MASTODON bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders is featured in a new interview with Radio Metal. An excerpt is available below:

Radio Metal: Crack The Skye was both a critical and a commercial success. Did this album have an impact on the writing of your new album, The Hunter?

Troy Sanders: "I don’t think so. We’ve always tried to be very passionate about what we create. We write music from the heart, and it comes out very authentically from the four of us. So when we create music and the four of us are ultimately very happy with it, we kind of just go for it. And after months of work, it turned out to be a collection of songs that we all loved within the band. So we didn’t really feel any pressure, like: 'We’ve got to outdo ourselves, it’s got to be better than Crack The Skye', or anything along those lines. If we put our hearts and souls into it a hundred percent, we feel confident that it’s going to be good on its own."

Radio Metal: About this new album, Brent Hinds said: “Kids are going to get in trouble to this album. They’re going to break speakers, pop springs on their beds and get drunk and nude in public”. Did you already try to make kids listen to this album?

Troy Sanders: "That’s the vibe we hope people get when they’re listening to it! We feel, especially coming off the Crack The Skye record, that this one brings a fresh breath of energy back into the band, in a very positive way. With upbeat songs like 'Blasteroid', and real movers and shakers such as 'Spectrelight', we hope it kind of rejuvenates the fans that we already have, and the new ones that hopefully will find us. Yeah, we want people to jump up and down and break something! We want to pass that good energy that we feel on to anyone that will listen."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Mastodon recently released a new single to radio for the track called 'Curl Of The Burl'.. Check out the track and coinciding video on YouTube below:

Mastodon will unveil their new album, The Hunter, on the Rockline Radio Show with host Bob Coburn on Monday, September 26th, a day before street date. The show starts at 11:30pm EST/8:30pm PST and fans are encouraged to speak with the band by calling 1-800-344-ROCK (7625). For more information go to this location.

The Hunter will feature a special 3D experience called augmented reality. Using a camera on a computer, fans can turn their own face into The Hunter sculpture from the album cover.

There will also be a CD/DVD that comes with a track-by-track video, psychedelic visualizer, and videos for the tracks ‘Deathbound’ and ‘Black Tongue’ videos.

The limited edition comes with a lenticular poster and two bonus tracks – ‘Deathbound’ and ‘The Ruiner’.

As previously reported, the official tracklisting has been announced as follows:

'Black Tongue'

'Curl Of The Burl'

'Blasteroid'

'Stargasm'

'Octopus Has No Friends'

'All The Heavy Lifting'

'The Hunter'

'Dry Bone Valley'

'Thickening'

'Creature Lives'

'Spectrelight'

'Bedazzled Fingernails'

'The Sparrow'

'The Ruiner' (with limited edition)

'Deathbound' (with limited edition)

A limited edition of The Hunter is now available for pre-order at this location.

Limited Edition package includes:

- CD/DVD housed in digi-pack with an alternative cover
- 20” x 30” Lenticular Poster featuring the album cover of the standard CD
- Augmented reality experience by Total Immersion that will contain exclusive content only available to this package (more information coming soon)
- Instant download of 'Black Tongue'
- A second download of 'Curl Of The Burl', the first official single from The Hunter as soon as it becomes available

Check out the new track ''Black Tongue'' and the official album trailer below: