Haken Release New Single/Video, “Canary Yellow”

Progressive metallers Haken have unveiled “Canary Yellow,” the second single from their forthcoming album, Virus, along with a music video.

The band comments:

“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 video below and check out the album’s previous single “Prosthetic” right here. Virus comes out on June 5 via InsideOut; pre-order it here.