Mastodon
Formed: 2000
From:
Atlanta,
GA,
United States
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Mastodon News
Below is our complete Mastodon news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Note: We began associating news directly with bands in late 2003. Therefore, earlier band news may not be listed on this page.
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Mastodon Premieres Video For "Divinations"
Headbanger's Blog premiered the new Mastodon video, "Divination," this weekend online while the video premiered on MTV's Headbangers Ball as well. The video was helmed by Roboshobo, who also directed the video for "All Nightmare Long" from Metallica.
The clip depicts the band members on a rock n' roll mission, trudging through the frozen tundra. "We're climbing a mountain looking for a creature named Brent," guitarist Bill Kelliher told HeadbangersBlog.com. "We were mountaineers — explorers like in John Carpenters ‘The Thing.'"
"It's a really fun video," adds guitarist and vocalist Brent Hinds. "I'm an old caveman trapped in a block of ice. Explorers find me and they put the flying V [guitar] up to the ice and it melts me. I grab the guitar, do the solo and then I kill them."
"Divination" comes off Crack The Skye which hits stores on March 24th on Warner Bros Records. You can watch the video below. More...
Metallica Adds More Bands To Dublin Show
Metallica has announced that several more bands will be joining them at their show at Marlay Park in Dublin, Ireland on August 1st. Among the newly confirmed bands are Irish rock legends Thin Lizzy and grunge icons Alice In Chains in addition to Lamb Of God, Mastodon, The Sword and Avenged Sevenfold. Tickets go on sale Tuesday and are priced at 76.50 Euros.
Mastodon Posts "Divinations" Video Trailer Online
American metal group Mastodon has posted a trailer online for their forthcoming new music video for the song "Divinations." You can check it out below. The video will be the first released to promote the bands forthcoming new studio album, "Crack The Skye." More...
Intronaut Comments On Mastodon Tour
Intronaut's frontman Sacha Dunable has posted a brief message giving his opinion on the bands upcoming North American tour with Mastodon and Kylesa. His statement reads as follows: "So yeah, a North American tour with Mastodon and Kylesa. I can't imagine how this won't be completely awesome. We can't wait to see everyone again, as we haven't been on tour in a while. See you out there!"
The band has also revealed some off-dates for the tour. The tour schedule for Intronaut is now shaping up as follows:
April
10 - Birmingham, AL - Workplay Theater
11 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
13 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theater
14 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
16 - Albuquerque, NM - Launch Pad
16 - Phoenix, AZ - Martini Ranch
17 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex (with Kylesa and Made Out Of Babies)
18 - Santa Cruz, CA - Vets Hall (Intronaut and Kylesa only)
19 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
21 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
22 - Seattle, WA - Neumo's
23 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
24 - Calgary, AB - MacEwen Ballroom
25 - Edmonton, AB - Starlite Ballroom
26 - Saskatoon, SK - The Odeon
28 - Winnipeg, MB - The Garrick
29 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Hall
30 - Chicago, IL - Metro
May
1 - Pontiac, MI - Crofoot Ballroom
2 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
4 - Montreal, QC - Le National
5 - Toronto, ON - Opera House
6 - Ithaca, NY - The Haunt (Intronaut and Kylesa only)
7 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
8 - Philadelphia, PA - TLA
9 - New York, NY - Fillmore - Irving Plaza
10 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
11 - Baltimore, MD - Talking Head (Kylesa and Intronaut only)
12 - Washington DC - 9:30 Club
13 - Carbarro, NC - Cat's Cradle
14 - Ashville, NC - Orange Peel
15 - Atlanta, GA - Center Stage
Mastodon Announces North American Tour Dates
Atlanta, Georgia based heavy metal group Mastodon has announced a headlining tour of North America beginning in April. The tour is in support of their forthcoming new studio effort, "Crack The Skye." Support on the tour will come from Kylesa and Intronaut.
The tour dates are as follows:
April
10 - Workplay Theater - Birmingham, AL
11 - House of Blues - New Orleans, LA
13 - Granada Theater - Lawrence, KS
14 - Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO
16 - Martini Ranch - Phoenix, AZ
18 - Coachella - Indio, CA
19 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
21 - Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR
22 - Neumo’s - Seattle, WA
23 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC
24 - MacEwen Ballroom - Calgary, AB
25 - Starlite Ballroom - Edmonton, AB
26 - The Odeon - Saskatoon, SK
28 - The Garrick - Winnipeg, MB
29 - Fine Line Music Hall - Minneapolis, MN
30 - Metro - Chicago, IL
May
1 - Crofoot Ballroom - Pontiac, MI
2 - Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH
4 - Le National - Montreal, QC
5 - Opera House - Toronto, ON
7 - House of Blues - Boston, MA
8 - TLA - Philadelphia, PA
9 - Fillmore @ Irving Plaza - New York, NY
10 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
12 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
13 - Cat’s Cradle - Carbarro, NC
14 - Orange Peel - Ashville, NC
15 - Center Stage - Atlanta, GA
Mastodon To Perform Entire New Album On Tour
Jonathan Cohen from Billboard.com is reporting:
Atlanta-based MASTODON have a strange story to tell on their new seven song, 50-minute heavy metal opus, Crack The Skye. And the best way to hear the whole twisted tale will be live and direct: the band plans to perform the album, due March 24, in its entirety on their upcoming tour.
