Put simply: there isn't a bad track on 'Blood Mountain', which will be seen as the metal release of this year, on whichever level you care to mention.  Full text...

Blood Mountain is, almost unequivocally, the greatest rock album this year.  Full text...

Blood Mountain friggin' rocks.  Full text...

With Blood Mountain, Mastodon have completed a three-album arc that most young bands can only dream of, culminating in a record that’s as thrilling as it is multifaceted, as melodic as it is bludgeoning, and with a major label giving the band complete artistic control, allowing them the freedom to go at their own speed (which is often full throttle), they’ve flourished, having subsequently reached their own artistic summit.  Full text...

A thoroughly impressive piece of work which anyone with any kind of passion for music should own, and quite possibly a future classic.  Full text...

Metal excess is back: exhibit a this month is Blood Mountain, the follow-up to Mastodon's 2004 breakthrough,  Full text...

An indication of how Mastodon innovate while upholding the proud principles of metal.   Full text...

Blood Mountain is another step forward.   Full text...

Within seconds of the opening track of this, their third LP, it's clear a significant change has taken place: syrupy, multi-tracked vocals akin to Supertramp in a particularly foul mood have replaced the primal roar of old, while their tectonic hugeness has been supplanted by the wearisome over-indulgence of musos at play.  Full text...