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Colony Of Birchmen
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“Colony of Birchmen” is a single by American heavy metal band Mastodon. It was featured on the group’s third album, Blood Mountain.
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. 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.
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...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ Run with death ... My heart's gone away ... Gone away ♫
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