Lovecraftian Music

[Hexenkult]

Whether it's "The Music of Eric Zann" or "...the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes" accompanying the daemon sultan Azathoth, otherworldly music has played at least some small part in Lovecraft's fiction. Many music artists have been inspired by or influenced by Lovecraft's work over the years. This discussion is for posting information, video links, etc. concerning Lovecraft-inspired musicians.

I'll start it off with the late '60s psychedelic rock band HP Lovecraft.

HP Lovecraft - "The White Ship" (from their first LP 'HP Lovecraft I' in 1967)

HP Lovecraft - "At the Mountains of Madness" (from their second LP 'HP Lovecraft II' in 1968)

[Martin Bowes]

Never Heard of these Guys would be real intested hearing a bit more hearing more. Unfortunatly Thats gonna have to wait a while.
But will definatly want want to Know more.

[Hexenkult]

Rudimentary Peni is a punk band from the UK, which began life in 1981. Their 1987 album "Cacophony" was a concept album based on the writings of Lovecraft.

Tracklisting: Nightgaunts, The Horrors In The Museum, The Only Child, Architectonic And Dominant, The Evil Clergyman, Brown Jenkin, Crazed Couplet, Sarcophagus, Lovecraft Baby, Dream City, C12 H22 O11, Zenophobia, Sunset For The Lords Of Venus, Beyond The Tanarian Hills, Imps Of The Perverse, The Dead Loved, Periwig Power, Kappa Alpha Tau, American Anglophile in The World Turned Upside Down, Momento mori, Better Not Born, Arkham Hearse, The Old Man Is Not So Terribly Misanthropic, Gentlemen Prefer Blood, Sonia, The Day The Universe Ceased (March 15th 1937), The Crime Of The Century, Musick In Diabola, Shard, Black On Gold

Rudimentary Peni - "Imps of the Perverse"

Rudimentary Peni - "Beyond the Tanarian Hills"

[Django]

I'm sure you all love Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.

[Hexenkult]

Good one Django. I love the Thickets. I think it's worth posting the album covers here. Anyone who hasn't heard of the Thickets, should definitely check them out. A great punk band with a complete Lovecraft obsession.

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Cthulhu Strikes Back (1995)
Tracklisting: Goin' Down To Dunwich, Ogdru Jahad, Shoggoths Away, Unstoppable, Yig Snake Daddy, Hookworm, Wrath, Rock Lords, Protein, HVW, Burrow Your Way To My Heart, Sloth, Worship Me Like A God, Cthulhu Dreams, Gluttony

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Great Old Ones (1996)
Tracklisting: Tarred And Feathered, My Tank, Battered, One-Gilled Girl, Jimmy The Squid, Chunk, Diggin' Up The World, Colour Me Green, Space Ghosts, A Thousand Fists, Big Robot Dinosaur, Rocket Science, Flee!, Mustard Gas, Everyone Calls Me Ted, Diggin' Up The World, Yog-Sothoth, Hookworm, Burrow Your Way To My Heart, Please God No, Walking On The Moon, Six-Gun Gorgon Dynamo
"Walking On The Moon"

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Spaceship Zero (2000)
Tracklisting: Theme To Spaceship Zero, 20 Minutes Of Oxygen, The Innsmouth Look, Power Up, BTL Drive, Frogstar, The Math Song, Dies Ist Unverschämtheit, Oblivion, The Chosen One, Slave Ship, Requiem For A Clone Hunter, Kablam!, Sounds Of Tindalos, End Credits
Theme To Spaceship Zero

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Let Sleeping Gods Lie (2002)
A compilation of previously released (Mythos-related) tracks.
Tracklisting: A Thousand Fists, Colour Me Green, Goin' Down To Dunwich, Shoggoths Away, Yig Snake Daddy, Please God No, Six-Gun Gorgon Dynamo, The Innsmouth Look, Sounds Of Tindalos, The Chosen One, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu Dreams

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - The Shadow Out of Tim (2007)
Tracklisting: Prologue: Theme To An Earthquake, Chapter I: A Marine Biologist, Chapter II: Blackout, Chapter III: No Way, Chapter IV: Strange, Chapter V: Return To Melanesia, Chapter VI: Cultists On Board, Chapter VII: A "Need To Know" Basis, Chapter VIII: Operation: Get The Hell Out Of Here, Chapter IX: Ride The Flying Polyp, Epilogue: Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know, Footnote: Sleestak And Yeti, Footnote: Downtown (In The Cenozoic), Appendix: Nyarlathotep

[Hexenkult]

Nox Arcana are a duo of composers (Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski), who compose thematic albums of haunting and mostly instrumental music. Their themes usually consist of gothic literature, classic horror and other dark interests. Their Lovecraft-themed album is entitled "Necronomicon" and was released in 2004.

Nox Arcana - Necronomicon

Tracklisting: Mythos, The Nameless City, Alhazred's Vision, Necronomicon, Ancient Shadows, Azathoth, The Black Throne, Nyarlathotep, Temple Of The Black Pharaoh, Eldritch Rites, The Haunter Of The Dark, The Awakening, Yog-Sothoth, Guardian Of The Gate, Lords Of Darkness, Dagon, The Stars Align, Cthulhu, Ritual Of Summoning, Cthulhu Rising, The Great Old Ones

"Temple of the Black Pharoah"

"Haunter of the Dark"

"The Awakening"

[William Weird]

I actually just picked this CD up at, of all places, a Halloween novelty shop. I thought it was great though.

[Planet Lovecraft]

NIGHTSHADE has two songs on their new album Stand and Be True - Strange Aeons pt 1 (which is an instrumental) and Strange Aeons pt 2 which has a ton of Lovecraft references in it, including The Doom That Came to Sarnath!

[Madguten]

Great topic.

These guys here are also Lovecraftian, its melodic death metal, wiki calls it symphonic blackmetal though, whatever, lol.

Bal Sagoth - Shackled to the Trilithon of Kutulu


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal-Sagoth

IA! IA!

[Madguten]

That sixties band HPL is amazing, i love it.

[Hexenkult]

Enochian Crescent is a black metal band from Finland. There album Telocvovim has a song called "A Dream of Basaltic Submarine Towers of Titanic Proportions and Nightmare Angles". A great atmospheric song, by the way.

[Hexenkult]

French dark ambient/post industrial musician Flint Glass released his Lovecraft concept album "Nyarlathotep" in 2006. Tracklisting: R'lyeh La Morte, Nyarlathotep, Brain Speaking Machine, Azathoth, De Vermis Mysteriis, Ubbo-Sathla, Nephren-Ka, Hastur, Alhazred, Yuggoth, Angular Space, Shudde M'ell, Cthulhu Dawn, Yog-Sothoth, Slither Chaos.

Flint Glass - Nyarlathotep (Promo video)

Flint Glass - R'lyeh La Morte (remix by This Morn Omina & Empusae)

[paul sammael uriaz]

great work, finding the gems here, how about
ritual music based on non western music theory
or industrial noise mixed with the syncopation
of animals