T he Mastodon brain trust of Hinds and Dailor get their weird lyrical ideas the old-fashioned way: “It comes from us doing too much acid,” Hinds says. “Acid is the best drug in the world.

Mastodon's Bill Kelliher and Brann Dailor take us inside the writing of 'Emperor of Sand,' their epic new LP inspired by personal tragedy.

Queens of the Stone Age: The proud baby faces seem to have an aversion to hair near the mouths. Mastodon: Half the band sports ratty, biker-grade beards; the other half, wicked friggin’ sideburns.

Stone said he had been "kinda tinkering" with Mastodon, an alternative social-media platform in recent weeks. Stone has criticized Twitter's CEO, Elon Musk, in the past.

T he Mastodon brain trust of Hinds and Dailor get their weird lyrical ideas the old-fashioned way: “It comes from us doing too much acid,” Hinds says. “Acid is the best drug in the world.