Historically, guitar-brandishing artists have defaced classic literature like teenage delinquents carving into the covers of their required-reading selections. Lou Reed’s toxic Poe tribute The Raven and Blind Guardian’s cheese-wizard interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion did nothing to soothe the printed page/rock rift. However, thanks to Mastodon’s triumphant Moby Dick-based album Leviathan – which is […]
