This song, and the entire Blood Mountain album, is absolutely amazing. This song stands out to me because each member of the band is running on all cylinders. The section of the song between 1:40 and 2:30 is stunning. Super-fast, innovative dueling riffs, outstanding drumming... Brilliant. When this section comes on, turn the volume to 10 and you won't be able to sit still.

I agree with the dude that said Mastodon doesnt sound the same. I hear less screaming, more "organized" structure, and smaller ranges of drum fills and guitar riffs. I'd have to say I might be dissapointed on this new album. I know Mastodon can do better than sounding like weird Englishmen on Capillarian Crest, and sound as if they're vomit out while talking on Crystal Skull. The drummer is 10x better on the old albums than what I'm hearing here. Hopefully their other songs will consist of harder, grundgier, and thrashier songs than these pansie songs.

The thing thats drawing me into this is the fact that its more progressive than their past songs. Now, I know that Mastodon has always been playing with progressive metal, but its just different now, its got less hooks less of that usual metal, which is why I love them. I just want to know why they didn't send in a song for the pirates of the carribean 2 soundtrack, this would have been perfect to hear when the craken appeared. Back on subject, no, this isn't as heavy as the songs off of Leviathin, but, you have to remember that even Leviathin had some lighter songs (Seabeast just to name one one.). Oh, and it appears that our friend Brann has gotten better at the drums, is that possible, I didn't think so. These songs have taken away any doubts I had on the new record being as good or surpassing Leviathin and Reimissions (mostly leviathin). Just click buy and be satisfied!

Theres nothing much to say for that this band is very uniqu and ambicious and thats what makes tham different then the othere bands out there!

Its not as heavy as there older stuff, but its still incredible...cant wait till the new album comes out.

I can't wait for this album. I've been waiting for so long. It takes a few listens but just like all of their other albums it takes time to grow on you. And yes It does sound diffrent then their old stuff but all of there albums sound distinctly diffrent and from what I can tell this won't be any different. These are two awsome songs and I am really excited for Blood Mountain. Mastodon is leading the metal revolution.

Everything about these 2 new songs are awesome. Mastodon is right now one of the best metal bands out there. Before you take a listen to these songs, you should listen to some of the songs on Leviathan, especially Blood And Thunder, which I listen to once a day just so I never take a break from them or stop listening to them :) Buy these!

Mastodon is just an amazing metal band and just keep the good pre-releases coming iTunes!!!!!!

I'm a BIG fan of mastodon because they keep putting out quality material like this. Both of these songs are great after a couple listens, and while they're not close to Blood and Thunder which i've played 300+ times, they're still amazing, download them and you'll be happy. Blood Mountain coming September 12th and I'll see you guys in concert on september 7th at the TLA.

great band, amazing live show. i saw them at the unholy alliance tour and they were sick. crystal skull has to be the best song i've heard this year. only one band can pull off pirate-core and whale-core, and that band is MASTODON!!!!!!!!!!!!