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Bill continues: “…I feel like we have a lot of fans in the waiting who are like, ‘Oh, I can’t wait to see what they do next’ because our past few records have been… we mix it up.”
The guitarist cites bands such as AC/DC, The Ramones and Slayer as the sort of artists who stick to a certain formula – and that's a trait that Mastodon seemingly want to avoid.
“For me, our band, if you put our first album against even three or four albums ago, you’d be like, ‘These are the same band? Holy shit,’” he explains. “It is no exception with our latest record that we’re working on.
“It’s moving forward, and we’re kind of turning the corner to the next thing. I can’t sit still in the same… like AC/DC – awesome band – every record they got to a point where they just have the same formula, three chords – awesome three chords. The Ramones, same thing; Slayer, same kind of thing. It really just kind of gotten that groove, I don’t want everyone to get in that groove.”
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