Mastodon - Blood Mountain

Review by Mike Diver

An album that leaves its closest on-the-shelves cousins languishing a thousand leagues in its wake, Blood Mountain is, almost unequivocally, the year's greatest rock album. Ingeniously complex yet satisfyingly direct and immediate, meticulously crafted yet wholly organic in feel and flow, this triumphant third LP from a band that successfully avoids precise pigeonholing is absolutely deserving of a maximum numerical score – there’s simply no other possible conclusion to reach...»