Mikael Wood

These sludge-metal dudes from Savannah turned heads among the heavy-music cognoscenti in 2007 with Red Album, whose cover depicted a couple of soulful-looking tribal types surrounded...

"Mastodon are a full-on metal band for people who think they're too cool to like metal," writes Will Hermes in his four-star Rolling Stone review of...

The latest album from this celebrated avant-soul crooner and his chamber-folk backing band examines humanity's increasingly complicated relationship with Planet Earth — which seems something of...