Beast In Black release new music video for ‘Fear The Beast’
BEAST IN BLACK have released a new music video!
The Finnish heavy metal outfit have unveiled Fear The Beast, a brand new single and the title track from their forthcoming fourth studio album, the follow-up to 2021’s Dark Connection.
The new song marks the band’s first new music since last year’s collaboration with Diablo and arrives as BEAST IN BLACK put the finishing touches on their highly anticipated new record. The track also marks the first release to feature new lead guitarist Markus Venehsalo.
Speaking about the new single, guitarist and songwriter Anton Kabanen shares, “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!”
Watch the official music video for Fear The Beast here:
The release arrives ahead of BEAST IN BLACK‘s upcoming Resurrection Tour, which sees the band joined by SONATA ARCTICA and FROZEN CROWN across the UK and Europe. Tickets for the tour are available now and can be purchased here.
Tour dates are as follows:
26.10.2026 – London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town
27.10.2026 – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique
28.10.2026 – Tilburg, NL – 013 Poppodium
29.10.2026 – Leipzig, DE – Haus Auensee
31.10.2026 – Vienna, AT – Gasometer
01.11.2026 – Budapest, HU – Barba Negra
02.11.2026 – Zlín, CZ – Sports Hall Datart
03.11.2026 – Gliwice, PL – PreZero Arena
05.11.2026 – Berlin, DE – Columbiahalle
06.11.2026 – Hannover, DE – Swiss Life Hall
07.11.2026 – Ludwigsburg, DE – MHP Arena
08.11.2026 – Offenbach, DE – Stadthalle
09.11.2026 – Paris, FR – L’Olympia
11.11.2026 – Barcelona, ES – Razzmatazz
12.11.2026 – Madrid, ES – Sala La Riviera
13.11.2026 – Bilbao, ES – Santana 27
14.11.2026 – Toulouse, FR – Le Bikini
15.11.2026 – Lyon, FR – Le Transbordeur
17.11.2026 – Zürich, CH – Komplex 457
18.11.2026 – Milan, IT – Alcatraz
20.11.2026 – Munich, DE – Zenith
21.11.2026 – Esch-sur-Alzette, LU – Rockhal
22.11.2026 – Oberhausen, DE – Turbinenhalle
23.11.2026 – Hamburg, DE – Inselpark Arena
24.11.2026 – Gothenburg, SE – Trädgår’n
25.11.2026 – Stockholm, SE – Arenan Fryshuset
27.11.2026 – Joensuu, FI – Unholy Winter Fest*
28.11.2026 – Jyväskylä, FI – John Smith Frozen*
05.12.2026 – Helsinki, FI – Ice Hall**
*without SONATA ARCTICA and FROZEN CROWN
**special guests THE 69 EYES and RABBIT CULT
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