Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the American mastodon on display in Hintze Hall ... He called it the Missouri Leviathan - referring to the ...

“Leviathan, the band’s second long-player, stands as both a conceptual piece themed around American writer Herman Melville’s 1851 epic masterpiece Moby-Dick and an allegory for Mastodon’s ...

Specifically, the band was there to share how the book influenced both their vaunted 2004 album Leviathan and the Met premiere of composer Jake Heggie’s operatic interpretation of the classic novel.

Mastodon’s Leviathan meets Heggie’s Moby-Dick'. The trio got together with opera composer Jake Heggie to discuss Moby-Dick as ...

And out of the eight albums they’ve made over the years, perhaps the most monumental of them all is the one released in 2004 - Leviathan. As UK journalist Paul Brannigan wrote: “In truth, Mastodon ...