Troy Sanders And Bill Kelliher Of Mastodon Discuss Their Album, "Emperor Of Sand" 

I would totaly buy an audiobook read by Troy Sanders

This is the kind of interview you could never make with Brent

Man the deeper I dig with this band the more I like them. Massively talented. Humble. Selfless. Inspired. Makes for not only fun, exciting art - but thought provoking too without being saturated in pretentiousness.

Troy has a voice that massages your eardrums

I fucking love Mastodon

Slowing things down and focusing on melody was the best choice they ever made.

I love how they seem like genuinely nice people.

troy has a really cool voice

Great interview! Loved specially how Bill was very talkative and funny, because sometimes he seems to be the silent and serious one

Bill is the fucking hiding-in-plain-sight rock of this band; I'm happy he's finally getting his moment in the spotlight. He's fuckin earned it. Love this band, love every album, love em as open-armed musicians and dedicated pros. Still don't know any of their lyrics though.

Troy sounds like a professor. The metal professor!!

band is by far the amongst the best today...

Jesus fuck. Troy. Narrate my life you silky voiced angel.

I was with my dad when he bought Crack The Skye on a whim after hearing it in a skateboard shop back in 08. I was only 12 or 13 at the time and didn't realize what the lyrics/theme of the album meant.

These guys are fucking amazing. Followed their passion for music, never let anything stop them from living their dreams. I find a lot of inspiration from their songs, their life stories and personal experiences and I relate to their lyrics a lot. Mastodon is my favorite band of all time, or in this current lifetime.

Tai Lopez has snuck into a Mastodon interview to spread KNOWLEDGE

Great interview, thank you!

there's a lot of musicians that learn so much and give us amazing things with their age, but something about mastodon and those guys really do it in a great way.

Amazing interview!! Great to know Bill feels the same about white pony

Great interview, really enjoyed that. I liked the depth of the questions. Unique. I think the interviewer ( pardon me for not finding his name) did an excellent job of being honest but yet still being a fan. Troy and Bill were honest with good questions. I really enjoyed this vid. Excited to hear new Mastodan!

So much respect. These guys are true artists. Love it.

Just became the biggest fan of Bill with that Deftones White Pony album reference. 2 favorite bands of all time. Please for the love of gawd organize a tour together and play Detroit!

Brent wrote a huge chunk of The Hunter album as well, let's not forget. And as for the comment that Brent is going "off the rails" or going rogue watch Mastodon live and tell me that guy is anything but committed to rocking the fuck out as 1/4 of what makes Mastodon great.

I love listening to interviews with great artists like them

Who is the interviewer? Whomever he is, he is one of the incredibly select few music “critics/interviewer” that actual is worth their salt. A good give and take established with the band.

This interview made me re-realize how amazing these guys are in so many different ways. They truly are one of the best bands making music these days. I aspire to write songs like stuff from Crack The Skye. I'm very hyped for this new album and to see them next month.

Very mature guys. I'm not really into Mastodon, but I'm gonna check their albums more carefully after this interview.

Mastodon one of the last great metal bands... interviewer did a great job too

Mastodon is such a great band. The evolution of their music is amazing & Emperor of Sand shows that so clearly. First time I heard them was when the Blood & Thunder video came out and have never stopped listen to them since then.

Seize The Day. Put down that new rug today. Carpet Diem.

This interview is even better after hearing the album at least 20 times.. If they ever write a book together or have one written with their input buy it for sure.

thank you, that's a great interview, in every aspect that's a great interview....

I really like what I'm hearing from these guys - true professionals doing it the right way.

I reach for white pony, too. its my favorite album of all time!

Lastly, the interviewer mentioned the concept albums and I can see how that gets old for the band members but I truly TRULY love a great concept album that takes you on a journey and once again, Mastodon does that shit RIIIIGHT

Seen Mastodon live with Gojira a few years ago. Best show ever. Hope this new album can be 'Crack the Skye' level.

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They're a great band and great musicians, and the interviewer's doing a great job too - and that's rare! So, this is fun.

I just really got into this band and I haven’t been happier these guys are fantastic and I can’t wait to see them with gojira .. let’s go!!!!

Can't wait for this album to arrive.

cool that bill likes Deftones.

