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Teaming up for what promises to be an unforgettable jaunt of epic proportions, iconic Grammy Award -winning heavy rock band MASTODON will join forces with Grammy Award -nominated French heavy metal luminaries GOJIRA for "The Mega-Monsters Tour" , a massive co-headline tour across North America in 2023 along with special guests LORNA SHORE on all dates. It finds these two juggernauts taking over arenas and amphitheaters throughout the spring and summer, alternating closing sets each night.

A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Wednesday, January 18 at 10:00 a.m. EST and end on Thursday, January 19 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code "HUSHED" to access tickets before the general public. General on-sale will be Friday, January 20 at 10 a.m. local time.

The tour kicks off at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon on April 18, stops at legendary venues such as the Forum in Los Angeles, California on April 21, and steamrolls through MASTODON 's hometown of Atlanta for their biggest Georgia headlining gig to date at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre. The first leg concludes at Santander Arena in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 11. Meanwhile, the tour resumes with a second leg from August 9 through September 2.

MASTODON will hit the road in support of their critically acclaimed ninth studio album, "Hushed And Grim" . Meanwhile, GOJIRA are out supporting their seventh full-length album, "Fortitude" , which garnered a Grammy Award nomination in the category of "Best Metal Performance" for "Amazonia" . These two titans previously canvased North America together in 2014, and this reunion represents yet another major milestone in their respective careers.

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Apr. 18 - Portland, OR - Veterans Memorial Coliseum ( buy tickets ) Apr. 20 - Concord, CA - Concord Pavilion ( buy tickets ) Apr. 21 - Los Angeles, CA - The Forum ( buy tickets ) Apr. 22 - Phoenix, AZ - AZ Federal Theatre ( buy tickets ) Apr. 23 - Las Vegas, NV - Virgin ( buy tickets ) Apr. 26 - Dallas, TX - The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory ( buy tickets ) Apr. 28 - Houston, TX - 713 Music Hall ( buy tickets ) Apr. 29 - Austin, TX - Moody Center ( buy tickets ) Apr. 30 - Oklahoma City, OK - Zoo Amphitheatre ( buy tickets ) May 02 - Nashville, TN - Municipal Auditorium ( buy tickets ) May 04 - Boca Raton, FL - Sunset Cove Amphitheater ( buy tickets ) May 05 - St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Amphitheatre ( buy tickets ) May 06 - Atlanta, GA - Ameris Bank Amphitheatre ( buy tickets ) May 07 - Asheville, NC - Harrah's Cherokee Center ( buy tickets ) May 09 - Richmond, VA - Virginia Credit Union Live ( buy tickets ) May 10 - Baltimore, MD - Pier Six Pavilion ( buy tickets ) May 11 - Reading, PA - Santander Arena ( buy tickets )

Aug. 09 - Cincinnati, OH - MegaCorp Pavilion ( buy tickets ) Aug. 10 - Cleveland, OH - Jacob's Pavilion ( buy tickets ) Aug. 11 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE Outdoors ( buy tickets ) Aug. 12 - New York, NY - Coney Island Amphitheater ( buy tickets ) Aug. 13 - Syracuse, NY - OneCenter ( buy tickets ) Aug. 15 - Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple ( buy tickets ) Aug. 17 - Toronto, ON - RBC Echo Beach ( buy tickets ) Aug. 18 - Montreal, QC - Place Bell ( buy tickets ) Aug. 19 - Portland, ME - Cross Insurance Arena ( buy tickets ) Aug. 20 - Boston, MA - MGM Music Hall ( buy tickets ) Aug. 23 - Milwaukee, WI - BMO Pavilion ( buy tickets ) Aug. 25 - Hammond, IN - Horseshoe ( buy tickets ) Aug. 26 - Omaha, NE - Westfair Amphitheater ( buy tickets ) Aug. 27 - Minneapolis, MN - Waite Park Amphitheater ( buy tickets ) Aug. 29 - St. Louis, MO - The Factory ( buy tickets ) Aug. 30 - Kansas City, MO - Azura Amphitheater ( buy tickets ) Sep. 01 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheater ( buy tickets ) Sep. 02 - Denver, CO - Fiddler's Green Amphitheater ( buy tickets )

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Gojira and Mastodon — the band, not the Twitter replacement website — are teaming up for an upcoming co-headlining “Mega-Monsters” tour . Lorna Shore will join for all dates of the two-leg trek scheduled to begin in April.

