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Mastodon Writing New Songs For Upcoming Album

posted May 7, 2013 at 1:06 PM by xFiruath.  (7 Comments)

Mastodon has announced the band is currently writing new material for the follow-up to latest full-length album "The Hunter" (reviewed here). The band comments:

"For those of you who are interested, Yes we have been VERY busy writing and putting songs together for the next studio Mastodon album, we are down at our space hammering out riffs that can be friends and working our fingers to the bone to put out another great album. Thank you to all our loyal fans!"

Mastodon will also be appearing on the upcoming 2013 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival tour, with full details available here. You can also check out the band's previous music video for "Dry Bone Valley" below.

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7 Comments on "Mastodon Writing New Songs"

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1. cbella writes:

Can't wait!

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2. Houston from Houston writes:

Fuggin right!!!.....i cannot wait, i think it's impossible for mastodon to make a weak/bad album

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3. Spirit In Black writes:

Looking forward to this. Great band, very talented.

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4. Deathblooms writes:

Good to see Mastodon back writing again after taking time off to pursue their side project 'Mastodon'

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5. PegBundy writes:

I hope its harder and more aggressive than the last one but if they work with the same guy as last time the sound will get tamer.

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6. Spaghetti_Motel writes:

Yeah I was pretty disappointed with The Hunter, hopefully they don't continue down the path of commercial radio rock.

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7. WOLF7 writes:

Certainly looking forward to this one.

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