“Some of the riffs are really heavy and tasty”: Mastodon are hard at work making “two different projects”

are currently preparing to release two new musical projects. Drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor reveals in a new interview with that the Atlanta-based sludge metal act have been writing since November 2023 and amassed plenty of heavy ideas. While he doesn’t specify the nature of the twin projects, Dailor rules out them being a double album like Mastodon’s latest record, 2021’s .

“I can’t really divulge too much. It’s a hush-hush operation, very top secret,” the drummer says. “I don’t wanna spoil it.

There’s lots of music, that’s all I can say. There’s tons of music.” Dailor continues: “We’ve been writing pretty much this whole time that we’ve been off since we got home from South America [in November 2023].

And after we got home from South America with , we opened Christmas presents and then, since like February or so, we’ve just been working hard making two different projects – not a double album, but two different projects. So that’s the nugget I can share with you.” Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Expanding on what the music will sound like, Dailor says, “Whatever those projects are, nobody knows.

But there’s riffs involved. “Some of the riffs are, like, really heavy and tasty and I really like ’em. “I’m the metalhead in the band, so when we get some real heavy stuff, I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah, I like that.

It’s cool.’” Mastodon are on a co-headline ru.