Pitchfork — Photo by Jimmy HubbardGood news and bad news from Mastodon today. The bad, via their website: "Bill Kelliher [first from the left in the photo there -- Ed.], guitarist with Mastodon, has been hospitalized in London as of November 3, during the band's... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Jimmy HubbardGood news and bad news from Mastodon today. The bad, via their website: "Bill Kelliher [first from the left in the photo there -- Ed.], guitarist with Mastodon, has been hospitalized in London as of November 3, during the band&#... more info

Metalsucks — I caught The Bronx live two years ago opening for Converge and Mastodon. Though the rest of the show that followed them was one of the best shows I’ve ever witnessed (Converge a transcendent, high energy, jagged mess of noise that translated their ... more info

Thrash Hits — Mighty metallers Trivium have announced two more shows to accompany their Irish headlining shows in December at Dundee Fat Sams on 02 December 2008 and London Borderling on 09 December 2008. The Floridian quartet will have been on tour with Slayer, M... more info

Thrash Hits — Mastodon are the prog metallers that it’s ok for everyone to like. Selling two million copies of their last album proves this. They have a new one - Crack The Skye - coming out in 2009. Hugh Platt stopped by to chat to them about it. “I didn... more info

Buzzgrinder — Mastodon's upcoming album Crack the Skye isn't going to be just another generic metal record. This thing is going to be like an onion. “Yeah, there’s a story which goes from start to end. And there is Tsarist Russia in there and that wa... more info

Thrash Hits — Who said Slayer were old school? There seemed to be an Unholy curse on our technology! Our video camera chewed up our tape and our camera packed up halfway through. Hugh Platt still managed to remember some… With a beard so mighty it increases his... more info

Metalsucks — I can’t say enough good things about Giant Squid. They just fucking rock your face off. Period. If you dig bands like Mastodon and Kylesa, you will dig Giant Squid. And they have a new album coming out, The Ichthyologist, for which they’ve now re... more info

Paste Magazine — Atlanta-based metal quartet Mastodon has revealed that the title of its anticipated fourth album will be Crack the Skye. Reprise will release the seven-track, 50-minute record in early 2009. The song sequence is built around a four-movement centerp... more info

Metalsucks — The Phillies won the World Series, it’s Halloween, and we have a U.S. presidential election coming up in less than a week. But what’s happening in metal is obviously way more important: Living Colour ruled. As always. Mastodon announced the titl... more info