Livonia-based dream pop act His Name Is Alive will self-release a full-length album entitled Tecuciztecatl on October 28. The LP, which will be distributed by Light in the Attic, is being billed as a “psychedelic rock opera” and comes bearing a synopsis:
The rock opera is imagined vaguely in the shape of a 1969 Hammer horror film: bloody, British, gothic, and brimming with beguiling and attractive vampires. The songs are written from the perspective of five characters: the mother, the doctor, the twins, and the librarian whose side hustle is demon hunting. The story begins with a young woman getting an ultrasound who discovers she’s pregnant with twins. Realizing something is going terribly wrong, “I think I’m missing something on the inside,” she visits a local library for research. The librarian instructs the woman on how to kill the demon baby without harming the other twin, and together they carry out the various rituals necessary. Eventually one baby is born.
During the recording process, His Name Is Alive’s only constant member Warren Defever and guitarist Dusty Jones assembled a supercut of “every Thin Lizzy guitar solo from 1973 to 1983,” as “a study guide before attempting the harmony guitar solos” used throughout Tecuciztecatl. You can listen to that here.
They have also shared an advance track from the album, “African Violet Casts a Spell,” which you can listen to below.