According to band vocalist/guitarist Brent Hinds Mastodon are nearing the completion of the recording process for their next album with only a few things left to be tracked. Speaking to Spin on the sessions, Hinds described the album with the following:

“Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye — those albums took too long to make. This only took us a couple weeks to record and there’s a totally different feeling to it. It’s a jump-on-your-bed, get naked, and go streaking kind of record. I haven’t had this feeling about a Mastodon record since [2004's] Leviathan. It’s just fucking awesome.”

“We’ve got a song about fighting, there’s a song about lifting heavy stuff, there’s a song about people on meth creeping around in trees trying to get the best wood grain out of a tree to sell it at Lowe’s for [drug] money… The album is kind of silly. We’re taking the piss out of things.”

More on that, along with some more tentative track titles from the effort can be found over at Spin. In addition, the band have made a number of new photos from the sessions for the effort available through their official website, Mastodonrocks.com.