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Seems the change in direction on recent Mastodon albums is due to Brent Hinds.

"I never really liked heavy metal in the first place. I came from Alabama playing country music, surf rock, rockabilly, and stuff like that. I just went through a phase in my 20s where I thought it was rebellious to play heavy metal. And then I met Brann [Dailor, Mastodon drummer] and Bill [Kelliher], and they were really, really, really into heavy metal. And ever since then, I’ve been trying to get Mastodon to not be such a heavy metal band, because I f**king hate heavy metal, and I don’t want to be in a heavy metal band."

http://www.guitarplayer.com/artists/101 ... lace/52715

This was entertaining.

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I wish there were vinyl stores like that in Melbourne.

I'd be in heaven (but broke).


Magma eh?! My best friend worships the ground those proggy troublemakers walk on.

Brann Dailor did an AMA on Reddit today. One of my favorite answers below:

Brent recently said that he wanted to make Mastodon less of a metal orientated band. What do you envision stylistically for the future of Mastodon?

mastodonrocks 11 hours ago
Much more metal

Also:

BRANN! Awesome. I was just setting up a Spotify Mastodon playlist today, as it turns out. I joined the Mastodon fanbase with The Hunter, and have since found Crack The Skye... and others. I have to say, while I've enjoyed all Mastodon's releases, Crack The Skye is STILL my favorite, to date. Any plans to do any more epic (in length) story based tunes similar to The Czar, and The Last Baron? Those two are fuckin inspired, man.

mastodonrocks 11 hours ago
I would really love to get more prog in the future.

in Mastodon related news: Dailor announced that Ben Koller from Converge is going to be dropping some drum tracks on the next album. great news indeed, he's an excellent percussionist. and Converge is a damn good band I might add.

Dave Koller is also the new drummer from Killer Be Killed.

UndKeineZwEier wrote:Dave Koller is also the new drummer from Killer Be Killed.

oh shit I'm sorry, my bad. I meant Dave Koller and I didn't put Killer Be Killed in my comment AT ALL. that's what I was referring too. I'm retarded.

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Loving this lineup!



04/14 | Missoula, MT | Wilma Theater
04/15 | Seattle, WA | Paramount Theater
04/16 | Portland, OR | Roseland Theater
04/18 | San Francisco, CA | The Warfield
04/20 | Los Angeles, CA | The Palladium
04/21 | Phoenix, AZ | Comerica Theatre
04/23 | Salt Lake City, UT | Complex
04/24 | Denver, CO | Fillmore
04/26 | Kansas City, KS | Uptown Theater
04/27 | St. Louis, MO | Pageant
04/29 | Jacksonville, FL | Welcome to Rockville Festival*
04/28 | Birmingham, AL |Iron City
04/30 | Ft. Myers, FL | Fort Rock Festival*
05/02 | Washington DC | Fillmore
05/03 | Toronto, ON | Rebel
05/04 | Cleveland, OH | Agora Theater
05/05 | Charlotte, NC | Carolina Rebellion Festival*
05/06 | Philadelphia, PA | Electric Factory
05/08 | Boston, MA | House Of Blues
05/09 | Portland, ME |State Theater
05/11 | New York, NY | Hammerstein Ballroom
05/12 | Pittsburgh, PA | Stage AE
05/13 | Chicago, IL | Aragon Ballroom
05/14 | Cincinnati, OH | Taft Theatre
05/16 | Detroit, MI | Royal Oak Theater
05/17 | Nashville, TN | Ryman Auditorium
05/18 | Memphis, TN | Minglewood Hall
05/19 | Dallas, TX | Gas Monkey Live
05/20 | Austin, TX | ACL Live

* Indicates festival date. All other dates are headline shows.

^Yep. Very excited to be going to this show too.

New album coming soon-ish it seems:

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What drugs they are on? lol

'Emperor of Sand' - Out March 31st

01. Sultan's Curse
02. Show Yourself
03. Precious Stones
04. Steambreather
05. Roots Remain
06. Word To The Wise
07. Ancient Kingdom
08. Clandestiny
09. Andromeda
10. Scorpion Breath
11. Jaguar God

I like it, but it also sounds a lot like a lot of other Mastodon songs. "Derivative" would be a cruel word to use, but that's kind of what I felt at first. But it's cool.

I'm looking forward to hearing the entire thing and what will surely be some of the more unique gems on this album.

joeypants wrote:I like it, but it also sounds a lot like a lot of other Mastodon songs. "Derivative" would be a cruel word to use, but that's kind of what I felt at first. But it's cool.

I'm looking forward to hearing the entire thing and what will surely be some of the more unique gems on this album.

I like it, but it also sounds a lot like a lot of other Joeypants posts. "Derivative" would be a cruel word to use, but that's kind of what I felt at first. But it's cool.

I'm looking forward to hearing the entire thing and what will surely be some of the more unique gems on this person.

hahaha

The vocals sound really good though. They definitely keep stepping their game up in that department.

I liked that it sounded a little more like older Mastodon, but the track itself wasn't anything special. It sounds exactly like you'd expect a Mastodon track to sound, and that doesn't bother me a great deal.

Looking forward to the album though.

Same

Not impressed at all.

It's not bad. But they've played that chugging/lurching riff and done that guttural then uplifting vocal thing to death now. Interesting to see if they can develop somewhere interesting or sadly become one of them bands that churn out album after album of samey material.
I'm going with the latter.

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Well, I'm starting t lose a bit of interest in this album now....not sure where to start with this track

This shit sounds like a Foo Fighters song, wtf...

I'm starting t lose a bit of interest in this album now

Same thoughts.

Bill warned you all that this was going to be a kind of "dark pop" record haha.