After a refreshing festival summer and highly successful North American tour with German metal legend Helloween, BEAST IN BLACK now finally returns with new music!
Prior to striking its sharpened fangs into the heart of Asia where they shall perform in Tokyo, Taipei, Shanghai, and Beijing later this month, BEAST IN BLACK proudly present ‘Fear The Beast’ – their new single, video, and title track for the forthcoming, much anticipated new album!
Anton Kabanen comments:
“The song is about Ridley Scott’s 1979 film called ”Alien”. But the main reason to write about it was my fascination with the biomechanical nightmare art of Hans Ruedi Giger. Ever since I was a teenager I’ve seen recurring nightmares about a xenomorph hunting me in dystopian themed environments, yet never quite catching me (thank goodness!). Beside the creature’s downright perverted and extreme appearance I find it sensual, elegant, intense, fierce, horrifying, exotic and mysterious, almost as if it’s a beauty and a beast merged into one. And in a funny way it turned out that it’s I who captured my assailant, the xenomorph, inside a song after all these years!
It was in early 2020 in Turku (a city in Finland), when Roman Ismailov and I were hanging out at a hotel and working on the first sketches for the ”Dark Connection” album cover, then alongside came the idea of making Giger’s art-inspired album cover, if not now then possibly for the 4th album, so here we are.
Though the song is solely based on the first film, James Cameron’s sequel ”Aliens” is equally important to me in terms of an emotional impact. We tried to blend some of the feel from both films into our music video, with Cameron’s influence weighing more on the visual side of industrial elements. Another speciality in the video and on the album cover is the debut of our XENOBEAST, which was, quite obviously, designed by Roman Ismailov. In the video you’ll also see some reptilian-looking embryos which may raise a question: are the reptilians and the Xenobeast actually of the same alien race but shown in their radically different stage of metamorphosis, or is the Xenobeast rather a Cerberus-type of a creature guarding the eggs?
We’re absolutely thrilled about this beautiful cinematic video which wouldn’t have been possible without Katri Ilona Koppanen (director) and Emil Pohjalainen (Nestruction Studios) who pushed their abilities to the extreme and beyond to fight against a juggernaut of challenges! We, the band, salute you!”
With new lead guitarist Markus Venehsalo recently joining the ranks, ‚Fear The Beast‘ offers the band’s trademark dance beat-driven heavy metal, instantly memorable riffs and melodies, raw vocal power and fiery solos, perfectly warming you up for this year’s “Resurrection” tour!
‚Fear The Beast‘ has been written and produced by Anton Kabanen, features artwork by Roman Ismailov, and the epic video for this banger was created and directed by award-winning director Katri Ilona Koppanen.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‚FEAR THE BEAST‘:
STREAM ‚FEAR THE BEAST‘:
https://beastinblack.bfan.link/ftbsg
Having released three much celebrated records since forming in 2015, last year’s collaboration with cult game Diablo at the occasion of their crossover with Berserk marked the latest release by BEAST IN BLACK. The excitement for their fourth record is gigantic but rest assured, the beast returns with its primal hunger stronger than ever.
Having released three much celebrated records since forming in 2015, last year’s collaboration with cult game Diablo at the occasion of their crossover with Berserk marked the latest release by BEAST IN BLACK. The excitement for their fourth record is gigantic but rest assured, the beast returns with its primal hunger stronger than ever.
Source: Nuclear Blast
Photo Credit: Jarmo Katila / Toni Kilpinen