Given the cone of silence surrounding the program’s future plotlines, Sanders has already said too much. Perhaps Game of Thrones fans will have to pause their DVRs once more to catch glimpses of cataract-eyed ex-Wildlings Brann Dailor, Brent Hinds, and Bill Kelliher (already so bearded and burly that they couldn’t have required that much makeup) marching en masse across a frozen wasteland this upcoming season. Which means…” Wellll…I’m not supposed to talk about it - whoops!” he chuckles. That’s right – the White Walkers are an army of zombies, still on their mission of conquest. “Wait – are you talking about last year?” he gulps. So it was just a really cool connection, and for Wildlings, I think our band fits in nicely.” Why didn’t he accept Weiss’ remarkable offer? “I guess it’s all a hush-hush thing or whatever,” he starts to explain, then catches himself. But he just loves Mastodon, loves the band, and he’s a really sweet guy, and he wears a Mastodon shirt all the time – I’ve seen him in it on television shows. “And whenever we play Belfast, Dan comes to our show, even though he’s incredibly busy. “It was definitely a cool experience for everybody involved,” declares Mastodon bassist Troy Sanders, who was unable to attend the tapings in Northern Ireland. That much stronger, and more wickedly determined than ever to breach that civilization’s monolithic protective wall. As in the recent honor bestowed upon the group by Dan Weiss, the executive producer of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones, who not only included its song “White Walker” on the soundtrack, but actually invited the members to appear as feral Wildlings in Season Five last year, who were then – in one of the show’s bloodiest battle-scene episodes ever – murdered, and resurrected as undead White Walkers themselves. But in the case of sludge-heavy prog-metal quartet Mastodon, mortality can occasionally offer a surprising new strength, as well. That which doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger, goes the old maxim.
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