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[Giant Mammoth x Full-Color Roar! Why Headbanging Won't Stop After Baroness's John Baizley Suddenly Joins Mastodon's Fall Tour] Tinnitus is the badge of honor of rock 'n' roll! What's up, I'm Johnny Thunderstone, a writer who has been suffering from the chronic illness of opening my home closet and finding only black band tees for a quarter of a century! Hey hey hey, take off your earplugs right now (no, wait, keep them on securely for blast-volume protection) and listen to this. While scrolling on my smartphone while gripping a strap on the commuter train, I was about to let out a deep, guttural roar that would have left the surrounding passengers in the dust. Incredible news has just dropped that John Baizley, the frontman of Baroness, is making an emergency entry into the live lineup for the fall tour of Atlanta's homegrown behemoths, Mastodon! Heavy rock's biggest stars merging together?! To put this combination into perspective, it's the heaviness equivalent of dumping a katsu curry onto a ramen bowl with all the toppings at a Jiro-style ramen shop. Another page of deafening noise is about to be carved into the history of sludge and progressive metal! …