: Much of the recent buzz comes from the band's drummer, Brann Dailor. He is featured in popular Drumeo videos where he reacts to drum covers of songs like "Blood and Thunder."
In the Pleistocene, April meant something different. It meant the end of the worst cold, the first mud, the first green shoots pushing through the graveyards of snow. And moving through that half-frozen world: the mastodon. Heavy-shouldered, shaggy, crowned with a matted crest of hair. It walked the same valleys we now suburbanize, its tusks curved like ancient parentheses around a sentence no one finished. april and mastodon
April is a paradox. It is the cruelest month, as T.S. Eliot famously wrote, breeding lilacs out of the dead land. It is a time of renewal, yes, but renewal built upon the foundation of decay. To think of April is to think of soft things: rain, budding flowers, the tentative green fuzz on tree branches. Yet, to truly understand April’s depth, one must juxtapose it with something archaic, heavy, and bone-deep: the mastodon. : Much of the recent buzz comes from