Revolution Radio, Green Day‘s upcoming back-to-basics album, is set for release on October 7, and the pop-punk legends already made a big splash with the release of the politically charged “Bang Bang” and the anti-establishment “Revolution Radio.” Now the rock trio has released the first video from the album via Facebook.
The “Bang Bang” music video is directed by Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong and draws major cues from heist flicks like the classic ’90s film, Point Break. It shows the trio successfully robbing a bank with masks with their own faces on them instead of the ex-presidents masks worn in the film, and splices in footage of the band performing the song at a house party. The robbery makes the news with Green Day penned as the culprit, but there’s a twist. Behind the masks are a trio of bandits who are definitely not Billie Joe, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool, but at least they’re benevolent enough to make it rain at the party.
Green Day has already revealed Revolution Radio was inspired by Black Lives Matter and gun control in America, and from what we’ve heard lyrically, it sounds more like American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown than their earlier work, but that’s hardly a bad thing — we ranked the former as Green Day’s second best in their entire discography.