Watch Shining’s Incredible One-Take Music Video for New Song “The Last Stand”

UPDATE: As several of you have pointed out, this video was not in fact shot in one take, but a small handful edited together well. Whatever. It still rules.

Of all the silly things I picked up from my time in corporate office culture, Summer Fridays was one of the few rewarding ones. When Friday rolls around between Memorial Day and Labor Day you sign on, buckle down and get your shit DONE then take a half day, ’cause everyone’s already checked out for the week and wants to do the same thing anyway. Head to the beach! Take a walk! Get stoned and rub one out! Just don’t check your phone obsessively or else you’ll be sucked back in to tasks that probably could’ve waited.

Take that introduction as an apology for not posting Shining’s new song “The Last Stand” when it came out on Friday. Sorry, everyone! The MS Mansion had long since been abandoned and Main MIC (Monkey in Charge) Higgins wasn’t up to the task of giving it a proper write-up (he squawked something about the typewriters being broken).

Predictably, the song rips: it’s got that trademark Shining rock n’ roll swing, the buzzsaw riffs, the saxophone insanity and Jørgen Munkeby’s commanding, dynamic presence leading the charge. Also predictably, the video rules: it was shot in one continuous take — not the first time Shining have undertaken such a task — and, even more impressively, was recorded completely live in a studio. Only bands as razor tight and professional as Shining can pull off such feats, and I bet they nailed it on the first fucking take, too; they’re not even breaking a sweat here!

New album International Blackjazz Society comes out on October 16th via their new label Spinefarm. If you pre-order now you’ll get an instant download of the album version of “The Last Stand.”