Atlanta, GA progressive steel outfit Mastodon have plans in thoughts for his or her ninth studio album. Ought to these plans come to fruition, the group’s follow-up to 2021’s “Hushed And Grim” will come collectively in 2024. Talking lately with Guitar Summit, the band’s guitarist Invoice Kelliher shared an outine of waht the group have within the works:
“…I’m continually writing. We simply received off a tour with Gojira simply a few weeks, a few month in the past, and we’re about to do a cruise again residence. We’ve by no means achieved a cruise — like a rock and roll cruise — with Lamb Of God and GWAR and Shadows Fall. That’s gonna be actually enjoyable. After which on the finish of the 12 months, in November, we’re gonna do a South American tour with Gojira.
And hopefully when that’s over, December and at first of subsequent 12 months, we are able to begin sitting down and really riffing out and writing a brand new file. As a result of it’s already time to — it’s previous time to jot down a brand new file, despite the fact that ‘Hushed And Grim‘ was a double album, and I really feel like there’s much more juice for the squeeze of that file, however we simply haven’t — due to COVID, we didn’t tour sufficient on it. We haven’t achieved a correct European tour. There’s quite a lot of locations we’ve missed and it’s, it’s onerous nowadays to get out and tour as a result of every little thing has modified.”
He continued:
“With out going into an excessive amount of element, the worth of every little thing, the worth of gasoline goes up. And that trickles all the way down to us as a band. Once we exit on tour, now we have to provide you with half one million {dollars} simply to help the tour, like of our personal cash that’s supposedly saved, which I don’t have that a lot cash — we don’t have any cash saved.
Each time we do a tour, we spend all the cash — we give, ‘Hey, right here’s your paycheck.’ ‘Trigger we have been residence for 2 years from COVID, and check out not working for 2 years. It’s tough. Fortunately, my spouse works; she’s received an excellent job. So it’s been very tough. Our supervisor handed away a couple of years in the past, and that form of put us on this loopy tailspin, ’trigger he was our every little thing. And COVID occurs, and the way in which the world goes proper now, it’s not the simplest factor to get on the market and simply begin touring and attempting to generate profits.”
Returning to the subject of a brand new file, he added:
“The reply to your query is yeah, subsequent 12 months we’re gonna write a brand new file, and I’ve already began writing and I’m very enthusiastic about it. It’s a pleasant time. It’s simply — I suppose what I’m getting at is, like, it’s already time to jot down a brand new file and take day without work when my spouse’s, like, ‘You want to get on the market and work. You guys haven’t labored up to now three years. You’ve solely achieved a month a 12 months.’ It’s not quite a lot of time on the market.
However I’m, like, yeah, nicely, the world is the other way up and the gasoline costs are loopy. And all people’s on tour attempting to make again their cash from the misplaced wages. And it’s a multitude. However I’m not gonna let it cease me from writing the subsequent right-turn file.”
[via Blabbermouth.net]
