Mastodon set to release new album

Mastodon has completed work on their new album, titled "Crack The Skye." The effort was recorded by Brendan O'Brien (Rage Against The Machine) will hit stores in early-2009 through Warner Bros. Records. According to Spin Magazine Online, the fifty-minute album is "built around four-part centerpiece 'The Czar,' which explores the album's lyrical theme, Czarist Russia." Here's the track listing: 1. "Oblivion" 2. "Divinations" 3. "Quintessence" 4. "The Czar" "(I) Usurper" "(II) Escape" "(III) Martyr" "(IV) Spiral" 5. "Ghost of Karelia" 6. "Crack The Skye" 7. "The Last Baron"