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Video: Orange Amplification Saves the Day for Troy Sanders of Mastodon

Posted 01/09/2013 at 12:32pm | by Damian Fanelli

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Who needs St. Bernard dogs with whiskey barrels around their necks? In a new video posted this morning on Orange Amplification's YouTube page, Mastodon guitarist Troy Sanders is rescued by the official Orange Amp rescue dog.

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Video: Mastodon's Troy Sanders Teaches You About Mastodons

Posted 05/08/2012 at 1:42pm | by Josh Hart

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Long before Mastodon was a band, it was a large, tusked land mammal that inhabited parts of Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and Central America during the Pleistocene era.

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Night of The Hunter: Guitar World Spends an Evening With Mastodon Guitarists Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher

Posted 04/25/2012 at 1:06pm | by Brad Angle

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It's 11 a.m. on the day after Halloween, in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. The sun is shining and Guitar World is up bright and early (well, at least by rock-star standards) to meet with Mastodon at the Wiltern Theatre.

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Mastodon Streaming Feist Cover, Feist Streaming Cover of Mastodon's "Black Tongue"

Posted 04/20/2012 at 12:59pm | by Josh Hart

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One of the more bizarre releases scheduled for Record Store Day tomorrow is a 7-inch split single featuring metal titans Mastodon and pop/indie songstress Feist.

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Photo Gallery: Mastodon, Opeth and Ghost at New York's Roseland Ballroom

Posted 04/17/2012 at 11:12am | by Josh Hart, Photos by Karla Mera

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Well before it was officially announced, the co-headlining tour — now dubbed Heritage/Hunter — featuring Mastodon and Opeth was already generating tour of the year-level buzz around the rock/metal community. While the three bands are exceedingly different in style, their fan bases have a surprising overlap, save for maybe the most prog-happy of Opeth's fans and the most mainstream of Mastodon's.

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Mastodon and Feist to Join Forces for Record Store Day April 21

Posted 04/09/2012 at 11:30am | by Damian Fanelli

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Here's an odd pairing for you: Mastodon has teamed up with Canadian singer-songwriter Feist -- who you might remember from those "1, 2, 3, 4" Apple commercials from a few years ago -- to put out an exclusive split seven-inch single. It's all part of that growing new phenomenon, Record Store Day, which takes place April 21.

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March 2012 Guitar World Out Now: Lamb of God, Mastodon, The Doors and Readers Poll Results

Posted 02/25/2012 at 1:12am | by Guitar World Staff

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In the new March 2012 issue of Guitar World, Lamb of God’s Mark Morton and Willie Adler tell how the most important contemporary metal group in the world has blazed a new trail for itself with Resolution, Lamb of God’s diverse new album.

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Mastodon, Opeth Announce Co-Headlining Tour Dates

Posted 01/31/2012 at 11:14am | by Josh Hart

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One of the most talked-about tours so far this year has been one that wasn't even officially announced -- until today.

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Mastodon and Feist to Cover Each Other for Record Store Day

Posted 11/29/2011 at 5:28pm | by Josh Hart

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After meeting at a taping of Later... With Jools Holland, it looks like the meant-to-be pair of Feist and Mastodon will actually be doing a bit of collaborating after all.

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Photo of the Day: Mastodon Meet Barney and Friends

Posted 11/18/2011 at 2:53pm | by Josh Hart

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Mastodon have been known to write a song or two about prehistoric beasts, but I'm pretty sure they never mentioned a purple dinosaur anywhere in the lyrics to Leviathan.

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