With Blood Mountain, Mastodon take a monumental step forward in their heavy-metal storytelling: a supernatural concept album about a werewolf walking up a mountain to find a crystal skull. The pounding, rolling drums of “The Wolf Is Loose” unleash a thrash-heavy bash of high-volume, hyper-focused power. The band ease into “Bladecatcher” with gorgeous, intricate guitar lines before turning it into a wild hurricane of proggy solos, and “Pendulous Skin” provides a creepily psychedelic end, touching on classic rock and ghastly aquatic atmospheres.
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