Artist · chart history
Mastodon
Band Atlanta United States Formed 2000 American heavy metal band
Mastodon formed in 2000 in Atlanta, United States. Mastodon has 28 chart appearances on 25 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Show Yourself”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted Mastodon most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2017.
Mastodon came crawling out of Atlanta in 2000 like something prehistoric, a four-headed beast of sludge, prog and plain heavy metal that sounded ancient and brand new at once. Troy Sanders on bass and vocals, Brent Hinds on lead guitar and vocals, Bill Kelliher on rhythm guitar and Brann Dailor behind a drum kit he treats like a lead instrument: that lineup held together for 24 years.
Remission, the 2002 debut, had critics raving. Then came Leviathan in 2004, a concept album built on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and it's a monster: riffs that heave like open ocean, Dailor's fills breaking over them like whitecaps, and "Blood and Thunder" crashing in like a breaching whale. Three magazines named it album of the year. Blood Mountain in 2006 and Crack the Skye in 2009 pushed deeper into the strange stuff, while The Hunter in 2011 tightened the screws and debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, with "Curl of the Burl" drawing a Grammy nomination.
Emperor of Sand in 2017 gave them "Show Yourself", their biggest song yet, and "Sultan's Curse", which finally won them a Grammy for Best Metal Performance. Hinds left in March 2025 and died in a motorcycle accident in Atlanta five months later. The band pressed on, and Marrow Deep arrived in August 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Mastodon on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Show Yourself | 4 | #5 | – | 2017 | |
| 2 | Blood and Thunder | 9 | #30 | – | – | |
| 3 | Curl of the Burl | 5 | #37 | – | 2011 | |
| 4 | Steambreather | 3 | #38 | – | 2017 | |
| 5 | Ancient Kingdom | 1 | #15 | – | 2018 | |
| 6 | The Motherload | 1 | #43 | – | 2014 | |
| 7 | Teardrinker | 2 | #55 | – | 2022 | |
| 8 | Iron Tusk | 1 | #187 | – | 2004 | |
| 9 | Oblivion | 1 | #46 | – | 2009 | |
| 10 | Dry Bone Valley | 1 | #93 | – | 2012 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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