June 10th, 2004

For Immediate Release


MASTODON ANNOUNCE U.S. TOUR WITH FEAR FACTORY

Relapse Records recording artists MASTODON have announced their first tour of 2004 in support of their highly anticipated new album Leviathan. MASTODON will team up with FEAR FACTORY for a month-long trek beginning July 26th in Towson, MD. The tour is scheduled to conclude August 22nd in Las Vegas, NV with additional dates pending.

MASTODON will preview numerous songs from Leviathan on the upcoming U.S. tour. The follow up to the band's heralded Remission album, Leviathan was recorded at both Robert Lang Studios (NIRVANA, FOO FIGHTERS) and Litho Studios (DEFTONES, SOUNDGARDEN) in Seattle with producer Matt Bayles. Based in part on Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick, MASTODON's Leviathan is slated for an August 31st U.S. release date and a September 13th European release date via Relapse. The final track listing for Leviathan is "Blood & Thunder", "I Am Ahab", "Seabeast", "Iceland", "Iron Tusk", "Megalodon", "Naked Burn", "Aqua Dementia", "Hearts Alive" and "Joseph Merrick".


Updated MASTODON news and tour dates / info. will be made available via the Relapse Records website: www.RELAPSE.com, and the MASTODON website: www.MASTODONROCKS.com
"at that same cusp where METALLICA once perched, circa 1988's "...And Justice For All...MASTODON is poised to rule the rock earth"
- WASHINGTON POST / EXPRESS

"MASTODON are undoubtedly the future of metal" - KERRANG!


"MASTODON could be considered the second coming of METALLICA and RUSH combined, and nobody who's seen them live could counter that opinion." - MTV.com


MASTODON tour dates:
June 10 Nottingham, England (UK) Rock City / The Rig
June 11 Leuven, Belgium (B) Sojo
June 12 Paris, France (F) La Locomotive
July 2 Atlanta, GA Masquerade (w/ Burnt By the Sun)

U.S. tour with FEAR FACTORY
(all dates also include SWORN ENEMY)

July 26 Towson, MD The Recher Theatre
July 27 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts
July 29 Clifton Park, NJ Northern Lights (as part of HELLFEST w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Killswitch Engage, Pig Destroyer, Burnt by the Sun, Suffocation, etc)
July 30 Hartford, CT Webster Theatre
July 31 Boston, MA Axis
August 1-3 TBA
August 4 Buffalo, NY Club Infinity
August 5-9 TBA
August 10 Milwaukee, WI The Rave Ballroom
August 12 Minneapolis, MN The Quest
August 13 Davenport, IA Quad City Live
August 14 Bellefontaine, OH Zane Shawnee Caverns
August 15 Chicago, IL Metro - Smart Bar
August 17 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
August 18 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre
August 20 Phoenix (Tempe), AZ Marquee Theatre
August 21 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues
August 22 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues - Mandalay Bay

fear factory is gay

AXIS???

yeah i know, thats totally unexpected.

sworn enemy is even gayer, what a gay tour

Yes, i'll be at Axis that day

wow that is unexpected. I can't wait until my band is all over headbanger's ball so that I can play huge venues like Axis. Well I'd like to check out mastodan, so i might go.

check out mastodon at the suffocation show at the palladium, that way you won't have to see the homo-eroticism that is sworn enemy, though at the suffocation show you will get to see the latest onslaught of scott lee's nu-core army

yeah i'm not interested in sworn enemy at all. Don't get me wrong I love old school homo-eroticism, but sworn enemy isn't old school homo. They are more of that new school homo-erotica. Which is okay, but I just don't get it. But i'll go to axis because palladium is too far for this spic without a car.

what a weird tour

mastodon is amazing

mastodon is too good for that tour

they definately are, disturbed would be too good for this tour.