SKYND unleash new single, announce European headline tour

SKYND have concluded their Chapter IV EP with a brand-new single and video, Edmund Kemper.

The true crime duo have also teamed up with a ‘mysterious, renowned and revered international guitarist as a special guest’ for the single, though they’re keeping that a secret…

Explaining the new single and this particular case, SKYND explains: “There is a detail to this story that stuck with me and sparked my creativity to write about Edmund Kemper. As a young boy Edmund liked to play with Barbie dolls and dolls. He ‘took’ their heads off and that made a sound like a ‘pop’, performing funeral rites. While translating true crime cases into music I have a visual idea of the song, and the dolls had to be in the video. It was important to me to show the beheading of the doll because it illustrates his crimes, without being too gratuitous.”

“I had the great honour to translate Skynd’s new song into a visual world,” continues director Anique Wild. “A hardly believable story of a brutal monster who could not appear more normal in the outside world. The video is meant to convey the values of this song in an artistic, visual way. Find the story behind the story – try to look behind the curtain.”

Watch the video below:

Catch SKYND live at their newly-announced European headline tour:

November

1 Warsaw PL – Proxima
2 Wroclaw PL – Kwadrat
3 Leipzig DE – UT Connewitz
4 Prague CZ – Sasazu
6 Vienna AT – Arena
7 Bologna IT – Locomotiv Club
8 Munich DE – Technikum
10 Berlin DE – Hole 44
11 Copenhagen DK – Vega
12 Malmo SE – Plan B
13 Stockholm SE – Slaktkyrkan
15 Oslo NO – Parkteateret
17 Hamburg DE – Gruenspan
18 Utrecht NL – De Helling
19 Cologne DE – Kantine
21 Frankfurt DE – Batschkapp
22 Antwerp BE – Trix Club
23 Strasbourg FR – La Laiterie Club
24 Paris FR – Le Trabendo
25 Lille FR – Le Black Lab

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