Hideous Divinity’s new LV-426 EP comes out this Friday and we asked vocalist Enrico Lorenzo for a guest about it. Read it below!
During the last year or so, not unlike most of the world's population, we had to focus on things that would keep us mentally sane. For us, it's both making new music and playing it in front of people. The second option was... unavailable therefore we concentrated on the first one. That's how, in the midst of the second wave of the pandemic "LV-429" came to life.
First, the idea to rearrange James Horner's unachievable "Aliens" movie score into our music: the result was so good that for the first time I seriously thought about an Alien-based concept for our next record. We chose to tell the story of Rebeca “Newt” Jorden, the 6-year old girl rescued on the alien infested planetoid LV-426 by Ellen Ripley.
It's no coincidence that the music of our new EP has the pace and the wild mood swings of a movie soundtrack. "Acheron Stream of Woe" is the main theme, "Chestburst" is the crazy chasing scene theme, "Delirium Trigger" is the plot twist and tongue-in-cheek ending.
As the whole thing was born as an experiment, the production made by Stefano "Saul" Morabito at "our" 16th Cellar Studios is no exception. Things have never been so organic and dynamic. You may even hear -heresy!- a synth line here and there.