Band: Beast In Black
Song: “Fear The Beast”
Director: Katri Ilona Koppanen
Album: Fear The Beast – single
Release Date: September 10th, 2026
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
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Guitarist Anton Kabanen said of the inspiration behind the new song:
“The song is about Ridley Scott’s 1979 film 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.
We’re absolutely thrilled about this beautiful cinematic video which wouldn’t have been possible without Katri Ilona Koppanen and Emil Pohjalainen of Nestruction Studios, who pushed their abilities to the extreme and beyond. We, the band, salute you!”
