Scion Rock Fest - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade - 2/28/09

By Austin L. Ray at 12:00 PM on March 3, 2009

Photos taken by Jason Reed at The Masquerade...  read more

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Mastodon's Crack the Skye gets release date, deluxe package

By Michael Saba at 11:29 AM on February 12, 2009

When Mastodon unveiled the next installation of its routinely epic cover art for forthcoming LP Crack the Skye, metalheads the world over could feel their double-bass-drum senses tingling. Then more details trickled out: Astral travel! Tsarist Russia! Stephen Hawking! Wormholes! A multi-part instrumental suite that'll send prog-heads running for their fox masks! (Are we sure this isn't a Decemberists album we're talking about here?) After three long years marinating in the studio, Crack the Skye will finally hit stores March 24. ...  read more

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Nine Reasons Why the Scion Rock Fest Will Melt Faces

By Austin L. Ray at 7:00 AM on January 24, 2009

If you're a fan of heavy rock music, there's a good chance you've heard rumblings here, there and pretty much everywhere about the Scion Rock Fest. Organized by those metal-loving so-and-so's at Vice and Scion, the one-day, absolutely-free festival promises to take Atlanta's Masquerade by its shirt collar on Feb. 28 and shake the rock venue and every one of its denizens to their knees...for 12 hours straight! But don't take my word for it: peep the line-up, which is still growing, and enjoy the top nine reasons why I won't be standing at the end of that sure-to-be-unforgettable Saturday...  read more

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Atlanta's Scion Rock Fest to feature Mastodon, Neurosis, Harvey Milk, Torche, High on Fire, Boris, many more

By David Marek at 9:56 AM on January 12, 2009

We've been trying to come up with a descriptor that adequately describes Atlanta's upcoming Scion Rock Fest. Rockmageddon? Destructioniptica? Metalgeddonocoplyse?...  read more

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Mastodon plans box set, keeps touring despite health setbacks

By Julia Reidy, photo by Jimmy Hubbard at 3:00 PM on November 17, 2008

This Tuesday, Nov. 18, Mastodon fans will be able to wrap their giant tusks around a vinyl box set of the Atlanta band's entire discography. Hitting stores via Relapse Records, the collector's edition will be limited to a one-time, 1,000-copy pressing, complete with nine 180-gram LPs spanning the group's entire career, including the final vinyl pressing of the band's debut EP, Lifesblood, as well as covers of songs by the Melvins, Thin Lizzy and Metallica. Bonus swag includes an embroidered logo patch and a custom Mastodon turntable mat. ...  read more

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Mastodon reveals 2009 album details

By Mary Kate Varnau at 12:21 PM on November 3, 2008

Atlanta-based metal quartet Mastodon has revealed that the title of its anticipated fourth album will be Crack the Skye. Reprise will release the seven-track, 50-minute record in early 2009. The song sequence is built around a four-movement centerpiece, entitled "The Czar," which delves into the album's overall theme of Czarist Russia....  read more

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Mastodon reveals new album details

By Henry Freedland at 2:00 PM on September 12, 2008

In a recent interview with Paste, Brann Dailor, drummer for Atlanta-based metal-men Mastodon, offered up a few tidbits...  read more

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Catching Up With... Mastodon

By Kyle Lemmon, photo by Ryan Russell at 6:00 AM on September 12, 2008

Brann Dailor and his Mastodon brethren have had their tatooted arms full lately: After playing the main stage of this summer's biggest heavy-metal tour, the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest, work culminated on the band's fourth full-length album. Set to drop in January 2009...  read more

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Jordan McConnell of The Duhks' 10 favorite punk/metal bands

By Jordan McConnell at 9:00 AM on September 4, 2008

I grew up in Winnipeg. It's a dirty, struggling town on the eastern edge of the Canadian prairies and we have a winter that often spans eight months of the year. Four hours north of Fargo and effectively in the middle of nowhere...  read more

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We Fun: Atlanta, GA Inside Out filmmakers post trailer

By Rebecca Bowen at 12:00 AM on April 3, 2008

A minor blues progression organ-vamps as the handheld camera zooms shakily into the devious grin of a young dude holding a dual-blaze firework lackadaisically, as if the object weren’t emitting a furious spark geyser next to his face. ...  read more

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