Local Newswire Mastodon plots fall tour, Letterman appearance

Fans of brutal yet intriguingly complex, high-concept metal already had ample reason to be excited for this fall, what with Mastodon’s eagerly awaited fifth studio album, The Hunter, due tomorrow. Here’s a taste of what you’re in for:

Excited? Now you can get even more excited, since you’ll have the chance to see live interpretations of the album’s sure-to-be insane riffage throughout the band’s North American tour, which kicks off Oct. 25 in Austin and wraps up with a Dec. 1 show in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Joining Mastodon in support are Red Fang and fellow travelers in technical brutality The Dillinger Escape Plan. 

A full list of tour dates can be found below. Those of you not lucky enough to get a stop in your hometown will have to console yourselves by turning the volume all the way up on the band’s Oct. 5 appearance on Late Night With David Letterman and pretending you’re in the audience. Or, you know, road trip.

10-25 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
10-26 Grand Prairie, TX - Verizon Theatre *
10-27 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald’s
10-29 New Orleans, LA - VooDoo Fest
11-01 Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre
11-02 Sacramento, CA - Ace of Spades
11-03 San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
11-05 Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
11-06 Seattle, WA - Showbox SODO
11-07 Boise, ID - Knitting Factory
11-08 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
11-09 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
11-11 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
11-12 Milwaukee, WI - Rave Ballroom
11-13 Sauget, IL - Pop’s
11-14 Kansas City, MO - The Beaumont
11-16 Detroit, MI - The Fillmore Detroit
11-17 Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room
11-19 New York, NY - Terminal 5
11-20 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
11-21 Boston, MA - House of Blues
11-23 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
11-25 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
11-26 Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom
11-27 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club
11-28 Norfolk, VA - The NorVa
11-29 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
12-01 Lake Buena Vista, FL - House of Blues

* with Soundgarden

[Via Pitchfork]