Divinations

I saw the video for this track. Fucking amazing. I have to say it's a pretty humorous video.

Here, the protagonist gets sucked into a wormhole and gets to the Khlysts, a russian sect:

"The wormhole is empty The center of Khlysty surrounds me"

and appears in a middle of a ritual, like he was summoned by the cult members:

"The fire is dancing in the silvery sheet of breath Black robe Necromancing Summon the soul of the spectre"

Note that the Khlyst were active in the late 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century, which coincides with the time Rasputin was around (1869 — 1916).

Fantastic song!

Making the wait for the rest of the album even more painful than it already was...

Fucking stupendous song right here. It's short, brilliant, and sums up what Mastodon has evolved into. Seems like the Blood & Thunder of Crack the Skye, but i haven't heard the album (yettt)

could be a little into it, but if this is the opening track, it's definitely about the person's first experience out of body. into space and such.

Bandildo has it.

Bandalido, as said before, you hit the nail on the head. In addition to this, in reference to Brann's sister's story, I think this song is her being so enraptured by hear thoughts of suicide that she hears her "animal spirits calling her home"

No escape

There's no escaping from her predicament or her "need" to kill herself.

Fire in the eye

Hatred, as well as determination

Mystic realm of Majesty

The uncertainty of death

These can't be all the lyrics. That's retarded. But I'm The First To Comment This Brand New Song!!!! XD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is about the czars tripping on magic mushrooms and recieving divinations from them. the black robe necromancing is him seeing the forthsite of the people who are trying to kill him because when your tripping the scariest things are the police and the undead.