Brann: Well basically, we've just been scoring support tours and when it comes to support tours, you have no say in where it goes or when it goes or how it goes. So basically, we were at the beck and call of the headlining band and we go wherever they're going. For some reason, with all the touring we've done, it's just ended up that way. Unfortunately.

Brann: Well, we had to get our asses over here as quickly as possible 'cause I work for this big store in Atlanta and I buy the T-shirts for them. So when we got done with the Clutch tour, we were in New Hampshire. We had to get to the west coast in three days or something. We drove from New Hampshire to St. Louis, St. Louis to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City to Albuquerque, and the Albuquerque to L.A. We played in L.A., Corona and then San Francisco. Then next day I flew to Las Vegas, bought T-shirts for five days and then flew directly to Seattle, because we're going to be living here for a month recording our new record. So we decided we'd play a show here and we start recording on Tuesday. So there was no Portland show, it just didn't fit.

Brann: It was something that Relapse wanted to do because of the fact that there has been a larger interest in the band; the Tony Hawk video game came out, the video on MTV2 came out, the Headbanger's Ball compilation CD came out. All that stuff was happening and the album, as far as retailers were concerned, is an old release. So they decided to repackage it with the free DVD and an extra track, just so it's out there, so when kids hear it they can go out and it's readily available.

Brann: When I was a kid, Ricki Ratchman was the host of Headbanger's Ball. At the end of every show, much like some kind of radio host, that was what he said at the end of every Headbanger's Ball.

Brann: (laughs) No. No, we haven't harbored the desire to bury any members of Lamb Of God. That whole video wasn't even our idea, really. We went in to meet with the director and he's a friend of Troy, so he was wanting to do a video for us, but we knew we didn't have money to do a really kickass video, so he pulled all these favors for us and a lot of people worked for free on it. It took one day to do. Me and Troy came in and said we wanted to do this and this and this, had all these crazy ideas, and the director was like, "yeah, that's great, but this is what's going to happen" and he told us a quick and easy way to get a cool video out there, like within a week. So that's what happened there. It's not exactly my vision of a video we would do, but I think it came out cool and it's a good vehicle for us to reach an audience we wouldn't normally reach.

Brann: That was a dream I had; I had this fucked up dream involving my sister. My sister died like thirteen years ago when we were kids and every now and then she comes and hangs out with me in my dreams. This was one dream where I was hanging out with her and we were looking out a window and this forest was on fire and all these animals were running out of it and this big horse came out and it was on fire and fell down in front of me. When I woke up, that was the last image that I saw, so it stuck in my head. I kept thinking about it all the time, so I finally told the guys about it and they said it sounds like a crazy album cover. So I got in touch with a friend of mine who's an artist and he painted it for me.

Brann: Thanks, man. He's doing the new one too.

Brann: We were just sitting around the practice space a couple weeks after we'd gotten together trying to think of names and we were like, "what's that wooly mammoth, but not the wooly mammoth exactly? There's another one," we were like, "matador? No, that's not it… mast… mastodon! That's it! Mastodon; yeah that sounds pretty tough." We went home, we were pretty drunk, I called Scott Kelly from Neurosis and I said "Scott; Mastodon." He said "hold on a second" and he asked his son, Damon. He was like, "hey Damon; Mastodon." Then he said "he thinks its cool, I think its cool" and then I said "cool, see ya." Then Mastodon it is.

Brann: We needed the Neurosis okay.

Brann: I've got this tattoo for my sister on my throat, the flames that go up my neck here. It says my sister's name because it was the most painful experience of my life. I put it on my chest. It's probably the most important tattoo I have; the one that means the most.

Brann: Cool, man.