Det alternative metallbandet Mastodon er i gang med oppfølgeren til Crack The Skye fra 2009.

Brann Dailoir kommenterne følgende til Noisecreep: "“We’ve got tons of stuff. We’ve got too much stuff. We go in there every day and just work on it. It’s coming out great.”

"It doesn’t seem as proggy,” fortsetter han. “There’s moments, but it seems more riff-oriented. It seems a little more stripped down. [2004's] ‘Leviathan’ was a little more stripped down, and it feels like that to me. Everything always changes once you go in the studio, but at the moment it seems like a really super-heavy Led Zeppelin or something. It has a lot of that [John] Bonham-esque groove to it, but really heavy and dark. I really like playing like that, and when it goes into those parts, I’m psyched.”

Med andre ord meget lovende, og akkurat som tidligere vil også dette bli et konseptalbum, selv om Dailor ikke vil kommentere ytterligere. Det er også en produsent på plass, men bandet ønsker heller ikke å røpe dette foreløpig.

Mastodon er for øvrig aktuelle i sommmer på både Norwegian Wood og Roskilde festivalen.