Where Strides the Behemoth

I kinda like the drumming in this track, am I the only one?

I kinda like the drumming in this track, am I the only one?

no. i do too, especially the part before the REEALLY heavy part where its just distorted bass and brann does accents that sound really strange for some reason

Ok Mastodon songs are hard to interpret but here goes:

"condition tomorrow with visions inlaid the priest stands to our right a princess is mine"

It seems to be a protagonist who has taken a kingdom by force and has forced a priest to declare the maiden princess his wife. He has this great vision as he now sees the kingdom and princess which are his.

"the regress of some minds further chase the prize pretentious you follow religion is mine"

He now precides over the land as a king. Power is the goal he pursued and now, as he has manipulated the high priest, religion is also his.

"anger precedes my footsteps haunting past comes into head horizon seems so far away this life close to end of days kill and i will be damned forgive and i will be free"

Ok really confusing here. It seems as though, now the new king is angry and paranoid, for fear of someone usurping his throne. A prophecy from the past lingers above him, perhaps to be aware of a certain person who would dethrone him. The horizon is endless and he does not know where to look for this person and he knows his time to die is near. If he is killed by this unseen enemy, he will be damned, for the prophecy will be fulfilled and fate will outdo him. If the king is forgiven and his life is spared, then he will be set free, possibly to live in exile for the rest of his days.

"unified eyesight grow"

He still lives in fear of his killer and so he desires his perception to grow, so that he may identify him. Judging by the title of the song, this king rides the back of a giant behemoth and his unified vision, is the vision he shares with this beast. Perhaps he is weak, yet intelligent, and his beast is powerful, yet mindless, and so he needs the beast and the beast needs him, in order to rule the land.

In Jewish belief, Behemoth is a primal unconquerable monster of the land, as Leviathan is the primal monster of the waters of the sea and Ziz the primordial monster of the sky.

As we know Troy is Jewish and we know Mastodon like to write songs about Myth's and "Prehistoric things", even if the lyrics doesn't really fit with it as being about a Monster.

i don't know what it's really about but nevermind great fucking song :p