Sex, Drugs & Woodcraft: New Mastodon Video | The Quietus

Sex, Drugs & Woodcraft: New Mastodon Video

Watch the new video for the fretboard splintering Mastodon single ‘The Curl Of The Burl’ below.

As mentioned in our track ltrack, the song deals with a crystal meth enthusiast who lives in a forest who feeds his hobby by cutting down trees to discover unique burls to sell to carpenters.

After snorting lines of sawdust the hapless fiend turns into a Paul Bunyan-like lumberjack who devastates the forest and blinds the sun by tossing a fir tree into his eye.

None of this explains who the lady lumberjacks are though and why Brent Hinds of the group felt compelled to kill a man for kicking his goat.

The answers may be revealed below. Vaguely NSFW…

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