Metalsucks — Well, not quite… but one NY Times writer credits the mighty Mastodon album Leviathan as a crucial cog in his cancer recovery playlist. Any time the New York Times mentions metal in any sort of non-derogatory light — in the same sentence as Meshug... more info

Paste Magazine — We've been trying to come up with a descriptor that adequately describes Atlanta's upcoming Scion Rock Fest. Rockmageddon? Destructioniptica? Metalgeddonocoplyse? more info

MTV.com News — Green Day and U2 drop new LPs this year, along with promising young guns like Paramore, Tokio Hotel and more.By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting by James Montgomery Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt Photo: Frank Micelotta/ G... more info

Metalsucks — It may be a new year on the calendar, but we’re still talking about the same stupid shit here at MetalSucks. Here’s where we focused our energies this week: Most awesomest metal festival EVARRR! Not to be confused with the most awesomest tours o... more info

Pitchfork — According to the band's publicist (they have a publicist!), the long-whispered-about doom-metal supergroup Shrinebuilder is totally going to happen! They're recording an album and everything! This is so awesome. The band's absurd lineup: Saint Vitus/... more info

Pitchfork — According to the band's publicist (they have a publicist!), the long-whispered-about doom-metal supergroup Shrinebuilder is totally going to happen! They're recording an album and everything! This is so awesome. The band's absurd lineu... more info

Metalsucks — Psych! The countdown glitch must’ve just been a timezone issue. Mastodon done gone and launched a whole darn new website! Check it out. The new site offers a short sample of the new track “Oblivion” and the design presumably gives us a peak int... more info

Stereogum — Okkervil River's performance of "Pop Lie" on David Letterman last night wasn't sweetly sung or especially succinctly stated. The The Stand Ins track sounded pretty shaggy dog (like hirsute Will Sheff, trying out for Mastodon in the accompanying sc... more info

Metalsucks — And the big Mastodon announcement that warranted a days-long countdown on their official website is… … another fucking countdown. One that’s 65 fucking days long. Until a release date for Crack the Skye, perhaps? Which would place the date as ... more info

Metalsucks — Needless to say, we are all very psyched to ingest the rapidly approaching new Mastodon album, the self-proclaimed “more under the rock category” Crack the Skye, which will hit shelves in the next couple months (no official release date yet, but ... more info