Lamb of God & Mastodon Announce Co-Headlining Ashes Of Leviathan Tour

Kicking off on July 19 in Grand Prairie, TX at the Texas Trust CU Theatre, the North American arena and amphitheater run will take them through the US and Canada

Lamb of God & Mastodon Announce Co-Headlining Ashes Of Leviathan Tour

Kicking off on July 19 in Grand Prairie, TX at the Texas Trust CU Theatre, the North American arena and amphitheater run will take them through the US and Canada

GRAMMY® Award-nominated metal titans Lamb of God and GRAMMY® Award-winning band Mastodon announce the co-headlining Ashes Of Leviathan Tour. The tour finds the two iconic bands join forces to celebrate the 20th anniversary of two seminal releases: Lamb of God’s biggest-selling album Ashes of the Wake and Mastodon’s acclaimed sophomore album Leviathan, which were both released on August 31, 2004.  Both bands will perform their respective albums in full. Special guests Kerry King and Malevolence will support throughout the tour, with Unearthon select dates. 

Kicking off on July 19 in Grand Prairie, TX at the Texas Trust CU Theatre, the North American arena and amphitheater run will take them through the US and Canada, culminating on the exact 20th anniversary of each album on August 31 in Omaha, NE at the Astro Amphitheater. The tour will notably make stops at iconic venues such as Denver, CO’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Los Angeles, CA’s The Kia Forum.  See below for full tour routing. 

A special artist pre-sale launches today, February 6 at 12:00 PM eastern time with the general on-sale starting on Friday, February 9 at 10:00 AM local time. In addition, Lamb of God and Mastodon will have special VIP ticket packages available starting today. Go to www.ashesofleviathan.com for tickets.

In addition, both bands will be supporting a charity of their choice throughout the tour, and fans will have the opportunity to opt-in to donate at check out when buying their tickets. 

Lamb of God will support the Living The Dream Foundation, which makes dreams come true for music fans living with life threatening illnesses. Dream Days include hanging out onstage, backstage, and special meet and greets with their favorite bands and artists. To learn more, visit https://ltdfoundation.org

Mastodon will support the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research. After their manager Nick John tragically passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2018, Mastodonpartnered with the organization and has raised nearly $60,000 to fight the disease and support researchers and patients around the globe. The Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research is focused on finding a cure for pancreatic cancer, and empowering patients and families whose lives are touched by this disease. Founded in 1997, the Hirshberg Foundation funds groundbreaking scientific research, provides patient education and support, and sustains hope that this cancer will be eradicated once and for all. To learn more, visit https://pancreatic.org.  

Lamb of God’s most recent studio offering, 2022’s Omens, notably marked the band’s sixth consecutive Top 15 debut on the Billboard 200 in addition to capturing #1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums Chart, #3 on the Top Album Sales Chart, #3 on the Top Rock Albums Chart, and #5 on the Top Vinyl Albums Chart. Not to mention, it has amassed an unprecedented 60 million streams and counting. Get it HERE and be on the lookout for more from Lamb Of God soon.

Mastodon‘s latest studio album, Hushed and Grim, a double LP recorded at the band’s Atlanta studio, Ember City, was produced by David Bottrill (Tool, Rush, Muse, Peter Gabriel). This album, their most expansive song-cycle to date, features 15 distinct tracks and achieved their third consecutive #1 debut on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums Chart. Hushed and Grim also earned them a GRAMMY® Award nomination for the track “Pushing The Tides.” Additionally, the album’s single “Teardrinker” secured a top 10 position on the Rock radio charts, a further testament to the band’s widespread acclaim. Listen HERE. More from Mastodon in the near future.

The Ashes Of Leviathan Tour Routing:

Fri, Jul-19 Grand Prairie, TX Texas Trust CU Theatre

Sat, Jul-20 Austin, TX  Germania Insurance Amphitheater

Sun, Jul 21 Houston, TX  713 Music Hall 

Tue, Jul-23 Jacksonville, FL  Daily’s Place

Wed, Jul-24 Orlando, FL  Orlando Amphitheater

Thu, Jul-25 Alpharetta, GA  Ameris Bank Amphitheatre  

Sat, Jul-27 Raleigh, NC  The Red Hat Amphitheater

Sun, Jul-28 Richmond, VA  Virgin Credit Union LIVE! 