The complete album performance is something new for the group, says bassist Bill Kelliher, but "there's something about (Crack The Skye) where it would be weird to leave a song out. We'll incorporate a whole stage show, which will hopefully make it even more exciting for kids to come see and more visually stimulating." The band is also hoping to make a short movie from all the songs, which Kelliher hopes will be Mastodon's version of The Wall.
The trek begins at Coachella in mid-April, after which Mastodon heads to Europe to support METALLICA. But hometown Moastodon fans will get a preview tomorrow night (February 28) when the band headlines a free, 40-band heavy metal festival at Atlanta's Masquerade nightclub, produced by the car company Scion.
Read the full article at Billboard.
Lacuna Coil Confirmed For Nova Rock Festival
LACUNA COIL has been confirmed to play at Nova Rock Festival, which takes place in Nickelsdorf/Bgld. on June 19-21, 2009. The festival also features the following bands so far:
Metallica
Die Toten Hosen
Placebo
Slipknot
Limp Bizkit
Kaiser Chiefs
Guano Apes
Disturbed
Chris Cornell
Killswitch Engage
In Extremo
Gogol Bordello
Trivium
Mastodon
The Gaslight Anthem
Static-X
The Sword
Sevendust
Black Stone Cherry
All That Remains
Expatriate
3 Feet Smaller
The Living End
August Burns Red
Bring Me The Horizon
Eisbrecher
Smoke Blow
UVM
Mastodon Plans Deluxe Version Of "Crack The Skye"
Heavy rock iconoclasts MASTODON will release their new album, "Crack the Skye" on March 24, 2009. However, hardcore fans will have the opportunity to pre-order a very special Deluxe Limited “Tunnel Book” Edition of "Crack the Skye" online only via the band’s website.
This super-deluxe version of "Crack the Skye" will come housed in a hard box case featuring a third dimension worm hole design that will contain exclusive and additional album art by long-time Mastodon artist, Paul Romano. The special package will include the full-length "Crack the Skye" album on CD, plus a DVD containing The Making of "Crack the Skye" with photo gallery, track by track band commentary and more by director Jimmy Hubbard. More...
Lemmy To Appear In Guitar Hero: Metallica
Motorhead's godly frontman Lemmy will be appearing in the forthcoming new video game Guitar Hero:Metallica. "It's great to be in 'Guitar Hero' with all these famous people and I'm really pleased to be in it with Metallica," Lemmy said, "but [frontman] James [Hetfield] is still taller than me."
The tracklisting for the game is as follows:
Metallica songs:
All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade To Black
Fight Fire With Fire
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Frantic
Fuel
Hit The Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
The Memory Remains
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash
Other artists: More...
Slipknot, Down And More Added To Graspop 2009
The organizers of this years Graspop Metal Meeting festival in Dessel, Belgium has announced some more bands for the festival in the form of Slipknot, Down, Exodus, Hatebreed, Killswitch Engage, Motley Crue, Gojira, The Gathering, Buckcherry, Marilyn Manson, Jon Olivia's Pain, Pestilence and August Burns Red.
The lineup is now as follows:
Heaven And Hell
Motley Crue
Slipknot
Marilyn Manson
Down
Exodus
Lacuna Coil
Dream Theater
Disturbed
Hatebreed
God Forbid
Anthrax
Sacred Reich
Mastodon
Gojira
Buckcherry
Pestilence
August Burns Red
Papa Roach
Jon Olivia's Pain
Volbeat
W.A.S.P.
Trivium
Devildriver
Epica
Blind Guardian
Wolves In The Throne Room
Legion of The Damned
Laaz Rockit
Scar Symmetry
Kataklysm
Firewind
Parkway Drive
Samael
Dagoba
Taake
Eths
Negura Bunget
Metallica Announces Sonisphere 2009 Festival
Metallica has issued the following statement about headlining the 2009 Sonisphere festival:
"Summer is around the bend and what would summer be without Metallica playing a few European festival shows?? This year we're going to be part of the brand spankin' new Sonisphere festival, the first and only touring European Rock festival which hits six cities for a total of seven shows. We hear that while the usual festival madness will be going on, Sonisphere will have two alternate stages so you don't have to miss a minute of the music.
