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Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.

Word.

Even got their promo CD that came with the original issues of the Call of Cthulhu d20 Rulebook.

Apparently there are some bands whose music is inspired by themes of H.P. Lovecraft's work (And not "A Shoggoth on the Roof" but serious music.)

I want some recommendations of this variety.

Pretty pretty please ice cream with an old one on top?

How fully do you wanted them to be themed upon his works? Just general demonilitric music?

For that I suggest taking up Impaled Nazarene, who are no longer a band, but had some great stuff. Dimmu Borgir also is a great band who recently just made it to the USA mainstream but who have been around for ages.

But it is better than most other bands who claim to have a "bent" theme.

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.

Word.

Even got their promo CD that came with the original issues of the Call of Cthulhu d20 Rulebook.

Thanks. I'll have to check them out.

Shoggoth on the Roof!!!

Also, I know Metallica has a few tributes to Lovecraft.

Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony LP

Twitch lyrics - *deep breath* - "Howard Phillips Lovecraft, heaven knows, had a talent for writing which was of no means proportion: only what he did with this talent was a shame, and a caution and an eldritch horror. If he'd only gotten the hell out of his aunties' attic and obtained a job with the federal writer's project of the WPA, he could have turned out guidebooks that would have been classics and joys to read forever. Only he stayed up there muffled up to the tip of his long gaunt New England chin against the cold which lay more in his heart than in his thermometer, living on 19 cents worth of beans a day, rewriting (for pennies) the crappy manuscripts of writers whose complete illiteracy would have been a boon to all mankind -ah, but life is a boon- and producing ghastly, grisly, ghoulish, and horrifying works of his own as well -of maneating things which foraged in graveyards, of human/beastie crosses which grew beastlier and beastlier as they grew older, of gibbering Shoggoths and Elder beings which smelt real bad and were always trying to break through thresholds and take over; rugous, squamous, amorphous nasties abbetted by thin, gaunt New England eccentrics who dwelt in attics and who were eventually never seen or heard from again. Serve them damn well right, I say. In short, Howard was a twitch, boys and girls, and that's all there is to it."

Shoggoth on the Roof!!!

Have you heard it?

Have you heard it?

Yes!!!

Bal-Saggoth, they're very melodic, avant-garde black metal.

Shoggoth on the Roof!!!

Also, I know Metallica has a few tributes to Lovecraft.

Two of them.

"Call of Ktulu"- an instrumental from thier second album "Ride the Lightning".

and

"The Thing That Should Not Be"- from thier album "Master of Puppets".

Also, offhand I can think of "A Very Scary Solstice" from the "H.P Lovecraft Historical Society.

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.

Word.

Even got their promo CD that came with the original issues of the Call of Cthulhu d20 Rulebook.

Undisputably.

"I have
a dream
The Crawling Chaos said
I need
for you to
Fill every one with lead"
- Protein

Which is to say nothing of The Math Song...

Blue Oyster Cult (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4025417141077257845&q=black+blade&hl=en) (the song doesn't start til a minute or so into the vid) > p

Unless the music leaves all who listen to it insane or dead, I'm not impressed. :p

So that means "MmmBop" is a tribute to Cthulhu?

Unless the music leaves all who listen to it insane or dead, I'm not impressed. :p

Unless the music leaves all who listen to it insane or dead, I'm not impressed. :p

So you want this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrd2xf5DIlU&mode=related&search=)?

There's a doom band called Thergothon that might satisfy you.

So that means "MmmBop" is a tribute to Cthulhu?

You said it, I didn't. :P

So you want this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrd2xf5DIlU&mode=related&search=)?

Fortunately, I am already insane. You can't infect the infected. :)

So that means "MmmBop" is a tribute to Cthulhu?

Even the Great Old Ones and Nyarlathotep deny responsibility for Hansen.

Even the Great Old Ones and Nyarlathotep deny responsibility for Hansen.

"Stranger eons, even death may die......but crap lives forever."

Apparently there are some bands whose music is inspired by themes of H.P. Lovecraft's work (And not "A Shoggoth on the Roof" but serious music.)

I want some recommendations of this variety.

Pretty pretty please ice cream with an old one on top?I used to have an album by a band whose actual name was 'H.P. Lovecraft II', experimantal psychedelic stuff from the early '70s. I only really remember one track, 'Nothing's Boy'. It had very few lyrics as I recall, most of them just the repeated...

"Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero...."

I know it's not really what you're looking for, but hey.... :p

True Lovecraftian isn't heard- it's vaguely described.

