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October 23, 2009

Scoring a Movie, With Metal Kings Mastodon...

Mastodon loves a good story.

The Atlanta metal band wrote an album based on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick with 2004’s Leviathan. This year’s Crack The Skye told of a paraplegic traveling through space. But the band’s next project may tell its most ambitious tale yet. As previously reported, Mastodon has written the score to the film adaptation of the gnarly comic book Jonah Hex, which is slated to hit theaters in June 2010.

As Mastodon bassist Troy Sanders told Paste, creating a film score wasn’t entirely different from the band’s usual songwriting process. “Since day one, we’ve always written albums thinking the music was the score of a movie,” Sanders said. “Then we’ll create the lyrics or story line on top of that, as if we’re writing the dialogue to match the movie’s cinematography.”