| kuvateksti = Mastodon esiintymässä vuonna 2007. Vasemmalta oikealle: Brent Hinds, Troy Sanders, Brann Dailor ja Bill Kelliher
| tyylilajit = <nowiki>[Sludge metal]]</nowiki>
| tyylilajit = [[Experimental metal]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Buchanan|first=David|title=CoS Year-End Report: The Top 100 Albums of '09: 50-26 - Mastodon, Crack the Skye|url=http://consequenceofsound.net/cos-year-end-report-the-top-100-albums-of-09-50-26/|work=[[Consequence of Sound]]|accessdate=20 March 2012|quote=Mastodon represents experimental metal in the genre's American 'new wave' at the turn of last decade.}}</ref><br/>[[Sludge metal]]<ref name="Allmusic Bio"/><br/>[[Progressiivinen metalli]]<ref name="chicago_reader">{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/sharpdarts/070810/|title=Chicago Reader feature "Liquid Metal"|accessdate=2008-07-17}}The paper reports that the article's featured band "have admirers in world-class progressive-metal outfits like Isis, Mastodon, and Tool</ref><br/>[[Groove metal]]<ref name="Spin June 2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.spin.com/articles/mastodon-against-me-stop-smell-roses|title=Mastodon, Against Me! Stop, Smell Roses|publisher=''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''|accessdate=2012-04-13}}</ref><br/>[[Stoner metal]]<ref name="Allmusic Bio"/><br/>[[Metalcore]]<ref>http://www.musicmight.com/artist/united+states/georgia/atlanta/mastodon</ref><br/>[[Post-metal]]<br/>[[Doom metal]]<br/>[[Alternative metal]]<ref name="Allmusic Bio"/><br/>[[Heavy metal]]<ref name="Allmusic Bio"/><br/>[[Post-hardcore]]<ref name="Allmusic Bio"/><br/>[[Hard rock]]
