Mastodon’s Metal Montage

By Nerida Little / January 31st, 2012 in Music / Atlanta / 103 views

Purveyors of fine heavy metal will revel in Mastodon‘s new music video. Their grungy sound is gloriously known as ‘sludge metal’ and this clip for new single Dry Bone Valley has been tailored to match.

Directed and animated by Tim Biskup, it combines all that is good and holy about heavy metal video clips; madness, the devil, crazy eyes and the slight possibility of upsetting religious sentiment. The clip is a montage which changes according to the beat of the song, and combines human faces, cubist masks, trees, intricate white outlined beasts, religious imagery and medieval tableaux in a constantly revolving show.

The clip seems to come out at you, with the pictures speeding out from the center of the screen. There is so much detail in here that it is next to impossible to recount all that you have seen in just one sitting. The scenes in deep space are beautiful, as are the tribal masks (one of which looks suspiciously like George W. Bush).

Mastodon are touring throughout Europe in February, and will play the Soundwave Festival in Australia later the same month.