Metalsucks — Metallica played the Rock in Lisboa festival in Lisboa, Portugal on the weekend of May 25th. So did Mastodon. And James Hetfield wasn’t gonna let a little thing called “fame” stop him from enjoying Mastodon’s set from the best vantage-point ... more info

Metalsucks — Primate features Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher and Brutal Truth’s Kevin Sharp. Ergo: you should care about this band before even hearing a note of music. That their blues-tinged brand of grind kicks all sorts of ass certainly doesn’t hurt either. ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — OK, here we go again. They will last as long as they will, that's until the moment that they will be taken down from youtube again... and that's pretty sure... so watch it now and tell your friends, send them the link, tweet it, post it to f... more info

Metalsucks — Remember that dude who did that totally rad piano cover of Mastodon’s Leviathan in its entirety, in one single take? Well, now he’s covered “Fault and Fracture,” from Converge’s Jane Doe, as well. I don’t think it works quite as well �... more info

Metal Injection — We interupt our regularly scheduled programming for this important announcement. Mastodon frontman Troy Sanders helped Fuse out recently, giving you, the viewer, some interesting facts about the animal from which they take their name, the extinct ma... more info

Metalsucks — Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher, Brutal Truth’s Kevin Sharp, and some other dudes that probably 98% of you don’t care about/have never heard of before formed a new grind outfit called Primate, and last year, they even played some live shows with some... more info

ContactMusic — Rockers Opeth were forced to axe a gig in Minnesota on Monday night 07May12 after frontman Mikael Akerfeldt was hospitalised with a severe head injury The Swedish group was due to open for Mastodon at The Myth in Maplewood but it pulled out at the la... more info

Metalsucks — “Are you aware that the mastodon is the heaviest thing to walk this earth? Even heavier than Zeppelin II?” – Troy Sanders Mastodon bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders recently filmed the below lecture on the animal after which his band is named for... more info

Metal Injection — Opeth did not perform as scheduled last night, May 7th, in Minnesota. The band have been on the road, touring with Mastodon and Ghost. Audience members were told after Ghost played that Opeth were unable to perform, as Mikael was unable to get to the... more info

Metalsucks — Well, this is scary. Two separate MetalSucks readers, Brent Ericson and Steve Bergquist, e-mailed MetalSucks in the wee hours this morning to report that Opeth did not perform at last night’s stop of their current tour with Mastodon and Ghost in... more info