“Brent had an Iron Maiden jacket on so I went over to him to talk to him and he was like, ‘Hey you’re that crazy drummer dude’”: The chaotic birth of prog metal giants Mastodon

Mastodon posing for a photograph in the early 2000s.

All bands need to start somewhere, and for Mastodon it was with 2000’s 9 Song Demo, reissued six years later as Call Of The Mastodon. In 2014, the prog metal band looked back on the roots of their story.