The heavy-metal-meets-heavy-rock tour will span 35 dates beginning with a show at Portland’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum on April 18. Mastodon and Gojira will make stops in Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Richmond, New York, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Denver, and more cities.

General sale for the Mega-Monsters tour begins on Jan. 20 at 10 a.m. local time via both Gorija and Mastodon ‘s websites.

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Mastodon and Gojira Announce 2023 Co-Headlining Tour

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Mastodon and Gojira have announce a 2023 co-headlining tour. Dubbed the Mega-Monsters Tour, it will take place this spring and summer across North America. Opening each date will be Lorna Shore. Find the full itinerary for the co-headlining tour below.

The Mega-Monsters Tour will begin on April 18 in Portland, Oregon, before the bands move across most of the West Coast and the South. After a brief break in June and July, Mastodon and Gojira will head back on the road, performing on the East Coast and Midwest before concluding the trek on September 2 in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

Mastodon released their latest and eighth album, Hushed and Grim , back in 2021. Before that, the Atlanta-based sludge metal band also dropped the compilation Medium Rarities . As for Gojira, their newest album also came out in 2021: Fortitude . It was the follow-up to the French avant-metal group’s 2016 full-length, Magma .

Read about Mastodon’s 2004 full-length LP Leviathan on Pitchfork’s list of “ The 200 Best Albums of the 2000s .”

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04-18 Portland, OR - Veterans Memorial Coliseum 04-20 Concord, CA - Concord Pavilion 04-21 Los Angeles, CA - The Forum 04-22 Phoenix, AZ - Arizona Financial Theatre 04-23 Las Vegas, NV - Virgin 04-26 Dallas, TX - The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory 04-28 Houston, TX - 713 Music Hall 04-29 Austin, TX - Moody Center 04-30 Oklahoma City, OK - Zoo Amphitheatre 05-02 Nashville, TN - Municipal Auditorium 05-04 Boca Raton, FL - Sunset Cove Amphitheater 05-05 St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Amphitheatre 05-06 Atlanta, GA - Ameris Bank Amphitheatre 05-07 Asheville, NC - Harrah’s Cherokee Center 05-09 Richmond, VA - Virginia Credit Union Live 05-10 Baltimore, MD - Pier Six Pavilion 05-11 Reading, PA - Santander Arena 08-09 Cincinnati, OH - MegaCorp Pavilion 08-10 Cleveland, OH - Jacob’s Pavilion 08-11 Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE Outdoors 08-12 New York, NY - Coney Island Amphitheater 08-13 Syracuse, NY - OneCenter 08-15 Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple 08-17 Toronto, Ontario - RBC Echo Beach 08-18 Laval, Quebec - Place Bell 08-19 Portland, ME - Cross Insurance Arena 08-20 Boston, MA - MGM Music Hall 08-23 Milwaukee, WI - BMO Pavilion 08-25 Hammond, IN - Horseshoe 08-26 Omaha, NE - Westfair Amphitheater 08-27 Minneapolis, MN - Waite Park Amphitheater 08-29 St. Louis, MO - The Factory 08-30 Kansas City, MO - Azura Amphitheater 09-01 Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheater 09-02 Greenwood Village, CO - Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater

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The 35-date Mega-Monsters tour will tour the US from April, with support from Lorna Shore

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Perog-metal titans Gojira and Mastodon have announced a co-headlining US tour. The 35-date Mega-Monsters tour is split into two legs, with the first kicking off in Portland, Oregon on April 18 and climaxing in Reading, Pennsylvania, on May 11. 

The tour will pick up again on August 9 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and end on September 2 in Denver, Colorado. Rising deathcore stars Lorna Shore will support at all shows. Full dates below.  

Tickets for the Mega-Monsters tour go on sale on January 20 at 10am local time via both band's websites and via the usual agencies .    

