Metal Anarchy

Beast In Black have premiered a new video for their new song “Fear The Beast.” The single serves as the title track of the band’s upcoming album.

Anton Kabanen commented:

“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 fourth 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!”