It hasn’t even been six months since The Killers announced that their bassist Mark Stoermer was taking a break from touring with one of the most preposterously successful rock bands of this century to work on solo material and “to pursue other educational goals.” Just a few months after that announcement, Stoermer’s solo career already bore fruit (we’re not sure about the educational part) in the form of Dark Arts, his first solo album since his self-released solo debut Another Life in 2011. While the album jumps around stylistically, from moody pop to pure psych and even minimal electronics, it’s mostly in debt to the mid-late ’60s, though dark in tone, as the title pretty much telegraphs.

And his new video for the track “Blood and Guts” is fuckin’ crazytown.

Director Charlotte Kemp Muhl has loaded the video with escalating outrages; it’s built around a re-creation of Rembrandt’s “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp,” and climaxes in an orgy of naked women eating the flesh off a crucified man. In between, there are numerous tableaux worthy of Joel-Peter Witkin and Alejandro Jodorowsky, and in fact the latter’s son, composer/musician Adán Jodorowsky, performs a cameo as a priest doling out communion wafers and the d. It’s DM’s pleasure to debut that video for you today.

Be advised there’s basically NOTHING in it but violence and nudity, so if you’re at work, well, you know...
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Vile Bodies: The nightmarish visions of photographer Joel-Peter Witkin