DiS met men with tats and beards from Mastodon, asked them questions and captured it on video.

They've toured with the likes of Iron Maiden and Slayer. Been nominated for a Grammy and now have a range of Vans trainers!

You can get two Classic Slip On and two Sk8-Hi styles from vans.com or cracktheskye.co.uk but if you comment below with the name of the guy from The OC who's always wearing Vans, and anyone with the correct answer will win a pair of Mastodon Vans or "Mastovans" as they're calling 'em. Plus you'll win a DVD/CD copy of Crack the Skye and a signed vinyl copy of the album too!

Oh and the Vans look like this:

Anyway, you didn't come here to be pimped their product, here's the interview ahead of this weekend's Sonisphere festival, featuring some of the questions submitted by the DiS community: