Mastodon and Opeth co-headline tour in transatlantic show of prog-metal solidarity
Don't let our use of an Opeth photo influence you. Maybe Mastodon is the better band...Or are they?
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If you’re anything like us, you get in constant arguments with your one friend about who is really the definitive contemporary progressive metal band. Is it Sweden’s Opeth, or Atlanta’s Grammy-nominated Mastodon? Well now you and your buddy can stop comparing air guitar solos and have it both ways: The two titans of think-y metal are heading out on a pretty expansive co-headlining North American tour in April and May, including a stop at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver on April 23.
The tour will see the bands taking turns closing out shows, all egalitarian-like, so that nobody gets a complex over which one is really the bigger band. Isn’t it nice to see guys with such formidable beards playing nice like this? And if that wasn’t enough, Opeth is bringing along fellow Swede hard-rockers Ghost, the crazy conceptual metal band that sounds like Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-era Black Sabbath and stages its shows as if they’re literal black masses. So really, you can probably settle all those Opeth v. Mastodon rows by agreeing that the actual best contemporary metal band is Ghost. Problem solved.
April 4—State Theatre—Portland, Maine
April 5—Orpheum Theatre—Boston, Massachusetts
April 6—Metropolis—Montreal, Quebec
April 7—Sony Centre—Toronto, Ontario
April 9—Electric Factory—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 10—The Dome—Wallingford, Connecticut
April 11—Roseland Ballroom—New York, New York
April 13—Riviera Theatre—Chicago, Illinois
April 14—The Intersection—Grand Rapids, Michigan
April 15—Stage AE—Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
April 16—TN Theater—Knoxville, Tennessee
April 18—Diamond Ballroom—Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 19—Palladium Ballroom—Dallas, Texas
April 20—Back Stage Live—San Antonio, Texas
April 21—Concrete Street—Corpus Christi, Texas
April 23—Fillmore Auditorium—Denver, Colorado
April 25—House of Blues—Las Vegas, Nevada
April 26—Gibson Amphitheatre—Los Angeles, California
April 27—Fox Theatre—Oakland, California
April 28—Grand Sierra Resort—Reno, Nevada
April 30—The Paramount—Seattle, Washington
May 1—Orpheum Theatre—Vancouver, British Columbia
May 3—Edmonton Events Centre—Edmonton, Alberta
May 4—MacEwan Hall—Calgary, Alberta
May 5—The Odeon—Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
May 6—Burton Cummings Theatre—Winnipeg, Manitoba
May 9—The Fillmore—Washington, D.C.
May 10—The Fillmore—Charlotte, North Carolina
May 11—House of Blues—Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
May 12—Masquerade Music Park—Atlanta, Georgia
