The band performed " Colony of Birchmen " at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards live with Josh Homme . After the televised performance , Brent Hinds was reported to have sustained a severe head injury . Blabbermouth.net initially reported that it was the result of a brutal assault , but the police report later suggested that an inebriated Hinds had started a fight with System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian and vocalist William Hudson , also known as Reverend William Burke of Achozen
2007 MTV Video Music Awards
2007 MTV Video Music Awards
Mastodon (band)