San Fran world-electro trio Beats Antique has been playing music for bellydancers and jammers everywhere, but for their most recent video, “Beelzebub” they partnered with Primus‘ Les Claypool, who plays the devil himself.
In the claymation video, animated by Webster Colcord and directed by Ivan Landau (Sigur Ros’s “Dauðalogn”), creates creepy shape-shifting goodness that you would find in a track about Hell. Faces melt. Guts are disemboweled. Amorphous building-eating blobs ravish the city. The highlight: a claymation version of Claypool as The Devil, as exacting and precise as a Madame Tussauds figure.
“Who would you want to play the role of the devil in your new concept album? LES CLAYPOOL, of course!,” band member David Satori commented. “Les is a dynamic bass-playing freak factory.”
In related news, Beats Antique will be playing New York City’s Irving Plaza with Ill-esha and Sorne tomorrow night, October 25th. Get your tickets here!
Watch the video exclusive here.