Atlanta based sludge-rock icons Mastodon have released some pretty odd videos in their time. From an angry clown moshpit to getting a case of fatal space cabin-fever and a polar exploration that ends in a caveman guitar solo. But their latest offering for ‘The Motherload’, taken from this years Once More Round The Sun, is arguably their strangest to date.
Source: Official Music VideoThings start off in fairly familiar Masto territory. We have some red-robed cultist types and some animal imagery in the form of a goats head. Then we have some standard ‘band rocking out’ shots.
Source: Official Music VideoYeah that’s right, Brann Dailor can play drums AND sing at the same time. What a man. Then we have some more slightly odd happenings. This couple (or are they?) are reading from some occult grimoire and wearing net curtains.
Source: Official Music VideoAnd then some guy arrives with a massive bell. Standard.
Source: Official Music VideoAnd then this happens.
Source: Official Music VideoTwerking. Butts. and Butts.
And butts …
Source: Official Music VideoSure, some other things happen in the rest of the video. There’s a body painted reptile lady, a giant rabbit monster scares some cultists, there’s an awesomely trippy kaleidoscopic guitar solo and Troy Sanders does his best scary-eyed muppet face.
Source: Official Music VideoHowever, for some reason, it’s mostly these curvaceous and tattoo’d ladies twerking their buns off. It’s as if Mastodon decided to respond to Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj by speaking to them in their own language – badonk.
Source: Official Music Video
