Mastodon, While She Sleeps for Reading & Leeds

By Scott Munro
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Bands to join Refused on the Pit Stage at August event

Mastodon and While She Sleeps will play at this year’s Reading & Leeds festivals.

They’ll perform on the Pit Stage with Refused, according to the BBC’s Daniel P. Carter, who broke the news on Twitter.

He says: “So yeah. While She Sleeps for The Pit is exciting right?” He later added: “Mastodon headlining the other day of The Pit. Reading & Leeds will be amazing, right?”

Metallica will headline the main event which also features artists including Royal Blood, Pierce The Veil and Bastille. For more, visit the official festival site.

Mastodon’s four albums from their time with Reprise Records will start to be re-released on March 3 on a variety of coloured vinyl pressings.

While She Sleeps launch their second album Brainwashed on March 25 via Epic. It’s currently available to pre-order (opens in new tab).

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Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.