Tue, Jul-30 Pittsburgh, PA  Stage AE

Wed, Jul-31 London, ON  Budweiser Gardens

Thu, Aug 01 Montreal, QC  Bell Centre

Sat, Aug 03 Uncasville, CT  Mohegan Sun Arena

Sun, Aug-04 Manchester, NH  SNHU Arena  

Tue, Aug-06 Bangor, ME  Maine Savings Amphitheater

Thu, Aug 08 Reading, PA  Santander Arena **

Fri, Aug-09 Cleveland, OH  Jacobs Pavilion **

Sat, Aug 10 Sterling Heights, MI  Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre @ Freedom Hill **

Tue, Aug-13 Moorhead, MN   Bluestem Center For The Arts Amphitheater 

Thu, Aug 15 Calgary, AB  Scotiabank Saddledome

Fri, Aug 16 Penticton, BC  South Okanagan Events Centre

Sat, Aug 17 Kent, WA   accesso ShoWare Center 

Sun, Aug 18 Portland, OR  Theatre of the Clouds

Wed, Aug 21 Los Angeles, CA  The Kia Forum 

Fri, Aug 23 Phoenix, AZ  Arizona Financial Theatre

Sat, Aug 24 Rio Rancho NM Rio Rancho Events Center

Sun, Aug 25 El Paso, TX  El Paso County Coliseum 

Tue, Aug 27 Magna, UT  The Great Saltair  

Thu, Aug 29 Morrison, CO  Red Rocks Amphitheatre  

Sat, Aug 31 Omaha, NE  The Astro Amphitheater 

**No Malevolence, Support from Kerry King & Unearth

ABOUTLAMB OF GOD:

Nobody has waved the flag for 21st century American heavy metal higher or harder than Lamb of God. The Richmond, Virginia-based band have quietly emerged as the genre’s foremost torchbearers with a feral intensity brewed at grimy basement shows and uncanny power amplified on some of the world’s biggest stages. Along the way, they have garnered five career GRAMMY® Award nominations, sold over 3 million albums worldwide, packed arenas around the world, and tallied over 1 billion streams and counting—a true rarity for a group this heavy. Following the world-burning New American Gospel in 2000, they delivered a classic in the form of 2003’s As the Palaces Burn, which Rolling Stone touted as one of “The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. They served up back-to-back gold-certified records with Ashes of the Wake [2004] and Sacrament [2005]—christened “Album of the Year” by RevolverWrath [2009] catapulted to #2 on the Billboard 200 followed by consecutive Top 3 entries Resolution [2012] and VII: Sturm und Drang [2015]. Metallica handpicked them as direct support on various tours, while they’ve welcomed everyone from Chino Moreno of Deftones to Chuck Billy of Testament to appear on tracks. Following 2020’s unanimously acclaimed Lamb of God, the 2022 blockbuster Omens arrived as their sixth consecutive Top 15 debut on the Billboard 200, 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums Chart, #3 on the Top Album Sales Chart, #3 on the Top Rock Albums Chart, and #5 on the Top Vinyl Albums. On its heels, they canvased North America with Pantera and launched one of their own biggest headline tours. Still, they continue raise the flag for metal without apology or compromise—just unrivaled integrity.

ABOUT MASTODON:

GRAMMY® Award-winning band Mastodon have quietly evolved into one of the most influential, inimitable, and iconic rock bands of the modern era. Since emerging in 2000, the Atlanta quartet have defied both sonic and thematic boundaries with an uncategorizable, undeniable, and uncompromising vision unlike anything else in music. This vision manifested over the course of canonical albums such as Leviathan, which landed on Rolling Stone’s coveted The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. Following the seminal Crack The Skye [named one of the best albums of 2009 by Time], they earned three consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 with The Hunter [2011], Once More ‘Round the Sun [2014], and Emperor of Sand [2017]. Out of six career nominations, they received a GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” for “Sultan’s Curse. They are the rare creative force whose music can be felt everywhere from Game of Thrones, Adult Swim, The History Channel, and DC comics films to Coachella and Bonnaroo. They notably supported the Hirschberg Foundation For Pancreatic Cancer Research with a rendition of “Stairway To Heaven” in honor of late manager Nick John. The group reached another critical high watermark via their ninth full-length, Hushed and Grim. Featuring the GRAMMY® Award-nominated “Pushing The Tides,” it marked the band’s third straight #1 bow on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums Chart. It concluded 2021 on over a dozen year-end lists with Rolling Stone raving, “we get everything from some of the band’s hookiest rockers to date to some of their most awe-inspiring epics.” Evolving as they usher rock into new realms, they forever remain the same unpredictable trailblazing beast—Mastodon.

Bass Magazine   By: Bass Magazine