Mastodon Premiere New Track “Rufus Lives” Featured On Bill & Ted Face The Music Movie
Mastodon‘s new track “Rufus Lives” is now available on digital service providers. Check out their stream of the new track below! Mastodon recorded “Rufus Lives” for the ‘Bill & Ted Face The Music‘ film, out this Friday, August 28th, which IGN gave a 7/10 .
The movie’s official soundtrack is now available featuring music from Lamb Of God, Animals As Leaders and more (see track list below)
01 – Big Black Delta – “Lost In Time”
02 – Alec Wigdahl – “Big Red Balloon”
03 – Weezer – “Beginning Of The End” (Wyld Stallyns Edit)
04 – Cold War Kids – “Story Of Our Lives”
05 – Mastodon – “Rufus Lives”
06 – Big Black Delta – “Circuits Of Time”
07 – POORSTACY – “Darkest Night”
08 – Lamb Of God – “The Death Of Us”
09 – FIDLAR – “Breaker”
10 – Culture Wars – “Leave Me Alone”
11 – Blame My Youth – “Right Where You Belong”
12 – Wyld Stallions – “Face The Music” (feat. Animals As Leaders and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah)
13 – Wyld Stallions – “That Which Binds Us Through Time: The Chemical, Physical And Biological Nature of Love; an Exploration of The Meaning of Meaning, Part 1”
When speaking to Rocksound, Mastodon drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor said:
“The song was something that was sort of in the works, you know? It was pretty recent, maybe six months ago. I was going over to Bill’s, and I’d had probably more than a pot of coffee already, and was just amped up, ready to rock!
He started playing guitar, we put this thing together, it wasn’t even 10 o clock in the morning and we already had this fast, crazy thing going on. It just sounded cool. That was the beginning of it. From there we wrote the song pretty quickly, and then when Bill & Ted came around, they wanted something very specific for a specific scene in the movie.
They sent us the scene, and it needed to be like party rock ‘n’ roll. We sent them a couple things, but they were a little doomy. It’s hard for us not to be doomy, you know? They were like, ‘It needed to be at a party, not a funeral!’ And we were like, ‘Okay, we’re sorry!’
The notes that we all gravitate towards are all minor, spooky notes, Black Sabbath. That’s where we live, spooky! But I think we were able to maintain our aesthetic and our musical personalities, and give a party rockin’ song. It’s basically like, ‘You’re at a party, you’re in the woods, everybody is having fun, what’s on the stereo?’
That’s the song we needed to write, and what we tried to do. Then we took the situation that Bill & Ted were in, and we applied it to the lyrical content. So I’m singing in it, and Troy’s singing.”
A new Mastodon rarities release titled “Medium Rarities” is due for a September 11th release.