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“ Just making sure that everything I do that involves leaving my house is truly fulfilling and beneficial for either me or my family. I mean, I’ m not constantly questioning. But I’ m keeping myself in check, making sure I’ m doing things for the right reasons, sending out good vibes, and just being a better person, and sharing that positivity at the same time as I’ m being extremely realistic. I feel like the outward light that you project will hopefully – and should – return back to you. And that giant description can be summed up in one small word – karma.”

It’ s one of the reasons why Mastodon always tries to meet its following after every show, through relatively affordable VIP packages. With an asterisk caveat warning that not all band members will participate. Again, Sanders says, honesty is always the best policy.“ It’ s a tricky thing,” he says.“ We’ re friendly guys in the first place, and if anyone ever approaches us we’ re always happy to be recognized, because without our fans, we are nothing. So we recognize that, and we’ re humble and genuine men who enjoy engaging with our fans. But there are some cities where – in between sound check and show time – I go to visit my uncle for a couple of hours or we meet at a coffee shop or something. And I can’ t be there backstage, because this is really important – I need to see this uncle. So the asterisk is a simple disclaimer – if only three of us are there, it’ s okay. We, uh, do have a lot of other

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things going on.”

But all Mastodon members can agree on one thing – they are not heavy metal, and they’ ve been trying to wriggle free of such nomenclature through each successive effort.“ I mean, there are elements of heavy metal in some of our songs,” Sanders cedes.“ But we’ ve got a lot of prog moments, a lot of catchy rock moments, along with some slow, sprawling, epic journeys. So we don’ t really care for any tags. Besides, when you think of heavy metal, you think of albums where you’ re going to get the same intensity, over and over. And that’ s just one fact of our band – we have many others to be considered.”

After listening to Emperor of Sand, a friend recently asked Sanders if it was difficult to play such grave material on tour, through a grueling 150-concert tour. No, he immediately responded. Not at all. And in fact, almost the opposite.“ Because when we’ re on that stage, we can see how our music directly touches people,” he concludes.“ They’ re singing it back to us, they’ re crying, or they’ ll even turn to their partner and start making out. So I know that our band touches some people in an incredible way. And we’ re always saying,‘ Hey – we write about what we live.’ And as much as I would like to write about ice cream and rollercoasters? Well, I just can’ t do that. That’ s not what’ s coming from Mastodon, inside ….”

Appearing 5 / 13 at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago.

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