\n\tThe band were gifted fossilized teeth from the Ice Age mammal by a fan approximately 20 years ago, according to a press release. After years of brainstorming what to do with said teeth, bassist and vocalist Troy Sanders came up with the idea to press them into vinyl. Their label Loma Vista matched them with Waxwork Records, who brought their vision to fruition alongside help from the University of Georgia\u2019s geology department.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn a behind-the-scenes video, a geologist from University of Georgia ground the Mastodon teeth into a powder \u2014 or \u201cbone dust\u201d \u2014 via a \u201cspex mill\u201d before passing the material through a sieve. At Waxwork, the band got to make the vinyl themselves by sprinkling the dust onto the wax and pressing it.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHow cool is it to juxtapose something with 11,000 year old fossils with a modern 2026 Mastodon record?\u201d Sanders says.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe run is limited to only 170 copies \u201cdue to the finite quantity of bone dust available.\u201d Thus, Mastodon have opened up a random draw process via their Loma Vista artist storefront<\/a> to ensure loyal fans have a fair chance to purchase the wax. Registration closes in approximately two days.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\tMastodon released Marrow Deep<\/a> in August. Rolling Stone described the band\u2019s ninth record as their own iteration of Pink Floyd\u2019s Shine on You Crazy Diamond due to the album being recorded after the death of former bandmate Brent Hinds<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s heavy,\u201d the review reads. \u201cIt\u2019s also weirdly emotional, at least for a metal album.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMastodon are on tour through the United States through the end of October. Their next stop is tonight, Oct. 9, at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Limited to 170 copies, the “Bone Dust” vinyl was pressed in partnership with Waxwork Records\u00a0and the University of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,37988,136],"class_list":["post-922993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-mastodon","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-rollingstone-2022\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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