Mastodon - 'Colony of Birchmen' (Reprise) Released 12/03/07

"This forest is growing faster than I can tell", is how this song begins, so what planet is a dude on? At the last check, forests were shrinking fast, to graze McCows, whose hide is probably used for Mastodon's drum-skins, while the sticks come from felled trees. Drummer Brann Dailor's stutter-hitting of his kit would be a wicked soundtrack to the apocalypse of this scorched earth. 'Colony of Birchmen' features Joshua Homme, fresh outta the desert, howling like the apparition of a drugged Hunter S. Thompson. According to Wikipedia, Mastodon means 'nipple teeth'. With that information, one of singer Troy Sanders' lines becomes even more disturbing... "Carve my teeth out ripping through the sheep's head."