The Other have been paying tribute to horror cinema’s golden age for over two decades now, and their latest single ‘Vincent Price – Master of Menace’ might be their most fitting homage yet.
The track appears on the original soundtrack for The Vincent Price Legacy, a two hour documentary co-produced by Vincent Price’s daughter Victoria that features interviews with horror devotees including Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, John Landis, and Joe Dante. If you’re going to soundtrack a film about the master of macabre himself, you want a band that genuinely gets it.
Singer Rod Usher explains the band’s long history with Price’s work: “We’ve written a few songs about the movies of Vincent Price. ‘The Last Man On Earth’ appeared on our second album, as did ‘The Ghost Of Hollywood’. Another Price themed song, ‘The Murder in the House of Wax’, is a track on our third album.”
What’s refreshing is Usher’s honesty about the music video situation. Rather than cobbling together something that couldn’t match Price’s legacy, they simply didn’t make one. “Anything we would have filmed would have to live up to Vincent Price’s films. Which is impossible. So we decided not to do it.”
The single arrives on the heels of The Other’s new album Alienated entering the German Album Charts at number six. Produced by Tim Schulte and featuring the revitalised lineup of Rod Usher, Andy Only, J. Ends, Van Tom, and Jag Boone, it’s being described as a “back to the roots” record packed with goth punk anthems and the band’s trademark horror storytelling.
‘Vincent Price – Master of Menace’ drops December 12th on streaming platforms. The “Heavy Version” is exclusive to the 7″ vinyl bundle available through the band’s webshop.
The documentary will screen at film festivals worldwide before Wicked Vision handles the home release.
