Mastodon teased us earlier this year with news of a new album with some insane artwork. Then they gave us “High Road” (and its awesome video) and “Chimes At Midnight“. And now they’ve finally made their sixth album, Once More ’Round The Sun, available to stream in full. Check it out ove...

Mastodon used to make videos about evil clowns and cannibal cavemen, but in making the clip for “High Road,” the first single from their new album Once More ’Round the Sun, they’ve gone a different route entirely. With this one, they tell the story of a skinny dweeb who gets beat up during a LARP [...]

Before putting on “Chimes At Midnight” to write about here, I was listening to Opeth’s forthcoming Pale Communion (which I wrote about yesterday) and before that, to In Flames forthcoming Siren Charms (which I probably won’t write about at all unless it appears in The Black Market as a cautionary example),...

Mastodon frontman Brent Hinds recently posted on his Instagram a photo of Dave Grohl, with the meme caption, “Making rock n roll safer with every red carpet all star jam.” (Hinds has since deleted the image from his own feed, but that’s it above.) Coming from Hinds, the jab feels slightly pot-kettle-black-ish, as Ma...

A couple of weeks ago, we posted “High Road,” a blistering and enormous new song from the Atlanta metal warriors Mastodon. That was our first taste of Once More ’Round The Sun, the band’s forthcoming album, and now the band has officially announced that album’s impending release. And before we sa...