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Members Of Dilinger Escape Plan, Mastodon And The Mars Volta Form Supergroup

Mastodon's Hinds says progress is slow, but it IS happening.

If you could hand pick your own supergroup, who would it include? You can bet that given the opportunity, us here at Rock Sound would throw names like Mastodon, Dilinger Escape Plan and The Mars Volta into the mix for sure. The good news for us (and you) is that members of all of the above have joined forces to form an as-yet un-named but inevitably shit-hot rock machine, and we couldn’t be more excited.

It’s early days yet, but Mastodon’s Brent Hinds, DEP’s Ben Weinman, ex-The Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen and ex-Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery have all been trying to schedule some time together to get their new venture off the ground.

“We tried to get together and do an album, but there's been no time," Hinds explained to Noisecreep. "We want to record crazy stuff and Ben is working on that, but it's been hard to get together."

Good thing we’re a patient bunch, eh? Rock Sound will be keeping our collective ear to the ground for more info on the project as and when it happens, but in the meantime, we’re off to have a little lie down to let this information digest. Just think of the riffs...