Today, John Carpenter and longtime band mates Cody Carpenter (synths) and Daniel Davies (guitar) have shared second track from Cathedral paired with an accompanying visualizer, which is both from the forthcoming project that marks Carpenter‘s highly anticipated return to the realm of audio/visual narrative storytelling. Cathedral spans a new album set for release on August 7, through Sacred Bones Records alongside his first ever graphic novel,which is set for a release on August 4, through Storm King Comics.
In a story rich with River Styx iconography, “The Ferryman” scores a scene in which we encounter the subterranean character of the same name. “I like that one because it really seems to feature all three of us in a special way,” Davies says. “It has interesting harmonies that Cody put together and John’s signature pad-style string parts. It’s more of an electronic metal track in a way, but we just wanted to make it as heavy and driving as possible.”
Inspired by a vividly cinematic dream he had in 2024, the Cathedral storyline centers on an abandoned church in downtown Los Angeles that becomes the site of a waking nightmare. After the killing of a police officer draws attention to the long-ignored cathedral, Lieutenant Christine Marks and detectives Paul Hernandez and Steve Mayfield are pulled into an investigation that leads them deep into its catacombs and toward a centuries-old evil imprisoned within.
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