Ten Thousand Years of Teeth Pressed Into a Single Groove

A fan handed Mastodon a bag of fossilized mastodon teeth about twenty years ago, The MetalList reports. The teeth weren't display-worthy, and the band held onto them with no plan. Then the title and themes of Marrow Deep gave bassist and vocalist Troy Sanders an idea: grind them up and press them into the record.I've read plenty of gimmick announcements. Most smell like a marketing meeting. This one at least admits where it came from.The Bone Dust EditionThe facts, straight from Loma Vista's listing: 170 copies, $150 each. You couldn't walk in and buy one. Loma Vista ran a raffle for the right to purchase, open to the US, Canada and Mexico, and it closed October 12. The winners' copies are expected to ship around October 16.Ground fossilized mastodon teeth went into the pressing. The label's listing calls them 10,000 years old. Consequence credits three partners, Loma Vista, Waxworks Records and the University of Georgia's geology department, and reports the band members sprinkled the…