Gojira's upcoming European tour starts in Dublin on February 11. Dates are available on the band's website .  Mastodon and Gojira previously toured together in 2014, with support from Kvelertak. 

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Apr 18: Portland Veterans Memorial Coliseum, OR Apr 20: Concord Concord Pavilion, CA Apr 21: Los Angeles The Forum, CA Apr 22: Phoenix Arizona Financial Theatre, AZ Apr 23: Las Vegas Virgin, NV Apr 26: Dallas The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, TX Apr 28: Houston 713 Music Hall, TX Apr 29: Austin Moody Center, TX Apr 30: Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheatre, OK May 02: Nashville Municipal Auditorium, TN May 04: Boca Raton Sunset Cove Amphitheater, FL May 05: St. Augustine St. Augustine Amphitheatre, FL May 06: Atlanta Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, GA May 07: Asheville Harrah’s Cherokee Center, NC May 09: Richmond Virginia Credit Union Live, VA May 10: Baltimore Pier Six Pavilion, MD May 11: Reading Santander Arena, PA Aug 09: Cincinnati MegaCorp Pavilion, OH Aug 10: Cleveland Jacob’s Pavilion, OH Aug 11: Pittsburgh Stage AE Outdoors, PA Aug 12: New York Coney Island Amphitheater, NY Aug 13: Syracuse OneCenter, NY Aug 15: Detroit Masonic Temple, MI Aug 17: Toronto RBC Echo Beach, ON Aug 18: Laval Place Bell, QC Aug 19: Portland Cross Insurance Arena, ME Aug 20: Boston MGM Music Hall, MA Aug 23: Milwaukee BMO Pavilion, WI Aug 25: Hammond Horseshoe, IN Aug 26: Omaha Westfair Amphitheater, NE Aug 27: Minneapolis Waite Park Amphitheate, MN Aug 29: St. Louis The Factory, MO Aug 30: Kansas City Azura Amphitheater, MO Sep 01: Salt Lake City USANA Amphitheater, UT Sep 02: Denver Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater, CO

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MASTODON and GOJIRA announce 2023 co-headlining tour

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Our list of the most anticipated tours of 2023 just got another big-ass addition. Mastodon and Gojira have announced a massive co-headlining tour that will be hitting North America with two different legs throughout the spring and summer. What's more, deathcore rising stars Lorna Shore will be opening every single date. That's a sweet fucking bill.

Dubbed the Mega-Monsters Tour in reference to the headlining band's titular beasts, the first leg kicks off April 18th in Portland, Oregon, and wraps up May 11th in Reading, PA. Roughly three months later on August 9th, the tour will start back up again in Cincinatti, OH, and journey on for another month of gigs before wrapping up in Denver on September 2nd.

Various pre-sale ticket packages go on-sale Wednesday January 18th and general tickets go live January 20th at 10 a.m. local time. Get more info here and see the full list of dates below.

Mastodon, Gojira, Lorna Shore 2023 tour dates: 4/18 Portland, OR Veterans Memorial Coliseum 4/20 Concord, CA Concord Pavilion 4/21 Los Angeles, CA The Forum 4/22 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Financial Theatre 4/23 Las Vegas, NV Virgin 4/26 Dallas, TX The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory 4/28 Houston, TX 713 Music Hall 4/29 Austin, TX Moody Center 4/30 Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Amphitheatre 5/2 Nashville, TN Municipal Auditorium 5/4 Boca Raton, FL Sunset Cove Amphitheater 5/5 St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheatre 5/6 Atlanta, GA Ameris Bank Amphitheatre 5/7 Asheville, NC Harrah's Cherokee Center 5/9 Richmond, VA Virginia Credit Union Live 5/10 Baltimore, MD Pier Six Pavilion 5/11 Reading, PA Santander Arena 8/9 Cincinnati, OH MegaCorp Pavilion 8/10 Cleveland, OH Jacob's Pavilion 8/11 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE Outdoors 8/12 New York, NY Coney Island Amphitheater 8/13 Syracuse, NY OneCenter 8/15 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple 8/17 Toronto, ON RBC Echo Beach 8/18 Laval, QC Place Bell 8/19 Portland, ME Cross Insurance Arena 8/20 Boston, MA MGM Music Hall 8/23 Milwaukee, WI BMO Pavilion 8/25 Hammond, IN Horseshoe 8/26 Omaha, NE Westfair Amphitheater 8/27 Minneapolis, MN Waite Park Amphitheater 8/29 St. Louis, MO The Factory 8/30 Kansas City, MO Azura Amphitheater 9/1 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheater 9/2 Denver, CO Fiddler's Green Amphitheater

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Kicking off in just a few months, progressive metal titans Gojira and Mastodon will be hitting the road for a brand new co-headlining run together titled “The Mega-Monsters Tour.”

