Mastodon drummer/singer Brann Dailor recently did an interview with Australia’s Heavy and revealed plans to follow-up 2021’s “Hushed And Grim” album! “We’ve been writing. We were writing before the ‘(Ashes Of) Leviathan’ tour here in the States and Canada, and we’re just now digging back in because we sort of just got home from that tour. We were gone for two months and then we had a month and a half long of weekend-warrior stuff where we were going out and doing festivals on the weekends. And so you can’t really split your mind in two there and say, ‘Okay, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we’re gonna work on new material, then we’re gonna drill the set, then we’re gonna get on a flight and go play this festival. Then we’re gonna come back up.’ It just doesn’t work like that. So, we’re digging back in. Actually, I think on Monday is when we really start fine-tuning some of the material that we had before.”
Brann also talked about that Mastodon/Lamb Of God song you heard last month, “Floods Of Triton”. They recorded the song before starting the “Ashes Of Leviathan” tour.
“I wouldn’t say that the song is indicative of the new material, but I wouldn’t say that any single song would ever be indicative of the overall sound of anything that we were gonna come out with, because I think that we sort of pride ourselves on offering, especially when we’re putting out a full album, that’s got a lot of variety to it. So it’s like a puzzle. I look at an album like a puzzle. There has to be balance there and everything sort of fits together and tells one long story, but it doesn’t necessarily all sound the same.”
Mastodon’s latest album, the 15-song “Hushed And Grim”, is a double LP that the band recorded at their Atlanta studio, West End Sound. They brought in a big gun to help out – producer David Bottrill (Tool, Rush, Muse)! The album is their third consecutive #1 debut on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart and it even earned the band a Grammy Award nomination for the track “Pushing The Tides”.
Do you think Mastodon will debut #1 again? It’s likely, right? The momentum doesn’t seem to be slowing down. I once saw them with Deftones and Alice In Chains, and they were the stand out band that night. Juggernauts.
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