In 2009, Darnielle and Vanderslice collaborated on the record "Moon Colony Bloodbath". Released in a limited vinyl run of 1000 and sold during their "Gone Primitive" tour, the EP was a concept record about organ harvesting colonies on the Moon. This was followed by the next full Mountain Goats album, "The Life of the World to Come", which released in October of the same year. The album is composed of twelve tracks, each one inspired by (and titled after) a single verse of the Christian Bible. In publicizing the record, the band made their first ever television appearance, performing "Psalms 40:2" on "The Colbert Report", hosted by professed Mountain Goats fan Stephen Colbert.