Mastodon – Once More ‘Round The Sun [Audio Vinyl]

Get your hands on Mastodon’s Once More ‘Round The Sun 2 Vinyl LP, featuring the songs High Road and The Motherload.

Art is a cyclical beast. The same can easily be said of Grammy Award nominated hard rock juggernaut Mastodon. The groups four members recognize the importance of lifes omnipresent cycles on their sixth full-length album, Once More Round the Sun.

The very title says something slightly different for each member. “Quite literally, Once More ‘Round the Sun means a year-in-the-life,” explains Dailor. “Lyrically, we were discussing things that happened to us recently, whereas in the past we looked further back for inspiration. It’s about 365 days in this band. It was a tough and strange journey. We happened to be in the middle of completing a full rotation musically as everything else was going on.”

The band orbits around themes of loss and rebirth, twirling a sonic spiral of its signature robust riffing, hypnotically ha