Mastodon
Marrow Deep
Album · Metal · 2026 · Loma Vista Recordings · Gerade veröffentlicht! Jetzt anhören
As with too many Mastodon albums, Marrow Deep is a triumph born out of tragedy. Or as drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor tells Apple Music, “It’s another unfortunate set of circumstances that got in the way of us making a party album.”
In early 2025, Dailor’s mother died. In August of the same year, former Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds was killed in a motorcycle accident. Dailor, vocalist/bassist Troy Sanders, and guitarist Bill Kelliher had made the agonizing decision to kick Hinds out of the band not long before. As if all of that weren’t bad enough, Sanders lost his home in Florida to Hurricane Helene in late 2024.
Mastodon poured all this grief and devastation into Marrow Deep, the band’s first album without Hinds and their first with new guitarist Nick Johnston and keyboardist João Nogueira. “I think we helped ourselves to get through some complicated emotions, and we did it together,” Dailor says. “We leaned on each other the whole time, and we were able to get through some tough times using Mastodon again as the tool to do so. We drove through that storm headfirst and confronted it.”
Singles “Your Ghost Again” and “Snakes for Dinner” are tributes to Dailor’s mom and Hinds, acknowledging the profound effect those close to us can have on our daily existence. As Dailor sings on the latter tune, “When you left, you took our hearts and minds/When you left, you took the moon and stars.” It’s a sentiment that has already resonated with the band’s fans across the globe.
“For me, that sentiment refers to the moment of impact or the next day after you receive the news,” Dailor says. “You feel like when they left, they’re gone and they took everything that was good because you feel like shit. I felt like that was a good way to describe that feeling, and I’m a human being, so it makes sense that it would connect with other people.”
The song features a cameo from Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, whose last Mastodon guest appearance was 20 years ago, on the band’s 2006 album, Blood Mountain. In fact, Marrow Deep has no shortage of guest musicians:
Opener “Barbarians Blood” features percussion from Converge drummer Ben Koller. Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe and Converge bassist Nate Newton provide gang vocals on “A Vampire’s Demeanor.” Neil Fallon of Clutch lends some spoken word to closer “The Three Fates.” Joe Duplantier of Gojira appears on “The Vanishing,” which also features a bass intro from no less a legend than Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler. (“To have him on ‘The Vanishing’ is extra special,” Dailor says, “because the lyrics are about my mom, and Geezer was her favorite member of Black Sabbath.”)
“In the Ruins” was born out of a riff that Kelliher has had since the band’s Leviathan tour back in 2004 and almost missed the cut here until Sanders laid down his vocals. “I could tell the subject matter was Troy talking about the devastation that had visited him that he hadn’t really talked about to anybody,” Dailor says. “We had so much other really heavy stuff going on that it was like what had befallen him had sort of gone on the back burner, unfortunately.”
In the end, Marrow Deep is a testament to Mastodon’s perseverance. It’s also the first chapter of a new era for the band, both musically and in terms of their healing process. “Hopefully our fans, and maybe new fans,” Dailor says, “can find something that’s healing within the record as well.”
In early 2025, Dailor’s mother died. In August of the same year, former Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds was killed in a motorcycle accident. Dailor, vocalist/bassist Troy Sanders, and guitarist Bill Kelliher had made the agonizing decision to kick Hinds out of the band not long before. As if all of that weren’t bad enough, Sanders lost his home in Florida to Hurricane Helene in late 2024.
Mastodon poured all this grief and devastation into Marrow Deep, the band’s first album without Hinds and their first with new guitarist Nick Johnston and keyboardist João Nogueira. “I think we helped ourselves to get through some complicated emotions, and we did it together,” Dailor says. “We leaned on each other the whole time, and we were able to get through some tough times using Mastodon again as the tool to do so. We drove through that storm headfirst and confronted it.”
Singles “Your Ghost Again” and “Snakes for Dinner” are tributes to Dailor’s mom and Hinds, acknowledging the profound effect those close to us can have on our daily existence. As Dailor sings on the latter tune, “When you left, you took our hearts and minds/When you left, you took the moon and stars.” It’s a sentiment that has already resonated with the band’s fans across the globe.
“For me, that sentiment refers to the moment of impact or the next day after you receive the news,” Dailor says. “You feel like when they left, they’re gone and they took everything that was good because you feel like shit. I felt like that was a good way to describe that feeling, and I’m a human being, so it makes sense that it would connect with other people.”
The song features a cameo from Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, whose last Mastodon guest appearance was 20 years ago, on the band’s 2006 album, Blood Mountain. In fact, Marrow Deep has no shortage of guest musicians:
Opener “Barbarians Blood” features percussion from Converge drummer Ben Koller. Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe and Converge bassist Nate Newton provide gang vocals on “A Vampire’s Demeanor.” Neil Fallon of Clutch lends some spoken word to closer “The Three Fates.” Joe Duplantier of Gojira appears on “The Vanishing,” which also features a bass intro from no less a legend than Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler. (“To have him on ‘The Vanishing’ is extra special,” Dailor says, “because the lyrics are about my mom, and Geezer was her favorite member of Black Sabbath.”)
“In the Ruins” was born out of a riff that Kelliher has had since the band’s Leviathan tour back in 2004 and almost missed the cut here until Sanders laid down his vocals. “I could tell the subject matter was Troy talking about the devastation that had visited him that he hadn’t really talked about to anybody,” Dailor says. “We had so much other really heavy stuff going on that it was like what had befallen him had sort of gone on the back burner, unfortunately.”
In the end, Marrow Deep is a testament to Mastodon’s perseverance. It’s also the first chapter of a new era for the band, both musically and in terms of their healing process. “Hopefully our fans, and maybe new fans,” Dailor says, “can find something that’s healing within the record as well.”
