page_title: Troy Sanders
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Troy Sanders / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Troy Sanders from Mastodon at Nassaue Coliseum, June 2006.
context_page_description: Troy Jayson Sanders is an American musician, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of heavy metal band Mastodon, in which he plays bass and shares lead vocal duties with guitarist Brent Hinds and drummer Brann Dailor. He is also active in Killer Be Killed and Gone Is Gone, as well as being the current touring bassist for Thin Lizzy.
context_section_description: Sanders first played when he had picked up his older brother Kyle's bass and decided to try it out, even though the bass was strung for a lefty, and he was right-handed. A few months later, he had talked his dad into buying him a bass. He started first playing in such bands as Four Hour Fogger, Knuckle and Puaka Balava. In 1995, Sanders joined the grindcore band Social Infestation as the bass player. Social Infestation has released one EP and two full length albums. The band hasn't released any material since 2000 and are seemingly taking a long hiatus or the band has split.
  In 2000, Sanders met Brann Dailor and Bill Kelliher along with Brent Hinds at a High on Fire show and later formed Mastodon. The four began a new musical venture with then singer Eric Saner, touring the Southern United Staates, working 40-hour weeks and committing to the band in their spare time. The band's mainstream success would ensue after Saner left the band, pushing Sanders to the forefront not just as a bassist, but as a vocalist also, the duties of which he would share with Hinds.
  In 2012, Sanders joined the supergroup Killer Be Killed, founded by The Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato and Soulfly/ex-Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera. The band had been working on a lineup and material before announcing their name in October 2013. They released their self-titled debut record through Nuclear Blast Records on May 13, 2014.
  In 2016, Sanders formed Gone Is Gone, a supergroup also consisting of Troy Van Leeuwen, a guitar player for Queens of the Stone Age, Tony Hajjar, the drummer for At the Drive-In, and Mike Zarin, a multi-instrumentalist who appeared with Van Leeuwen on Sweethead's Descent To The Surface. They released an EP in the summer of 2016, shortly followed by a studio album, Echolocation, the following year. Since then, the band has continued to record together, releasing singles in 2018 and 2019.
caption: Sanders performing in 2006
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