The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands

What this video is

Released in 2008 on Sub Pop Records, 'Idle Hands' arrived as the lead single from Saturnalia, the sole studio album by The Gutter Twins — a supergroup pairing Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers) and Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age). The video's pyrotechnic, post-industrial mise-en-scène literalizes the song's Calvinist folk-idiom theme of idle hands as the devil's plaything,…

Why it matters

Represents the late-2000s Sub Pop-era alt-rock documentary aesthetic: a grounded, location-based visual language rejecting high-concept abstraction in favor of raw environmental realism. The video is a key artifact of the post-grunge supergroup moment, bridging 90s underground credibility with…

The director

Warren Julius is credited as director of The Gutter Twins' 'Idle Hands' video, as documented by HIP Video Promo's official promotional release sheet dated June 27, 2008 (hipvideopromo.com). No additional independently verifiable biographical filmography for…