![]() ![]() The songs on Once More ’Round the Sun have simpler verse/chorus structures than some of your earlier outings. It’s all wrapped up into the lyrics and all got put in there in some way or another. The four of us know what kind of things went down but people on the outside don’t really know. Kelliher: Everybody knows everybody’s business in our band. It’s based on the feeling of what we were all going through.ĭid everyone in the band get his story told? It’s based on things that happened in our personal lives, whether they were tragedies or good things. Once more ’round the sun, which is a full revolution of the earth around the sun, and all of the things that happened within that year. Kelliher: It’s loosely based on real events that happened. While there might not be a concept per se, it seems like there is a theme that runs throughout the album. The Hunter was kind of more laid back and we were feeling like, “Let’s just write a record for the sake of making some music and not have to have anything attached to it, like a concept and all the visuals, and all the stuff that goes with it.” I think this record was just a continuation of that. We’ve done concept albums, which are really cool, and really serious. Not that we gave up on concepts but we’re just going in a different direction, I guess. Kelliher: It doesn’t really have a concept, per se. Was there a concept behind Once More ’Round the Sun? Prior to The Hunter, your albums had concepts behind them. Even though it sounds like it’s trimmed down and streamlined and all that stuff, to me, it’s harder to write something that makes more sense like that, rather than just throw in a bunch of riffs in a row and scream over it.”Ī few days after Mastodon’s performance at Bonnaroo 2014, Premier Guitar caught up with Kelliher and lead guitarist Brent Hinds to discuss the making of Once More ’Round the Sun and talk gear. “We’re getting better at crafting songs,” says Kelliher. “High Road,” like many of the tracks on Once More ’Round the Sun, features a more concise and accessible song structure than Mastodon’s earlier offerings. It’s happier and catchier.”Īnd catchier it is. I knew something special was going to go on there. When it gets to the chorus, it opens up and draws you in. I felt like it had a heavy kind of, angry grit to the low-tuned chug of the riff. “But it definitely has a melancholy feel. “You know, when I was writing it, it wasn’t like I was in a bad mood or anything,” he explains. You might assume that Kelliher was raging pretty damn hard as he cranked out the hellacious, detuned “High Road” riffs, but that wasn’t the case. I have you screaming for your last breath. The song features lyrics like “I have my boot stuck in your mouth. On a rainy Sunday off while on tour in Europe’s wealthiest country, when nothing was open, guitarist Bill Kelliher wrote the tritone-laced riffs for “High Road,” the lead single from the band’s sixth release, Once More ’Round the Sun. For Mastodon, the setting conjured up much less pretentious thoughts. For some, the country of Luxembourg evokes an image of a fairy-tale land where aristocratic Gwyneth Paltrow look-alikes leisurely spend their afternoons indulging in Quetschentaart, a fruit tart made with Damson plums. ![]()
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