We want to make something that's great and will be timeless. We're very open to exploring the sounds that each one of us wants to hear and wants to play. Troy Sanders: Thanks! I appreciate the way we've not only held it together and maintained our friendship between the same four guys who started the band back in 2000, but each and every album we're not trying to write the same album twice. Records marks a return to using an album to tell a thematic story. A rumination on time and mortality that was heavily influenced by the battles with cancer being fought by several friends and family members - including Kelliher's mother, who succumbed to the disease last year - the album follows the tale of the protagonist who has been sentenced to die in a malevolent desert by an evil sultan.ĬBS SF: I was reading that this album had the band's biggest chart impact of your career, so congratulations on that. While Mastodon would depart from the concept album template for their next two efforts exploring a more traditional hard-rock sound - 2011's The Hunter and Once More 'Round the Sun in 2014 - the quartet's latest salvo for Warner Bros. Inspired in part by the suicide of Dailor's sister when she was only 14, the album unspooled an allegorical tale revolving around astral projection, Stephen Hawking's wormhole theories, the exploration of the spirit world and the planned assassination of the mad monk Rasputin in Czarist Russia.
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The band would continue exploring concept albums on the next two recordings, branching out with a wider palette of sounds that embraced psychedelia on 2006's epic Blood Mountain and its follow-up, the emotional 2009 opus Crack the Skye that found the band going even deeper. Powered by the technically accomplished fury of Dailor (who plays like original Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo channeling jazz giant Elvin Jones) and featuring the labyrinthine riffs cooked by by Hinds and Kelliher, the group put out one of the most talked about metal albums of 2004 with their widely praised sophomore effort Leviathan. A conceptual recording that drew inspiration from Melville's epic "Moby Dick" and Dailor's avowed affection for progressive rock, the pulverizing album topped many year-end "best of" lists and is still hailed as a masterwork over a decade later. Their first proper album Remission followed a year later, establishing Mastodon as a force to be reckoned with.
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