Prototype XV - Lovecraft & Metal: A Beginner's Guide

Are You Morbid?: A Heavy Metal Podcast

Tonight, on a very special Are You Morbid? we welcome our friends from Night (Bobby & Matt) over for a a discussion of Author H.P. Lovecraft. Taking a break from our usual album by album breakdown format, we instead give an EXTREMELY brief overview of the author, and take an in depth look at his long association with Heavy Metal and his influence on our own lives. We discuss how Lovecraft's literary rediscovery corresponds to his work being integrated into heavy metal, the genres that use his work most commonly, the effectiveness of their attempts to capture the spirit of his work, and the overall use of his imagry vs. his philosophy. Asides a plenty as we also discuss Lovecraft's stories themselves, cinematic adaptations, and which public figures may be one of Nyarlathotep's thousand forms. Eventually we do get around to recomending some albums and songs for you to try, and talk about where we'd like to see Lovecraft's work taken musically in the future.

Recomendations List

Black MetalArkham - Chapter III, the Madness from the Sea (Black Metal/Dark Ambient)Fiendlord - Neuromancy (Symphonic Black)Hypnos - Arcane Moon (Atmospheric Black)The Great Old Ones - Everything (Post-Black Metal)Astrophobos - Remnants of Forgotten Horrors (Black Metal)Crafteon - Cosmic Reawakening (Black Metal)Ancient Niggurath - Horrors and Wonders (Avant -Garde Black Metal)Barabas - The Arrival of Yog-Sothoth (Black)yag kosha - Demo/Dagon Comp (Black Metal)Ultar - Kaddath (Post-Black)ceremonial castings - Cthulue (Symphonic Black Metal)Bal-sagoth - Starfire Burning upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule (Symphonic Black)teen cthulhu - Everything (Black Metal/Hardcore)

Black/DoomBrown Jenkins - Dagonite & Death Obsession (Doom/Black Metal)Drowner - Everything (Blackened Drone/Sludge/Doom Metal)Head of the Demon - S/T (Black/Doom)Swampcult -An Idol Carved of Flesh & The Festival (Black Doom)

Death MetalThem Vultures - Weird Tales (Death Metal)Portal - Everything (Experimental Death Metal)Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule (Death Metal)Giant of the Mountain - Moon Worship (Technical Death Metal)The Lurking Fear - Out of the Voiceless Grave (Death Metal)Philosopher - Thoughts (Death)Beast Conjurator - Summoned to the Abyss & Strange Aeons Comp (Death)Smothered - The Inevitable End (Death)Puteraeon - Everything (Death Metal)Sulphur Aeon - Everything (Death Metal)Yogth Sothoth - Abominations of the Nebulah Mortiis (Death)Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka (Death)Massacre - From Beyond

Death/BlackInnsmouth - Consumed by Elder Sign (Death/Black Metal)Cosmic Horror - Tales of the Macabre (Black/Death/Slam)Coffin Birth - The Bowels of Chaos (Black/Death)dawn of relic - Lovecraftian Dark (Melodic Death/Black)temple of the demigod - the great old ones (Symphonic Black/Death Metal)the uncreation - Dreaming in R'lyeh (Black/Death)Apparatus - S/T & Cthulhu Trilogy (Experimental Black/Death)Serapheum - Serapheum (Black/Death)Azrath-11 - Everything (Black/Death)

Death/Doom & Funeral DoomObed Marsh - Innsmouth (Black/Doom Metal)Thergothon - Stream from the Heavens (Funeral Doom/Death)Aldebaran - Dwellers in Twilight & Buried Beneath the Aeons (Funeral Doom/Sludge)Solemn They Await - Sanctuary in the Depths (Funeral Doom)Colosseum - Everything (Funeral Doom Metal)fungoid stream - Everything (Ambient Funeral Doom Metal)throng of shoggoths - The Cosmic Reconfiguration (Death/Sludge/Doom)eyes of leigeia - Everything (Death/Doom) (Later work is Doom/Black)Catacombs - In the Depths of R'lyeh (Funeral Doom)Innzmouth - Lovecraft’s Dream (Funeral Doom Metal)Tyranny - Tides of Awakening & Aeons in Tectonic Interment (Funeral Doom Metal)The Disciples of Zoldon - Blackened Theological Tome (Doom/Death Metal/Grindcore)

Death/ThrashRipping Corpse - Dreaming with the Dead (Death/Thrash Metal)Revenant - Prophecies of a Dying World (Death/Thrash)Deathchain - Death Gods (Death/Thrash)

Doom, Sludge & StonerAarni - Bathos (Avant-garde Doom Metal)Shoggoth - Mythos (Stoner Metal)Tentacle - Ingot Eye (Drone Doom)Skyler Alexandre - Whispers in the Dark (Traditional/Doom)Arkham Witch - Legions of the Deep & I Am Providence (Doom/Traditional)Space God Ritual - Everything (Doom)Mad God - Tales of a Sightless City (Stoner/Doom)Evangelist - In Partibus Infidelium & Doominicanes (Epic Doom Metal)Black Temple Below - Into the Black Temple (Sludge/Doom)Tyrant’s Kall - Everything (Death/Doom/Traditional)Yzordderex - Everything (Drone/Doom/Sludge Metal)aeon sphelion - Visions of Burning Aeons (Doom)tortured spirit - Arkham Sanitarium (Doom)Bretus - Everything - (Stoner/Doom)Keziah - The Ocean Is Not Silent (Doom/Sludge)evoke thy lords - Escape to the Dreamlands (Goth/Doom)

ThrashLiving Death - Protected from Reality (Thrash)Mekong Delta - The Music of Eric Zahn (Thrash)

TraditionalOlÿphant - Expedition to the Barrier Peaks (Traditional)Terrible Old Man - Cosmic Poems & Fungai from Yuggoth (Hard Rock/Trad)Dunsmuir - S/T (Traditional)

Everything ElsePayne’s Grey - Kadath Decoded (Progressive Heavy Metal)Back to R'lyeh - The Awakening- Last fight of the Primordial & The McMurdo Expedition 1909 (Avant-Garde)Infinite Spectrum - Haunter in the Dark (Prog Metal)space mirrors - Everything (Progressive Metal/Space Rock)