“Mastodon follow the amazing Leviathan/Blood Mountain 1-2 with a Brendan O'Brien-produced LP that mixes more rock and prog into their metal core.”
“Mastodon are a bunch of doom—haunted, myth—obsessed, meat—and—potatoes Southern badasses who have become the most important new band in metal. They awed the underground with 2004’s massive, Moby Dick—themed Leviathan; then, in 2006, they grabbed the crown with the brutally psychedelic, ogre—hunting Blood Mountain. It established them as a rare beast: a band respected by […]”
