With Mastodon officially announcing their long-awaited new album, Marrow Deep, months of speculation about the band's next chapter have finally come to an end. Yet for bassist Troy Sanders, a member of one of modern metal’s busiest bands, patience has always been part of the job.
“We genuinely viewed this as the most important record we’ve ever made,” says Sanders. “We nit-picked everything. We made sure every riff was the strongest it could be. We spent time figuring out who should sing what, whether parts were really serving the songs and whether everything fit together naturally.
