Paste's Tyler Kane caught up with bassist and vocalist Troy Sanders of Atlanta, GA-based metallers MASTODON to discuss the band’s forthcoming album, Once More Round The Sun, which is slated for a release later this year on Warner Brothers Records.

“The songs all revealed themselves as what we’d hoped they’d sound like,” Sanders told Paste in February, immediately following the album’s tracking. “It’s big hugs all the way around. The four of us are digging it very heavily.”

The album - which took the band from their hometown in Atlanta to Franklin, Tenn., for recording late last year - was just mixed by producer Nick Raskulinecz. Now the Atlanta quartet is just waiting to solidify a release date.

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On February 11th, 2012, Mastodon took the stage at England's O2 Academy in Brixton, capping off the band's world tour in support of their album, The Hunter. This sold-out performance was Mastodon's first show at the legendary Brixton venue. It won't be their last, as the audience positively erupted from the opening chords until the final, frenzied encore.

Mastodon Live At Brixton will be released on limited edition 2LP 180 gram vinyl (2,000 copies only), on Saturday April 19th in honor of this year's Record Store Day.

This special 180-gram vinyl pressing is the only physical version of this special show and includes a DVD of the entire performance.

Says the Warner label: " Warner Bros. Records, an official sponsor of Record Store Day, has announced its annual participation featuring a series of vinyl albums and singles exclusively available on Saturday, April 19th in honor of everyone's favorite holiday: a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 1,000 independently owned record stores in the U.S. and hundreds of similar stores internationally. We are excited to reveal our very special, limited-edition, exclusive releases for Record Store Day."

Check out BraveWords review of Live At Brixton here.