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October 26, 2006

New Mastodon Video - "Colony Of Birchmen"

Hard to get around the impression that the boys in Mastodon have been geeking out Jack, Kate, and Sawyer style recently 'cause this clip -- set on a vaguely tropical island replete with roaming, black clouds of smoke and familiar camera tricks and angles -- plays like one of Locke's tripping-paste-induced vision quests. The vid closes out on an illustrated circle of life, with an Om morphing into a tree, then a Blood Mountain (get it?), and finally a predatory animal scene. And oh yeah, it's an ill song from the band that has us psyched about metal again.

While we're sorta on the subject -- fuck Benry Gale and his exploding bunny hearts, and Desmond is the messiah (as indicated by his benevolent smile).


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hah. wow.

that could almost catch some one up on the first two seasons of lost. all in four minutes.

i hate trying to explain the show to people. i dread the "what's that show all about anyway?" question.

Posted by: goo at 10/26/06 10:58 AM | Reply
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Lost is the fastest one to explain. There's been about 4 minutes of plot throughout the whole of the first two seasons. The rest is all flashbacks and people running in the woods...

Posted by: Charbarred at 10/26/06 11:35 AM | Reply
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this album pales so hard to the Bronx's original self-titled effort.

Posted by: jack at 10/26/06 12:12 PM | Reply
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Mastodon rules!

Those drums are IN_SANE!

Posted by: seiche at 10/26/06 1:45 PM | Reply
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Where's Josh Homme?

Posted by: Louie at 10/26/06 1:56 PM | Reply
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a bit like Lost, that song teases but never really kicks in.

I concur with charbarred. Remember, the Lost guys need to make 100 episodes before big bucks syndication kicks in, so that's at least another 3 series of folk running round the woods and scratching their heads over a "hatch".

Whatever the denoumont (spelling?) , it can't ever match this build up.

Fuff it, i still DL every episode, one day they'll get through the maze and rescue the baby from the castle of the goblin king.

Posted by: The Goblin King at 10/26/06 2:21 PM | Reply
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i love lost -- and this vid is definite homage.

Posted by: james at 10/26/06 4:50 PM | Reply
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mastodon is sick

Posted by: drew at 10/26/06 9:16 PM | Reply
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"Where's Josh Homme?"

My sentiments exactly. Sounds like a bad QOTSA outtake he wrote when he was drunk.

Posted by: Evan at 10/27/06 10:42 AM | Reply
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i actually did the animation at the end of this video, and i keep hearing the "Lost" comparison but i've never even seen one episode of that show. i just tried to follow the theme of the album.

Posted by: DanO at 11/13/06 2:10 PM | Reply
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