Mastodon's video for "The Motherload" brought twerking and heavy metal together for the first time, and the band is continuing their crusade by holding a booty-shaking contest where the winner gets concert tickets.
As SPIN reports, fans who want tickets to see the Atlanta band live will get tickets if they twerk for them. All they have to do is go to the group's Facebook page and upload their best twerking photo. To be considered, the caption for the photo should read,"I want to see Mastodon on [INSERT DATE OF THE SHOW YOU WANT TO ATTEND] at [INSERT VENUE OF SHOW YOU WANT TO ATTEND]. Check out my #Asstodon." Bonus points will be awarded to contestants wearing "Asstodon" shorts as well. The band will choose the winners.
The video for the song, which is off the band's sixth studio album Once More 'Round the Sun, was released at the end of September and immediately became a point of criticism for the group. The Guardian wrote that while the song is brilliant, the video is "misogynistic" and "a misfire."
"Of course, one stupid video isn't going to halt that progress," the column read. "But I can't help thinking that the whole tawdry episode is a terrible shame. If we've arrived at a place in the evolution of our culture where blatant, idiotic and utterly pointless sexism can be airily dismissed as 'a bit of a laugh,' then clearly we have much further to go than previously thought."
One of the dancers in the video, Jade, came to the band and video's defense shortly thereafter.
"Funny, the most sexist and racist sentiments came not from filming the actual video, but from a subset of metal fans who thought we simply didn't belong," she wrote. "If anything, the video shoot was welcoming, the band clever and pleasant, and the girls bonded almost the second the music dropped. Much like the band, we weren't concerned with thin, knee-jerk reactions to asses and twerking."
Check out the band's tour schedule here and twerk if you dare.
