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Incubus vocalist Brandon Boyd is moving into feature-film composition. The singer has partnered with musician and composer Gregory Rogove to score the upcoming independent World War II science-fiction film “Unknown Company”.
The project stars Ross Marquand, known for “The Walking Dead” and “Invincible”, and is directed by Vincent Talenti. Its story follows American soldiers sent behind enemy lines near the end of World War II to retrieve wreckage from an unidentified object, as per The Hollywood Reporter.
What begins as a military recovery mission develops into an encounter that challenges the soldiers’ understanding of reality and their loyalty to one another.
Boyd said he enjoyed working with his longtime friend Rogove and immediately connected with the film after seeing an early cut. A fan of horror and science fiction, he felt the picture’s eerie, dark atmosphere offered the right opportunity to try writing music for a feature film.
The score marks Boyd’s feature-film scoring debut, although he and Rogove have collaborated musically before. No confirmed release date for “Unknown Company” was provided in the initial announcement.
The new assignment adds a different creative outlet to Boyd’s work as the singer of Incubus.
I had such a great time doing this film score with my ol’ pal Greg Rogove. He and I had made music together in the past and after seeing a rough cut of ‘Unknown Company‘ I knew that this would be the perfect movie — and Greg the perfect partner — to take that leap into writing music for film. I’m a huge horror and sci-fi fan and I immediately felt intuitions about the sounds and moods that needed to accompany this picture. The film is creepy, beautiful and dark and we composed music that meets the film there.
In 1991, while still in high school, Brandon Boyd, guitarist Mike Einziger, bassist Alex Katunich, and drummer José Pasillas created Incubus. They had been a band for a while before they gave themselves a name; they only decided on “Incubus” after they were asked to come up with a band name for a gig that was coming up. The band’s early performances were regularly held in Sunset Strip nightclubs in Los Angeles, including the Roxy, the Troubadour, and the Whisky a Go Go. Early on, the members of Incubus became close through Phish and Primus, and they modeled their career after their grassroots strategy.
Since they could only focus on their music during the hours when they weren’t in school, Incubus made a large number of their early recordings with Jim Wirt and Chillum Records at the 4th Street Recording studio in Santa Monica. “Let Me Tell Ya ‘Bout Root Beer”, their debut two-song EP, was recorded in 1994. The debut album “Fungus Amongus”, which was also recorded with Wirt and released on Incubus’s own label Stopuglynailfungus Music, came after this. Gavin Koppel, better known by his stage name DJ Lyfe, was later brought into the band by Incubus. Incubus signed a seven-record contract with Sony’s Immortal Records, which would subsequently change its name to Epic Records, the following year. Korn was signed to the label by Epic/Immortal A&R Paul Pontius, who had noticed the group.
