Mastodon : Hushed & Grim

Mastodon will release their anxiously awaited ninth full-length album, HUSHED AND GRIM, on October 29, 2021 via Reprise Records. Closing a four-year gap, this notably marks the heavy rock quartets first double album and first new record since 2017s Emperor of Sand, which netted the Atlanta band a GRAMMY Award in the category of Best Metal Performance

Over the past year, the group recorded HUSHED AND GRIM in their hometown, collaborating with producer David Bottrill [Tool, Rush, Muse, Peter Gabriel] behind the board. As their most ambitious body of work to date, it consists of 15 tracks, surveying sonic landscapes of rock, psychedelia, punk, metal, alternative, and prog threaded together by the innately expressive musical interplay of these four virtuosic musicians.

For as much as HUSHED AND GRIM is steeped in one of the darkest periods of the bands career as each member experiencing personal grief, its light