(Video) Linkin Park - Iridescent

When you're making a music video for a movie tie-in song, there's always the inclination to fill it with a whole host of exciting clips from the film in question. Nothing wrong in that, it has, after all, become the norm. You need only look at Take That's new single (which fronts the the new X Men film), to see a rather well done example of it. It's all very tasteful and looks cool, but equally, it's not breaking any boundaries.

And then you look at what Linkin Park have done with their Iridescent video, the companion track to the summer's other big blockbuster - Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. Ever the ambitious and innovative ones, Linkin Park have instead incorporated the movie graphics into the video itself, tweaking them so that the film elements become inseparable from the video itself.

Not only does this make everything all the more exciting, but it places the video itself into the Transformers universe; the band becoming characters playing out their own existences in this new, terrifying world. As the video's director and band member Joe Hahn puts it, 'What would it be like to be citizens in a decaying universe?'

There's some lovely mirrored kaleidoscope effects going on and the entire video is treated with this lovely sort of blurred black & white sheen, colour only ever coming through in slight glimpses. There's a whole host of imagery going on here too, from a snake, creepy whited-out eyes and a last-supper tableau.

For a dark, epic, moody track; but one gifted with the most uplifting of choruses, this video manages to act as the perfect mirror. Linkin Park have always been a band with a vision, and Iridescent is just one small part of that vision, but boy does it look good.