Here's the last batch of clips from our recent interview with Mastodon guitarists Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher. Read more...

photo by Jon Wiederhorn

Time to crack the Mastodon fortress just a little more with part 2 of three posts of interview snippets with the band about its latest album, Crack the Skye, which is still in heavy rotation on our personal stereo system and will likely hold fast as our album of the year. Then again, it's only April, but the bar has been set mighty high. Click "more" to watch. Read more...

Right now, Mastodon are lumbering through Canada and will reach American shores with openers Kylesa and Intronaut on April 29. The tour will wrap up with a hometown show in Atlanta on May 15, then Mastodon will be off to Europe to open for Metallica. To show our support, we'll continue to blast the band's video for "Divinations" from atop the rafters. And we've also got a batch of new interview clips to roll over out the next few days. Here's the first installment. Read more...

Chicago's self-proclaimed "angriest band in the world," Oceano, has even more reason to be pissed now that Mastodon has taken top honors in this week's Your Vote Counts and earned the right to return to the next edition of "Headbangers Ball," which airs Saturday at 2 a.m.

See, Mastodon shouldn't have really been eligible for the title. They won the return slot the first week we played "Divinations," and once an artist wins Your Vote Counts, the rule has always been they can't win again for another couple months. This week, however, we let readers vote for any of the new videos from the last show just for the hell of it. Metal's supposed to be nothing if not rebellious, right?

But rage not, Oceano. Even though your video "District of Misery" didn't technically win, we're re-airing it anyway on the next "Ball" out of a combination of respect and, well, fear. Click "more" to watch both videos, and catch them again Saturday on MTV2. Read more...

As predicted, Mastodon's excellent new video for "Divinations," swept this week's Your Vote Counts to earn a spot on the next episode of "Headbangers Ball." The Atlanta band beat out Trivium, Static-X, Dragonforce and Within the Ruins to claim the title. Read more...

We're beyond thrilled to present the premiere of Mastodon's new video for "Divinations," the first single from the band's astonishing new album Crack the Skye, which comes out March 24 in both a single-disc edition and a disc plus DVD version, which includes photographer and filmmaker Jimmy Hubbard's candid, revealing documentary of the making of the album. Click here to see other "Making of Crack the Skye" segments.

Click "more" to read the band members talk about the video, watch "Divinations" and find out when Mastodon are coming to a town near you. Read more...

Prog metal heroes Mastodon have just announced a special iTunes package that offers fans an instrumental version of their entire new album Crack the Skye along with the regular version. Sounds sweet to us. And here's something else that's pretty sweet: The behind-the-scenes video "The Making of Crack the Skye: Episode IX," in which the band members discuss how they tracked lead and background vocals for the record. Behold! Read more...

photos by Jimmy Hubbard

Last week, we brought you Episode I of "The Making of Mastodon's Crack the Skye". Today we follow up with Episode VIII. What happened to the other six episodes, you ask? Well, Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor and guitarist Bill Kelliher are huge "Star Wars" fans, and those movies didn't come out in sequential order; hence, Episode VIII, in which Mastodon discuss guitarist Brent Hinds' 2007 brush with death and how that inspired the songs on Crack the Skye. Click "more" to watch the clip. Read more...

photo by Jimmy Hubbard

If you've heard Mastodon's new song "Divinations," you've gotten a taste of the progressive songwriting and psychedelic otherworldliness of the band's upcoming album Crack the Skye, which comes out March 24. But just wait 'til you hear the ominous, trudging "Oblivion" or the miasmic, intoxicating 13-minute epic "The Last Baron." Yup, there's no question in our minds that when the time comes to pick the best albums of 2009, Crack the Skye will be perched right up there near the top if not at the top. We'll be bringing you much more from Mastodon in the coming weeks, but for now we present "The Making of Crack the Skye: the Beginning of Crack the Skye: Episode I." Read more...

Check out the freaky-deeky artwork for Mastodon's upcoming album Crack the Skye. If that doesn't look like a concept album about Rasputin, we don't know what does. Actually, Rasputin does figure into the album lyrics, but only to guide some lost astrally projecting dude safely through a wormhole and back into his crippled body. And lyricist/drummer Brann Dailor says he doesn't do acid anymore. Click "more" to listen to the first single from the album, "Divinations." Read more...