Look, I know we've said Mastodon was planning on recording their new album recently. But this time we're serious! Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor has told the 93X radio station that the band is planning on hitting the studio mid-November.
"We're drilling the new material to record mid-November," he said. "We're going for realsies mid-November, so we are just drilling it.
"For me, I have to play each song, like, a thousand times — or at least I want to. I want to feel like I exhausted every fill possibility, every rhythmic possibility — leave no stone unturned, as far as the percussive aspects of the music. And there's also discovery, guitar-wise, 'That's not really working. We have to do this.' Before we get in there with any kind of producer, we want to have pored over it tirelessly. And then when we go to really record it, that'll be like the easy part, 'cause we're so prepared. So that's what we're doing. We're just going through that stuff at the moment."
In an interview last August, drummer Brann Dailor revealed the band has "too much material" for the new record, but will whittle is down to "45 to 50 minutes of new stuff and pick the cream of the crop, the stuff we’re all gravitating towards." From what we've heard, the new album will advance the band's sound and be a little over the place.
"We have too much material at the moment. We have enough for probably a couple of albums, so that’s good. But also we need to focus now. We’re at the point where we’re ready to go in and do it for real, I think. We just started jamming the new stuff as if we were gonna go in and do it, so that’s where we’re at."
