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Mastodon plans box set, keeps touring despite health setbacks
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
Found in: Music, NewsMastodon reveals 2009 album details
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
Found in: Concerts, NewsMastodon reveals new album details
In a recent interview with Paste, Brann Dailor, drummer for Atlanta-based metal-men Mastodon, offered up a few tidbits... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCatching Up With... Mastodon
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
Found in: FeaturesJordan McConnell of The Duhks' 10 favorite punk/metal bands
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
Found in: Music, FeaturesWe Fun: Atlanta, GA Inside Out filmmakers post trailer
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
Found in: Music, NewsMastodon to exude energy, mayhem all over U.S., Canada
While Powerthirst promises many things, including "menergy," "rawberry" made with "real lightening" (sic), and the power to make your babies run "abnormally fast," it somehow doesn't promise mayhem. Enter Rockstar. Not only does the energy drink brand have an official URL that was seemingly inpsired by a 14-year-old boy's chat room handle, but it is also the proud/titular sponsor of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem touring festival. Like many traveling fests of this particular ilk, Rockstar Energy Mayhem will include plenty of non-music activities such as autograph signings and video games, as well as other interactive activities and "great surprises" that... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDirector Chris Dortch talks ATL music documentary We Fun
[Above: Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley of Black Lips] More documentaries should open this way. Jared Swilley, the immaculately mustached bassist/vocalist of Black Lips, reclines in a small bed, beer in hand. Snuggled beside him, his head obscured by a messy pink wig, lies BBQ of the King Khan & BBQ Show. Sprawled out atop the both of them is King Khan himself. Sitting offscreen, Atlanta performer Jessica Juggz is leading a conversation about tea tree oil.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsMastodon's Brent Hinds injured
Mastodon singer/guitarist Brent Hinds suffered a "severe head injury after his performance on Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas," according to a statement released by the band's management. "He is being treated by a Las Vegas hospital where he remains hospitalized." The hirsute rocker was playing a song just hours before, live from Nirvana alumnus cum Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl's luxury suite at the Palms Casino resort. Queens of the Stone Age ringleader Josh Homme - whose multi-artist collaborative series The Desert Sessions is in the works (including help from PJ Harvey) - performed live with... read more
Found in: Music, NewsMastodon releases "Sleeping Giant" video
Those dudes in Mastodon are a bunch of greedy bastards. Not only have they played the support role on various hard rock monster tours (including Tool, Metallica and Slayer) over the course of the last year or so. Not only did they perform in front of more than 30,000 people last Saturday at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, flying back Sunday night to headline the 100+ band Atlanta festival Corndogorama. Not only did they perform as cartoon snack food characters earlier this year at the beginning of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. Not only did... read more
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