Colony of Birchmen

Colony of Birchmen
"Colony of Birchmen"
Single by Mastodon
from the album Blood Mountain
B-side "Iron Tusk"
Released March 12, 2007
Format Single, CD
Genre Progressive metal
Length 4:19
Label Warner Music
Producer Matt Bayles/Mastodon
Mastodon singles chronology
"The Wolf is Loose"
(2006)
"Colony of Birchmen"
(2007)
"Sleeping Giant"
(2007)

"Colony of Birchmen" is a single by American heavy metal band Mastodon. It was featured on the group's third album, Blood Mountain. The song features backing vocals from Josh Homme, lead singer of the alternative rock band Queens of the Stone Age.

It is Mastodon's first single to reach the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, reaching #33 and was performed live on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on November 1, 2006.[1] It was also nominated for a Grammy for "Best Metal Performance", but lost to Slayer's Eyes of the Insane.

The song's title is a homage to the Genesis song "The Colony of Slippermen." Drummer Brann Dailor has said that The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, on which "Slippermen" appears, is his all-time favorite album.[2]

The song is part of the Rock Band 2 main setlist and also in Saint's Row 2 as a radio song.

A music video was created for the song which features the band performing in an underground cavern, while strange phenomena occurs above on the surface in a forest along with people that are associated with the events.

A live XFM version was featured on the Oblivion EP.

Track listing

  1. "Colony of Birchmen"
  2. "Iron Tusk" (Live)
  3. "Naked Burn"

Personnel

Notes


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