Mastodon Announce Producer For New Album
by 
Metal Martyr on May 26th, 2008
This news is actually a few days old but here it is anyway. As reported by Ultimate-guitar.com:
Atlanta progressive metallers Mastodon have tapped Brendan O’Brien (Audioslave, The Offspring, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver) to produce their next album. The band is scheduled hit the studio this week to begin recording the follow-up to the Grammy-nominated 2006 release “Blood Mountain“.
In a recent interview with UK’s Rock Sound magazine, Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor stated about the songwriting process for the group’s new album, “It’s a long, arduous process. We’ve got a skeleton for the whole record and these huge chunks of music four of five different segments that don’t have a beginning or end yet… We’re just basically in the middle of the record, adding stuff, giving it a taste then adding a little more ‘pepper’ or ’salt.’ Once all the ingredients are in there, you have to bake it — which is just playing it over and over again until it feels right. The main goal is to get the songs right so you don’t have to think about the time changes — so you can relax with it and play it how it should be played. There’s a level of difficulty to our stuff and if you’re too wrapped up in trying to remember how many times something goes and the timing for the next riff, you can’t examine the song for being a song. So it takes a while.”
I can’t say that I’m a huge Mastodon fan. I have Blood Mountain and never really got the ambition to check out other albums. I’ve tried sampling a few CD’s here and there at F.Y.E. but like I said before, the listening stations suck. Someone told me I should check out Leviathan but I have yet to. I’m easger to see how this one is going to turn out though.
Image Source: www.Spirit-of-metal.com
Tags: Mastodon, new mastodon cd, new producer| 2.9 |
Related Stories
POSTED IN: Bands G Through M
0 opinions for Mastodon Announce Producer For New Album
No one has left a comment yet. You know what this means, right? You could be first!
Have an opinion? Leave a comment: