Mastodon - Blood Mountain Lmtd. Edition 45rpm 2x180g vinyl [out of print]
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Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2006 breakthrough album back in print for the first time since original release. Cover art is unique to this new version.
First ever audiophile edition of this landmark metal album: 45RPM pressing allows for wider, deeper grooves and features amazing sonics.
Mastodon's third album and major-label debut, Blood Mountain isn't just an unconventional breakthrough that garnered the attention of nearly every major international music critic, press outlet, and curious listener; it's surreal, progressive, and unrepetantly heavy, shot through with peerless technicality and blinding imagination. No wonder mainstream sources such as Rolling Stone, Spin, and Revolver (as well as audiophile press like The Absolute Sound) lavished the effort with unabated praise.
Coming on the heels of albums based around water and fire, Blood Mountain draws inspiration from the earth, and finds the members matching the visual narratives with pioneering arrangements and compelling melodies that reinforce the record's themes. Mastodon combines thrash, doom, prog, and psychedelic styles to concoct an unique, utterly original musical statement that is simultaneously entrancing, accessible, and devastating.
Previously available for a very short time on LP, Blood Mountain is finally back in print, and for the first time, is available as a 45RPM audiophile LP version that allows the music to breathe in a way never thought possible. Produced by Matt Bayles, the sound is absolutely stunning in analog, as is the cover artwork. Everything you want in an LP is here!
"Mastodon's earth-related concept album firmly places the Atlanta quartets
amidst the musical elite, its technical prowess, fantasy-based storytelling
and stealth complexities as beguiling as the band's uncanny ability to make
it all accessible. Prog, blues, jazz and classical strains intermingle with
the heavy thunder while, in accord with the members' metaphorical climb up a mountain, twin-guitar leads slide across ice shelves, hoary voices howl in
the night and tempos grind against hallucinatory backdrops. A landmark
effort." --Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, December 2006, Best Metal Albums of the Year (Blood Mountain ranked #1)
Selections:
Side One
1. The Wolf Is Loose
2. Crystal Skull
3. Sleeping Giant
Side Two
4. Capillarian Crest
5. Circle Of Cysquatch
6. Bladecatcher
Side Three
7. Colony Of Birchmen
8. Hunters Of The Sky
9. Hand Of Stone
Side Four
10. This Mortal Soil
11. Siberian Divide
12. Pendulous
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