Mastodon have alluded to a return to the studio for quite some time in 2020, and with sessions now due to start this month, drummer Brann Dailor has revealed that their biggest job will actually be whittling down the demos they've already made.
Speaking to 100.3 The X Rocks (via Blabbermouth), Brann says that the Atlanta titans have "way too much material" at this point in the process, having used coronavirus downtime to put together around 30 demos.
"We have way too much material, which I guess is a good thing, but also it's very difficult for us to narrow it down at this point," he says. "We've had so much time – as everyone has [during the coronavirus pandemic] – to be creative and be in the studio and write new stuff that now we have, like, 30 songs demoed, and we need to pare it down to about 12."