Metal Anarchy

Mastodon’s Brann Dailor was recently interviewed by Loudwire, and discussed the band’s uocoming album. You can see what he had to say below.

On the album’s concept:

“There is a tie, a concept that goes between them. The last couple of years have been not, there’s been some illness within the bands family, there’s been a bunch cancer, so the whole album is sort of all about cancer basically. Well, not literally. It’s a big story that sort roped to go along with it. It takes place in the desert.”

On making the finishing touches:

“We all just got home a few days ago, from LA, we were there mixing and we each came home with reference CD or flash drive or whatever people had. So we’re currently kinda listening on different apparatus and making decisions on – now that you have it out of the studio, which is kind of an unfamiliar listening place, everyone’s got the music in their cars or at their homes. Coming back with changes like I think this snare needs to come up a hair just for the first two verses of whatever song. So there’s some mixes that are going in today or tomorrow and we’re gonna remedy whatever those are and kinda make everybody as happy as possible.

So, ya know, it’s super close when we all left because we all were in the same room listening to mixes together, everything sounded awesome, so when we left it was all high fives and hugs and when we got home there’s just little things here and there, like nit picky. But you know, if the computers went down and everything was gone, whatever we have on our CDs would be fine, well we might not be totally fine with it, but if we have the opportunity to nit pick, we might as well, ya know?”

He also revealed that Scott Kelly (Neurosis) took part in the effort, as he has on others:

“He’s there for sure, his life has also been touched by cancer same as just about every single person that is alive had their life negatively impacted by the disease. He’s no stranger to it. He’s in there, but he would have been in there anyways. We always save a spot for Scott. One of those days we need to get him out on tour because we have enough for a full set with just Scott. We could do Mastodon featuring, definitely in order.”

He added the following about the band’s future plans:

“We’re gonna start doing press for the record and hopefully get some final mixes pretty soon. Mastering, artwork, we always have some big grandiose package and lots of crazy art — all that stuff and at the same time think about going out on tour possibly late April, when the record comes out and what we want to do as far as production is concerned because I feel like we need to step it up.

The bread and butter of any rock band these days is out on tour, so I want to present a cool show and trying to get some good artists involved to do some cool visual things. [There are] some t-shirt designs that need checked into as well, so it’s pretty much all Mastodon.

Mastodon is all consuming of my brain so there is little time for anything else. I look forward to all of it, just because I’m so super excited about our new album that’s a new direction and awesomeness that it is, so yeah. I feel super confident to roll all of this stuff out. It’ll be nothing but Mastodon for the next couple of years.”

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