Haken release new music video for ‘Canary Yellow’

HAKEN have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Canary Yellow, is taken from the English progressive metallers’ upcoming new album, Virus, which is scheduled to be released in June this year.

Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, the band says, “for Canary Yellow, we went in a more alternative direction, since we’re all big fans of bands like RADIOHEAD, ELBOW and Peter Gabriel. Those are artists who can portray quite dark subject matter through really beautiful music. Since the Virus album is intended to be a metaphor for various negative tropes of society, we wanted to explore this idea in a variety of ways. Canary Yellow deals with the suppression of physical and mentally abusive relationships; something that can often remain hidden behind a seemingly happy facade.

We once again returned to long time visual collaborators Crystal Spotlight for this ambitious animation and we’re absolutely thrilled with how well the visuals complement and enhance the atmosphere of the song. The video shows a seemingly idyllic family environment, but with a sense of sadness beneath the surface and absolute devastation looming on the horizon. They go about their day oblivious to the fact that they are mannequins living in a 1950s style Doom Town experiment.”

Watch the official music video for Canary Yellow here:

Virus is set for release on June 5th via InsideOut Music.

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