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  Mastodon Making 'Heavy Led Zep'-Style Album

  May 5, 2011 – It's been two years since Mastodon released their explosive epic Crack the Skye, but now the Atlanta heavy metal kings are back in the studio working on their fifth album, and drummer Brann Dailor says the early tracks have a Led Zeppelin vibe and harken back to the relatively striped back 2004 LP Leviathan. The band has also posted photos in the studio on their site — that Dave Grohl pictured with a guitar in the first slide? …
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  Mastodon Tease Live Album With Raucous Video

  February 15, 2011 – Mastodon will release their first live album, Live at the Aragon, next month, which captures the Georgia-based metal kings at a 2009 show in Chicago. The set will come bundled with a live DVD from the show, of which the band is now offering up a sneak peek. Below, check out a performance of the twisted prog-metal opus "Oblivion," from Mastodon's most recent album Crack the Skye. WATCH: Mastodon, "Oblivion"  …
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  Mastodon Releasing First Live Album

  February 8, 2011 – Mastodon are one metal's most explosive live bands and they'll finally cement their reputation with their first-ever concert album this Spring. On March 15, the Atlanta metal quartet will drop Live at the Aragon, a CD-DVD set that captures an October 19, 2009 gig at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom, from their recent Crack the Skye tour. …
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  The 30 Biggest Concerts of 2010

  December 23, 2010 –  …
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  Alice in Chains, Deftones, Mastodon Roar to Life

  September 17, 2010 – At first glance, the opening night of the Alice in Chains/Deftones/Mastodon tour proceeded in reverse order of relevance: Openers and prog-metal titans Mastodon are still coming off the high of last year's Crack the Skye; Deftones, the only good band ever associated with the onerous nü metal scene, need to recapture some momentum with the new Diamond Eyes; but Alice in Chains? …
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  WATCH: Mastodon, Rob Zombie, Anberlin

  May 24, 2010 – While the stages rocked hard in Columbus, Ohio, at this weekend's Rock on the Range festival, fans were treated to intimate interviews in Harley-Davidson's Golden Horse Saloon on the festival grounds. …
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  Alice in Chains, Deftones, Mastodon Tour Together

  April 29, 2010 – Alice in Chains, Deftones, and Mastodon have just announced plans to team up this fall for a month-long North American tour dubbed "Blackdiamondskye" -- an amalgamation of the titles of each band's new album: AiC's Black Gives Way to Blue, Deftones' upcoming Diamond Eyes, and Mastodon's Crack the Skye. The news arrives after a mysterious teaser video hit the web, splicing snippets of each band's songs into a trailer of sorts, which had …
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  How They Became... Mastodon

  April 8, 2010 – Welcome to the weekly SPIN.com feature "Name That Band!" in which we get the inside stories behind the mysterious monikers of some of our favorite artists. (See past episodes of Name That Band! here.) This week: metal maestros Mastodon, who kick off a spring tour April 16. …
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  Mastodon Announce Spring Tour

  February 8, 2010 – Never underestimate the endurance of Mastodon. After 11 months of touring in 2009 -- including a run opening for Metallica in Europe and a stateside trek with Deathklok as part of the Adult Swim Presents tour -- the Atlanta-bred progressive metal band have announced a new 37-date spring tour of North America. The trek -- launched in continuing support of Mastodon's SPIN-approved 2009 release Crack The Sky -- kicks off on April 16 in C …
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  Mastodon's 'Jonah Hex' Soundtrack: "Spacey, Pink Floyd-Like"

  October 23, 2009 – When "Mastodon" and "Megan Fox" are used in the same sentence, it's usually because a chemically-enhanced dude is describing the imaginary bounties of metalhead heaven. …
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