Video of Mastodon - Sultan' s Curse īRANN DAILOR The Emperor of Sand is kind of like the Grim Reaper. When the sand in the hourglass is gone, your life is over. And no one knows how much time they've got left. In the story, the protagonist gets handed down a death sentence from a diabolical sultan. He escapes into the desert to find some kind of sanctuary, but he gets lost and walks through this vast desert for days, and the sun is absolutely crushing him. I tied the sun into radiation. IT SEEMS LIKE THERE ARE METAPHORS ABOUT CANCER THROUGHOUT THE ALBUM. It's what we were all dealing with and we used lyrics to get our experiences across without being too literal. So as this protagonist is stumbling through the desert he tries to telepathically communicate with tribes throughout the world that have rain rituals and dances. He thinks that if he can bring rain it will stop him from dying from dehydration. And the different tribes with the different rituals represent the different forms of treatment that you can receive for cancer. Along the way, he meets these crystalline beings that invite him in.

They represent the snake oil salesmen, the people that say they can cure you but have no power.

They just take advantage of you for your money. Finally, the sultan's men capture him and lead him into a tent, but he's so far gone he's hallucinating that he's going into a tent with the sultan's daughters, who are going to bathe him. He fantasizes about this scenario that's not happening while he's being killed by the Sultan's men. HOW DID YOU MAKE THE MUSIC WORK WITH THE STORYLINE? But in death he assumes the shape of the Jaguar, which is what the Mayan shamans become when they're going to go into another dimension to fight disease and illness. We had 'Sultan's Curse.' That was the first song we finished. I was getting such good visuals from it of the desert, and I just started to see the story coming together cinematically. WAS IT DIFFICULT TO CONCENTRATE CONSIDERING EVERYTHING THAT WAS GOING ON? I put together an outline right away, but I didn't finish the story until we were in the studio tracking the album. What are you going to do? When you have someone in your life that's one of the closest people to you and they're really sick and you're far away it's just frustrating. You want to be able to wave this magic wand and make everything all better. The best thing to do, really, instead of sitting in a room and watching them be sick, is to continue doing what you do best and continue on with what makes that person proud of you, especially if that person's a parent. Clandestiny guitar tabs mastodon crack#.

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