"Stranger eons, even death may die......but crap lives forever."

:D :D :D :D :D

"There is not which that may eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die. Unless it's crap like Hansen, which lives on forever and ever."

Bal-Sagoth is great. Pretty damn epic.

Metallica has their couple Lovecraft inspired tunes.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Cradle of Filth yet.

Apparently there are some bands whose music is inspired by themes of H.P. Lovecraft's work (And not "A Shoggoth on the Roof" but serious music.)

I want some recommendations of this variety.

Pretty pretty please ice cream with an old one on top?

Glad to see NSG is still filled with Cthulhu Cultists. :D

:D :D :D :D :D

"There is not which that may eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die. Unless it's crap like Hansen, which lives on forever and ever."

Werd.

Twitch lyricsBWO you rule OK. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rXgKZEvVWk)

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Cradle of Filth yet.Probably because they suck.

There's a couple of bands on an Italian label called Black Widow Records that would count as Lovecraft-inspired. There's Dunwich, which is ethereal, Enya-esque music, and Runaway Totem, which is hard to describe, but is vaguely prog rock/ambient.

BWO you rule OK. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rXgKZEvVWk)

Gawd. Oxymoron. I saw them back in about '98. Left me cold.

Yes!!!

I haven't. Didn't they do a Christmas carol CD too?

EDIT: Reading the first page, it was "A Very Scary Solstice" I think.

Probably because they suck.

There's a couple of bands on an Italian label called Black Widow Records that would count as Lovecraft-inspired. There's Dunwich, which is ethereal, Enya-esque music, and Runaway Totem, which is hard to describe, but is vaguely prog rock/ambient.

Well, I like their older stuff. But recently they haven't been putting out music that I much care for.

I try not to say "this band sucks," since music is entirely objective, and the only way that statement can be objectively true is if the musicians concerned don't know how to play their instruments, which is not the case for most bands, even the bands I don't like (which are the vast majority of bands).

Well, I like their older stuff. But recently they haven't been putting out music that I much care for.

I try not to say "this band sucks," since music is entirely objective, and the only way that statement can be objectively true is if the musicians concerned don't know how to play their instruments, which is not the case for most bands, even the bands I don't like (which are the vast majority of bands).

The thing with Cradle of Filth is that they have no clue what genre they actually play in, and that Dani's voice can be extremely annoying when he uses it wrong. They claim to be black metal, but they actually are much closer to Gothic Metal. Dani's problems don't need explaining.

Dani's voice can be extremely annoying when he uses it wrong.Personally, I think his voice is extremely annoying, full stop. The music isn't too bad, but I want to stab pencils in my ears when he starts... ah... "singing"...

Personally, I think his voice is extremely annoying, full stop. The music isn't too bad, but I want to stab pencils in my ears when he starts... ah... "singing"...

Ah, see, I never call the growling/screeching type vocals "singing." I refer to it simply as vocals. And Dani's can get obnoxious to me even, especially on the newer releases where they're way louder than everything.

And as far as their genre... they don't claim to be black metal now, and actually claim that they never did (even though their very early releases are very much black metal).

I really do love some of the stuff they made ten years ago, but the way they've developed, they aren't likely to put out anymore albums that interest me.

Ah, see, I never call the growling/screeching type vocals "singing." I refer to it simply as vocals.Thing is, I can't stand any of it. Sure, Dave Mustaine can't sing to save his life, but he's not screeching like a monkey.

And it's really too bad, because Cradle's music is pretty solid. Heh, just take away his microphone.

I really do love some of the stuff they made ten years ago, but the way they've developed, they aren't likely to put out anymore albums that interest me.Hm. I'm trying to remember the one album I had... ah, yes... Cruelty and the Beast. I tried really hard to like it, but he gave me a freaking headache. And the liner notes just made me roll my eyes.

Thing is, I can't stand any of it. Sure, Dave Mustaine can't sing to save his life, but he's not screeching like a monkey.

And it's really too bad, because Cradle's music is pretty solid. Heh, just take away his microphone.

Hm. I'm trying to remember the one album I had... ah, yes... Cruelty and the Beast. I tried really hard to like it, but he gave me a freaking headache. And the liner notes just made me roll my eyes.

Well, they always took themselves a lot less seriously than a lot of black metal bands do, which is kind of refreshing to me. Far from the best in the genre though.

At first I didn't like black metal vocals, but they grew on me. Though, even after I liked a lot of them, Dani's vocals were still a bit much at times. To this day my favorite black metal band is Emperor, who at times have mixed their vocals very low.