His Name Is Alive Announce New Album Tecuciztecatl, Share “African Violet Casts a Spell”

On October 28, His Name Is Alive will self-release their new album Tecuciztecatl (which will be distributed via Light in the Attic). It’s described in a press release as a “psychedelic rock opera”. Check out album cut “African Violet Casts a Spell” above.

Here’s the synopsis of Tecuciztecatl:

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.

While making the album, HNIA main man Warren Defever and guitarist Dusty Jones made a supercut of “every Thin Lizzy guitar solo from 1973 to 1983,” as “a study guide before attempting the harmony guitar solos” on the album. And here it is:

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