Knife — Nightmare (Official Video)
Black and white, a Transit van with the band logo on the dash, then a full summer of festival stages. Knife road-tested Nightmare live before putting it out, and the video is the receipt: speed metal with the dirt still on it. Third album Into Your Nightmare lands 18 December on Napalm.
No colour anywhere. “Nightmare” opens in a Transit van: the Knife logo on the dashboard, a chrome skull in the back, village roads rolling past the windscreen. A band hauling itself to the next show. Then the stages take over and never give the road back.
The rest is one long summer. White Flying Vs, the drummer hammering away under a Knife backdrop, fisheye shots across a festival field full of horns, fists on the barrier, the singer in an Angel Witch shirt with studded leather up both arms. By the final frames the band is flat on the stage floor. Sabrina Bauer shot it, and she kept the sweat in.
That footage is also the story. Knife say they tested “Nightmare” across the 2026 festival summer and call it “an energetic manifesto of pure speed metal”. Fair. The track follows the announcement single “Shadows” as the next taste of Into Your Nightmare, out 18 December via Napalm Records. Album number three for the Germans, after the self-titled 2021 debut and 2023’s Heaven Into Dust. Napalm files them as a four-piece mixing speed metal with black metal and punk, and that is exactly what the live shots look like.
They stay on the road too. The Dark Gospel Over Germany tour starts 27 December in Bitterfeld, two days after Christmas. No rest. That tracks.