Let’s start off right: no, this isn’t Ministry. The original 1991 song that is a staple of many, many playlists was Ministry’s biggest and probably most well-known song, but it was a sleeper hit: originally the song was a mix of the scat-like vocals that Butthole Surfers’ frontman Gibby Haynes laid down (reportedly so hammered off of his head that it was questionable if he even knew where he was at) combined with a bunch of work by Al Jourgenson that was handed off as a single to a demanding record company who wanted something to put out. That’s all…it was a kitbash that nobody expected to do as well as it did. It’s also a song without a point, really…outside of the album cover (a corporate shot of a Chrysler Street Hemi that was requested from Chrysler themselves), the sample clips of drag racing coverage in the song and intro and outro spoken word pieces about the hotrod in question.

Now, about this version of the song. Burn The Priest is actually the band Lamb of God running under their original name, and this video just might be one of the most visually strange things I’ve witnessed in a while. The premise is simple enough: you’re riding along with an older guy in his hopped up Ford on what seems to be a cross-country trip…”trip” taking on several different meanings, from the looks of things. Cities, country, deserts, Hell, space, even Mad Max: Fury Road…every road leads to the California coast on this road trip. Got a volume knob at the ready? You know what to do…crank it and enjoy!