"Curl of the Burl" is a single by American heavy metal band

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from their fifth studio album, '' The Hunter''. It was released August 16, 2011, as the second single from the album. The single was the band's most successful song on the

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chart at release, peaking at No. 15. It would eventually lose its title to ''

Emperor of Sand ''Emperor of Sand'' is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Mastodon. It was released on March 31, 2017 through record label Reprise Records. The album's first single, " Show Yourself", peaked at number 4 on the US ''Billboard'' ...

''s " Show Yourself". It was nominated for a 2011

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in the category Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance.

Music video

A music video was produced for the song and was directed by Roboshobo. The video was uploaded to the band's official

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account on September 20, 2011. The video focuses on a man (played by Bill Oberst Jr.) who chops down a tree carrying a warning sign, snorts a rough powder made of its wood, and becomes intoxicated. He grows an extra set of arms. The man keeps snorting the powder to the point that he is transformed into an archetypal lumberjack. He proceeds to stomp through the woods felling trees and encounters a group of women. The women strip him and reveal he is a log and set him on fire.

Charts

Personnel

Brann Dailor Brann Timothy Dailor (born March 19, 1975) is an American musician, best known as a member of heavy metal band Mastodon, in which he is the drummer and one of three vocalists. Career Dailor first started playing in a band called Eviscerati ...

– drums, lead vocals *

Troy Sanders Troy Jayson Sanders (born September 8, 1973) is an American musician, best known as a member of heavy metal band Mastodon, in which he plays bass and sings alongside guitarist Brent Hinds and drummer Brann Dailor. He is also active in Killer ...

– bass guitar, lead vocals *

Brent Hinds William Brent Hinds (born January 16, 1974) is an American musician best known as a member of the Atlanta, Georgia metal band Mastodon, in which he shares guitar duties with Bill Kelliher and vocal duties with Troy Sanders and Brann Dailor. Hi ...

– guitar, lead vocals *

Bill Kelliher William Breen Kelliher (born March 23, 1971) is an American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist of heavy metal band Mastodon, and being the only band member who doesn't share the lead vocal duty. Early life Kelliher is an Irish citize ...

– guitar

References

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