Distilling the intensity of an incredibly difficult year, Atlanta progressive metallers Mastodon have announced “The Poisonous Weapons Tour”, a nationwide run of dates with support from Deafheaven and Alcest. The band also dropped today their first new music since the passing of Brent Hinds, in the form of the single “Your Ghost Again”, which you can stream here.
Kicking off September 16 in Orlando, the trio of bands will cut their way across the full country before closing out October 24 at Sick New World Dallas. Grab your tickets here.
Mastodon has steadily evolved into one of the most influential, inimitable, and iconic rock bands of the modern era. Since emerging in 2000, the Atlanta quartet has defied both sonic and thematic boundaries with an uncategorizable, undeniable, and uncompromising vision unlike anything else in music. This vision manifested over the course of canonical albums such as Leviathan, which landed on Rolling Stone‘s coveted “The 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time”.
Following the seminal Crack The Skye (named one of the best albums of 2009 by Time), they earned three consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard 200 with “The Hunter” (2011), Once More ‘Round The Sun (2014), and Emperor Of Sand (2017). Out of six career nominations, they received a Grammy Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” for “Sultan’s Curse”. They are the rare creative force whose music can be felt everywhere from Game of Thrones, Adult Swim, The History Channel, and DC comics films to Coachella and Bonnaroo.
They notably supported the Hirschberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research with a rendition of “Stairway To Heaven” in honor of late manager Nick John. The group reached another critical high watermark via their ninth full-length, Hushed And Grim. Featuring the Grammy Award-nominated “Pushing The Tides”, it marked the band’s third straight No. 1 bow on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart. It concluded 2021 on over a dozen year-end lists with Rolling Stone raving, “we get everything from some of the band’s hookiest rockers to date to some of their most awe-inspiring epics.”
In 2024, they embarked on a massive arena tour with Lamb Of God, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Leviathan, with the two bands subsequently teaming up for the collaborative single “Floods Of Triton,” which was met with widespread critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, Forbes, Pitchfork, Revolver, and beyond.
Most recently, they were honored as guests of New York’s Metropolitan Opera for their acclaimed production of Moby Dick, in acknowledgment of the 20th anniversary of the similarly themed Leviathan. Evolving as they usher rock into new realms, they forever remain the same unpredictable trailblazing beast — Mastodon.
