Synopsis

Monster Magnet perform on separate asteroids floating in a surreal outer-space landscape. Each band member goes about mundane activities while an enormous woman observes them from above. As the performance grows more chaotic, the musicians wreck their surroundings and the asteroids begin to destabilize. Dave Wyndorf appears to manipulate the Earth itself before the band reunites for a wild ride through space in a car. The clip turns the song's psychedelic hard-rock attitude into oversized comic-book science fiction.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video's concept came from Dave Wyndorf's admiration for an old Jack Kirby Fantastic Four comic in which the heroes travel through the Negative Zone on separate asteroids.

• Wyndorf reportedly sent the record company a rough concept featuring the band as "space rock stars" and a giant woman in the Negative Zone. The production was built around green-screen work, computer effects, and large physical asteroid sets.

• The asteroid pieces were constructed at full scale on tall towers inside a Universal Studios soundstage, giving the production a much larger scope than a typical mid-1990s rock video.

• "Negasonic Teenage Warhead" first appeared in an earlier form on the 1994 film S.F.W. soundtrack. The song was later re-recorded for Monster Magnet's 1995 album Dopes to Infinity and became the band's first successful single.

• The video received MTV exposure and was later featured in Beavis and Butt-Head-related home-video releases.

• The title eventually crossed into Marvel Comics: the X-Men character Negasonic Teenage Warhead, introduced in 2001, was named after the Monster Magnet song. The character later became widely known through the Deadpool films.