This epic tour involves two legs, with the dates and locations associated with both legs being announced today. Accompanying the bands as support is deathcore darlings Lorna Shore .

Tickets will go on sale to the public as of January 20th (this Friday).

The tour kicks off on April 18th in Portland, OR, and will conclude on September 2nd in Denver, CO.

Below you will find all the dates and locations associated with this tour. Do not miss out on what is going to be yet another amazing metal tour in 2023.

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  • April 18, 2023 – Portland OR – Veterans Memorial Col. April 20, 2023 -Concord, CA – Concord Pavilion April 21, 2023 – Los Angeles, CA – Forum April 22, 2023 – Phoenix, AZ – AZ Federal Theatre April 23, 2023 – Las Vegas, NV – Virgin April 26, 2023 – Dallas, TX – Toyota Music Factory Amp April 28, 2023 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall April 29, 2023 – Austin, TX – Moody Center April 30, 2023 – Oklahoma, City, OK – Zoo Amphitheatre May 2, 2023 – Nashville, TN – Municipal Aud. May 4, 2023 – Boca Raton, FL – Sunset Cove Amp May 5, 2023 – St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amp May 6, 2023 – Atlanta, GA – Ameris Bank Amp May 7, 2023 – Asheville, NC – Harrah’s Cherokee Center May 9, 2023 – Richmond, VA – Virginia Credit Union Live May 10, 2023 – Baltimore, MD – Pier Six Pavilion May 11, 2023 – Reading, PA – Santander Arena
  • August 9, 2023 – Cincinnati, OH – MegaCorp Pavilion August 10, 2023 – Cleveland, OH – Jacob’s Pavilion August 11, 2023 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE Pavilion August 12, 2023 – New York, NY – Coney Island Amp August 13, 2023 – Syracuse, NY – Oncenter August 15, 2023 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple August 17, 2023 – Toronto, ON – Echo Beach Amp August 18, 2023 -Montreal, QC – Place Bell August 19, 2023 – Portland, ME – Cross Insurance Arena August 20, 2023 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall August 23, 2023 – Milwaukee, WI – BMO Pavilion August 25, 2023 – Hammond, IN – Horseshoe August 26, 2023 – Omaha, NE – Westfair Amp August 27, 2023 – Minneapolis, MN – Waite Park Amp August 29, 2023 – St. Louis, MO – The Factory August 30, 2023 – Kansas City, MO – Azura Amp September 1, 2023 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amp September 2, 2023 – Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amp

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Two behemoth bands are teaming up for an extra heavy tour this year. Mastodon and Gojira will hit the road together for “The Mega-Monsters Tour,” which will cover most of the U.S. with two legs in the spring and summer. That means the nation will rumble each night to the bass lines of Troy Sanders and Jean-Michel Labadie .

The first leg begins April 18th in Portland, Oregon, and will cut down the West Coast, across the South, and back up the East Coast to wind up in Reading, Pennsylvania, on May 11th. They’ll pick up again on August 9th in Ohio and focus on the Midwest and Northeast with a handful of Canadian dates thrown in.

Mastodon’s latest album, Hushed and Grim , featured the song “Teardrinker” with a killer melodic bass solo by Sanders. Check out the video:

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Teaming up for what promises to be an unforgettable jaunt of epic proportions, iconic Grammy Award -winning heavy rock band MASTODON will join forces with Grammy Award -nominated French heavy metal luminaries GOJIRA for “The Mega-Monsters Tour” , a massive co-headline tour across North America in 2023 along with special guests LORNA SHORE on all dates. It finds these two juggernauts taking over arenas and amphitheaters throughout the spring and summer, alternating closing sets each night.

