Beast In Black release official music video for “Fear The Beast”

The Helsinki, Finland-based metal band Beast In Black, led by former Battle Beast guitarist Anton Kabanen, has finally returned with new music after a refreshing festival summer and an extremely successful North American tour with German metal legends Helloween, as per Blabbermouth. Beast In Black proudly delivers “Fear The Beast“—the new single, video, and title track of the band’s upcoming, highly anticipated new album—prior to unleashing its sharpened fangs into the heart of Asia, where they will perform in Tokyo, Taipei, Shanghai, and Beijing later this month. Roman Ismailov created the artwork for “Fear The Beast,” which was written and produced by Anton Kabanen. Award-winning director Katri Ilona Koppanen conceived and directed the dramatic video for this hit song.

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! – Anton Kabanen

Upcoming shows:

• Saturday, September 19, 2026 – Zepp DiverCity, Tokyo, Japan – (with Majestica, Yasuharu Takanashi)
• Sunday, September 20, 2026 – Zepp DiverCity, Tokyo, Japan – (with Majestica, Yasuharu Takanashi)
• Tuesday, September 22, 2026 – Moondog, Taipei, Taiwan – (with Dark Sky)
• Thursday, September 24, 2026 – VAS Live, Shanghai, China
• Friday, September 25, 2026 – MAO Livehouse, Beijing, China
• Friday, October 23, 2026 – Pool Stage (Full Metal Holiday), Mallorca, Spain
• Monday, October 26, 2026 – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, United Kingdom – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Tuesday, October 27, 2026 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Wednesday, October 28, 2026 – 013 Poppodium, Tilburg, Netherlands – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Thursday, October 29, 2026 – Haus Auensee, Leipzig, Germany – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Saturday, October 31, 2026 – Gasometer, Vienna, Austria – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Sunday, November 01, 2026 – Barba Negra, Budapest, Hungary – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Monday, November 02, 2026 – Sports Hall Datart, Zlin, Czechia – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Tuesday, November 03, 2026 – PreZero Arena, Gliwice, Poland – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Thursday, November 05, 2026 – Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Friday, November 06, 2026 – Swiss Life Hall, Hanover, Germany – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Saturday, November 07, 2026 – MHP Arena, Ludwigsburg, Germany – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Sunday, November 08, 2026 – Stadthalle, Offenbach, Germany – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Monday, November 09, 2026 – L’Olympia, Paris, France – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Wednesday, November 11, 2026 – Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Thursday, November 12, 2026 – Sala La Riviera, Madrid, Spain – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Friday, November 13, 2026 – Santana 27, Bilbao, Spain – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Saturday, November 14, 2026 – Le Bikini, Toulouse, France – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Sunday, November 15, 2026 – Le Transbordeur, Lyon, France – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Tuesday, November 17, 2026 – Komplex 457, Zurich, Switzerland – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Wednesday, November 18, 2026 – Alcatraz, Milan, Italy – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Friday, November 20, 2026 – Zenith, Munich, Germany – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Saturday, November 21, 2026 – Rockhal, Luxembourg, Luxembourg – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Sunday, November 22, 2026 – Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen, Germany – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Monday, November 23, 2026 – Inselpark Arena, Hamburg, Germany – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Tuesday, November 24, 2026 – Eriksbergshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden – (with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Wednesday, November 25, 2026 – Fryshuset Arenan, Stockholm, Sweden – ((with Sonata Arctica, Frozen Crown)
• Friday, November 27, 2026 – Joensuu Arena (Unholy Winterfest), Joensuu, Finland
• Saturday, November 28, 2026 – Paviljonki (John Smith Frozen), Jyvaskyla, Finland
• Saturday, December 05, 2026 – Ice Hall, Helsinki, Finland – (with The 69 Eyes, Rabbit Cult)
• Saturday, July 31, 2027 – Wacken Open Air, Wacken, Germany
• Thursday, August 05, 2027 – Alcatraz Festival, Kortrijk, Belgium
• Saturday, August 14, 2027 – Reload Festival, Sulingen, Germany