Beast In Black have released "Fear The Beast", a single, video and the title track of their fourth album.
Anton Kabanen explained where it came from, and the answer is more personal than a song about a film usually is. "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."
He described the creature in terms that sit oddly next to the word nightmare. "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."
The band spent the summer on festivals and toured North America with Helloween. They play Tokyo, Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing later this month.
Source: BraveWords