The tour kicks off at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon on April 18, stops at legendary venues such as the Forum in Los Angeles, California on April 21, and steamrolls through MASTODON ‘s hometown of Atlanta for their biggest Georgia headlining gig to date at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre. The first leg concludes at Santander Arena in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 11. Meanwhile, the tour resumes with a second leg from August 9 through September 2.

Fan pre-sales for tickets begin January 18 th at 10:00am local time and include both  Mastodon and Gojira artist pre-sales, alongside Blabbermouth , Spotify and local promoter / venue / radio pre-sales. General on-sale will launch January 20th at 10:00am local time with VIP ticket packages available at Gojira and Mastodon websites.

MASTODON will hit the road in support of their critically acclaimed ninth studio album, “Hushed And Grim” . Meanwhile, GOJIRA are out supporting their seventh full-length album, “Fortitude” , which garnered a Grammy Award nomination in the category of “Best Metal Performance” for “Amazonia” . These two titans previously canvased North America together in 2014, and this reunion represents yet another major milestone in their respective careers.

“The Mega-Monsters Tour” Tour dates:

Apr. 18 – Portland, OR – Veterans Memorial Coliseum Apr. 20 – Concord, CA – Concord Pavilion Apr. 21 – Los Angeles, CA The Forum Apr. 22 – Phoenix, AZ – AZ Federal Theatre Apr. 23 – Las Vegas, NV – Virgin Apr. 26 – Dallas, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory Apr. 28 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall Apr. 29 – Austin, TX – Moody Center Apr. 30 – Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Amphitheatre May 02 – Nashville, TN – Municipal Auditorium May 04 – Boca Raton, FL – Sunset Cove Amphitheater May 05 – St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheatre May 06 – Atlanta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre May 07 – Asheville, NC – Harrah’s Cherokee Center May 09 – Richmond, VA – Virginia Credit Union Live May 10 – Baltimore, MD – Pier Six Pavilion May 11 – Reading, PA – Santander Arena

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Mastodon and Gojira Announce 2023 North American Co-Headlining Tour

Mastodon and Gojira have announced an extensive 2023 North American co-headlining tour with support from Lorna Shore .

The “Mega-Monsters Tour” is broken into two separate spring and summer legs. The spring outing kicks off April 18th in Portland, Oregon, and runs through May 11th in Reading, Pennsylvania. The summer leg begins August 9th in Cincinnati, Ohio, and wraps up September 2nd in Denver, Colorado.

Ticket pre-sales start Wednesday (January 18th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster  using the code SOUND , with a general on-sale launching Friday (January 20th). For sold-out shows, pick up tickets via StubHub .

Mastodon will be out in support of their 2021 effort Hushed and Grim , though new music could be on the way as the band works on new material . Meanwhile, Gojira continue to tour behind their 2021 album Fortitude .

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Below you can see the full list of dates for Mastodon and Gojira’s 2023 North American tour. Get tickets via  Ticketmaster or StubHub .

Mastodon and Gojira’s 2023 North American Tour Dates with Lorna Shore: 04/18 – Portland, OR @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum 04/20 – Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion 04/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum 04/22 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre 04/23 – Las Vegas, NV @ Virgin 04/26 – Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory 04/28 – Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall 04/29 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center 04/30 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Zoo Amphitheatre 05/02 – Nashville, TN @ Municipal Auditorium 05/04 – Boca Raton, FL @ Sunset Cove Amphitheater 05/05 – St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre 05/06 – Atlanta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre 05/07 – Asheville, NC @ Harrah’s Cherokee Center 05/09 – Richmond, VA @ Virginia Credit Union Live 05/10 – Baltimore, MD @ Pier Six Pavilion 05/11 – Reading, PA @ Santander Arena 08/09 – Cincinnati, OH @ MegaCorp Pavilion 08/10 – Cleveland, OH @ Jacob’s Pavilion 08/11 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE Outdoors 08/12 – New York, NY @ Coney Island Amphitheater 08/13 – Syracuse, NY @ OneCenter 08/15 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple 08/17 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Echo Beach 08/18 – Laval, QC @ Place Bell 08/19 – Portland, ME @ Cross Insurance Arena 08/20 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall 08/23 – Milwaukee, WI @ BMO Pavilion 08/25 – Hammond, IN @ Horseshoe 08/26 – Omaha, NE @ Westfair Amphitheater 08/27 – Minneapolis, MN @ Waite Park Amphitheater 08/29 – St. Louis, MO @ The Factory 08/30 – Kansas City, MO @ Azura Amphitheater 09/01 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheater 09/02 – Denver, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater

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Teaming up for what promises to be an unforgettable jaunt of epic proportions, GRAMMY® Award-nominated French heavy metal luminaries Gojira will join forces with iconic GRAMMY® Award-winning heavy rock band Mastodon for a massive co-headline tour across North America in 2023. “The Mega-Monsters Tour” finds these two juggernauts taking over arenas and amphitheaters throughout the Spring and Summer including a stop at The Ledge Amphitheater in Waite Park, MN on Sunday, August 27th . Special guest Lorna Shore serves as direct support on all dates.

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Mosh Pit Kaiju Heaven awaits for fans of heavy metal across the United States! That’s right! Mastodon , Gojira , and Lorna Shore will be teaming up to tour together via “ The Mega-Monsters Tour 2023 ” for 35 explosive, bone-crushing concerts! Here is the official “The Mega Monsters 2023 Tour” press release right below!

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Teaming up for what promises to be an unforgettable jaunt of epic proportions, Grammy Award-nominated French heavy metal luminaries Gojira will join forces with iconic Grammy Award-winning heavy rock band Mastodon for a massive co-headline tour across North America in 2023. The Mega-Monsters Tour” finds these two juggernauts taking over arenas and amphitheaters throughout the Spring and Summer, alternating closing sets each night.

The tour kicks off at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, OR on April 18th and includes stops at legendary venues such as the Forum in Los Angeles, CA on April 21st. The first leg concludes at Santander Arena in Reading, PA on May 11th and resumes with a second leg that runs August 9th through September 2nd. Special guest Lorna Shore serves as direct support on all dates. Fan pre-sales for tickets begin January 18th at 10:00am local time and include both Mastodon and Gojira artist pre-sales, alongside Blabbermouth, Spotify and local promoter / venue / radio pre-sales. General on-sale will launch January 20th at 10:00am local time with VIP ticket packages available at www.gojira-music.com and www.mastodonrocks.com .

Mastodon hit the road in support of their critically acclaimed ninth studio album, Hushed And Grim. Meanwhile, Gojira are out supporting their seventh full-length album, Fortitude, which garnered a Grammy Award nomination in the category of “ Best Metal Performance ” for “ Amazonia .” These two titans previously canvased North America together in 2014, and this reunion represents yet another major milestone in their respective careers.

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04/18 Portland, OR @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum 04/20 Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion 04/21 Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum 04/22 Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre 04/23 Las Vegas, NV @ Virgin 04/26 Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory 04/28 Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall 04/29 Austin , TX @ Moody Center 04/30 Oklahoma City, OK @ Zoo Amphitheatre 05/02 Nashville, TN @ Municipal Auditorium 05/04 Boca Raton, FL @ Sunset Cove Amphitheater 05/05 St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre 05/06 Atlanta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre 05/07 Asheville, NC @ Harrah’s Cherokee Center 05/09 Richmond, VA @ Virginia Credit Union Live 05/10 Baltimore, MD @ Pier Six Pavilion 05/11 Reading, PA @ Santander Arena

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CONCORD -- Two leading lights of progressive heavy music share the stage at the Concord Pavilion when Mastodon and Gojira bring their current co-headlining tour to the East Bay on April 20th .

The groups may approach music from different perspectives -- Mastodon plays a decidedly heavy mix of metal, hard rock and prog, while Gojira combines elements of progressive rock and technical death metal -- but the pairing of the modern metal giants makes perfect sense.

Delivering an innovative style of heavy music that draws on hardcore punk, '70s prog and sludgy '90s metal, Atlanta-based quartet Mastodon has been making its unique style of pummeling hard rock for the better part of a quarter century.

