#666 Mastodon's Brann Dailor & Songs About the Devil
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🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Over seven albums and 18 years, Mastodon has stretched the definition of metal. Co-founder, drummer and lyricist Brann Dailor recently joined hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot to look back over the band’s career. The conversation ranges from forming in Atlanta to coping with personal tragedy through music. They also couldn’t resist asking how the heck they wound up as wildlings on Game of Thrones. Plus, Jim and Greg share a few of their favorite songs about the devil.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Chicago! from From W bez Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim Deeregatus. |
| 0:30.0 | And I'm Greg Kott. This week we're talking to Braun Daylor, drummer from |
| 0:34.1 | Metal Powerhouse Mastodon. We follow his career from the founding of the |
| 0:37.7 | band to showing up on Game of Thrones. I got stabbed in the stomach and my throat slit about 30 times in a row by a sweet young Hungarian man. |
| 0:47.0 | Plus Greg, hard to believe, but we have somehow made it to our 666th episode, which means we've got to do songs about the devil. |
| 0:56.4 | That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:58.4 | You're listening to sound opinions. |
| 1:02.4 | It is show number 666, the 666th show of sound opinions. |
| 1:10.0 | It is a big number in metal circles. It's a big number in Rosemary's Bamy, the |
| 1:13.7 | omen, the sign of the devil, and what better way to start this show than with a |
| 1:18.3 | giant of the metal scene, Mastin on. He's away in a massive world. |
| 1:34.0 | Sit down on a little. |
| 1:35.0 | Sit down on |
| 1:38.0 | I'm going to be a circumstance. Mastodon has been one of the most acclaimed metal bands of the past two decades |
| 1:56.4 | with the same lineup as on their first album. |
| 1:59.6 | Bassist Troy Sanders, guitarist Brett Hines, and Bill Kelleher, and drummer Braun Daylor. |
| 2:06.5 | We spoke with Braun Daylor about the band's whole career from forming in Atlanta, Georgia to their |
| 2:10.4 | latest album, Emperor of Sand. |
| 2:13.0 | Now the album was inspired by a real life tragedy. |
| 2:15.8 | I mean, three-fourths of the band was dealing with some form of cancer in their family, |
| 2:19.4 | but like a lot of metal, the band uses fantastical imagery in their songwriting |
| 2:24.0 | convey this sense of some grim reality. So we started by asking about how the band |
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