Colony of Birchmen

"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 and former guitarist of Kyuss.

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 Award 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 Saints 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

"Colony of Birchmen"
"Iron Tusk" (Live)
"Naked Burn"

Personnel

Troy Sanders − bass, vocals
Bill Kelliher − guitar, backing vocals
Brent Hinds − guitar, vocals
Brann Dailor − drums
Joshua Homme − guest vocals

Notes

↑ "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". Retrieved 2007-09-11.
↑ Worley, Gail Adventures On Blood Mountain: An Interview with Brann Dailor of Mastodon Ink19.com (February 2008). Retrieved April 6, 2008.

Mastodon

Troy Sanders Brent Hinds Bill Kelliher Brann Dailor

Studio albums	Remission Leviathan Blood Mountain Crack the Skye The Hunter Once More 'Round the Sun

Live albums	Live at the Aragon Live at Brixton

Compilation albums	Call of the Mastodon

Box sets	Mastodon

Video albums	The Workhorse Chronicles

Extended plays	Lifesblood March of the Fire Ants EP Oblivion EP Jonah Hex EP

Singles	"March of the Fire Ants" "Iron Tusk" "Blood and Thunder" "Seabeast" "The Wolf Is Loose" "Colony of Birchmen" "Capillarian Crest" "Sleeping Giant" "Divinations" "Oblivion" "Deathbound" "Black Tongue" "Curl of the Burl" "Dry Bone Valley" "High Road" "Chimes at Midnight" "The Motherload"

Concert tours	Heritage Hunter Tour

Personnel	Matt Bayles Brendan O'Brien Mike Elizondo Nick Raskulinecz

Related articles	Discography

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