I’m not a particularly big fan of heavy metal, or zombies, but this video is really fascinating. It’s a music video for a song by ANJ, a Russian metal band. It’s a tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, which includes big-breasted women and zombies, and Gorbachev as some sort of Conan the Barbarian hero, cranial bird-poop-shaped birthmark and all.

The stylization is really amazing — part of it is done in that old Soviet-grandeur feeling with dark colors, lots of depth, and kind of a stiff, sweeping movement of various events in a really big, epic magnitude. It reminds me of the TV commercials for the new Stolichnaya vodka branding (see examples here and, my favorite, here).

Anyway, it’s bizarre, and strange, but it really draws you in:

GORBACHOV: THE MUSIC VIDEO – BIGGER AND RUSSIANER from Tom Stern on Vimeo.