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“Show Yourself” by Mastodon
From the album Emperor of Sand (2017)
“Show Yourself” by Mastodon appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations in 2017. It was first released in 2017 on the album Emperor of Sand. Its best result is #5 on the WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #7 hard rock song of 2017 and #27 of the '10s.
"Show Yourself" is Mastodon at their most direct, a single from Emperor of Sand, their 2017 album for Reprise, and it grew out of a riff Bill Kelliher came up with on tour in 2016 while stockpiling ideas. The band usually passes the vocals around, but this one fell to drummer Brann Dailor, who was reluctant at first: he thought the riff was too easy and worried that the band's pickiest fans would sneer. Troy Sanders was all for it, though, and once Dailor found his vocal line it reminded him of Queens of the Stone Age, a costume he decided he liked wearing.
Brendan O'Brien produced it and mixed it with Tom Syrowski. It gave Mastodon their best showing yet on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs chart, where it peaked at No. 4.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 27 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2017 | 30 |
| 2017 | 20 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017 | 98 |
| 2017 | 21 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 5 | 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia, PA | WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2017 | 25 |
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