"Set Fire To The Hive" is a song by the Australian

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, released in April 2009 as the lead single from their second studio album, '' Sound Awake''.

Background

The song was debuted live at the Aeons Tour in 2008, was confirmed to be the first single on the band's MySpace and was released on 28 April 2009. The earlier-confirmed music video was released on 8 May 2009 and has received significant airplay on both

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. The song peaked at #11 on the AIR Top 20 singles charts. The song, musically, is substantially different from Karnivool's previous work. The song has been described as the 'black sheep' of the album, with guitarist, Drew Goddard acknowledging as much. In an interview bassist Jon Stockman describes the song as being

Music video

The music video for the song was released on

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on 8 May 2009 eleven days after the song's release on the band's

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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.

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Music video

Track listings

Digital single

EP

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