"Lamb of God and Mastodon are along with for the fun at all the shows and on August 1 Linkin Park will headline the first of the two Knebworth shows (we take the stage for the second one on August 2).
"As you can see below, our friends from Slipknot and Die Toten Hosen are hitting a few select cities, with Linkin Park also joining us in Finland: More...
First Bands Confirmed For Nova Rock Festival 2009
The first round of bands have been confirmed for the 2009 Nova Rock Festival in Austria. The festival will take place from June 19th - 21st. The following bands have been announced so far:
Metallica
Slipknot
Disturbed
Trivium
Mastodon
Killswitch Engage
Black Stone Cherry
Bring Me The Horizon
Placebo
Gogol Bordello
In Extremo
The Living End
Black Tide
Mastodon Posts New Song, "Divinations," Online
Atlanta hard rockers, MASTODON, have revealed a brand new song, "Divinations," from their new studio album, "CRACK THE SKYE." The single can be heard here and will be available digitally from iTunes and all other participating digital retailers.
MASTODON has also been confirmed as headliners of the Scion Rock Fest in their hometown of Atlanta, GA on Saturday, Feb 28th, at the Masquerade. Other artists confirmed to appear include Neurosis, High On Fire, Boris, Torche and many others. The event will run from Noon to midnight.
Guitar Hero: Metallica Tracklisting Revealed
Metallica has now revealed the tracklisting for Guitar Hero: Metallica. As previously reported, Guitar Hero: Metallica will be hitting the streets on March 29 with some really cool features like different classic venues such as the L.A. Forum, Tushino Airfield, and The Hammersmith Odeon, the ability to play as us or in single instrument mode, and even the Expert+ setting with double bass drum kick pedals.
Here are the songs on the game, both from Metallica and other bands that they "admire and even call friends": More...
Mastodon And Disturbed To Appear On Covers Album
Warner Brothers will be releasing a compilation of covers this year and will feature some of the biggest names in modern rock covering some of their favourite tracks of all time. Among these covers include Disturbed doing a rendition of the Faith No More classic, "Midlife Crisis," Mastodon performing ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid" and The Used contributing a version of the Talking Heads staple, "Burning Down The House." The album will be released in late February.
Georgia's Scion Rock Fest Details Revealed
The Scion Rock Fest will take place on Saturday, February 28th at the Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia. The show will go from noon until midnight and attendees must be at least 18 years old. The line-up is as follows:
Mastodon
Neurosis
Converge
High on Fire
Boris
1349
Cryptopsy
Torche
Nachtmystium
Wolves in the Throne Room
Baroness
Harvey Milk
Kylesa
Zoroaster
Withered
Krallice
Toxic Holocaust
Skeletonwitch
Rwake
A Storm of Light
Warbringer
Salome
Suidakra
Tyr
Alestorm
Mastodon Posts New Song "Oblivion" Online
American metallers Mastodon have posted a brand new song online entitled, "Oblivion" which comes from their forthcoming new studio album, "Crack The Skye." You can check it out by heading to www.mastodonrocks.com. The album will be released next month.
Unreleased Mastodon LP "Crack The Skye" Analyzed
Metal journalist John Doran has gotten his hands on Mastodon's new, unreleased album "Crack The Skye." He's given a track-by-track breakdown of his impressions on his blog, "The Quietus." The album's due out in early 2009, so for now, his review is all you get.
Brief synopsis: it's a bit mainstream, but it still shreds like a fiend.
Torche Parts ways with Guitarist Juan Montoya
TORCHE has parted ways with guitarist Juan Montoya. In a statement prepared by Juan, he had this to say:
"The ATP/Nightmare Before Christmas show on December 5, 2008, will be my final show with TORCHE. I’m very proud of the music we have created together over the past 4 years. I have been blessed to?tour the world and meet amazing?people and will be seeing you all soon enough. I am very inspired and will be collaberating with many of the talented friends I have met in my travels. Look out for new material early next year and a tour to follow. I wish TORCHE all the best and I thank all the fans for listening and being a part of this amazing experience." More...
Mastodon Guitarist Bill Kelliher Hospitalized
Mastodon has posted the following message online at their official website:
Bill Kelliher, guitarist with MASTODON, has been hospitalized in London as of Nov.3, during the band's current European Unholy Alliance Chapter 3 package tour. Doctors will continue to monitor his condition which is improving at press time.
At the moment, Mastodon has decided to continue on the tour as a trio. Doctors and Bill are hopeful that he will rejoin his bandmates in time for their headlining tour of Europe which begins Nov 30, in Utrecht, Holland and will end on Dec 7, at the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in Somerset, England. More details to follow as they develop.
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