Retro Video of the Week: "When Worlds Collide" by Powerman 5000

Saturday will mark the 25th anniversary of the release of industrial metal rockers Powerman 5000's second studio album, Tonight the Stars Revolt!  While I am excited to discuss the album, there is an exclamation mark at the end of the album title.  I was today years old when I learned that the lead singer of Powerman 5000, Spider One, is Rob Zombie's younger brother.  With the band's sound and its lyrics often relating to science fiction, monsters, and the like, I suppose it's not too much of a surprise.

Anywho, Tonight the Star Revolt! was a pretty big success, reaching #29 on the Billboard album chart and eventually going platinum in the U.S., making it the band's best-selling album.  The Powerman 5000 song I remember the most is "When Worlds Collide," a ball-busting industrial/nu metal song that reached #16 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #18 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.  The song is apparently about social classes and their collision, and the verses are kind of spoken-word and relatively subdued, but the choruses are all-out mayhem.  The video is set in some steampunk, post-apocalyptic factory, run by Satan (or a man who really wants to be Satan).  Worlds collide when Spider One and Satan face off.  Who will come out victorious?  You'll have to watch to find out.