“Prog-metal's best band returns with a record that may be even better than its monumental Leviathan LP. Please welcome the new monsters of rock.”
“Metal excess is back: exhibit A this month is Blood Mountain, the follow-up to Mastodon’s 2004 breakthrough, Leviathan, which took Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and refashioned it into one hell of a heavy sea chantey. The Atlanta band consists of four guys who look like tattooed auto mechanics, but they sound like they should be […]”