Metal Injection — Time to crack open that piggy bank, because the tour of the Fall has been announced. Mastodon will be taking out the Dillinger Escape Plan and Red Fang for a 27 date tour all across the US (and Toronto and Montreal as well). This stellar bill kicks o... more info

Metalsucks — Fall has become the de-facto touring high season for metal bands in the U.S. Aside from a small handful of medium-sized tours, there’s rarely much to go see during the summer: bands spend May, June, and part of July touring the European festival ci... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mastodon at MSG (more by Matthew Eisman) With their new LP The Hunter on deck (due 9/27), Mastodon will team up with The Dillinger Escape Plan and Red Fang for a string of US dates in late October and on... more info

Metalsucks — You know the deal… lots of great unsigned bands, so little time. Let’s do this: Kerretta: Halfway between Big Sugar and Mastodon, blending big, burly stoner guitar riffs with blues-soaked synths. I wish there was more than just the one song poste... more info

Stereogum — Georgia metal demigods Mastodon have already shared “Black Tongue” and “Curl Of The Burl,” two tracks from their new album The Hunter, and now they’ve dropped another one via kaleidoscopic YouTube video. The song is called “Spectrelight,�... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Primate at Scion Rock Fest 2011 (more by Adam Murray) Mastodon have released another video from their upcoming LP The Hunter (due on September 27th). The new video, for "Spectrelight", features Scott Kelly from Neurosis, and follows recent... more info

Metal Injection — What better way to kick off the work week than with a new track debut from the mighty Mastodon. The band have already released two tracks off their highly anticipated September 27th release, The Hunter, Curl of the Burl and Black Tongue, but now we h... more info

Metalsucks — September 27 is the biggest metal release date of the fall, quite possibly all of 2011: Mastodon, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Textures, Warbringer and Rwake top an excellent slate of new records that’ll leave metalheads scraping for pennies under ... more info

Metalsucks — In 2006, Kerrang! celebrated the twentieth anniversary of Metallica’s Master of Puppets by releasing Remastered, a re-recording of the entire album with each song performed by a different band (Machine Head did “Battery,” Trivium did the title ... more info

Metal Injection — Primate, the all-star group which features Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher and Brutal Truth vocalist Kevin Sharp have announced a signing to Relapse Records. The band has only released one EP so far, Draw Back A Stump, but already has a lot of peopl... more info