Welcome to part two in a series of features previewing this year’s Download Festival. Each week, we shall be looking at a particular genre or scene that will be represented at the festival. You may have heard some of the more established bands, but these previews may introduce you to similar bands that are in the same vain.
In part three, we shall be taking a look at bands from America, specifically those who dwell in the desert rock scene:
Tags: Black Stone Cherry, Down, Download Festival, Empress, graveyard, Hellyeah, Huntress, Masters Of Reality, Mastodon, Queens Of The Stone Age, Red Fang, the sword
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West End Motel, side-project of Mastodon‘s own Brent Hinds, has announce details regarding the release of their sophomore full-length, ‘Only Time Can Tell’. The album is due to release on October 30th 2012 and you can find the artwork and tracklist below:
Tags: Mastodon, West End Motel
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After one of the biggest collection of rock stars in one room on one night – the Kerrang! Awards – we can confirm that the winners of this year’s award ceremony within each category is as follows:
Tags: Asking Alexandria, Black Veil Brides, Bring Me The Horizon, Download Festival, Enter Shikari, Falling In Reverse, Halestorm, Kerrang!, Machine Head, Mastodon, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Slash, Tenacious D, The Blackout, While She Sleeps, You Me At Six
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Sonisphere have just made their first line-up announcement for this year’s festival weekend in Knebworth, confirming headline slots from KISS, Queen and Faith No More along with many other acts across the 3-day festival. All currently confirmed bands are detailed below:
Tags: Andrew W.K., Cypress Hill, Evanescence, Faith No More, Fields Of The Nephilim, Flogging Molly, Ghost, Gojira, I Killed The Prom Queen, Incubus, Katatonia, KISS, Lacuna Coil, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Queen, Refused, Sonisphere Festival, Switchfoot, The Blackout, The Darkness, Tim Minchin, Within Temptation, Wolfmother
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Date: February 6th, 2012
Venue: Academy 1, Manchester
Support: Red Fang, The Dillinger Escape Plan
Website: www.mastodonrocks.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mastodon
Twitter: www.twitter.com/mastodon
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Red Fang (****) make the perfect support. They are essentially Mastodon‘s little brother, not necessarily copying them, but they are very similar in style and sound. Although they’re a tad shy as they walked onstage, it didn’t take long from them to find their stride and once they did they were unstoppable. Apart from being a tad repetitive in places, their prog-metal vibes whip up a frenzy and the crowd instantly fall in love with them. These guys are touring later on in the year, and judging from tonight’s performance it looks like it’s going to be a hell of a show.
Tags: Mastodon, Red Fang, The Dillinger Escape Plan
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The Dillinger Escape Plan and Red Fang have both been confirmed to join Mastodon as supporting on their headline UK tour in February. All dates of the tour are as follows:
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What a year 2011 has been for music for us here at DP! HQ. Acts have fallen, others have risen and some bands have overcame some of the most difficult obstacles of their career to produce what my be their best albums to date. Though it has been an awfully difficult challenge to pick our top 10 highlights from this year in terms of releases, we’ve managed to refine it down to these ones below. These 10 albums are the ones that have been rocking our socks off the most all year long, and if you haven’t done so yet we strongly urge you to get a copy of these RIGHT NOW!
Tags: City & Colour, Don Broco, La Dispute, Letlive, Lower Than Atlantis, Manchester Orchestra, Mastodon, Touché Amoré, Trash Talk, Twin Atlantic
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Riff masters Mastodon have just announced a UK headline tour this February, in support of their stellar new album, ‘The Hunter’. Be sure to catch them at one of these shows:
FEBRUARY 05 – BRISTOL, O2 Academy
FEBRUARY 06 – MANCHESTER, Academy
FEBRUARY 07 – GLASGOW, Barrowlands
FEBRUARY 09 – NORWICH, UEA
FEBRUARY 10 – BIRMINGHAM, HMV Institute
FEBRUARY 11 – LONDON, O2 Academy Brixton
Tickets are priced £17.50 regionally and £20.00 for London. Tickets are now available from Kililive or .
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Release Date: September 26th, 2011
Label: Roadrunner Records
Website: www.mastodonrocks.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/mastodon
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The Atlanta metal behemoth that is Mastodon has returned with their fifth studio album, ‘The Hunter’. It’s the band’s second album (the first being ‘Remission’) that’s not a concept album by them, although it is dedicated to Brent Hinds‘ brother who tragically died during the recording process.
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Known for their super epic riffs and solos, Mastodon have unleashed their rather strange video for ‘Curl Of The Burl’. You have to see the ending to understand this terrible play on words, but what would you do in this guy’s sticky situation?
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Metal riff masters Mastodon are currently streaming the whole of their upcoming full-length album ‘The Hunter’ on their official website. You can head there right now by clicking here.
‘The Hunter’ is released on September 26th 2011 through Roadrunner Records.
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Metal titans Mastodon have revealed the final confirmed tracklisting for their forthcoming new album, ‘The Hunter’, set for release in the UK on September 20th through Roadrunner Records. You can view the tracklist along with the album artwork below:
01.) Black Tongue
02.) Curl Of The Burl
03.) Blasteroid
04.) Stargasm
05.) Octopus Has No Friends
06.) All The Heavy Lifting
07.) The Hunter
08.) Dry Bone Valley
09.) Thickening
10.) Creature Lives
11.) Spectrelight
12.) Bedazzled Fingernails
13.) The Sparrow
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