Metal wonderboys Mastodon are roughly 5 songs into their follow-up to 2006’s highly acclaimed Blood Mountain. They’re in the midst of recording the album in Atlanta with Brendan O’Brien producing and, according to drummber Brann Dailor, “Everything sounds real creepy and spaced out and different. There are little cool things we’re going to do to the record that we’ve been wanting to do for a long time.”

While the album is still untitled, Mastodon are hoping to have it in listener’s hands before the close of 2008. Dailor also claimed that fans may get a shot of new material when the band plays its set at Bonnaroo.http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003811648