MASTODON Announce The 'Poisonous Weapons Tour'

With Special Guests DEAFHEAVEN, ALCEST; Band Drops "Your Ghost Again" Single

MASTODON have announced the Poisonous Weapons Tour, which will makes its way across the United States and Canada this fall with special guests Deafheaven and Alcest.

The 27-date coast-to-coast tour kicks off September 16th in Orlando, FL and will come to a close on Oct. 24 in Dallas, Texas. The Complete list of dates can be found below.

Tickets go on sale on June 5 at 10AM local time with various presales tacking place prior. Visit the Mastodon website for more details.

A few days earlier, Mastodon released "Your Ghost Again," their first new song since splitting with guitarist/singer Brent Hinds last year and his tragic death a few months after the lineup change was made.

""Your Ghost Again" is about being in those familiar places you used to be with people, which for us is in the studio," says drummer/singer Brann Dailor. "I just kept seeing [Brent] out of the corner of my eye, where he would normally be with his guitar. It's about that: your mind plays tricks on you, especially so soon after someone dies and you're in the places where they always were. You just see them."

Bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders reveals, "My portion of the song, lyrically, is all about Brent, and for Brent. The bridge lyrics are two lines of pure gratitude towards Brent. It's all the gifts from you, now you can take them back where you must go, meaning you came into my life, you exposed me to things that blew my mind, together we conquered thousands of stages around the world, had magical moments that we can never repeat again, but all the beauty that you brought it still remains, always will and it's just a line of gratitude because that's important that we include Brent."

"We wanted to pick a song that sounds like Mastodon," guitarist/vocalist Bill Kelliher adds, "and that has all the things in there, because it's the first impression of what people are gonna hear. It speaks about things that have just happened and people passing, I could go deep but I don't want to because a lot of that shit's personal."

Dailor continues, "Hopefully this album helps everybody. Hopefully they can find some piece of it that speaks to them about it. I know Brent's not there and it's weird and it's hard, and some people might be like, 'Well I don't wanna listen to it because Brent's not there and I'm hurting about that', but we are too. Big time."

"It means a lot to me," the drummer/vocalist goes on, "and I hope that's able to translate to our fans and people who are grieving, too. I understand that, because we never really addressed it. We just couldn't. And to the fans I'm just sorry that I wasn't able to be more for them when that happened, because I couldn't. For myself, I'm still unpacking it."

Listen to the song BELOW.

Mastodon, Deafheaven + Alcest Tour Dates

Sep 16 - Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock
Sep 18 - Asheville, NC @ Asheville Yards
Sep 19 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
Sep 22 - Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
Sep 23 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues
Sep 24 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
Sep 25 - Washington, DC @ The Anthem
Sep 27 - Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
Sep 28 - Toronto, ON @ Rebel
Sep 29 - Buffalo, NY @ Buffalo Riverworks
Oct 1 - Detroit, MI @ Fillmore Auditorium
Oct 2 - Chicago, IL @ The Riviera Theatre
Oct 3 - Minneapolis, MN @ Palace Theatre
Oct 4 - Omaha, NE @ FILL
Oct 6 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
Oct 7 - Garden City, ID @ Revolution Concert House
Oct 9 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
Oct 10 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
Oct 11 - Del Mar, CA @ The Sound
Oct 12 - Las Vegas, NV @ FILL
Oct 14 - Denver, CO @ The Fillmore
Oct 16 - Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom
Oct 17 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
Oct 18 - Memphis, TN @ Satellite Music Hall
Oct 20 - Cleveland, OH @ The Agora
Oct 21 - Greensboro, NC @ Piedmont Hall
Oct 22 - Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern