You may have heard there's a new Mastodon album coming soon.
Emperor of Sand will be released March 31, and the three advance tracks have me excited for a 'Don album for the first time in what feels like forever. In anticipation of the new record, I've been listening to a lot of Mastodon, which inevitably means I'm hearing some Scott Kelly. The Neurosis co-frontman and guitarist has appeared on every Mastodon album since
Leviathan (and has confirmed an appearance on
Emperor of Sand), and his presence typically results in his track being one of the stand out songs on the album. So I decided to rank Kelly's Mastodon collaborations and ruminate on each one, if only because March 31 seems like too long to wait to write anything about Mastodon.
