How's your Monday been so far? Has it been calm and quiet? Well, fuck that. The video for "Heathen Child", from the Nick Cave-led sludge-rock outfit Grinderman, is here to shock you out of whatever mid-afternoon stupor you may be in.

The absolutely zany clip was directed by John Hillcoat, who helmed last year's apocalyptic thriller The Road-- but don't be mistaken: that movie and this video have very little in common. A short list of crazy shit that appears: a statue that cries blood, a wolfman, the vampire-looking cheerleader that adorns the cover of the "Heathen Child" single, Cave and his Grinderman compatriots shooting lasers and destroying civilizations, and a fair bit of NSFW nudity (including from the Grinderman members themselves). And more than one visual similarity to Hot Chip's "I Feel Better" video.

Just watch the damn thing already, either below or over at Pitchfork.tv:

Grinderman 2 is out September 13 in Europe via Mute, and the following day in the U.S. via Anti-.