Blood Mountain is the third full-length studio album and major label debut by American metal band Mastodon.

Like Mastodon's previous studio work Leviathan, Blood Mountain is a concept album.

The album includes guest appearances by Scott Kelly of Neurosis on "Crystal Skull", Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age on "Colony of Birchmen", as well as keyboard player Isaiah "Ikey" Owens of The Mars Volta and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala of At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta on "Pendulous Skin" and "Siberian Divide", respectively.

[7] Music videos for "The Wolf Is Loose", "Colony of Birchmen", "Sleeping Giant" and "Capillarian Crest" have been made.

Although the video for "Capillarian Crest" is made up of live footage, the studio version of the song is played.

It was also rated the 17th greatest metal album of all time by a countdown carried out by gaming website IGN in 2010.

[21] That same year, the song "Colony of Birchmen" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, but lost to Slayer's Eyes of the Insane.

32, with 24,000 sold copies, marking it the third highest debut in the band's career before Crack the Skye and The Hunter.