Mastodon Release Full-Length Album Documentary 'The Making Of Emperor Of Sand'

By: Dec. 04, 2017
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Mastodon Release Full-Length Album Documentary 'The Making Of Emperor Of Sand'

As previously announced, Mastodon have received two 2018 GRAMMY® Award nominations in the categories of "Best Rock Album" (Emperor of Sand) and "Best Metal Performance" (album track "Sultan's Curse"). To celebrate their career total GRAMMY® nominations of five, the Atlanta-based rock outfit has released a full-length documentary, The Making Of Emperor Of Sand, via YouTube now. The seventy-five minute plus film brings the viewer deep into the band's creative inner sanctum and presents an honest, funny, often emotional and deeply personal peek into the four distinctly different personalities. Their collective strengths are distilled into one unified vision and a powerful force of nature. Mastodon has shared this message with fans:

"Earlier this year we released a 12-part series showing the making of our album Emperor of Sand. We've cut it all together, added over 30 minutes of never before seen footage and turned it into a documentary! This is a deep look into the making of the album and the inspiration behind the music. With the GRAMMY® nominations Emperor of Sand has received this week, we thought it was the perfect time to release it. We hope you enjoy the documentary. If you do, feel free to share it! Thanks to Jimmy Hubbard helping us put this together!" -- Mastodon

Click here to view and share The Making Of Emperor Of Sand
Emperor of Sand remains a creative high watermark for the band, becoming the group's third successive release to enter the Top 10 of the Billboard Top 200, but also commanded their best first-week sales to date with more than 43,000 units. Emperor of Sand debuted at #1 on the Billboard Rock chart, as well as #1 on the Physical album chart.
The four-song EP, Cold Dark Place limited edition 10" vinyl picture disc is sold out while the CD edition is available now.
Order Cold Dark Place here: https://wbr.ec/colddarkplace
View and share Mastodon performing "Toe To Toes" in the studio here
Be sure to tune into the 60th Annual GRAMMY® Awards, which will be broadcast live from New York City's Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 at 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT on CBS.
Mastodon is on the road in the U.K. through the end of 2017:
December 4 Civic Hall Wolverhampton, UK
December 5 Rock City Nottingham, UK
December 6 Northumbria Uni Newcastle, UK
December 7 Barrowland Glasgow, Scotland (Sold Out)
December 9 Manchester Academy Manchester, UK
December 10 Brixton Academy London, UK
Follow Mastodon:
Instagram: @mastodonrocks


Still photo taken from The Making Of Emperor Of Sand -
produced and directed by Jimmy Hubbard



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