Beast In Black Release Striking New Single And Video “Fear The Beast”

Sep 10, 2026

Beast In Black have returned with “Fear The Beast,” a new single, video and title track for their forthcoming fourth album.

The release follows a festival summer and a North American tour with Helloween, and lands just before the band heads to Asia for shows in Tokyo, Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing later this month.

Anton Kabanen explains the song at length:

“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 now in the ranks, “Fear The Beast” delivers the band’s trademark dance beat driven heavy metal, instantly memorable riffs and melodies, raw vocal power and fiery solos.

The track was written and produced by Kabanen, with artwork by Roman Ismailov and the video created and directed by award-winning director Katri Ilona Koppanen.

Stream “Fear The Beast”: https://beastinblack.bfan.link/ftbsg

Since forming in 2015 the band has released three celebrated records, with last year’s collaboration with the game Diablo, tied to its crossover with Berserk, marking their most recent release. The remainder of the fourth album is still being completed.