The astral trajectory of Mastodon’s most compositionally OTT album, Crack The Skye, saw the Atlanta quartet fly so close to the sun that it fried them to the point of burn-out. Mastodon’s vision for ...

Mastodon have revealed that their new album, the band's first since 2011, is to be released this year, and will be called Once More Round The Sun. The album is set to be released through Warner Bros.

Maybe Mastodon needed a breather from the intensity of their own material. The Hunter almost sounds like a different band: an attempt at writing a straight-ahead heavy rock album. There’s an emphasis ...

With over 30 songs written, Mastodon aren't planning to release everything together as a double album. However, Dailor did mention that if the band is unable to tour amid a persistent pandemic, ...

In the spring of 1837 an engineer from the Western And Atlantic Company chose a spot amongst the forest of Magnolias, Dogwoods and Southern Pines to plant his stake. This was where the proposed giant ...

Progged-out sludge-metal royalty Mastodon return next week, releasing their sixth full-length, Once More ‘Round the Sun, on Warner imprint Reprise. Produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Alice in Chains, ...

No one ever thought a concept record about Moby Dick would turn out to be one of the best metal albums of the 21st century, including the four Mastodon members who wrote it twenty years ago. “I ...

Mastodon’s Brann Dailor says the band’s new album is “all over the place” musically. The singer/drummer talks about what to expect from the Savannah sludge/prog crew’s next record in the new issue of ...

Metal? Rock? Prog? Who knows anymore. All we know is that Mastodon are still exceedingly adept at the ageless art of kicking ass. After 21 years on the job, the venerated Atlanta shredders haven’t ...

In the world of mashups, nothing should be surprising anymore. We've heard countless combinations of at-odds songs mesh quite well and, even so, this blend of Mastodon's riffmongering "Curl of the ...

The Atlanta quartet's fifth studio album is in some ways a more concise, less weighty effort. There's no big concept, unlike previous song cycles such as "Leviathan" (2004), "Blood Mountain" (2006) ...