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@Cholobilly21 I've read plenty of Lovecraft and it never occurred to me. Funny how this alleged irrational prejudice is all people can talk about these days. Why would you even compare a contemporary Norwegian musician (and murderer) to an American writer who died 90 years ago? Yeah, just keep self-censoring and telling a joke that must be at least 6 years old at this point. Free speech is dead and you're laughing.
@@Peyton-omniac and of course, "the call of ktulu" off ride the lightning. If i remember correctly there's some lovecraft themed lyrics on their newer records too
Bloodborne was the first time I was made aware of the man himself. That game honestly Lovecrafted harder than Lovecraft ever did. Also, don't sleep on Lovecraft's contemporaries and own influences. If you want more writers like him, check out Lord Dunsany (The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories), Arthur Machen (The Great God Pan), and Clark Ashton Smith (The City of the Singing Flame). Lovecraft was in awe of these guys, and they're some of my personal favourites, too.
Great recommendations, will check them out. Also you’re spot on about Bloodborne, it’s the most Lovecraftian thing ever, not made by Lovecraft himself.
Another “Lovecraftian” band that gives us perfect Lovecraft vibes is a band that I’m surprised the dude on the video didn’t mention; that band is Esoctrilihum. Anyone who doesn’t know the band should go listen to the album “The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods” by said band. The band’s sound is so unique that I’d dare to say that it’s the closest one can get to a truly “Lovecratian” version of Black Metal.
@@aggelosmanolis5689 I feel like Technical death metal mixed with classical is probably the most fitting type of music/sound for Lovecraft. It's alien, complex, cerebral but also epic and transcendent
Lovecraftian Mythos just fits Metal so well because of how epic, tetric and dark his stories are, everything is Metal asf. PD: I've never seen a Dragged Into Sunlight shirt before, sick merch.
Revocation - The Outer Ones has to be one of my favorite lovecraftian metal projects, definitely recommend to anyone looking for extreme metal of that ilk
Always had a soft spot for bands that capture the feeling of Lovecraftian/Cosmic Horror, even if it's not explicitly part of the lyrics. (Akhlys comes to mind) Basically if a band's sound makes me feel like I'm inside The Warp from 40k, I'm happy.
If you're not already in possession of H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq (with a nifty introduction by Stephen King), do yourself a solid and grab a copy. It's the best H.P.L. biography I've ever come across (and I've read quite a few). Helps that Houellebecq is a tour de force novelist in his own right and that he doesn't pull any punches in analysing Lovecraft as a man deeply hostile to modernity, particularly it's multicultural elements. As for his influence on metal, I say without reservation that Metallica alone turned countless meataxe headbangers into certified bookworms and did for Lovecraft what they did for the Misfits in a renewed interest in terms of exposure and a renewed interest in both simply by wearing their fandom on their sleeves. Nice idea for a video. A lesser known author who had a great impact on Lovecraft (and many other authors including King and Thomas Ligotti & Nic Pizzolatto's screenplay for True Detective seo.1), was Robert W. Chambers, whose The Yellow King set up a world and mythos of it's own which has like H.P.L. been taken up by his acolytes, continuing his lore in their own work. Definitely highly recommend for fans of strange dark literature in the tradition of Poe and Lovecraft etc., where a lot of the frightening components occur off page in the reader's own psychological chamber of horrors. Great stuff xMx
Excellent video. I don’t believe, however, that the 70s is a correct reference to the time period when Lovecraft’s stories were first widely republished. When I was in high school in the late 60s my mother told us that they didn’t have the money to buy any real Christmas presents, and I told her that if they just gave me a paper back copy of H.P. Lovecraft stories that I would be more than happy. Sure enough, that’s what I got for Christmas that year and I honestly can’t remember ever getting a better Christmas present before or since.
I think you are right about that. I have worked for 13 years at an old paper company, and I remember once coming across a box of yellowed, well-thumbed books that collected by stories ol' Howie here, as well as work from Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard. All their publishing dates were situated in the late 60's. Took it home, read it, and them passed 'em on to a friend of mine who was always on about Lovecraft but didn't seem to have read a whole lot of him. As a side note: I liked Clark Ashton Smith best of the collected stories, I really should check for a collection of his work.
Alkaloid are influenced by Morbid Angel, and blend Lovecraftian mythos with sci fi Cthulhu, Azagthoth, Shades of Shub-Niggurath, The Fungi from Yuggoth, and lesser references in other songs
I think Cavernous Death Metal & Dissonant Death Metal can be considered the "Lovecraftian Death Metal" Many people say it is. Since this imo whenever i do vibe with this genre it feels so cavernously eldritch or like really falling into abyss and something eldritch is ready to devoure you Some example bands are Morgue (new band with their album Close to Complete darkness) Lvcifyre Vølus Sulfuric Hatred Disimperium Disma Bestial Raids (Mostly their master Satan's puppet album since i think they're mostly black/war metal) Temple Nightside Qrixkuor (msotly) Mitochondrion I also got a playlist for this genre if anyone is interested in listening
It's actually pretty hard for me to associate metal with "drinking and partying", especially if you're a kind of person who listens to either non metal or extreme metal and not much in between, and most lovecraftian stuff is probably on the extreme side
Blut Aus Nord's Dishamonium is more than aesthetically related to Lovecraft; Three of the seven songs' titles are direct Lovecraft references ("Chants of the Deep Ones", "Keziah Mason", "The Apotheosis of the Unnamable").
Yesssssssssssssss!!!! Love the Cosmic Horror/ Lovecraftian expanding universe and themes, one of the bands I'm in is in the large and growing pool of bands making tunes within such. IA FTHAGN! Sick theme tats by the way man.
