A second track from MASTODON’s forthcoming album, Emperor of Sand, has made its online debut. The song “Show Yourself” can be streamed HERE ahead of the record’s March 31st street date.
Art is a cyclical beast. The same can easily be said of Grammy Award nominated hard rock juggernaut Mastodon. The group’s four members recognize the importance of life’s omnipresent cycles on their sixth full-length album, Once More ‘Round the Sun. The band orbits around themes of loss and rebirth, twirling a sonic spiral of its signature robust riffing, hypnotically haunting soundscapes, triage of dynamic voices, and thundering seismic grooves. At the same time, this particular collection proves personal for Brann Dailor, Brent Hinds, Bill Kelliher, and Troy Sanders. The very title says something slightly different for each member.
“Quite literally, Once More ‘Round the Sun means a year-in-the-life,” explains Dailor. “Lyrically, we were discussing things that happened to us recently, whereas in the past we looked further back for inspiration. It’s about 365 days in this band. It was a tough and strange journey. We happened to be in the middle of completing a full rotation musically as everything else was going on.”
“It’s about being a man and trying to survive in the world. You’re facing all of the crazy shit that goes along with it,” adds Hinds. “You’ve got to just keep rolling. It’s the daily grind everybody deals with. It’s grinding and rewarding.”
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