Beast In Black have released ‘Lost Children’, the latest track from their fourth studio album, Fear The Beast, which comes out through Nuclear Blast.
The song arrives ahead of the band’s headline tour, which begins with a sold-out show at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on 26th October 2026. The dates are billed as the Resurrection tour, with Sonata Arctica and Frozen Crown also on the bill.
‘Lost Children’ is a power ballad and continues the band’s link with the manga Berserk. It features a vocal performance from frontman Yannis Papadopoulos. The band again worked with director Katri Ilona Koppanen on the music video.
Anton Kabanen says the song is based on the “Lost Children Chapter” of Berserk, which he describes as one of his favourite parts of the manga, if not his favourite. He says: “It had an enormous impact on me when I first read it, some 20 years ago, and ever since I wanted to write songs (or at least one!) about it. I wanted to find my own way to tell this important, tragic and heart-wrenching story, while staying true to its delicate child-like purity and meaningful core.”
He points to the story’s emotional complexity. “Children are generally seen as innocent and pure, and in many ways they are also victims of their circumstances,” he says. He describes Rosine, the girl in the story, as “a particularly fascinating example of this contradiction”. She becomes the antagonist and commits terrible acts, but Kabanen says she is not inherently evil and is “a vulnerable child who has been pushed into a tragic situation”.
Kabanen adds: “When the God Hand (from Berserk) offers someone a way out of unimaginable suffering, it’s difficult to say how most people would respond. You can understand why Rosine makes the choices she does without necessarily being able to forgive what she does.”
He says the story brings anger, horror, sadness and compassion, sometimes almost at once. “It’s not a straightforward story of good versus evil. The emotions are contradictory, and that’s precisely why it’s so deeply moving.”
Kabanen also praises Koppanen’s work on the video, calling it “the most soulful Beast In Black music video to date”.