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Troy Sanders of the band Mastodon performs during the Vegoose music festival in 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. / Getty Images If you go Who: Mastodon and Opeth When: 8 p.m. Saturday Where: Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra Resort Cost: $29.50 Details: www.grandsierraresort.com Meet the artist: Drummer Brann Dailor will take part in an autograph signing at Bizarre Guitar in Sparks Saturday at 6 p.m.

Spring and summer are shaping up nicely for Opeth frontman, Mikael Åkerfeldt. In April, four of his creatively restless Swedish band's classic albums got the deluxe reissue treatment. Then the band hit the road with their American metal brethren in Mastodon for a tour that wrapped May 12 in Atlanta...

Mastodon The Fillmore Charlotte May 10, 2012 One of the most exciting, smart and uh, deadsexy (yeah, I said it) heavy metal bands in the game today is from Atlanta? Yeah, right.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

                      The opening act of a three-band bill isn't supposed to upstage the other two groups, but that's nearly what happened last night at the Fillmore Silver Spring. [ more › ]

The hair-raising, hard-rocking musical niche known as metal has risen from the generic graveyard once again. This time through the mantle of the progressive metal outfit, Atlanta-native, Mastodon.

Mikael Åkerfeldt reportedly cut his head open just before the show, forcing his band to cancel last night's concert.

When Mastodon released its latest album, 'The Hunter,' last fall, it set hard rock circles abuzz.

The heavy rock band is an anomaly, gaining exposure on multiple platforms by Corbie Hill Brendon Small remembers the first time he hung out with Mastodon, shortly before they toured together in 2009. "It was kind of what you'd expect from Mastodon," he recalls of that night.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Troy Sanders of the band Mastodon performs during the Vegoose music festival in 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. / Getty Images If you go Who: Mastodon and Opeth When: 8 p.m. Saturday Where: Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra Resort Cost: $29.50 Details: www.grandsierraresort.com Meet the artist: Drummer Brann Dailor will take part in an autograph signing at Bizarre Guitar in Sparks Saturday at 6 p.m.

Tour featuring Mastodon, Opeth and Ghost makes a stop in Vegas, entertains the devout Still riding their respectable waves of growing popularity, metal magnates Mastodon and Opeth, taking along with them ghoulish cult rockers Ghost, stopped by Las Vegas this past Wednesday, performing at the House of Blues. When co-headlining tour was originally announced earlier this year, [...]

Branford Marsalis, Steve Kuhn and Tomas Fujiwara headline new jazz releases, and Feist and Mastodon cover one another.