Coming together when former members of noise-punk band Today is the Day Brann Dailor (drums) and Bill Kelliher (guitar) met Troy Sanders (bass) and Brent Hinds (guitar) at a High on Fire show in 2000, the musicians discovered they had a mutual interest in iconoclastic sludge-rock outfits Neurosis and Melvins as well as the twin-guitar hard rock of Thin Lizzy. Though the band originally had a singer, by the time the group issued its debut  Lifesblood  EP on Relapse Records in 2001, the band had trimmed down to its current four-piece line-up.

Their first proper album Remission  followed a year later, establishing Mastodon as a force to be reckoned with. Powered by the technically accomplished fury of Dailor (who plays like original Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo channeling jazz giant Elvin Jones) and featuring the labyrinthine riffs cooked by by Hinds and Kelliher, the group put out one of the most talked about metal albums of 2004 with their widely praised sophomore effort  Leviathan.  A conceptual recording that drew inspiration from Melville's epic "Moby Dick" and Dailor's avowed affection for progressive rock, the pulverizing album topped many year-end "best of" lists and is still hailed as a masterwork over a decade later.

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The band would continue exploring concept albums on the next two recordings, branching out with a wider palette of sounds that embraced psychedelia on 2006's epic  Blood Mountain and its follow-up, the emotional 2009 opus  Crack the Skye that found the band going even deeper. Inspired in part by the suicide of Dailor's sister when she was only 14, the album unspooled an allegorical tale revolving around astral projection, Stephen Hawking's wormhole theories, the exploration of the spirit world and the planned assassination of the mad monk Rasputin in Czarist Russia.

While Mastodon would depart from the concept album template for their next two efforts exploring a more traditional hard-rock sound -- 2011's  The Hunter and Once More 'Round the Sun in 2014 -- the quartet's 2017 salvo for Warner Bros. Records marks a return to using an album to tell a thematic story. A rumination on time and mortality that was heavily influenced by the battles with cancer being fought by several friends and family members -- including Kelliher's mother, who succumbed to the disease the year before -- the album follows the tale of the protagonist who has been sentenced to die in a malevolent desert by an evil sultan.

Emperor of Sand featured some of Mastodon's most intricate and pop-minded vocal performances yet, while still embracing the crushing riffs and complex time signatures that have become their trademark. The effort became the band's third Top 10 release in a row, placing high on several Billboard charts while marking Mastodon's biggest international debut of the group's career.

The band faced the same challenges as all music acts did during the pandemic shutdown of concerts and touring, but the quartet channeled it's energies into the recording studio. After issuing the compilation Medium Rarities that featured soundtrack cuts, covers, live tunes and one unreleased new song in 2020, Mastodon put out the sprawling 90-minute double-disc set  Hushed and Grim -- which serves as an epic tribute to former manager Nick John, who passed away from cancer in 2018 -- the following year to another round of ecstatic reviews.

Last time around, Mastodon was joined by fellow modern prog-metal icons Opeth at the Fox in Oakland. This time, the group is taking its current co-headlining Mega-Monsters Tour with French metal band Gojira to even larger venues like the Concord Pavilion . The group has been pushing the boundaries of metal with its neck-snapping, stop-start riffs and intricate rhythmic onslaughts for going on three decades. Formed in 1996 in the small southern France city of Bayonne by guitarist/singer Joe Duplantier and his drummer brother Mario, the group then known as Godzilla forged a sound weaving together threads of thrash, technical death metal and progressive metal.

After releasing a series of demo tapes and touring in support of established extreme metal acts like Cannibal Corpse and Immortal, the group was legally forced to change its name, switching to the Romanized version of the Japanese monster Gojira in time for their debut album  Terra Incognita  in 2001.

Favorable reviews led to more touring opportunities as the band began to make inroads into the U.S., opening for the likes of Children of Bodom, Machine Head and Lamb of God. Subsequent efforts like the concept album  From Mars to Sirius  and the brutal 2008 recording  The Way of All Flesh  found the band rising to the level of experimental metal contemporaries like Mastodon and Opeth in terms of sonic density and complex rhythm patterns without sacrificing melody.

