AMC has set the premiere for Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat for Sunday, June 7.
In addition to the premiere date, the network has released the second musical single from “the world’s first immortal rockstar,” Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), titled “All Fall Down.” The track’s original music and lyrics are by series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Reid.
The song can be heard as part of the show’s opening sequence below.
In the upcoming rock and roll-centric season, the Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rise, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
The series also stars Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle and is executive produced by Mark Johnson, creator, writer and showrunner Rolin Jones, Hannah Moscovitch, along with Christopher Rice and the late Anne Rice.
In a statement, the Vampire Lestat said of the new single, ” ‘All Fall Down’ is mercifully only 68 seconds long. That’s 54 seconds more Daniel Hart than anyone should suffer. I like the harmonies on the chorus. I did those.”
Hart added about the song, “[It] marks a time in this vampire band’s life when they were still figuring out exactly what their sound was, and before Lestat himself started to change personas and explore other musical styles. At the same time, with ‘All Fall Down’, we tried to capture the overall feeling of this new Lestat we get to know better and better throughout the season: more wild, more raw, more self-deprecatingly funny than ever before.”
The Vampire Lestat is technically the third season of Interview with the Vampire, which was renamed in honor of the book title on which the season is based.