by Zenae Zukowski | Mar 17, 2025 | News
Mastodon surprised all on March 7 by the sudden departure of guitarist Brent Hinds after twenty-five years. The announcement was made just two days before their March 9th appearance at the first-ever destination event, Tool Live in The Sand, where the band hired...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 4, 2017 | News
Some wake-up calls are a little more drastic than others. For Mastodon”s Bill Kelliher, his was when he was hospitalized overseas for having pancreatitis as a result of his drinking. In their earlier years, Mastodon were pretty much known as a hard-partying...
by Zenae Zukowski | Mar 29, 2017 | News, Releases
This Friday (31) Mastodon’s new album Emperor of Sand comes out, and we have been looking forward to it. We listened to new songs including “Sultan’s Curse,” “Andromeda,” and the band’s close brush with death in their “Show Yourself” music video. And...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 25, 2017 | Video
As Mastodon ramp up promotion for their as-yet-untitled seventh album, each member has gotten their own little weird clip. We’ve seen Brann Dailor talk (or not talk) about the album, while Troy Sanders Rambo’d himself to get focused, as Brent Hinds became...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 28, 2016 | Updates
It seems like a no-brainer that we’ll be getting a new album from Mastodon in 2017. Guitarist Bill Kelliher has spoken about the album, which would be their seventh, saying that he’s hopeful for a release early next year. He recently went into more detail...