At the dawn of the 21st century, Brann Dailor moved 1,000 miles across America, drawn by the promise of a city he had never seen. Packing his drums, a bag of clothes, a box of VHS tapes and an ice scraper as a memento of his time in the cold Northeast, he hit the interstate out of Rochester, New York in pursuit of guitarist and good friend Bill Kelliher, who in turn had followed then girlfriend, now wife, Julianne to the southern metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia. Destiny has a way of calling wayward souls. Having recently departed from noise rockers Today Is The Day, and with a longer history in tech-metallers Lethargy, the pair were chasing a fresh start and untapped opportunity. “We had nothing to lose,” says Brann, “and everything to gain.” READ THIS: Every Mastodon album ranked from...
