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Grammy Award winners
MASTODON will return to the road for the second leg of their acclaimed co-headline tour with
OPETH this spring. The North American jaunt resumes on April 21 at Place Bell in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, stops in major markets coast-to-coast, and comes to a close on May 11 at Municipal Auditorium in Riverside, California.
A special
BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Tuesday, February 8 at 10:00 a.m. local time and end on Wednesday, February 9 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code "HUSHED2022" to access tickets before the general public. General on-sale will be Friday, February 11 at 10 a.m. local time.
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OPETH mainman
Mikael Åkerfeldt: "We're excited to come back to North America for the second leg of shows together with our 'brothers from other mothers' in
MASTODON. And… hello, Canada! It's been too long, we know! We'll soon dust off the ole guitars etc. and get in shape for this run. The last tour was quite splendid; the only downside being the restrictions. We don't know for sure how it's going to pan out this time around, but we're hoping for a bit more freedom to move around. Crossing fingers here. See you semi-soon! Signing off from a rainy, gloomy Stockholm,
Mikael (on behalf of
OPETH)."
Of the first leg,
Consequence Of Sound wrote: "The crowd swayed and sang the new tunes as loud as they could, as the band shook all 12,000 square feet of the ballroom with their tremendous sound, which was accompanied by psychedelic visuals being displayed on a huge LED wall, plus gnarly lasers shooting high above past the balcony."
MASTODON and
OPETH tour dates:
Apr 21 - Montreal, QC - Place Bell
Apr 22 - Toronto, ON - Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Apr 23 - Cleveland, OH - The Agora
Apr 24 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
Apr 26 - Philadelphia, PA - The Met
Apr 28 - Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
Apr 29 - Detroit, MI - The Masonic
Apr 30 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave/Eagles Club
May 01 - St. Paul, MN - The Myth
May 03 - Saskatoon, SK - TCU Place
May 04 - Calgary, AB - Grey Eagle Events Centre
May 05 - Edmonton, AB - EDM Expo Center
May 07 - Vancouver, BC - Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre Theatre Bowl
May 08 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theater
May 09 - Portland, OR - Keller Auditorium
May 11 - Riverside, CA - Municipal Auditorium
Last November,
MASTODON was announced as one of the "Best Metal Performance" nominees at the 64th annual
Grammy Awards, which will be held on April 3, 2022, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The progressive metallers were nominated for their song
"Pushing The Tides", the first single from their latest album,
"Hushed And Grim", which came out in October.
The follow-up to 2017's
"Emperor Of Sand",
"Hushed And Grim"was recorded at
West End Sound, which is located inside of
Ember City, the rehearsal facility that members of
MASTODON manage in Atlanta. Helming the effort was
Grammy-winning producer/mixer/engineer
David Bottrill, who has previously worked with
MUSE,
DREAM THEATER and
TOOL, among many others.
The
"Hushed And Grim" artwork was created by longtime
MASTODON collaborator
Paul Romano, who also designed the sleeves for
"Crack The Skye",
"Blood Mountain",
"Leviathan" and more.
"Emperor Of Sand" debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200. That LP was nominated for the 2018
Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album," and its opening track,
"Sultan's Curse", won the
Grammy Award for "Best Metal Performance."
OPETH played its first show with drummer
Sami Karppinen (
THERION) last November 16 at ExploreAsheville.com Arena in Asheville, North Carolina at the opening date of the band's tour with
MASTODON and
ZEAL & ARDOR.
Karppinen stepped in to play with
OPETH after the Swedish progressive metallers parted ways with their longtime drummer
Martin "Axe" Axenrot due to what they called "a conflict of interests."
Axenrot officially joined
OPETH a decade and a half ago as the replacement for
Martin Lopez, who left the band in May 2006 after being plagued by illness and anxiety attacks, which forced him to miss several of
OPETH's tours.