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The Latest Breaking News from Mastodon

Mastodon's Bill Kelliher says bands are still trying to recover from "irreparable damage" to touring business

Mastodon man gives brutally honest insight into why touring is so much harder now and why merch got so expensive

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"2025 is shaping up nicely." Tool are hosting their own tropical getaway festival with Primus, Mastodon, Coheed And Cambria and more

Tool Live In The Sand will take place at the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic from March 7 - 9 2025

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Mastodon join stacked Bloodstock 2025 lineup

Mastodon will subheadline Sunday at Bloodstock, playing right before Gojira

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Decline of X is an opportunity to do social media differently – but combining ‘safe’ and ‘profitable’ will still be a challenge

It’s now almost two years since Elon Musk concluded his takeover of Twitter (now called X) on 27 October 2022. Since then, the platform has become an increasingly polarised and divisive space.

The Conversation

"We were a bunch of dirty, stinky pirates leaving our families behind." How Mastodon reinvented themselves - and modern metal - on sludge-prog masterpiece Leviathan

Mastodon were already an underground sludge metal sensation in the early 2000s, but Leviathan turned them into a breakout success

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“We might put an extra Slayer song into the set and learn a cover song or two”: Kerry King announces North American tour, releases Where I Reign music video

Slayer’s guitarist will bring his solo band across the US and Canada in the New Year

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"I got high on mushrooms with Brent Hinds from Mastodon." How Zeal & Ardor went from grotty squat-punks to one of the most innovative bands in extreme metal

Zeal & Ardor's new album Greif continues Basel's fine tradition of flashing their backsides at power and authority

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This piano cover of Lamb Of God’s Laid To Rest is the most elegantly metal thing you’ll hear today

Youtuber Catherine Fearns has given Lamb Of God the classical treatment, and it sounds shockingly good

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Mastodon, Within Temptation and Nightwish are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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"Will we bring the tour overseas? We’re exploring options..." Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe and Mastodon's Brann Dailor talk their new collab single, their history together and what the future may hold

We talk to Brann and Randy about their epic new collaboration Floods Of Triton - and whether there's more to come

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Listen to Lamb Of God and Mastodon's explosive new team-up single, Floods Of Triton

Two of modern metal's greatest bands have united, and the results are killer

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“It was suggested we try making a Dumble-style clean. They’re so mystical – I’d never played one. You can look at the circuit and still be none the wiser”: The unstoppable rise of Victory Amps – and what comes next

Chief designer Martin Kidd tells how the UK amp firm went from boutique amp beginnings to an expanding portfolio of high-end amps for your backline and pedalboard, championed by the likes of Guthrie Govan, Mastodon, Ritchie Kotzen and Graham Coxon

Guitar World

“A flood is coming… and most of you will die”: Mastodon tease split release with Lamb Of God

Two icons of 2000s metal will be teaming up for… something, on September 12

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“It’s dangerous when you’re a kid shooting up drugs. Me and two other guys made it out alive. The others are dead or in prison”: How Mastodon transcended tragedy and trauma to make Crack The Skye

The story of Mastodon’s 2009 prog metal masterpiece, Crack The Skye

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“We’ve been working on new stuff for months. And we need to go home.” Mastodon drummer hints new music to come “really, really soon”

Brann Dailor teases that new Mastodon music “might” come sooner rather than later

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“Putting out a concept album about Moby-Dick could be career suicide”: Mastodon explain why Leviathan is so obsessed with the white whale

Mastodon explain why 2004 classic Leviathan is so fascinated with Herman Melville’s classic novel in a new interview

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“We were a bunch of dirty, stinky pirates!” Order your limited edition Metal Hammer x Mastodon bundle – featuring an exclusive Leviathan t-shirt!

This Leviathan-inspired shirt – featuring artwork by Metallica, Foo Fighters and Sleep Token collaborator Luke Preece – is only available via the Metal Hammer webstore

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‘Threads is just deathly dull’: have Twitter quitters found what they are looking for on other networks?

There’s been an exodus of users from X, propelled by Elon Musk’s lurch to the far right, but the alternatives have drawbacks too

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Guitar World

“My mom would still be bugging me, like, ‘You need to go to college and get a real job.’ I’m in the van, getting baloney sandwiches on 100 bucks a night. And I’m 30!” Bill Kelliher and Mark Morton on how Leviathan and Ashes of the Wake changed everything

With two classic albums, both released on the same day, Lamb of God and Mastodon's fates have long been connected and now they're touring together, Kelliher and Morton reflect on a turning point for both bands

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“Some of the riffs are really heavy and tasty”: Mastodon are hard at work making “two different projects”

Expect double trouble from the Atlanta sludge/prog pioneers – and expect it to be heavy as hell

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“They didn’t like the idea of choruses”: Lamb Of God producer reveals one of the “pop ideas” he snuck into Ashes Of The Wake

After a bit of a struggle to make his voice heard, Gene ‘Machine’ Freeman had an idea that made one Ashes Of The Wake track a Lamb Of God classic

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“I don’t mess with mescaline any more. I did enough acid back in the day”: how Mastodon made a psychedelic prog metal masterpiece with Blood Mountain

Mastodon’s third album Blood Mountain saw them going from underground favourites to metal’s brain-frying new heroes

Guitar World

It's a blues extravaganza starring Slash, Kingfish, Samantha Fish, Gary Clark Jr. and Billy Gibbons – only in the new Guitar World

Also starring Lamb of God & Mastodon, plus Marty Friedman, Bruce Kulick, Towa Bird, Eric Gales' pedalboard, Goo Goo Dolls, our EVH SA-126 review and more

Metal Hammer

Mastodon have their own line of pickles now. Seriously.

As briny as the depths where Moby Dick lives (probably)

Louder

“We used to think, ‘Oh, there’s not enough craziness in this song; we need to add some stuff’ – but we learned that no, we don’t”: How Mastodon matured with Once More ‘Round The Sun

Sixth album was the moment they took stock of their previous achievements as they faced highest expectations to date

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