March 5, 2007 23:30

Mastodon add US tour dates Mastodon Tickets

They'll stop at Austin's South by Southwest

Mastodon have announced that they will play a string of dates in the US this month before heading to Australia and New Zealand in April.

The Atlanta, Georgia metallers plan to stop in Texas for the South by Southwest Festival, as well as Oklahoma, Utah, Washington and Colorado before wrapping up in Portland, Oregon on March 28.

The band are supporting their latest album, 'Blood Mountain', which was released late last year. The quartet recently received a Grammy nomination for the album's single, 'Colony Of Birchmen'.

The tour dates are:

Austin, TX Auditorium Shores (March 17)
San Antonio, TX White Rabbit (19)
Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom (20)
Columbia, MO Blue Note (21)
Colorado Springs, CO Black Sheep (23)
Salt Lake City, YT Avalon (24)
Seattle, WA El Corazon (26)
Spokane, WA Big Easy (27)
Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre (28)

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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