Mastodon - Leviathan CD (album) cover     Tech/Extreme Prog
Metal  3.85 | 229 ratings  From Progarchives.com, the ultimate
progressive rock music website  5 stars Now HERE's a golliath of
a metal album.  An excellent purchase by all means, this
massive, epic sounding metal album is bliss to the ears, and a
milestone in the modern metal scene.  Blood and Thunder opens
the doors to a dark, scary, and mythical word of sweeping riffs
that fit together like the world itself. All musicianship is
brilliant, the riffage is brilliant and the percussion is
frantic. Most important of all, the music and fantasy driven
vocals work, and it works well.  Each track is exciting (even
the lighter acoustic parts of just a few songs).  Mastodon is a
metal band to keep an eye on (and with Blood Mountain, they
proove that they are a metal power to be hailed by all)  get
this album if you like metal, progressive might be a stretch,
but i think the brooding guitar parts and odd guitar riffs are
complex enough to put this album in th