VIDEO PREMIERE: Mario Infates – Theme From Twin Peaks
Doing a cover is always a risky idea. As we’ve discussed on the Toilet Ov Hell podcast, there are usually three ways you can go about it: a note-for-note reproduction, throwing a little bit of your own style, but staying relatively true to the original, or doing something completely different that makes it almost unrecognizable. All three have their positives and pitfalls. That goes double for covering a theme song from a beloved show.
Mario Infantes, vocalist for Cult of Lilith, takes on the difficult task of covering the Theme From Twin Peaks. David Lynch’s incredible and incredibly bizarre hit show still retains legions of fans to this day. It’s wild twists and turns of drama, comedy, romance, mystery, and science fiction has captured our imagination for decades. One of the most enduring parts of this show is the classic theme song. Listening to it immediately evokes a cascade of emotion. Not an easy task to try to cover.
To take that theme and turn it into a black metal song takes a lot of creative courage. Mario takes the song as does something completely different. Against all odds, it works amazingly well. I can just imagine this sound being performed live with no introduction and just watching the audience’s face change when they finally realize what is being played. There is a beautiful anguish to this cover the pays homage to the show and to Lynch in a way that I don’t think has ever been properly expressed before. It’s awesome. Even the art is great.
“The visual theme and concept is as described in our chats, the Lynchian juxtaposition is between the turning of Laura into her “Dweller At The Threshold” version, where her iconic blood-curdling goose bump inducing scream in the Black Lodge is in direct contrast with the serene expression of the Venus statue that provides symbolism of beauty about to become terror.”
The owls are not what they seem:
Fire walk with me and Mario Infantes.
The single is streaming now via Lost Future Records.
