Soundgarden tapped Foo Fighters frontman and documentary director Dave Grohl to get behind the camera on Tuesday (December 18th) and shoot the band's new video for its song "By Crooked Steps." The track is taken from Soundgarden's first album in 16 years, King Animal, which came out last month and sold 83,000 copies in its first week of release to debut at Number Five on the Billboardalbum chart.

Grohl has directed a number of videos for Foo Fighters, and has completed his first feature-length documentary, Sound City, which will be released early next year. The film chronicles the history of the legendary Los Angeles studio where acts like Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Metallica and many others recorded classic albums.

• "By Crooked Steps" will likely follow "Been Away Too Long" as the second single from King Animal. Singer Chris Cornell told us a little about the tune: "It's one of the earlier songs that we started working on, but I also felt like it, to me, is like definitely sort of a new chapter for us. If you wanted to take one example of Soundgarden progressing, that's a good one for me."
• Soundgarden reunited in 2010 after a 13-year break, releasing a retrospective collection called Telephantasm and a concert album titled Live On I-5.
• The band kicks off a winter North American tour on January 18th, 2013 in Washington DC.

CHECK IT OUT: Watch Soundgarden perform "By Crooked Steps" on Jimmy Kimmel Live: