'All The Colours Of The Dark' forms Act I of the first ULTRACHURCH movie, The Tiger Had 13 Blood-Red Stripes. This perplexing portmanteau is both a love letter to exploitation cinema of the 1950s-1980s (specifically the Italian thriller subgenre known as the giallo), and an attempt by its creators, Cardinal John Dirge and Reverend Cruixent de Fotre, to placate the old order of their sect, who are shall we say less than pleased about recent changes to the internal structure of the organisation...
'All The Colours Of The Dark' came to Reverend Cruixent de Fotre in a flash of sheer inspiration on his final night at the Garage Temple, Jakarta, earlier this year. On completing work on 'You Will Die At Midnight', the first track recorded for this project, de Fotre and Dirge both felt that the song worked exceedingly well as a tribute to the sleazy, gore-filled giallo throwbacks of the 1980s, but was missing a counterpart representing the original 1970s classics that had so inspired the purple monks of Ultrachurch.
Aware that he would be leaving his Jakartan brethren the following morning to spread the message of Ultrachurch in other domains, Cruixent asked the tiger Goddess Banba for last-minute inspiration. An hour later he had written and recorded his parts for the song and had his bags fully packed. Truly a miracle. Et lac de tigris sustensa!
'All The Colours Of The Dark' video:
youtu.be/Rsgq0FkipH8
'The Tiger Had Blood-Red Stripes' available here:
youtu.be/P2fLLoU7WZg