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Watch Frank Iero And The Future Violents' Surreal New Video For Medicine Square Garden

"Witchy calisthenics workout meets a Robert Palmer alien massacre," is how Frank describes The Future Violents' new video.

In typically trippy 4/20 fashion, Frank Iero And The Future Violents have just unveiled an incredibly surreal new video for Medicine Square Garden.

The track is taken from last year's 4K-rated Barriers album, with the frontman calling Medicine Square Garden the record's "most important track".

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"It was the cornerstone upon which the rest of the record and band was formed," he says. "If we lost the battle on that song, the rest didn’t stand a chance. Medicine Square Garden pushed the most boundaries, scratched the most itches, and terrified me far beyond any other song I had written. So when we crossed off every box in Chicago at Electrical Audio and listened back with smiles knowing we had accomplished our goals, a new objective soon emerged: Get the label to see our favourite song as a single, and let us make the video of my dreams."

Speaking of which, Frank explains, "Medicine Square Garden is not your typical single. It’s a five and a half minute attempt at answering the question, 'What if Prince wrote a Sleep song?'

"Oh, and if that’s not batshit enough for you, I already had the video in my head. So armed with crudely drawn set designs and a typed-up description of a witchy calisthenics workout meets a Robert Palmer alien massacre, I submitted my pitch to the label. This was my vision from the beginning and no-one told me I was crazy. What a world."

Never change, Frank.