The wheels are in motion for a new Mastodon album. Band vocalist/guitarist Brent Hinds recently told MTVHive.com that writing for it is already underway and if all goes well, Mastodon could possibly be in the studio as early as January. However, he did add: “we’ve never put out an album a year. That would be unlike us, so maybe we could tour for another year on The Hunter. It’s very possible.”
As for the new material that he himself has been working on for the potential album, he stated:
“A lot of the stuff I’m writing is in open G-minor. I’m playing a lot of slide guitar and just getting really Jimmy Page-y on the place and getting really eerie and Radioheadish and very spooky sounding.”
When asked how far along his bandmates were with new ideas of their own, he offered:
“Those dudes are always working. There’s never really a shortage of music with Mastodon because all of us are working on something musically. I’m in good company. Just because they might stand in the middle of the stage or something, people might think, this is the leader, he must conduct everything, but we’re all the leaders. We spread the weight around.”
