VIDEO PREMIERE: Baby Animals - 'Ace Of Spades'

Baby Animals returned with a raucous cover of the Motörhead classic, Ace Of Spades, last month—and brought in The Living End’s Chris Cheney for some extra fun. On Friday (30 May), they’re releasing a music video for the cover, but it’s exclusively premiering on The Music today.

In the animated video made by Alex Raunjak, the band members rock in a car and a plane as they pay tribute to Lemmy Kilmister. The actual card—the ace of spades—is littered throughout the clip.

Originally a black, white, and blue clip, the video launches into full colour as Chris Cheney rips a guitar solo. At one point in the video, Baby Animals are playing to an enormous crowd at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

You can check out the thrilling music video below.

Baby Animals’ version of Ace Of Spaces is the first of two singles they’ll drop in 2025 ahead of releasing a highly anticipated new album in 2026, the band revealed earlier this year.

The band said of the unexpected cover choice, “We were thinking about doing a cover for the new album and were going back and forth for ages.

“Then, when [drummer and producer] Ricki Rae was on tour with The Living End (doing FOH sound), he asked the boys, ‘If Baby Animals were to do a cover, what would you suggest?’ Chris Cheney said he’d love to hear us do Ace Of Spades. We started to imagine how we could make it work for us, so we took it as a challenge and dragged Chris in as well, as it was his idea in the first place. And here we are!”

In other Baby Animals news, the band recently polished off a massive Red Hot Summer Tour with Icehouse and Noiseworks, and last month, they joined ZZ Top, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, The Living End, Rose Tattoo, and Dallas Frasca on the latest Red Hot Summer Tour series.

Thirty years ago, Baby Animals burst onto Australia’s rock and roll scene with the release of their eight-times Platinum, ARIA Award-winning, self-titled debut album, which featured the hits Rush You, Early Warning, One Word, and Painless. The album spent six weeks at #1 in Australia and kept Nirvana’s Nevermind off the top spot.