Mastodonhas taken hold of the leadership of the New Wave of Progressive Heavy Metal. The band's 2006 major-label debut Blood Mountainspun off a Grammy nomination and earned Top 5 Best Album Of The Year nods from Kerrang!, Revolver, and Metal Hammer, and a Top 10 at Rolling Stone. Now Crack The Skye, its fourth original studio album, mines subject matter from czarist Russia and astral travel to out-of-body experiences and Stephen Hawking's theories on wormholes for an unrepentantly heavy aural assault that will shake the heavens.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Crack the Skye tells a story dealing variously with the art aesthetics of Tsarist Russia, astral travel, out of body experiences, and Stephen Hawking's theories on wormholes. The All Music Guide says the CD "rocks, and hard ," calling the guitar arrangements the "most intricate, melodically complex things the band has ever recorded." Our songbook features note-for-note transcriptions in notes & tab for all 7 songs, including the title track and: The Czar * Divinations * Ghost of Karelia * The Last Baron * Oblivion * Quintessence.

Western action based on the DC Comics series. Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is a Civil War veteran and bounty hunter with the ability to converse with the dead. Jonah unintentionally kills the son of his Commanding Officer Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich)'s son when he saves a hospital and, seeking revenge, Turnbull murders Jonah's wife and son. Jonah later meets Lilah (Megan Fox) in a brothel and a mutual attraction forms. Soon after, he is ordered by Lieutenant Grass (Will Arnett) to hunt Turnbull, who is planning to bring devastation to the city, and Jonah accepts, eager to avenge the death of his family. In the process, Jonah uses his resurrecting powers to find out information about Turnbull's whereabouts and the chase is on.