Mastodon are set to drop their brand new double-album Hushed And Grim this Friday 29th October. To celebrate the band are giving you the chance to win an epic Mastodon prize pack simply for telling them how you first discovered their music.
One lucky winner will score this prize pack:
- An Audio-Technica Creator Pack Pro:
- ATH-M20x Headphones
- AT-ATR2500x-USB Cardioid Condenser USB-C Microphone
- Microphone stand
- Detachable desk boom
- A Mastodon Hushed and Grim merch pack including a Crosley Record Player, plus selected Mastodon merch.
Four lucky runners up will win a pair of ATH-S220BT headphones, courtesy of our friends at Audio-Technica Australia!
To enter the competition all you need to do is head on over here and tell us in 25 words or less how you first discovered the mighty Mastodon! Do it fast though, because the competition closes at 11:59 pm on November 11th.
When you order your copy of Hushed and Grim on 2LP clear or black vinyl via the Maniacs store, you'll get a free slipmat, exclusive in AU to Maniacs.
Mastodon released the reflective new single, Sickle And Peace on Friday.
Listen to Sickle And Peace below.
Sickle And Peace follows Teardrinker and Pushing The Tides in preempting Hushed And Grim.
The double album set Hushed and Grim will close a four-year gap between albums, following 2017's Best Metal Performance GRAMMY® Award-winning Emperor of Sand.
Recorded in their hometown in collaboration with the legendary producer David Bottril (Tool, Rush, Muse), Hushed and Grim features 15 tracks surveying the sonic landscapes of rock, psychedelia, punk, metal, alternative, and prog threaded together by the innately expressive musical interplay of these four virtuosic musicians.
An atmosphere of very real loss, loneliness, and longing permeate through the trio of cathartic vocals as they musically say goodbye to an old friend, confidant, and longtime manager the late Nick John by architecting a magnum opus that bears the influence of his eternal memory.
While Hushed and Grim is steeped in one of the darkest periods of the band’s career as each member experienced personal grief, its light shines through in a fully realized manifestation of everything Mastodon is right now.
Watch the trippy, Lorenzo Diego Carrera directed video for Teardrinker below.
Once again, Mastodon have drafted in revered artist Paul Romano (Remission, Leviathan, Call of the Mastodon, Blood Mountain, Crack The Skye) whose evocative images adorns the cover of Hushed and Grim.
Hushed and Grim represents the next step on Mastodon’s endless path of natural evolution.
Buy Hushed and Grim on 2LP clear or black vinyl via Maniacs and you'll receive an Australian exclusive official vinyl slipmat (while stocks last).
Watch the video for Pushing The Tides below.
Listen to Mastodon now.
