Mastodon’s Marrow Deep Is the Thunderous Eruption of a New Era: Review

Mastodon have proven themselves adept at working their art through grief. Remission, their first album, features a burning horse on the cover that drummer-vocalist Brann Dailor associated with his late sister Skye, a loss that would later more directly inspire Crack the Skye. A couple years later, The Hunter was informed by guitarist-singer Brent Hinds’ brother’s death during a hunting trip. Emperor of Sand was touched by bassist-vocalist Troy Sanders’ wife receiving a cancer diagnosis, as well as the loss of guitarist Bill Kelliher’s mother. Hushed and Grim was driven by the loss of their longtime manager Nick John, a figure who had been with them from their rise out of the worlds of grindcore, death metal, and noise rock into a vaunted and esteemed career as modern metal masters. And then they lost Brent. Get Mastodon Tickets Here Mastodon have always risen to the occasion, and their new album Marrow Deep is no different. It’s no secret that Hinds fell out of love with heavy music as the band’s career went on, with him saying as much in interviews over a wide span of years. You’d be forgiven for thinking it was a wider held belief of the band, given their extracurricular activiti...