Photo credit: Andrea Falaschi
The concept album was produced by mastermind and frontman Steve Sylvester along with the English Grammy winner producer Tom Dalgety (Rammstein, Ghost, The Cult, a.o.)
‘Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde’ is a powerful dark metal song in pure DEATH SS style, which ironically quotes the 1971 Hammer Production film of the same name. As in the film and the song’s amusing promotional video clip, the story is set in late 19th century London, where Dr. Jekyll, the famous character from gothic fiction created by the writer Robert Louis Stevenson, gives life to his evil alter-ego Hyde, who however in this case is a woman.
DEATH SS’ frontman and mastermind Steve Sylvester comments: “For the making of this video clip I wanted to recreate the Victorian setting of late 19th century London, the period in which the events narrated in Stevenson’s book take place. The editing of the various sequences described in the lyrics was done by myself alongside with the clip’s director Andrea Falaschi, as if it were a film trailer, obviously inspired by Roy Ward Baker’s eponymous movie.”
“With ‘Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde’ I had the chance to make a very cinematic video. I had been waiting a long time for the right opportunity to field some old scenic tricks from Hitchcock’s cinema. There is no CGI in the video, they are all practical effects as they used to be done in the old days‘, adds director Andrea Falaschi.
The 12’ Limited Deluxe edition features a special shaped cover with transparent red smoke-effect vinyl and contains the first of the four-part booklet with the full story behind the concept “The Entity” along with two other tracks on Side B, ‘Ave Adonai’ and ’Possession‘, included on the new album as well.
Check out the official video below…
Oran O’Beirne
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