Blood Mountain - Mastodon

I've never really been a fan of metal, although I'm fine with the concept. It's the tedious cliches and the inability to let go of old dinosaurs of the genre and their influences that gets me. I've had moments with a couple of bands, like Tool or Isis, but they tend to be the type that get called elitist and pretentious, which isn't far wrong. Recently I discovered Mastodon, though, whose dizzying ferocity has taught me the simple joys of feeling like a caveman without one mention of either corpses, crypts or bats. Blood Mountain, like their previous two albums, is sort of a concept album, although it is nowhere near as inspired as Leviathan, the album that ...  Read the complete review

Blood Mountain is an excellent album by Mastodon. The name Mastodon has been floating around in my circles for a long time but I've somehow managed to avoid them until now as far as I was aware. The album Blood Mountain is the band's 3rd and was released in September 2006. It's a concept album about climbing up a mountain and the different things that can happen to you when lost (according to the bassist Troy Sanders) Personally I like it a lot, largely experimental it crosses plenty of genres, I'd like to describe it as hatebreed beating macabre up in a hippy community as it fuses metalcore and sludge metal with more psychedelic tunes and even a bit of ...  Read the complete review