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Foo Fighters find the perfect mix of zombie apocalypse and moshpit in their new music video for “Spit Shine”. The track comes from their current album “Your Favorite Toy”.
Dave Grohl wrote and directed the blood-soaked clip, which begins with an emergency warning: “This is not a test – a viral outbreak has occurred. It is highly contagious and potentially deadly. Please stay indoors and remain calm.” The camera then pans to the Foo Fighters, also dressed in chic, pristine white outfits, playing to an ecstatic audience. (Grohl’s daughter Harper did the casting.)
Of course, these clothes provide the ideal canvas for the chaos that follows. While the Foo Fighters are pounding through “Spit Shine,” a horde of zombies descend on the concert and cause an over-the-top massacre. Entrails are eaten, blood sprays in all directions – and yet the moshing just doesn’t stop.
Grohl’s penchant for horror
The fact that Grohl is relying on a zombie video is hardly surprising: the musician is an avowed horror film fan and played the main role in the 2022 horror comedy “Studio 666”, for which he also wrote the story – the rest of the Foo Fighters were also there. In a ROLLING STONE interview around the film’s release, Grohl talked about how closely one of his favorite horror films was linked to his punk youth.
“I love horror movies. Growing up in Washington, D.C., I was obsessed with ‘The Exorcist’ – not just because it was filmed there, but because all the punks were drinking at the bottom of the stairs that play a big role in the movie on weekends,” he said. “The liquor store next door sold beer to, let’s say, 11-year-olds.”
Foo Fighters released “Your Favorite Toy” last week – their twelfth studio album and first since 2023’s “But Here We Are”. The band embarks on a European tour in June before a North American tour begins in Toronto on August 4th. The finale will be a concert in Las Vegas on September 26th; Queens of the Stone Age and Mannequin Pussy support most of the dates.