Pitchfork

The only thing "Crystal Skull" is lacking is the rest of the fucking Blood Mountain sound-cycle, but I'm already at it with a pen and paper, figuring how you answer that ubiquitous downtown question about what you're listening to when you're listening to the same thing for the next 15 times you see that person.

Great tease though-- like heads didn't know the second this hit, like they don't already have sore necks and Mastodon tattoos and a shirt with a big bloody mountain on it, like every dude who's ever owned a guitar or turned their stereo up above four didn't already know it was coming-- by starting, dead-seriously, with those off-in-the-warrior-distance drums and then more Maiden dual guitar than tablature (up at their website now!) can contain. Plus the elephant sings: about bloodsucking flies, black holes, and crystals. All things you now somehow crave...