Mastodon Gonna Drop a Deuce

It’s been just about three years since Mastodon released their latest album, Once More ‘Round the Sun… which means it’s time to start thinking about the next Mastodon album.

Excuse me — that’s albums, according to a new Guitar World interview with guitarist/vocalist/madman Brent Hinds:

“It’s shaping up to be a double album. One is an album I wrote myself, and recorded with [drummer] Brann [Dailor] and [bassist/vocalist] Troy [Sanders] during the Once More ‘Round the Sun sessions. My part is called Cold Dark Place, and it has to do with a nasty breakup that I went through. I wrote some pretty dark, beautiful, spooky, funky, ethereal, melancholy music, which also sounds like the Bee Gees a little bit. [laughs]

“The other guys are writing another album, which I haven’t even heard yet so I can’t tell you what it sounds like. But I’ll come in to give some noodle-y leads here and there. And for sure I’ll be recording with my new signature Flying V…while standing on top of a chair with a werewolf mask on. And that’s not a joke; I really do that. I never sit down to record. You can’t sit down and play a Flying V, everyone knows that.”

It can be difficult to tell sometimes when Hinds is being serious and when he’s just clownin’, but the part about the doubt album seems sincere — I mean, if he was joking, I think he could find a better fake title than Cold Dark Place, right?

As for the bit about the werewolf mask… actually, he might not be kidding about that, either. Remember how Buckethead allegedly recorded all his guitar parts for Chinese Democracy while sitting in a chicken coop watching pornography? Just sayin’, there are stranger ways to make a record than with a werewolf mask.

[via The PRP]