29. April 2014
Mastodon Once More & Tour
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| Out 24 June 2014 |
By Walter Price
The low slung dirty dirty riff soul pounding thinking man’s stoner rock legends Mastodon have a new thundering album about to hit us in the face and shake our beer soaked and eager hearts. Once More ‘Round The Sun finds its way into our meager little lives 24 June and the Atlanta based boys are on the road to let us know all about it and further educate the masses on what makes this band standouts among the vast sea of imitators.
The low slung dirty dirty riff soul pounding thinking man’s stoner rock legends Mastodon have a new thundering album about to hit us in the face and shake our beer soaked and eager hearts. Once More ‘Round The Sun finds its way into our meager little lives 24 June and the Atlanta based boys are on the road to let us know all about it and further educate the masses on what makes this band standouts among the vast sea of imitators.
With a new single, High Road already smashing itself around the internets, we, I, can’t wait to catch the guys when they land in Germanyland. Come on bring the noise!
“Yeah, in regards that a lot of the stuff on the new record is very verse / chorus based. A lot of it was built as ‘less is more.’ We’ve done our really complex, mathy and even proggy records, but I think we write our best stuff when we strip it away from there. We focus on clear verses and choruses and add the proggy stuff in — salt and pepper it. I feel like we’ve done that in the past, where something wasn’t complicated enough, so let’s make it more complicated. It’s like, no, let’s make the song simpler. It took us a while to sound as good as I feel like it does. It’s very clean sounding and with a lot of really catchy verses and choruses going on.” – Brann Dailor (Read Graham ‘Gruhamed’ Hartmann’s Interview at Loudwire)
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Tour Dates
- 4-29 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
- 5-01 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
- 5-02 Los Angeles, CA – Club Nokia
- 5-03 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
- 5-04 Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
- 5-07 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
- 5-08 Chicago, IL – The Riviera Theater
- 5-09 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
- 5-10 Toronto, Ontario – Sound Academy
- 5-12 Buffalo, NY – The Town Ballroom
- 5-13 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
- 5-15 New York, NY – Terminal 5
- 5-16 Boston, MA – The Palladium
- 5-17 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
- 5-18 Columbus, OH – Rock On The Range
- 5-28 Helsinki, Finland – Sonisphere Festival
- 5-30 Stockholm, Sweden – STHLM Fields Festival
- 6-01 Oslo, Norway – Sonisphere Festival
- 6-03 Horsens, Dernmark – Jailhouse Rock Festival
- 6-04 Hamburg, Germany – Imtech Arena
- 6-06 Nurburgring, Germany – Rock Am Ring
- 6-07 Bavaria, Germany – Rock Im Park
- 6-09 Landgraff, Holland – Pinkpop
- 6-11 Pratteln, Switzerland – Z7 KONZERTFABRIK
- 6-13 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo
- 6-20 Montebello, Quebec – Amnesia Rockfest
- 6-26 Zwolle, Netherlands – Hedon
- 6-27 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
- 6-28 Dessel, Belgium – Graspop
- 6-29 Moscow, Russia – Moscow Park Live
- 7-03 Arras, France – Main Square Festival
- 7-04 Paris, France – Le Zénith
- 7-06 Knebworth, England – Sonisphere
- 7-18 Nordfjordeid, Norway – Malakoff Rock Festival
- 7-19 Tromsø, Norway – Bukta Open Air Festival
- 9-06 Raleigh, North Carolina – Hopscotch Music Festival