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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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) ...