Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor has revealed some details about the band\'s upcoming album. Mastodon is currently in a studio in Atlanta working with producer Brendan O\'Brien. In an interview with Billboard.com, Dailor states:\"There\'s so many toys to play with over at [O\'Brien\'s] studio, like pipe organs and all this crazy shit. There are little cool things we\'re going to do that we\'ve been wanting to do for a long time. (...) Everything sounds real creepy, spaced out and different.\"
Dailor promises the as-yet-untitled album will have the conceptual feel of prior releases \'Leviathan\' (based around \"water\") and \'Blood Mountain\' (\"earth\"):
\"I think a lot of people didn\'t realize \'Blood Mountain\' was a concept record. We made up our own story again this time, but we may try to make it a little more evident that that\'s what\'s going on. \"
The new album, which should be out before the end of 2008, will feature a fifteen minute track. New material will probably surface at lives shows this summer while they are on tour.
Funny factoid: Brann Dailor was introduced to producer O\'Brien through Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg, who\'s son is a big Mastodon fan.
