Blood Mountain (album)
Occupation
- Bass / vocals: Troy Sanders
- Guitar / Vocals: Brent Hinds
- Guitar / vocals Bill Kelliher
- Drums / vocals: Brann Dailor
Blood Mountain is the third studio album by the American Progressive-Metal/Sludge-Band Mastodon. It was published on 8 September 2006 via Reprise Records. For the song " Colony of Birchmen " the band for a Grammy Award in the Best Metal category was nominated performance.
Formation
In summer 2005, Mastodon were taken by Reprise Records, a subsidiary of the major labels Warner Music under contract. Reprise struck the band in front of several producers for the album. The band, however, preferring to work as the previous album with Matt Bayles Leviathan. After participating in the Ozzfest tour, the band began writing songs for the new album.
The recordings took place in the studios Studio Litho, Red Room Recording Studio and Jupiter over a period of two months. As a guest vocal appearances Scott Kelly of the band Neurosis (with the song " Crystal Skull" ), Josh Homme from the band Queens of the Stone Age (for the song " Colony of Birchmen ") and Cedric Bixler - Zavala of the band The Mars Volta on (with the song " Siberian Divide ").
Mixed Blood Mountain was rich Costey, mastering took Vlado Meller. For the song " The Wolf is Loose ", " Colony of Birchmen ", " Sleeping Giant " and " Capillarian Crest" music videos were filmed. The album cover was created by Paul A. Romano.
Background
As with the two previous albums, and the subsequent album Crack the Skye comes the main theme of Blood Mountain from the four- element theory. The debut album remission dealt with fire, Leviathan with water, Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye with earth on the Aether, which was described by the Greek philosopher Aristotle considered the quintessence of the four elements. According to drummer Brann Dailor is at Blood Mountain is a concept album.
" It's about a mountain to climb and the different things that can happen to you if you're stranded and lost on a mountain or in a forest. You starve, get hallucinations and Meet a curious creatures. You are hunted. "
The protagonist of the story climbs on the " Blood Mountain " to find a crystal skull. During the song " Circle of Cysquatch " the character encounters a Cysquatch, a one-eyed Bigfoot who can see into the future. The Cysquatch warns the protagonist of the dangers that are waiting for him. Finally, the protagonist reaches the crystal skull on the top of the mountain, which is a kind of doorway into another universe.
The song " Colony of Birchmen " is a tribute to the song "The Colony of Slippermen " by the British band Genesis. The song " Pendulous Skin" contains a hidden track a " fan letter " which was spoken by Josh Homme.
Reception
Petra Schurer from Metal Hammer emphasized the songs " live off their wealth of detail and exciting passages in which the musicians fight each part mutually complement some gorgeous ". She gave the album six out of seven points. Boris Emperor of Rock Hard magazine called Blood Mountain as one of the greatest musical experiences of late and missed nine out of ten.
Blood Mountain reached # 32 in the U.S. album charts. With number 96 in the German and number 46 in the UK album charts Mastodon achieved in these countries for the first time made it into the album charts. Mastodon were nominated performance for the song " Colony of Birchmen " for a Grammy Award in the Best Metal category. However, the award went to the band Slayer for the song " Eyes of the Insane ".