Sand Storm
Aug 06, 2019
3 minutes
Interview: Joel McIver
Mastodon are a unique band: Definitely heavy metal in flavor and progressive in nature, but a million miles away from anything that would usually be associated with the familiar ‘prog-metal’ tag. Partly this is due to their expansive sound, epic rather than granular in focus, but it’s also a lot to do with the Atlanta foursome’s classic rock influences, as we found out when Mastodon recently covered Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven’. You’d think a band would need serious cojones to dare
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