“Saint Veronika” by Billy Talent

Billy Talent III, the band's fourth album, gave up "Saint Veronika" as its third official single, following "Devil on My Shoulder" and clearing the way for "Diamond on a Landmine". Brendan O'Brien produced and mixed it, with Nick DiDia recording.

The video gives it a grim little fable, played out by dolls. Directed by Michael Maxxis and first shown on MySpace on February 1, 2010, it follows a girl, probably the Veronika of the title, who flees the dinner table after her father turns on her, grabs a few tools and runs, while the band pounds through the song in a shed where other dolls sit at wheels spinning thread. She vaults a fence but snags a thread on a nail, and her pursuers give up when they reach it. Unaware that she's unraveling, she keeps running until almost nothing of her is left.

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