Mastodon, which came together in Atlanta during metal's commercially lean years, unapologetically embrace the genre's grandiose beginnings.

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So maybe it's appropriate that the band Decibel named the very best of 2006 is called Mastodon.

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They are listening to Mastodon or Madonna or Manilow or who-knows-what and they are slicing through the wind, impaired and inhabiting another world.

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Even justifying trying to resurrect a woolly mammoth, or a mastodon, or the dodo bird or any other extinct animal gets ethically thorny.

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The site has since been extensively excavated, and the bones of the mastodon indicated signs that it had been hunted and butchered by humans.

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How many failures would be acceptable to get one viable mastodon?

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There is an old saying: if you kick a mastodon in the ass, twenty minutes later it will say ouch. (Sadly, no mastodon has been around for a while to confirm the accuracy of this).

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It is unclear how the cancellation of the festival will affect the touring plans of other bands on the bill, which also included Evanescence, Faith No More, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, Andrew W.K., Incubus and the Darkness.

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