{"id":82,"date":"2012-02-04T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simms.ch\/?p=82"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T15:26:12","slug":"mastodon-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So claims their official website.\u00a0 And they&#8217;re not kidding.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not the most loquacious band out there, indeed barely speaking a word until the end of their concert in Zurich when they thanked the audience rather profusely for turning up, but instead they played with fierce concentration and ferocious intensity, pausing between songs only to change guitars and catch their breath for a few seconds.\u00a0 It was noisy, it was brutal, it was exhausting &#8211; and it was excellent.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mastodon-blue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-83\" title=\"mastodon blue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mastodon-blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mastodon-blue.jpg 800w, https:\/\/simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mastodon-blue-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mastodon-green.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84\" title=\"Mastodon green\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mastodon-green.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mastodon-green.jpg 800w, https:\/\/simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mastodon-green-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mastodon-red.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85\" title=\"mastodon red\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mastodon-red.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mastodon-red.jpg 800w, https:\/\/simms.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mastodon-red-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Set list (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/mastodon\/2012\/x-tra-zurich-switzerland-43debf73.html\">setlist.fm<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Dry Bone Valley<br \/>\nBlack Tongue<br \/>\nCrystal Skull<br \/>\nI Am Ahab<br \/>\nCapillarian Crest<br \/>\nColony of Birchmen<br \/>\nMegalodon<br \/>\nThickening<br \/>\nBlasteroid<br \/>\nSleeping Giant<br \/>\nGhost of Karelia<br \/>\nAll the Heavy Lifting<br \/>\nSpectrelight<br \/>\nCurl of the Burl<br \/>\nBedazzled Fingernails<br \/>\nCircle of Cysquatch<br \/>\nAqua Dementia<br \/>\nCrack the Skye<br \/>\nWhere Strides the Behemoth<br \/>\nIron Tusk<br \/>\nMarch of the Fire Ants<br \/>\nBlood and Thunder<\/p>\n<p>Encore:<br \/>\nCreature Lives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So claims their official website.\u00a0 And they&#8217;re not kidding.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not the most loquacious band out there, indeed barely speaking a word until the end of their concert in Zurich when they thanked the audience rather profusely for turning up, but instead they played with fierce concentration and ferocious intensity, pausing between songs only to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}