Probably my favorite addition to lovecraftian fiction is the "true story" known as The Tale of Old Man Henderson by Waffle House Millionaire. I say it's a true story because it is a Trail of Cthulu game gone wrong in all the right ways. The opening line, "I'd like to start by saying that the GM was a bastard that had it coming." should set the scene for the bullshit our protagonist had to go through to gaslight the GM to ragequitting his own shitty campaign using a character sheet with a 300 page backstory of doom justified every possible action to destroy this game. If lovecraftian horror exists, then so can lovecraftian comedies. Highly recommend reading it. That shit is bonkers.
Another band worth including is Tortuga. Their second album, “Deities” is heavily inspired by Lovecraft, and even their recent album musically touches on the metaphysical cosmic side of things. My buddy and I even call their music “Lovecraftian Chug”.
The Japanese heavy metal band, Ningen Isu, has several songs named after Lovecraft stories. Then there’s the Canadian death metal band, Chthe’ilist. They sound a lot like Demilich though.
Do you know which category would be sick? Lovecraftian classical music. Of course, there's no such thing (I'm not aware of composers inspired by Lovecraft), but if you listen to stuff like Requiem by Ligeti, Metastaseis by Xennakis or Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima by Penderecki, you can hear that unsettling and uncontrollable feeling! It doesn't surprise me that many metal bands quote these composers as an inspiration (Deathspell Omega, Ad Nauseam, Gnaw Their Tongues, ... Plus, Spanish funeral doom band Of Darkness has homaged Penderecki's St Luke Passion in their debut). In general, I think that metal bands incorporating contemporary classical music are able to evoke a sense of sheer chaos that can feel very "cosmic". Just listen to Jute Gyte when he incorporates microtonality and Boulez' total serialism in his black metal works!
I Love the Melt Banana Lp in the background! MB was awesome live! I saw them about 20 years ago, and I got the singer's autograph! I was a fan for several years before I saw them, btw.
So psyched to see the Swallowed By The Oceans Tide album on here, hands down one of my favorite albums of all time and the one that got me into Lovecraft as well.
Can you make a video about black metal bands and their history formed in middle-eastern countries like Iran, Iraq. I find lots of docs blogs and videos about Scandinavian, USA or European bands and their music but content about Arabic Black Metal is very rare. LMK if it's already exist somewhere on your channel. PS: A video about Seeds of Iblis is uploaded 2 years ago on your channel. I'm gonna watch it right quick.
Hey, just a heads up, you might want to check out Вой - Кругами вечности, as I think it's a full fledged funeral doon release that precedes thergothon by a couple years. I was astonished when I found it :)
For the spanish-talking audience of the channel, I recommend the song "Cthulhu piscinas" (Cthulh Swiming Pools) from the comedian-satirical metal band GIGATRON. The video is hilarious.
Nice Video Wyatt being a Huuuuge Lovecraft nerd myself. I got a big cthulhu Mythos book collection and the necronomicon loggo tattoed. For me i think lovecraftian wibes is nailed the best in Ambient musik. Projekts like Old Tower, Lurk, Black Mountain Transmitter and even Mortiis. Can make my mind travel to some Cosmic dream Voids, R'lyeh ore some Forgotten tombs In Arkham
For those interested, I highly recommend Alan Moores' graphic novels Neonomicon and Providence, which further explores HP Lovecrafts Chtulhu mythos. They're incredibly well written, with superb artwork.
Nice vid ! My personal pick for the most lovecraftian-sounding metal album would be Chtheilist - Le dernier crépuscule. Heavily inspired by Demilich's Nespithe, it gives the "beyond human comprehension" feeling (with all the weird time signatures and all) but also at times not so far from... Atmospheric Black Metal maybe ? with choirs and foggy-sounding guitars that gives a "cult" vibe. Really cool album.
I'd like to mention the cool cultfilm Dagon and the great Belgian HP Lovecraft themed band Tyrant's Kall, they blend different styles like occult doom, classic heavy metal, late 80s early 90s death metal, some black and stoner as well check em out
Portal are the personification of Lovecraftian metal... Thematically, visual aesthetics certainly. But the music has otherworldly angular foreboding that is a perfect aural companion to the impossible alien architecture, geometry, mise-en-scene, amorphous ancient shadow beastly contagion... It's all there. I would have had an embolism had you not included them! Phew.
Very, very sorry for this, but I'm gonna be that "actually" guy here. Before the Canadian Necronomicon there was an 80's speed/thrash band from Germany with the same name, and interestingly, from the same country came another Necronomicon, a group of most probably smelly hippies that released an album somewhere in the early 70's. Also, damn interesting video, perhaps you could do something similar about the late medieval painter Hieronymous Bosch and metal.
I would like to see you do a opinion or maybe a deep dive on the Taiwanese band chthonic. It's honestly a band I really don't ever hear being talked about. I freaking love that band and they will always stay within my top 10. Just the transition from the first couple albums of kind of folk metal, to symphonic black metal, right into I guess melodic death metal. I'm pretty sure you have listened to them. If so, I would like your hot take on the band. But if you haven't, you have to listen to the albums Relentless Recurrence and Seediq Bale. Straight masterpieces in my opinion.
Speaking of Portal. It's no secret that they were heavily influenced by Lovecraft in the beginning. But did you know that the words "Portal", "Swarth" and "Outre" are words all mentioned in the call of cthulhu? The more you know!
You played them in the background, but you didn't actually mention them: Ripping Corpse! Their album 'Dreaming with the Dead' is a masterpiece of Lovecraft inspired technical death/thrash! 👌
