The Newsroom — http://www.WatchMojo.com speaks with drummer Brann Dailor to learn more about their album, Crack the Skye, to find out about the band’s experience scoring Jonah Hex, and to find out how he would describe the band’s music. more info

Metalsucks — Amazon’s MP3 store — my personal online music retailer of choice* — is having an August sale in which they’re selling 1,000 albums for only $5 each. And no longer is metal getting the shit end of the stick; 100 of the 1,000 albums are metal! ... more info

VH1 News — Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell jokes that the BlackDiamondSkye Tour is like an Almond Joy, "You get three great flavors on one tour." more info

MTV.com News — 'You get three great flavors on one tour,' Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell jokes.By James Montgomery Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell Photo: Barry Brecheisen/ WireImage When it was first announced back in April, the BlackDiamondSkye Tour —... more info

Altsounds — Night Horse are back with their highly anticipated sophomore album Perdition Hymns, produced and mixed by Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Mastodon, The Sword). Perdition Hymns is a patent demonstration of a group that has quickly become a well-refined... more info

Metalsucks — Maiden and Slayer have been putting their names on custom-designed shoes for years. Mastodon Vans and 3 Inches of Blood Nikes were the most recent entries into the metal sneaker trend until Valient Thorr crashed their party earlier this year. Now Kin... more info

Chorus.fm — *Deftones* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/deftones) will be touring this fall with *Mastodon* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/mastadon) and *Alice In Chains* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/aliceinchains) under the "BLACKDIAMONDSKYE" banner. The bands are ru... more info

Metalsucks — If all the rumors are to be believed, Jonah Hex — both the box office mega-flop and Mastodon’s accompanying score — was pretty much (ahem!) hexed from the get-go. Massive re-shoots took place, and original composer/Mastocollaborator John Powell... more info

Metal Injection — First up, we finally get a taste of what Mastodon's contributions to the Jonah Hex score are. Sterogum premiered a track titled "Indian Theme". It starts off sounding like really creepy Native American music and then kicks in to a Mastodonian ja... more info

Metalsucks — So Stereogum is streaming “Indians,” one of Mastodon’s contributions to the score the Megan Fox career killer, Jonah Hex. And I’ve listened to it three times now. And, uh… well. It sure does sound like Mastodon. But not even, like, really g... more info