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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
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Matt Mills

Gojira and Mastodon just levelled a Florida Ampitheater to remind everyone why they're two of metal's greatest bands

Gojira and Mastodon live on stage

We’re too English for this shit. It’s 5:30pm when Hammer pulls up at Sunset Cove Amphitheater in Boca Raton, Florida, but the temperature’s still in the high 20s and it’s so muggy that everyone’s swimming in their own sweat. The fact that we’re all black-clad in our favourite Gojira and Mastodon shirts isn’t helping, either.

Such is the price you pay to witness history. The state that’s survived hurricanes, alligator infestations and the unending buffoonery of ‘Florida Man’ faces its heaviest-ever threat tonight: a kaiju and a big fucking mammoth have become metal’s most destructive co-headliners and are trampling their way across the United States.

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