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. Something, that by anyone's standard, would be a complete failure, yet in his eyes, a masterpiece of delicacy. 'The idea was built on following his manic progression of working on a recipe. There was something particularly twisted about the idea of him being addicted to cooking shows. For this video, we really wanted to explore the madness, that compulsive energy behind Armin's frame of mind. 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. Of the accompanying video, director PR Brown shares: 'Monsters live among us. 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.' Meiwes didn't seem like the typical beast you'd imagine when you think of a 'cannibal'. 'When I investigated the case, I watched an interview with him. His urge to own someone and to fully merge with somebody trumped his common sense. 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. Meiwes didn't have his inner animal tamed.

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. 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. The next era of SKYND is here, and the duo are kicking things off with the “bizarre story” of cannibal Armin Meiwes.

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