'The Hunter' is the fifth full-length studio album by American heavy metal band Mastodon, released in September 2011.
The album marks the first time that drummer Brann Dailor composes and sings a Mastodon song in its entirety ("Creature Lives"), and takes lead vocal duties on more than two songs. Like Mastodon's previous album 'Crack The Skye' it features a mix of clean singing and a few songs with harsher shouting vocals. It was titled 'The Hunter' in honour of singer and lead guitarist Brent Hinds' brother, who died in a hunting accident while the band were making the record.
Tracklisting:
01 Black Tongue
02 Curl of the Burl
03 Blasteroid
04 Stargasm
05 Octopus Has No Friends
06 All the Heavy Lifting
07 The Hunter
08 Dry Bone Valley
09 Thickening
10 Creature Lives
11 Spectrelight
12 Bedazzled Fingernails
13 The Sparrow