ENHYPEN Get Dark In Epic ‘THE SIN : VANISH’ Album Trailer Teasing Vampire Narrative

ENHYPEN are gearing up to take fans in a dark direction in 2026. The seven-man K-pop boy band dropped the album teaser for their upcoming seventh mini album on Friday morning (Dec. 19) giving their ENGENE fan base some spooky visuals to dissect over the holidays in advance of the Jan. 16 release of THE SIN : VANISH.

The 50-second trailer is filled with ominous images of members JUNGWON, HEESEUNG, JAY, JAKE, SUNGHOON, SUNOO and NI-KI running from an unseen terror, as well as shots of the septet enjoying fun meals and laughs. But hanging over all of that is the image of a sky full of bats, a message of doom amplified by the caption on the YouTube video: “Vampire is coming.”

According to a release, the project marks the group’s “most direct exploration yet of the vampire mythology that has defined their ongoing narrative universe.” The follow-up to June’s sixth mini album, DESIRE : UNLEASH, is described as centering on a forbidden escape story of lovers who “break an absolute taboo in a world where humans and vampires coexist. Designed as a ‘concept album,’ it adopts the format of a fictional investigative broadcast program, which revisits an unresolved case within vampire society from a third-party perspective. To heighten immersion, the album incorporates narration and skits alongside the music, creating the sensation of tuning into an actual investigative program — an unconventional and bold approach to album storytelling.”

The moodily shot clip opens with the singers dressed all in black laying on their backs in what looks like sparkly sand as a throbbing electronic beat bubbles up and we see them sprinting through alleyways, a dark cave and the city streets at night as they glance back at a shadowy menace. A brief moment of joy as they share some refreshments and hang out in their casual gear at a diner meal gives way to more apparent peril, including fleeting glimpses of the singer’s faces bearing scars and cuts.

And then come the bats. So many bats.

The flurry of night fliers gives way to a shadowy image of one of the men getting staked through the chest with long knife and a bulletin board with “missing” flyers of the group offering a reward for their return. The final shot finds the group slow walking towards a strobing void as the screen fades to back and reads: “The Story Begins,” along with a seeming tease of what the release said was the “next chapter of the story,” due out on Monday (Dec. 22).

Watch ENHYPEN’s THE SIN : VANISH album teaser video below.