A Perfect Circle's latest doomsday meditation arrives today with their creepy-as-hell new video for "So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish." As jubilant characters in a retro black-and-white setting scatter about, enjoying the spoils of old-school suburbia, the scene comes into focus and it becomes apparent things are not so Leave It to Beaver as they seem. The first clue to the insanity that awaits comes when a prim-and-proper housewife attempts to pay for her groceries, and realizes the clerk is hanging from a rope.

As she shakes off the incident (in a seemingly pointed commentary about our ability to turn away from the horrors that fill everyday existence), the surreal nightmares pile on in a madcap adventure straight from the minds of director Kyle Cogan and APC frontman Maynard James Keenan, the latter offering up the simple, and chilling, comment on the video's concept: "Welcome to the new normal."

A Perfect Circle photograph by Paul Harries

The madness continues with the introduction of flying dolphins (a nod to the satirical sci-fi series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from which the track borrows its title), a murderous father casually burying his children in the front yard, and the neighborhood dominatrix whipping at the ass of an escaped submissive — as he beckons the housewife into a house where revelers copulate freely in the windows.

The five-minute clip culminates with a nuclear apocalyptic scene complete with faces melting from their skulls, atomic explosions and houses crumbling in radiation winds. The unsettling eeriness of it all comes to a swift halt, echoing the lyrical sentiment that time is money and we as humans have wasted ours.

The song is taken from A Perfect Circle's most recent album, Eat the Elephant. Released back in April, Revolver was granted a special inside look at the record's innovative custom prism through which a companion film can be viewed. Read more about that endeavor here and pick up the band's limited edition 7-inch featuring "So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish" with a B-side of the AC/DC cover "Dog Eat Dog" when it's released during Record Store Day's Black Friday festivities. See the 7-inch cover and A Perfect Circle's upcoming tour dates below.

“So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish” 7-inch

A Perfect Circle tour dates:

11/09 Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre (WRIF Radio Show)

11/10 Madison, WI - Coliseum at Alliant Energy Center

11/11 Minneapolis, MN Armory (93X Radio Show)

11/13 Cedar Rapids, IA U.S. Cellular Center

11/14 Park City, KS Hartman Arena

11/17 Anaheim, CA The Theatre at Honda Center

11/18 Las Vegas, NV The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas – The Chelsea

11/20 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre

12/02 Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow Academy

12/03 Manchester, UK Victoria Warehouse

12/05 London, UK Wembley Arena Pavilion

12/06 Paris, France Zenith Paris – La Villette

12/07 Antwerp, Belgium Lotto Arena

12/09 Amsterdam, Netherlands AFAS Live

12/10 Cologne, Germany Palladium

12/12 Copenhagen, Denmark Forum Copenhagen

12/13 Hamburg, Germany Sporthalle Hamburg

12/15 Kraków, Poland Tauron Arena Kraków

12/16 Vienna, Austria Wiener Stadhalle

12/18 Milan, Italy Mediolanum Forum

12/19 Rome, Italy Palalottomatica

In the mood for more surreal A Perfect Circle weirdness? Watch Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel take us wig shopping in the video below: