August 19th, 2004

For Immediate Release


MASTODON JOIN SLAYER-FRONTED JAGERMEISTER TOUR

Relapse Records recording artists MASTODON have announced their second tour of 2004 in support of their forthcoming new album Leviathan. MASTODON has been added to the SLAYER-fronted Jagermeister Music Tour expected to kick off this October. The previously-announced KILLSWITCH ENGAGE will also appear.

Currently in the midst of a North American tour alongside FEAR FACTORY, MASTODON (drummer Brann Dailor, guitarist / vocalist Brent Hinds, guitarist / vocalist Bill Kelliher and bassist / vocalist Troy Sanders) will see their highly anticipated new album street on August 31st in North America and on September 13th in Europe. 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 More information on the Jagermeister Music Tour can be found at: www.jagermeistermusictour.com

"MASTODON are among the more stylistically diverse and accomplished of the new crop of indie metal bands. Devastating" - ROLLING STONE

"MASTODON have returned with "Leviathan", a spectacular new disc that is both old-school approved and totally original" - REVOLVER

"(MASTODON are) destroying pre-packaged rock music" - KERRANG!

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this is going to RULE! Mastodon and Killswitch kicks serious ass, and well, Slayer is just the best damn band to walk to planet!

This will be the best concert... EVER!

Killswitch Engage's booking agent must be the devil, and he found a way to make this tour horrible.

im still gonna see mastodon and slayer.

Yeah Killswitch is meh. But I'll sit through them to see Mastodon and Slayer.

I will too, but it would have been better if DRI was on the tour instead

If DRI was on this tour I would cream myself.

There should be another old school Thrash band on this bill.Slayer never tour with neone good(with the exception of Judas Priest on this years Ozzfest)

killswitch is so fucking bad, this sucks so much I dont even know if i should go. Its gonna be 30-40 bucks for mastodon who im not wicked crazy about, 45 minutes of killswitch and then slayer, and half their sets gonna be reign in blood material. Thats so retarded, Im so sick of that fucking album. Play a few more from hell awaits and SOH, rather the whole RIB album. SOOO fucking monotonous.

How can you get sick of the RIB album? Id rather hear those songs instead of the newer crap Slayer has released.And more Hell Awaits and Divine Intervention songs would be cool to hear.I hope Slayer open with something besides Disciple.

id rather hear them too, but I like every album prior to divine more than RIB. Everything after divine can suck me.