Title: Blood And Thunder
Artist: Mastodon
Album: Leviathan
Bassist: Troy Sanders
Difficulty: Advanced
Tuning: D Standard Tuning
Key: D Major
Tempo: 93
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Bass Diary Entry
This was the very first Mastodon song I ever heard, and I fell in love with it instantly. The grittiness, the sheer heaviness, the shifting time signatures — it felt like the perfect mix of chaos and control all at once. It didn’t sound like anything else I was listening to at the time, and that’s exactly what pulled me in.
I then fell in love with the song all over again when I picked up Need for Speed: Most Wanted, where Blood and Thunder featured on the soundtrack. Hearing it in that context — blasting through races at full speed — only amplified how intense and adrenaline-fuelled the track already was. It cemented the song even further in my mind as something special.
Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to see Mastodon live a few times, and this song never fails to put a smile on my face when it appears in the setlist. No matter how many times I hear it, that opening riff still hits just as hard, and the crowd reaction is always incredible.
There’s also something nostalgic about it now. Every time I hear Blood and Thunder, I’m taken back to a simpler time — when I knew absolutely nothing about the band, hadn’t yet gone down the rabbit hole of their catalogue… and then BAM, there they were. One song was enough, and they’ve never really left my ears since.
From a bass player’s point of view, it’s an absolute workout. The line demands stamina, precision and a solid grasp of the time changes, but it’s hugely rewarding to play once it all locks together. It’s one of those tracks that reminds you why heavy music can be so much fun to play on bass.
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