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 ... Read review
Alfred Publishing Mastodon Blood Mountain: in notation and Tab; Songs; The Wolf Is Loose, ... more
Crystal Skull, Sleeping Giant, Capillarian Crest, Circle Of Cysquatch, Bladecatcher, Colony Of Birchmen, Hunters Of The Sky, Hand Of Stone, This Mortal Soil, Siberian Divide, Pendulous Skin
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Advantages: Very mixed styles on this album, great musicianship Disadvantages: The vocals are not particularly great but are quite clean actually
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 ... ...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 stoner rock. It even gets jazzy at times, in fact it's so eclectic that you could listen to the same track over and over again and spot different things each time. It starts off with an overpowering catchy "The Wolf Is Loose" and then tries various music styles before going ... more
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 stoner rock. It even gets jazzy at times, in fact it's so eclectic that you could listen to the same track over and over again and spot different things each time. It starts off with an overpowering catchy "The Wolf Is Loose" and then tries various music styles before going all out weird and let's have fun with a guitar on "Bladecatcher" before finishing off with some quieter tracks. The album is a bit of a journey and something definitely worth listening to.
1. "The Wolf Is Loose" - 3:34 2. "Crystal Skull" (featuring Scott Kelly) - 3:27 3. "Sleeping Giant" - 5:36 4. "Capillarian Crest" - 4:25 5. "Circle of Cysquatch" - 3:19 6. "Bladecatcher" - 3:20 7. "Colony of Birchmen" (featuring Joshua Homme) - 4:19 8. "Hunters of the Sky" - 3:52 9. "Hand of Stone" - 3:30 10. "This Mortal Soil" - 5:00 11. "Siberian Divide" (featuring Cedric Bixler-Zavala) - 5:32 12. "Pendulous Skin" (featuring Isaiah "Ikey" Owens) - 22:15 (song ends at 5:03)
Advantages: Progressive metal at its BEST Disadvantages: the album doesnt go on forever
Are you a metaller who sits around watching the music television chanels and thinks "theres gotta be some music better than all this" well my fellow there is. If you have yet to discover Mastodon i highly suggest this album. The great thing about mastodon and this album is that mastodon dont sound like anyone. Yes they are as heavy as 100 wooly mammoths but they have a technical complexity in their music that is rare to find at the moment. Such complex ... ...as Frank Zappa and Sikth. This album unlike the previous 2 is alot more guitar orientated with a good selection of face melting lead solos which are awsome but in reality the best thing about mastodon are the riffs. A mastodon riff is alot more than some regular run of the mill riff. its brutal andmelodic at the same time while still holding onto its technicality. The bass playing is just as good as the guitar playin and considering the bassist is ...
thetrooper244 05.01.2007
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Advantages: value for money, nice cover art, good guitar Disadvantages: none that i can think of
Mastodon are an excellent band, and it really shows on this CD. When I bought it I had no idea who they even were, but somehow I ended up going back to the store to see if they had any other CDs out, which is something I don't often do. From start to finish the songs are consistantly excellent, and they play some of the best guitar I have ever heard from any band on the planet. The songs don't sound as if they were written at the last minute by somebody ... ...Compared with their other releases, I wouldn't say it was better than the stuff they've done before but it definitely carries on the high standard of Mastodon's music. With some bands the standard drops over time, but Mastodon carry on churning out brilliant lyrics and music.
The cover art for the CD is drawn in an interesting style and it's eye catching without being too colourful. It fits well with the music and what you see is really what you ...
clii 03.06.2007
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Advantages: you honestly dont get bored of it Disadvantages: there are none
...I bought this album blood mountain a couple of months ago i put it straight on my itunes and currently it says i have listened to each of those song on this album about 200 times. If thats not proof that you can nt get bored of them then i dont n what is. this album blood mountain is thier newest album and personally it is the best but honestly all of thier albums are very good i recomend them all. It is a mxture of rock metal and alternative music ... ...band. I really cant say that mastodon are like another band because i have never heard music the same nor in the same league. this album along with all of them consests of wonderfully put to gether riffs and purely awesome drumming (personally the best drummer). i find that the matodon riffs are not so repetitive like everyone else and the same with te drumming. the drummingi ca find no really pattern, obviously there is but not as boring and repetitive ...
pulseofthemaggots 30.01.2007
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Product Information for "Blood Mountain - Mastodon" »
Product details
Title
Blood Mountain
Performer
Mastodon
Genre
Heavy Metal
Release Date
11/09/2006
Recomended Retail Price
12.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2006
Label / Distributor
Reprise / Cinram Logistics
Engineer
Matt Bayles; Ben Verellen
Producer
Matt Bayles; Mastodon
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
93624436423
Catalogue Number
9362443642
Additional notes
Album Notes
Mastodon: Brent Hinds (vocals, guitar); Troy Sanders (vocals, bass guitar); Bill Kelliher (guitar); Brann Dailor (drums). Additional personnel: Joshua Homme, Scott Kelly, Cedric Bixler Zavala. Reigning kings of the early-2000s metal resurgence, Atlanta's Mastodon expertly blended vintage speed-metal riffage, stoner rock's sludgy power, and prog's vision and scope on 2004's acclaimed LEVIATHAN. The band returns even stronger on their 2006 major label debut, BLOOD MOUNTAIN. The quartet's playing remains unquestionably tight, as fierce solos overlay colossal riffs, which are anchored by a rhythm section that is fluid when necessary (as on the ambient prog-metal of "Sleeping Giant") and lock-step perfect when the orders for speed and power are sent down from on high (see "Bladecatcher"). While BLOOD MOUNTAIN is purportedly a concept album (loosely built around the idea of being lost and doomed and at nature's mercy in the great wild, as opposed to LEVIATHAN's overt Moby Dick theme) it's difficult to decipher a clear narrative from the scorched-earth vocals. Nonetheless, a classical sense of grandiosity pervades the album, as the lightning intensity and sheer power of the music take the listener on a bewildering journey. But remain calm, dear listener: Mastodon will get you to the top of the mountain--bloody and beaten, but altogether satisfied.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Wolf Is Loose
2.
Crystal Skull
3.
Sleeping Giant
4.
Capillarian Crest
5.
Circle Of Cysquatch
6.
Bladecatcher
7.
Colony Of Birchmen
8.
Hunters Of The Sky
9.
Hand Of Stone
10.
This Mortal Soil
11.
Siberian Divide
12.
Pendulous Skin
13.
Untitled (hidden track)
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