Description

10″ picture disc

The Cold Dark Place EP features 4 exclusive and previously unreleased tracks. Before Mastodon released Emperor Of Sand in 2017 it was almost a double album. It was reported that guitarist Brent Hinds wrote an entire album’s worth of material himself, so we asked him about it: “I have way too many albums sitting around,” Hinds told us. “I’ve been marinating on some of them for years thinking, ‘I don’t know if I even like this.’ All of a sudden, a friend of mine wanted to listen to it and I listened to it and I was like, ‘I wrote this? This is amazing! We should put this out.’ We’re putting out an album that I wrote entirely by myself called Cold Dark Place, which is basically myself. I’m a cold dark place.” When asked about the concept of Cold Dark Place, Hinds said, “It’s the concept of living and how much it hurts to f—king be alive.”

Track list:
1. North Side Star
2. Blue Walsh
3. Toe To Toes
4. Cold Dark Place