SKYND examine the “bizarre story” of cannibal Armin Meiwes in new single
Like Rammstein’s Mein Teil, true crime-inspired duo SKYND take a look at the story of The Rotenburg Cannibal, Armin Meiwes, in their new single of the same name.
The next era of SKYND is here, and the duo are kicking things off with the “bizarre story” of cannibal Armin Meiwes.
Taken from their Chapter IV EP, the duo take a look at the The Rotenburg Cannibal here (just like Rammstein did on Mein Teil), with vocalist Skynd explaining of what happened: "The arrangement was an entirely consensual cannibalistic murder. It sounds insane on the surface, but it's also really sad story about being lonely and engaging in an internal fight of fantasy vs. reality. Meiwes didn't have his inner animal tamed. He wanted to reach another level of climax, because fantasies that he had held since he was a little boy weren't enough for him anymore. His urge to own someone and to fully merge with somebody trumped his common sense.
"When I investigated the case, I watched an interview with him. Meiwes didn't seem like the typical beast you'd imagine when you think of a 'cannibal'. But then again, you might ask yourself, 'What does a cannibal even look like?' It's a story that hasn't left me for years and I feel like I have finally translated it into music."
Of the accompanying video, director PR Brown shares: "Monsters live among us. We can either live in denial and imagine they don't exist or we can dig deeper into what makes them tick so we know what to look for. For this video, we really wanted to explore the madness, that compulsive energy behind Armin's frame of mind. There was something particularly twisted about the idea of him being addicted to cooking shows.
"The idea was built on following his manic progression of working on a recipe. Something, that by anyone's standard, would be a complete failure, yet in his eyes, a masterpiece of delicacy. I'm so grateful that Skynd embraced this concept and fostered the vision of something that was truly uncomfortable to even film, much less think about. I still have a hard time watching it, mainly because of the smell it conjures up while we were filming it and the believable state our actor was able to project. It felt too real."
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