MASTODON vocalist/bassist Troy Sanders is featured in a new interview with Australia's Hysteria TV, conducted during this year's Soundwave Festival tour. Check it out below:

Italy's SpazioRock.it recently caught up with Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor, conducted a few minutes before the band's show in Milan on January 26th. An excerpt follows:

Q: Mastodon's average listener is open minded, but what would you say to anybody who still likes the Remission era, who wants something more violent and aggressive?

A: "Sorry? (laughs) That's what I'd like to say! What I’d say would be, 'sorry that you want something more violent and aggressive!'. There’s this illusive, extremely heavy record that people really want an aggressive record. But if we were to fabricate something based on what people wanted to hear, and then that record came out, then that wouldn’t have come from our hearts and souls. So, even if they got that kind of heavy record, I still don't believe they'd like it. I don’t get why people still want that kind of record. We just want to do what we honestly like and we want to follow the flow of ideas as naturally as we can, and we hope that people who just follow us for this reason are more than that other kind of people. I don't want to start making music based on what I think people want to hear. What’s important today is to stay true to yourself while making music."

The full interview can be found at this location.

In the following video, courtesy of RockSound.tv, Mastodon talk about "pre-show rituals and how their dressing room becomes a box of farts":