucking loser and amatures.

    sounds fucking nothing like mastodon.