Mastodon release Marrow Deep vinyl pressed with real mastodon fossils

Mastodon have announced an extremely limited vinyl edition of their album “Marrow Deep” pressed with dust from real fossilized mastodon teeth. According to Rolling Stone, only 170 copies will be made, due to the finite quantity of bone dust available.

A fan gave the band the Ice Age mammal's teeth roughly 20 years ago. After years of brainstorming what to do with them, bassist and vocalist Troy Sanders came up with the idea of pressing them into vinyl. Label Loma Vista matched the band with Waxwork Records, and the University of Georgia's geology department helped realise the project. In a behind-the-scenes video, a university geologist grinds the teeth in a lab mill and sieves the powder. At Waxwork, the band members sprinkled the dust onto the wax themselves during pressing.

Sanders said, as quoted by Rolling Stone, that it is cool to set 11,000-year-old fossils against a modern 2026 Mastodon record. Buyers are chosen by a random draw through the band's Loma Vista artist storefront, so fans and collectors get an equal chance. Registration was due to close about two days after Rolling Stone's 9 October report.

Mastodon are an American metal band formed in Atlanta in 2000, with nine studio albums. The newest, “Marrow Deep”, came out on 28 August 2026. Rolling Stone says it was recorded after the death of former bandmate Brent Hinds. According to Consequence, the band are on their “Poisonous Weapons” tour with Deafheaven and Alcest, with John Baizley of Baroness in the touring lineup. The US run continues through the end of October.