Look at it this way – after you’ve seen this video, you’ll know for sure that your Monday morning cannot possibly get any worse.

Until we’d seen this video, we’d thought the garlic-stuffed lumps of bird flesh claiming to be “Chicken Kiev” that we purchased from the discount aisle in our local Tesco were the most processed thing we’d ever seen that could claim Ukrainian descent, but this video pips them. The musicians – or should that be “perpetrators”? – behind this “song” are the Ukrainian self-described “Satanic pop metallers”, Semargl. We’re not quite sure whether it’s the slap-dash corpse paint, the hi-NRG synth track, the ludicrously dancing, and/or the giant, cheap-as-chips flashing backdrop that proudly declares “SATANIC BLACK METAL” that tipped us over the edge with this one, but we’re pretty sure we haven’t (and won’t) see anything worse than this in 2011. So in a twisted, bizarre fashion, we do at least have to applaud Semargl for achieving that much.

Interestingly enough, this is the first official Semargl video to feature the band’s newest member, Anima, the band’s drummer and first-ever female member. No doubt Revolver magazine will unironically feature her in next year’s Hottest Chicks In Metal and/or Hard Rock and/or Any Old Shit In Corpse Paint at some point, but her inclusion behind the drum kit actually heralds a step forward for Semargl in terms of their attitudes to women and gender politics. Usually Semargl’s only concession towards women is to include them in their videos as faux lipstick-lesbian wank-bank material for their horny teenage boy fanbase, after all.