Chicago doom-metal band Lord is getting into the movie business, sort of. “Rise Into the Stars,” an epic cut from the group’s 2011 self-titled debut, will appear on the soundtrack to Chicago Rot, a locally produced indie horror flick that’s in the works. Plus Lord has also licensed six songs to 2010 U.S. Pole Dance Federation champion Alethea Austin for use in two of her instructional DVDs, Alethea Austin’s Floorwork and Alethea Austin’s Sexy Fundamentals. When Austin reached out to Lord guitarist Josh Treviño, he was skeptical, so he looked her up online. “I was excited to see she was classy, artistic, independent, and fucking strong as hell,” Treviño says. “We talked on the phone, and she convinced me that she really was a metalhead, so naturally I said yes.” Treviño says the first DVD should be out by Tue 5/1, the day before Lord opens for the Melvins and Unsane at Otto’s in DeKalb.
