Mastodon Chat To I Like Music

Brann: I'm constantly thinking about what we're going to do next. As far as stories are concerned, the Moby Dick thing was really cool. I really liked what we were able to do with that, from an artistic, aesthetic approach. When Blood Mountain came around it was really our first stab at story writing. We wanted to write this cohesive story and put it to an album. However, after Blood Mountain I felt that people were associating us a little too much with things like World of Warcraft. We wanted to go further towards a bigger spiritual picture. To go out into outer space and deal with matters of the soul and spirits made of ether.

ILM: So that's where the thoughts and ideas began for Crack The Skye?

Brann: Yeah. Crack The Skye started to come together pretty early on during the Blood Mountain touring cycle. I came up with the idea of a kid that was paraplegic and the only way he was able to experience the outside world was to astral travel, or astral project. I learnt about astral travel through my Grandmother. She is considered a medium. She'll read your tarot cards, read the runes, tea leaves, she's into crystal skulls and astral travel and the spiritual realm. She's always had me interested in that stuff. We had a story that started with a paraplegic travelling. He has a golden umbillical cord. The cord that ties you to the material realm, that attaches you when you are able to go out. We knew that we wanted that to be severed somehow, that he would then get lost in space and put into a worm hole. But I didnt't know where to go from there. The story kind of stopped. I didn't know what to do next. It was obvious that wasn't enough. He gets lost, but what happens to him? Fine, he goes into a wormhole, but where does he go? Those are questions that you need to sit and ponder upon.
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