YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Coheed and Cambria and Mastodon have teamed up for a co-headlining tour that will come to the Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre on June 1.

Dubbed the Infinite Arc tour, the hard rock bands will be joined by opening act Periphery.

Tickets range from $39.50 to $99.50 and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec 13, at Ticketmaster.com (fees apply) and the Covelli Centre box office.

An online-only presale will take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday; use the password Summer.

Coheed and Cambria will release its new album, “The Father of Make Believe,” on March 14.

Mastodon celebrated the 15th anniversary of its “Crack the Skye” album this year with a deluxe box set reissue. The band also marked the 20th anniversary of “Leviathan” with special full-album performances and released a new song, “Floods of Triton.”

Ten albums in, something changed for Coheed and Cambria. As singer and guitarist Claudio Sanchez began plotting out the sci-fi-inspired progressive rock band’s upcoming album, he found himself writing more directly about his life and career. 

Longtime Coheed fans will still find plenty of character work and references to the lore. But newcomers to the band won’t be lost.

The band – which includes Travis Stever (lead guitar), Josh Eppard (drums) and Zach Cooper (bass) – emerged in the early 2000s and has crafted “Game of Thrones”-level fantasies around their Amory Wars storyline, which unfurls across 78 planets known as Heaven’s Fence.

Eight of the band’s albums thus far (plus a small galaxy of comics and novels) live in this space, and so will “The Father of Make Believe.”

In the past, Sanchez says, “I’ve kept the struggles of my life private. When I can’t express myself in words, I express myself in worlds.” 

As he assumes the role of the main character in his story, Coheed is finding a new way to bring fans into their universe.

The Grammy Award-winning band Mastodon is one of the most influential of the modern era. The Atlanta quartet’s “Leviathan” landed on Rolling Stone’s The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time list.

It followed the seminal “Crack The Skye,” which was named one of the best albums of 2009 by Time.

The group reached another critical high water mark in 2021 with its ninth album, “Hushed and Grim.” 

Pictured at top: Coheed and Cambria will release its new album in March. (Photo by Alexandra Gavillet)