At the end of Mastodon ’s show-stealing set at Bloodstock a couple of weekends back , Troy Sanders announced that, with their summer of festival touring wrapped up, they were returning home to Atlanta to work on a new record.

That’s gonna be a wait. But good news: drummer Brann Dailor already has new music about to drop, with the second album from Arcadea , The Exodus Of Gravity, coming out this Friday.

It sees Brann once again teaming up with Core Atoms for a synth-driven funk-prog journey into the future, where the the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies have become one, and spore-riddled AI machines are in charge and becoming the next stage of evolution.

It’s as weird and wonderful as it sounds. To unpack it all, Brann took us through their mystical journey to the stars to explain

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