Marrow Deep
Mastodon
As with too many Mastodon albums, Marrow Deep is a triumph born out of tragedy. Or as drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor tells Apple Music, “It’s another unfortunate set of circumstances that got in the way of us making a party album.”
In early 2025, Dailor’s mother died. In August of the same year, former Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds was killed in a motorcycle accident. Dailor, vocalist/bassist Troy Sanders, and guitarist Bill Kelliher had made the agonizing decision to kick Hinds out of the band not long before. As if all of that weren’t bad enough, Sanders lost his home in Florida to Hurricane Helene in late 2024.
Mastodon poured all this grief and devastation into Marrow Deep, the band’s first album without Hinds and their first with new guitarist Nick Johnston and keyboardist João Nogueira. “I think we helped ourselves to get through some complicated emotions, and we did it together,” Dailor says. “We leaned on each other the whole time, and we were able to get through some tough times using Mastodon again as the tool to do so. We drove through that storm headfirst and confronted it.”
Singles “Your Ghost Again” and “Snakes for Dinner” are tributes to Dailor’s mom and Hinds, acknowledging the profound effect those close to us can have on our daily existence. As Dailor sings on the latter tune, “When you left, you took our hearts and minds/When you left, you took the moon and stars.” It’s a sentiment that has already resonated with the band’s fans across the globe.
“For me, that sentiment refers to the moment of impact or the next day after you receive the news,” Dailor says. “You feel like when they left, they’re gone and they took everything that was good because you feel like shit. I felt like that was a good way to describe that feeling, and I’m a human being, so it makes sense that it would connect with other people.”
The song features a cameo from Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, whose last Mastodon guest appearance was 20 years ago, on the band’s 2006 album, Blood Mountain. In fact, Marrow Deep has no shortage of guest musicians:
Opener “Barbarians Blood” features percussion from Converge drummer Ben Koller. Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe and Converge bassist Nate Newton provide gang vocals on “A Vampire’s Demeanor.” Neil Fallon of Clutch lends some spoken word to closer “The Three Fates.” Joe Duplantier of Gojira appears on “The Vanishing,” which also features a bass intro from no less a legend than Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler. (“To have him on ‘The Vanishing’ is extra special,” Dailor says, “because the lyrics are about my mom, and Geezer was her favorite member of Black Sabbath.”)
“In the Ruins” was born out of a riff that Kelliher has had since the band’s Leviathan tour back in 2004 and almost missed the cut here until Sanders laid down his vocals. “I could tell the subject matter was Troy talking about the devastation that had visited him that he hadn’t really talked about to anybody,” Dailor says. “We had so much other really heavy stuff going on that it was like what had befallen him had sort of gone on the back burner, unfortunately.”
In the end, Marrow Deep is a testament to Mastodon’s perseverance. It’s also the first chapter of a new era for the band, both musically and in terms of their healing process. “Hopefully our fans, and maybe new fans,” Dailor says, “can find something that’s healing within the record as well.”
In early 2025, Dailor’s mother died. In August of the same year, former Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds was killed in a motorcycle accident. Dailor, vocalist/bassist Troy Sanders, and guitarist Bill Kelliher had made the agonizing decision to kick Hinds out of the band not long before. As if all of that weren’t bad enough, Sanders lost his home in Florida to Hurricane Helene in late 2024.
Mastodon poured all this grief and devastation into Marrow Deep, the band’s first album without Hinds and their first with new guitarist Nick Johnston and keyboardist João Nogueira. “I think we helped ourselves to get through some complicated emotions, and we did it together,” Dailor says. “We leaned on each other the whole time, and we were able to get through some tough times using Mastodon again as the tool to do so. We drove through that storm headfirst and confronted it.”
Singles “Your Ghost Again” and “Snakes for Dinner” are tributes to Dailor’s mom and Hinds, acknowledging the profound effect those close to us can have on our daily existence. As Dailor sings on the latter tune, “When you left, you took our hearts and minds/When you left, you took the moon and stars.” It’s a sentiment that has already resonated with the band’s fans across the globe.
“For me, that sentiment refers to the moment of impact or the next day after you receive the news,” Dailor says. “You feel like when they left, they’re gone and they took everything that was good because you feel like shit. I felt like that was a good way to describe that feeling, and I’m a human being, so it makes sense that it would connect with other people.”
The song features a cameo from Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, whose last Mastodon guest appearance was 20 years ago, on the band’s 2006 album, Blood Mountain. In fact, Marrow Deep has no shortage of guest musicians:
Opener “Barbarians Blood” features percussion from Converge drummer Ben Koller. Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe and Converge bassist Nate Newton provide gang vocals on “A Vampire’s Demeanor.” Neil Fallon of Clutch lends some spoken word to closer “The Three Fates.” Joe Duplantier of Gojira appears on “The Vanishing,” which also features a bass intro from no less a legend than Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler. (“To have him on ‘The Vanishing’ is extra special,” Dailor says, “because the lyrics are about my mom, and Geezer was her favorite member of Black Sabbath.”)
“In the Ruins” was born out of a riff that Kelliher has had since the band’s Leviathan tour back in 2004 and almost missed the cut here until Sanders laid down his vocals. “I could tell the subject matter was Troy talking about the devastation that had visited him that he hadn’t really talked about to anybody,” Dailor says. “We had so much other really heavy stuff going on that it was like what had befallen him had sort of gone on the back burner, unfortunately.”
In the end, Marrow Deep is a testament to Mastodon’s perseverance. It’s also the first chapter of a new era for the band, both musically and in terms of their healing process. “Hopefully our fans, and maybe new fans,” Dailor says, “can find something that’s healing within the record as well.”
