Following the high benchmark set by Ilya Naishuller with the previous ones, the latest video for Russian band Leningrad just happens to be another breathtaking tour de force - extravagantly creative, brilliantly realised and, as tradition demands, outrageously, eye-wateringly violent.

For Gold - which is produced by Naishuller, and written and directed by another precocious talent, the Moscow-based director Lado Kvataniya – a beautiful girl is under questioning by two cops, and recounting her exploits - as a shape-shifting vampire who feasts on gold and gems, leaving mindboggling levels of bloody slaughter in her wake.

And she not only tells of the incidents at a casino stuffed with rich pickings, and driving around with a Saudi prince in his gold Rolls Royce, she brings them right into the interrogation room - and that includes an out of control Roller crashing through the wall.

This brilliant and disorientating device arguably makes this one of the best of the Leningrad vids. And certainly the astonishing VFX work in the video once again makes this looks like it was produced on a budget that wouldn't shame a Hollywood blockbuster. A really really violent one.

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