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March 6, 2009

New Mastodon Video - "Divinations"

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Haa, well Mastodon really went for it with the first Crack The Skye clip. In a Progress Report they told Jessica the album would be a "combination of 'brutal,' 'fucking' and 'epic,'" and that the record would be "dissecting the dark matter that dominates the universe, in a nutshell." The Roboshobo-directed "Divinations" video hits all the beats: the band goes mountain climbing to unlock the awesome shredding power of a creature named Brent, who is frozen, and thawed only by the lightning bolts coming from Bill Kelliher's flying V, at which point Brent-monster plays a sick solo and kills 'em all. Oh and there's a yeti, an evil overlord, and a hot sacrificial virgin involved too, just to get the brutal-fucking-epic all in place.


(via headbangersblog)

Crack The Skye is out 3/24 via Reprise.

Posted at 2:51 PM by amrit in
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Mastodon owns - cant wait 'till they hit Vancouver

Posted by: Antiguru at 03/06/09 3:39 PM  | Reply
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That's not a bigfoot, that's a yeti.

Posted by: KVN at 03/06/09 3:45 PM  | Reply
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My friend Jerry would be ashamed. Fixed.

Posted by: amrit profile link  in reply to KVN's comment at 03/06/09 3:48 PM  | Reply
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Amazing video for an amazing band. These guys keep topping themselves. Yeti vs. Cougar art going on my laptop:: http://tinyurl.com/7r7d75

Posted by: Matt at 03/06/09 4:51 PM  | Reply
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that's not a cougar, it's a smilodon.

Posted by: NVK at 03/06/09 6:52 PM  | Reply
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Well, that ruled. Mastodon is everything that is good about metal.

Posted by: F. Leghorn at 03/06/09 7:53 PM  | Reply
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Great song, really cool video. I have high hopes for this album.

Posted by: grayflannelsuit profile link at 03/06/09 9:06 PM  | Reply
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scratch what i said about the depeche mode clip: THIS is how you make a music video

Posted by: grover profile link at 03/06/09 9:57 PM  | Reply
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Damn dude ...im gonna see em this summer probably perfomin this song ....booyaa

Posted by: rasputin at 03/08/09 8:21 AM  | Reply
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Wow, what a strange, avant-garde video. Just a box that says "Error loading module. Error #2048" and no music.... Thanks MTV! Once again making the world a better place for PeeCee users.

Posted by: cahge at 03/08/09 9:58 PM  | Reply
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I have a hard time liking this band just given how very much I dislike their arrogant, loser guitarist and his punching of King Khan in the face. Such a douchebag that guy.

Posted by: Drake Tungsten at 03/09/09 2:14 AM  | Reply
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