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Thanks for listening and happy shopping. Hey everyone. Today's guest is Braun Daylor, drummer and songwriter for the Atlanta Georgia heavy metal band, Mastodon.

Together we dissect the writing, recording, and release of the song Blood and Thunder,

taken from their 2004 album, Leviathan.

Braun tells the story of how he came up with not only the concept of the song, but for the whole album,

based around the 1851 Melville novel Moby Dick.

Their first album revolved around the concept of fire, and Braun wanted the second record

to involve another of the four elements, this time being water.

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