| Set Fire To The Hive | |
| Cover: | Set Fire to the Hive.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Karnivool |
| Album: | Sound Awake |
| Released: | 28 April 2009 |
| Length: | 4:29 |
| Label: | Cymatic/Sony Music |
| Producer: | Forrester Savell |
| Prev Title: | Themata |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | All I Know |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
"Set Fire To The Hive" is a song by the Australian rock band Karnivool, released in April 2009 as the lead single from their second studio album, Sound Awake.
The song was debuted live at the Aeons Tour in 2008, was confirmed to be the first single on the band's MySpace [1] and was released on 28 April 2009.[2] The earlier-confirmed music video [3] was released on 8 May 2009 and has received significant airplay on both Channel V and radio station Triple J.[4]
The song peaked at #11 on the AIR Top 20 singles charts.[5]
The song, musically, is substantially different from Karnivool's previous work. The song has been described as the 'black sheep' of the album,[6] with guitarist, Drew Goddard acknowledging as much.
In an interview bassist Jon Stockman describes the song as being
The music video for the song was released on YouTube on 8 May 2009 eleven days after the song's release on the band's MySpace profile. It is Karnivool's fourth official video, after (2005), (2005), and (2003).
The music video features the band playing in what appears to be a cube. To match with the first line, "I don't know what's wrong, but I'm on fire", Ian Kenny's arm is on fire. With the first lyrics of the verse, "We're slaves, in this medicated cage", A bird cage appears on Ian Kenny's head.