EXCITING TO SEE MUSICIANS WHO DON'T SAY "Y'KNOW" EVERY 4 WORDS!

Bill has the greatest mustache of all time. Troy has the best hair of all time.

Really great interview!

Absolute respect for these guys

Love this.

Great interview, great interviewer.

My aesthetic is when the interviewer has done his homework and knows what he talks and asks about.

"Hold your tongue and bite it too" is my new favorite saying

Great interview!

Great interview.

hope the album will be as crack the skye or even better

Love Bill's Jeff Spicoli impression at the beginning.

lol, I don't think I've ever heard Troy curse in an interview until today.

This was a good interview. Troy seems more somber than his usual joking self.

Dude on the far left looks like Keegan-Michael Key doing white face with a wig on.

I FUCKING LOVE THIS BAND HOLY SHIT

Troy Would Make A Great DJ .. Just Love this Band !!! And Im Damn Near 60 and a Prog Rocker ... But to the point... They Do Rock and a VERY Talanted Band ... Thank You MASTODON !

Far out Troy is so composed. Makes me feel like a complete buffoon

brilliant

Be nice to hear an interviewer say im sorry for your loss but thank you for the art

They're so fucking cool

Wait these guys are all in other bands ? I feel stupid for asking,But what other bands are they in with albums that are released?

White pony + Crack the skye = lml

Was Crack the Skye not story based?

Where is Bill's burritos t-shirt?

1 of the biggest reasons I love this band so much is because I literally feel like they are my homies😂😂 seen so many vids and doc’s on them since 2006 When I first heard them on HEADBANGERS BALL that’s right... that long ago, but they are so funny and REAL idk just feels like I’ve known them forever, and you know... one could say that they are Proggy but tbh they do it so well. So many “proggy” band to me are just corny, like Dream Theater is nice and all but, I hate all the abstract synth shit they put in their songs that don’t make sense, and a lot of bands do that. Mastodon reminds me of Rush... like they have synths and pads they put in their music but it ALWAYS just works and works for the song... that’s doing it RIGHT and man they are just killer album after album... so overlooked and underrated but that’s okay... Ima fan 4 life guys

as always they make another album to smoke weed to and explore it

The Emperor of Sands..Also makes Glass.. Pretty transparent

:39 Really? Since Leviathan? Has this dude not heard Crack the Skye??

At 1:35, I mean, what a MAN

Deftones ,white pony!!! Great album to turn to!!!

"...for sure..."

this is a record that will be very hard for me to digest.....

2:00 He is talking about his wife. That makes me f..n sad.

Never knew Bill had a lip ring hidden under his mustache.

That was a damn good interview. And Mastodon are fun humble dudes except for B. Hinds.

No story since Leviathan, dafuq is he even talking about? Leviathan didn't really have a story, it was all just semi-paraphrasing Moby Dick. Both Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye told much clearer, more direct stories.

Bill is so hot

No concept album since Leviathan?? Where has this guy been? Really????

Hooray for acid

the drug part...!!

Would I watch a Blood Mountain movie? Um fuck ye

I just discovered Mastodon, I thought rock was dead. I was so-very wrong. I find most of the metal genre, with the comical kookie monster vocal and look I’m cool, I’m downtuned sludge very boring . These guys are musical and muscular what a concept .

Is Troy god reincarnated?

sultans curse is about his mother having cancer, she must have opened tutenkamens tomb. Or been super pro war in the middle east.

White Pony :)

hehe

Why do interviewers insist on talking so much? Ask better questions and you'll get more from your subjects.

This interviewer reminds me of Jordan Schlansky from Conan. I mean, he acts nothing like him, but he could play his body-double.

i want to sex this album asap!

Drugs part

“Deftones white pony” sick

question guy was not cool legumes.

This guy interviewing them is too worried about sounding cool

..... Seems Brent is writing less for Mastodon these days.

The interviewer annoys me. As soon as he's done asking a question he stops looking at them when they start to answer, even though they are looking right at him when answering the question. VERY disrespectful. It's as though the interviewer couldn't care less about their answers, because he doesn't even offer them the courteousy of looking at them when they answer his questions. Pissed me off.

bill shhhhhhh

Bep

Outgrew screaming? Plz! Screaming is singing as much as is clean singing!! :)