'Atlas' video

Battles

(YouTube.com)

This Timothy Saccenti-directed video finds the avant-rock quartet performing in a transparent mirrored box that hangs in black space. A continuously spiraling 360-degree view of the band is interspersed with close-ups of each member playing, with so many effects that no one instrument really sounds like it normally would. The song itself is Marilyn Manson "Beautiful People"-esque, but the vocals are an unintelligible munchkin war chant, and the mechanical, industrial tightness of the track chugs along with its own appealing energy.