Mastodon releases "Sleeping Giant" video

Those dudes in Mastodon are a bunch of greedy bastards. Not only have they played the support role on various hard rock monster tours (including Tool, Metallica and Slayer) over the course of the last year or so. Not only did they perform in front of more than 30,000 people last Saturday at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, flying back Sunday night to headline the 100+ band Atlanta festival Corndogorama. Not only did they perform as cartoon snack food characters earlier this year at the beginning of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. Not only did they... Well, you get this picture. All this and more has gone down for the members of Atlanta's pre-eminent metal band, and yet, they still want more.

Luckily, MTV is happy to oblige. This Saturday at 10 p.m., Headbanger's Ball will premiere the video for "Sleeping Giant," the second single from Blood Mountain, one of the esteemed 100 members of Paste's top albums of 2006 list. After the premiere, the video will slut itself all over MTV's various other stations in regular rotation. For those of you who are anti-television, first of all, you're so metal, and second of all, you can check out a teaser of the video on Headbanger's Blog today. Or at least, so we're told. At the time of this posting, it's not on the site, but we trust it will be sometime soon so we can get our headbang on before the workday ends.