Mastodon Drummer Announces Timeline for New Album
Atlanta metal band Mastodon is working on a new album, and drummer Brann Dailor has announced when fans can expect the new release. – Author: Charles Ken, Photo via Clay McBride
A new Mastodon album is always cause for celebration from Mastodon fans. The Atlanta metal band has been toiling away on a new album, and now, drummer Brann Dailor has announced when fans can expect the new release.
The upcoming release will mark Mastodon’s follow-up to 2021’s “Hushed and Grim” and will mark their ninth studio album.
Mastodon New Album News
According to Dailor, the new Mastodon album will more than likely arrive in 2025. Speaking with Metal Hammer in an interview, he said, “I don’t see a world in which it does not come out in 2025.” Considering the band’s late album arrived back in 2021, it makes sense that the guys would push to have it out this year, because five years would be a pretty long drought.
As for what to expect musically from the new album, it’s not going to be one-dimensional in any way. “[The songs are] all over the place,” Dailor told music expert Dave Everley of Metal Hammer. “I hear some punk rock in there, but then I hear some insane prog and I hear the heaviest version of ourselves poking its head out again.”
He added, “You can talk all day about what you want to do, but at the end of the day it governs itself – it pulls you where your heart is.”
Dailor also dropped more news on the new record, telling Metal Hammer that the new release will be a concept album. he’s been working on the story, and it sounds fascinating.
“I have a story I’m working on,” he told the publication, also saying that it’s about “supernatural horror.”
Mastodon Guitarist Talks Tone
Mastodon did a major tour last year with Lamb of God, in which the band celebrated the 20th anniversary of their “Leviathan” album. The two bands also released a song together.
Speaking about “Leviathan” with Guitar magazine’s Justin Beckner, guitarist Bill Kelliher said that they wrote most of the songs on tour with Clutch.
“The songs weren’t even recorded yet, but we played them on the way out there at the shows with Clutch,” he told Beckner. “We just kind of made up the lyrics, I think, at the moment on stage. We just kind of made stuff up because we always come up with the vocals last. I Am Ahab, we hadn’t even written that one yet. That was one Brann and I put together in Bob Lang Studio where we did the drums.”
Kelliher also sang the praises of Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains’ guitar tone.
“So, when I was on tour with Alice in Chains, I think it was 2010 or 2011 or something, and the whole band didn’t have their amps on stage. Their amps were backstage, with blankets over them, like [an ISO cabinet], with a microphone in front of the cabinet and a blanket over that, backstage. So, you walk around backstage, and you can hear this muffled sound of Jerry Cantrell’s guitar,” he said. “So I’d walk over every night, and I’d just lift up the blanket, put my ear in there, and I would … listen to his tone, which is buttery, … smooth. I mean, tone is in the fingers, yes, but it definitely helps to have a good amp.”
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