While earlier albums focused on environmental concerns -- they sang about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch on "Toxic Garbage Island" on  The Way of All Flesh  -- Gojira's recordings have moved on to more spiritual and philosophical matters. Tracked in the band's newly adopted home base of New York City, the group's 2016 Roadrunner Records release  Magma  was colored by the passing of the Duplantiers' mother during the recording process.

Dialing back some of the technical ferocity of the past and featuring more melodic, clean vocals, the songs on  Magma  zero in on a minimalist yet more accessible approach. "Silvera," "Pray" and the stunning title track match monstrous riffing to equally weighty emotional heft that made the album one of the band's most cathartic and powerful to date.

The band commenced writing songs for its follow-up effort in 2018, but that work was put on hold as the band focused on touring, playing festival dates in Australia, North America and Europe as well as some shows with Guns 'n Roses and Mastodon. Writing resumed the following year with recording completed by early 2020, only to have COVID interrupt the creative process after the band convinced renowned mixing engineer Andy Wallace (The Cult, Slayer, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Sepultura, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Rage Against the Machine among many others) to come out of retirement to mix the album.

The pandemic shutdown and complications surrounding Wallace's vulnerability due to his age further slowed the mixing process, eventually delaying the release of Fortitude  until April of 2021. Widely praised as a return to the band's earlier heaviness without sacrificing the accessibility heard on Magma , the album would top a number of "Best of" lists for the year. Opening the Mega-Monsters show at the Pavilion is New Jersey deathcore group Lorna Shore, who have been making their corrosive style of music since forming in 2009.

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    Mastodon and Gojira have announced a massive co-headlining tour that will be hitting North America with two different legs ... Dubbed the Mega-Monsters Tour in reference to the headlining band's titular beasts, the first leg kicks off April 18th in Portland, Oregon, and wraps up May 11th in Reading, PA. Roughly three months later on August 9th ...

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    Kicking off in just a few months, progressive metal titans Gojira and Mastodon will be hitting the road for a brand new co-headlining run together titled "The Mega-Monsters Tour.". This epic tour involves two legs, with the dates and locations associated with both legs being announced today. Accompanying the bands as support is deathcore ...

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    Teaming up for what promises to be an unforgettable jaunt of epic proportions, iconic Grammy Award -winning heavy rock band MASTODON will join forces with Grammy Award -nominated French heavy metal luminaries GOJIRA for "The Mega-Monsters Tour", a massive co-headline tour across North America in 2023 along with special guests LORNA SHORE on ...

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    The Mega-Monsters Tour featuring French progressive metal giants Gojira and Atlanta, Georgia's very own psychedelic metal kings Mastodon is underway headed across North America. They're co-headlining this tour and along for the ride opening each night is the symphonic metal quintet Lorna Shore.On this particular night in Inglewood, California at the famous Kia Fourm these bands brought out ...

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    Mastodon and Gojira have announced an extensive 2023 North American co-headlining tour with support from Lorna Shore.. The "Mega-Monsters Tour" is broken into two separate spring and summer legs. The spring outing kicks off April 18th in Portland, Oregon, and runs through May 11th in Reading, Pennsylvania.

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    GOJIRA & MASTODON "THE MEGA-MONSTERS TOUR" WITH SPECIAL GUESTS LORNA SHORE. LEG 1. 4/18 Portland, OR Veterans Memorial Coliseum 4/20 Concord, CA Concord Pavilion 4/21 Los Angeles, CA The Forum 4/22 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Financial Theatre 4/23 Las Vegas, NV Virgin 4/26 Dallas, TX The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory 4/28 Houston, TX 713 Music Hall 4/29 Austin, TX Moody Center 4/30 Oklahoma ...

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    Teaming up for what promises to be an unforgettable jaunt of epic proportions, GRAMMY® Award-nominated French heavy metal luminaries Gojira will join forces with iconic GRAMMY® Award-winning heavy rock band Mastodon for a massive co-headline tour across North America in 2023. "The Mega-Monsters Tour" finds these two juggernauts taking ...

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    This time, the group is taking its current co-headlining Mega-Monsters Tour with French metal band Gojira to even larger venues like the Concord Pavilion. The group has been pushing the boundaries ...