Brann Dailor and the guys of Mastodon told SPIN this past February they watched Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining, and Roman Polanski’s Rosemary Baby in order to get amped for their “wild” upcoming album, Once More Round the Sun.On the Atlanta quartet’s first release, “High Road,” the preparation paid off: the band’s prog-metal potential stuns, with Dailor sounding like a young Ozzy over shredding guitars and enough drum dominance to blow out your speaker system.
The new album is the latest from the band since 2011’s Hunter and will be out sometime in June via Warner Brothers. But, in the meantime, the band is kicking off a lengthy worldwide tour this April that will nosedive into the summer, including the Ohio festival Rock on the Range. Scroll down for those tour dates, and tune into Mastodon’s “High Road.” Head-bang on.
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April 28 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox Sodo
April 29 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
May 1 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
May 2 – Los Angeles, CA @ Nokia Theater
May 3 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
May 4 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
May 5 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
May 7 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
May 8 – Chicago, IL @ The Riviera Theater
May 9 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
May 10 – Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
May 12 – Buffalo, NY @ The Town Ballroom
May 13 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
May 15 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
May 16 – Boston, MA @ The Palladium
May 17 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
May 18 – Columbus, OH @ Rock On The Range
May 28 – Helsinki, FI @ Sonisphere Festival
May 30 – Stockholm, SE @ STHLM Festival
June 1 – Oslo, NO @ Sonisphere Festival
June 3 – Horsens, DK @ Jailhouse Rock Festival
June 4 – Hamburg, DE @ Imtech Arena
June 6 – Nuremberg, DE @ Rock im Park
June 7 – Nurburg, DE @ Rock am Ring
June 9 – Landgraaf, NL @ Pinkpop Festival
June 11 – Pratteln, CH @ Z7 Konzertfabrik
June 13 – Manchester, UK @ Bonnaroo Music Festival
June 26 – Zwolle, NL @ Hedon
June 26 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
June 28 – Dessel, BE @ Graspop
June 29 – Moscow, RU @ Moscow Park Live
July 3 – Arras, FR @ Main Square Festival
July 4 – Paris, FR @ Le Zenith
July 6 – Hertfordshire, UK @ Sonisphere UK
July 18 – Nordfjordeid, NO @ Malakoff Rock Festial
July 19 – Tromoso, NO @ Bukta Open Air Festival