Remission
by Mastodon

Album
Remission by Mastodon
Year: 2002
Release date: 2002-05-28
Overall rank: 7,103rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 128 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2002 (130th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (1,221st)
Award Best albums of all time (7,103rd)

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Mastodon bestography

Remission is ranked 8th best out of 14 albums by Mastodon on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Mastodon is Crack The Skye which is ranked number 1008 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,731.

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Remission Lower ranked (19,499th) »
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Remission track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Crusher Destroyer
Average Rating: 76 (19 votes)Comments: View 0
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March Of The Fire Ants
Average Rating: 85 (35 votes)Comments: View 0
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Where Strides The Behemoth
Average Rating: 79 (18 votes)Comments: View 0
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Workhorse
Average Rating: 78 (20 votes)Comments: View 0
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Ol'e Nessie
Average Rating: 83 (26 votes)Comments: View 0
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Burning Man
Average Rating: 75 (17 votes)Comments: View 0
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Trainwreck
Average Rating: 78 (17 votes)Comments: View 0
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Trampled Under Hoof
Average Rating: 74 (17 votes)Comments: View 0
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Trilobyte
Average Rating: 75 (18 votes)Comments: View 0
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Mother Puncher
Average Rating: 77 (22 votes)Comments: View 0
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Elephant Man
Average Rating: 77 (19 votes)Comments: View 0

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Remission rankings

Remission rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,103rd | 2000s rank: 1,221st | 2002 rank: 130th  Overall chart history
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Remission ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 128 votes)
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65/100
 !		07/20/2026 05:05 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,31270/100
 
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 !		07/01/2026 01:36 Helios  Ratings distribution  6,26569/100
 
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 !		03/24/2026 03:23 dhbarrett  Ratings distribution  8,86565/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.


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Remission forum mentions

This album has been referenced 7 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From NoisyBeast 06/17/2023 20:56 in What album are you listening to right now?
“What album are you listening to right now?”
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From Mercury 01/21/2022 20:19 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!
“Mastodon through the years! originally this was full glowing comment about Mastodon's debut. I managed to stupidly delete it and replace it with my comment on their 3rd album. I went in to steal and copy/paste the formatting for this original debut album post and forgot I had done that and posted…”
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From dihansse 09/21/2020 19:18 in My discoveries per year
“An album I already own of 2002: And why not take this masterpiece and certainly their best with absolute winners No One Knows and Go With The Flow. But there's so much more here. Certainly the best album of the year and one of those hard classics everybody needs to hear. And an album on my…”
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Remission comments

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90/100
From 04/04/2015 01:02 | #138758 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
It is a great debut, instrumentally it is fantastic like all Mastodon's work but it does get too repetitive and like the comment below me, it just becomes a monotonous work of growls lyrically.
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75/100
From 02/03/2017 21:03 | #184863 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Good debut from a great band. I enjoy their later work a lot better, this one is a little to heavy for me, but there are some awesome riffs on this album, and the drumming is amazing.
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45/100
From 07/06/2010 21:09 | #13368 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
March of the Fire Ants and Workhorse are pretty good tracks, but for the most part this is too uninspired which leads to it mostly being a lengthy stretch of growls.
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95/100
From 04/16/2018 16:21 | #213054 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album blew my mind when I first hear it. Brann Dailor's drumming is beyond insane. Such a fun record to listan to.
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From 02/16/2018 11:48 | #208435 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
How opinions change. I was originally extremely warm on the album before, but I actually think it's Mastodon's best now.
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