MetalSucks

Most of you who (rightly so) loved Mastodon’s latest masterpiece Crack the Skye probably already know that the band is currently doing a very special tour of small venues with Kylesa and Intronaut, and that they’re playing Crack the Skye in its entirety on said tour (full list of tour dates available at Shockhound. Most of you are also bitching that you haven’t been able to get tickets to this very special event because of the limited amount of tickets available. Bitch no more: MetalSucks is giving away TWO pairs of tickets to see Mastodon perform in New York on either May 9th (Irving Plaza) or May 10th (Williamsburg Music Hall, Brooklyn), your choice which.

TO WIN, LEAVE A COMMENT WITH A SWINE-FLU INSPIRED PUN ON ANYTHING RELATED TO MASTODON. MAKE SURE YOU TYPE IN A VALID EMAIL ADDRESS, AS WINNERS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL BY MAY 6TH AND WILL BE GUESTLISTED ON THE SHOW OF THEIR CHOICE.

Examples:
“Brent Swineds”
“Colony of Pigmen”
“The Last Bacon”

Good luck!

Needless to say, we are all very psyched to ingest the rapidly approaching new Mastodon album, the self-proclaimed “more under the rock category” Crack the Skye, which will hit shelves in the next couple months (no official release date yet, but I’m told sometime in March). And if you’re interested in Mastodonian things such as track listings and awesome interviews with band members, let alone video interviews from our interweb bretheren, well…you know what to do.

But if you wanna hear a taste of the newly new newness, you can proceed to HERE (courtesy of “Metal Bastard’s MP3 Blahg” — read full post here). Apparantly, the track is called “Divinations”, it will indeed appear on the new album (according to the always-reliable blogosphere), and this recording is from this year’s Bonneroo Festival, where I hope Mastodon melted the faces of hordes of unsuspecting hippies…literally.

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