"Varg, I heard your a fan of Lovecraft. What's your favourite story by him?" "Story?"

In addition to the awesome stories the man really knew how to name a cat.

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.

IMO the reason why the Lovecraftian mythos is such an integral part of Metal. Is because of how dark and eerie the Lovecraftian mythos is!

I’d also add on to Metallica with their song The Thing That Should Not Be on Master of Puppets. The grandiose nature and behemoth riffs…

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

I would add Cradle of filth with their Cthulhu dawn Great video btw i love your channel

Blut aus nord is probably the best at giving off that cosmic horror sound

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.

Scar Sighted from leviathan, brings to mind images from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos

Saw this and immediately got excited for the Thergothon mention. Lovecraft themed funeral doom always has a special place in my heart.

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.

Melt-Banana just hanging out in the back.

As a Lovecraft inspired bad, I am loving this topic! Very well put and edited, loving it!

shoutout wyatt for featuring melt banana on the shelf

Massacre "From Beyond" came to mind

There’s a band from my home province called “The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets”. If the name wasn’t enough, they’re entirely based around Cthulhu.

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.

I was listening to ESOTERICAs video on Lovecraft earlier coincidentally Use to listen the 60s Lovecraft band

Always think of Nile when i hear Lovecrafts name😎 great content

A very thorough analysis. Thanks for posting. Very cool that you acknowledged Thergothon.

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.

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.

Kudos for including Sulphur Aeon. Definitely one of the best bands of the last decade if you ask me.

"Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten" by Nile is an awesome Lovecraftian song.

One of my favorite lovecraft inspired metal songs is Eletric Wizard's "Weird Tales", the lyrics just ooze lovecraft.

Melt-Banana!

The great old ones and sulphur aeon are both stellar bands, live as well!

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.

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!

Thank you dad again for another banger 🙏🙏

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”.

Made my night better 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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 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.

Most of Massacre's lyrics are about lovecraft since the bands vocalist (Kam Lee) is a big lovecraft fan

Really been liking your videos lately keep up the good work man 🤘

Morbid Angel is obvious but no mention of Celtic Frost? It's probably the most influential one for extreme metal I'd say.

Spawn of Possession - Tech Death with neo classical influences and Lovecraftian themes

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.

Grew up on lovecraft always loved his story's/movies👍 big horror fan 👍🤘🤘 rudimentary peni. 🤘🤘🤘

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.

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.

"The Music Of Erich Zann" by Mekong Delta

Another good example of a non-metal, and recent, Lovecraft song is "To Kelly Lee" by The Speed of Sound in Seawater

There's also another mexican band called "Terror Cósmico", does an instrumental doom/stoner metal

Sulphur Aeon and The Great Old Ones are my fsv Lovecraftian metal bands.

Another day another banger 🔥

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.

Wyatt is like the Sam Sulek of music

In Lovecraft we trust!

Wanderer Of The Wastes by The Howling Void always reminds me of Lovecraft's story The Nameless City.

its funny my band just finished writing a Lovecraft inspired song

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.

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! 👌

He’s cat had an awesome name

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.

Man I haven’t thought about Catacomb since seeing them in Putrefaction Zine in like, 92?? Wow. Gonna have to dig some up

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

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

It's makes you wonder what Lovecraft based his creations on. He was an occultist and studied ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and Sumerian, as well as many other philosophies and mythologies. The Cthulhu mythos is specifically based on Babylonian/Sumerian mythology. Cthulhu is literally IAK KUTULU in the ancient cuneiform Enuma Elish, as well as the names of the other ancients. Lovecrafts Necronomicon is based on these texts.

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.

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

You all should check out Tyranny. It's a main project of the guys from wormphlegm. It's very lovecraftian in its feel.

Dude, you should do the same thing but with Star Wars !

It's obviusly because Lovecraft loved cats, as do most metalheads.

you should do a video on Diabarha, he's like the EDM equivalent of extreme metal (if you can even call it "dance" at that point)

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!

He was a basketball player

I want black metal albums inspired by books like Wonder and The Fault In Our Stars

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.

"My standards for video making has kinda grew over the years" You're welcome.

Metal’s love craft for Lovecraft?

I've read and own everything he's ever done.

For some reason I thought this was a Wendigoon video and jumped at the Nile album in the thumbnail

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

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Not metal, but Carpenter Brut's Escape From Midwich Valley is *very* much Lovecraft inspired.

Lovecraft always was and is a great inspiration to me. Heck, I've recorded a whole album inspired by him. Look up Chaos' demise - Lovecraft's heritage, if anyone's interested. Recording quality sucks and the guitarist quit playing soon after the record was done, unfortunately

Starspawn of Cthulhu from Italy

Vid inspired me to listen to Call of Ktulu on repeat

Surprised you didn't mention Unaussprechlichen Kulten

Check out Alkaloid. Probably one of my favorite Lovecraft bands (although not everything they write is about that) They have, however written my favorite piece of Lovecraft music. Rise Of The Cephalopods is a 20 minute epic about R'lyeh and other Lovecraftian horrors rising out of the sea.

Hey you! Yeah, you! Listen to Timeghoul!

check out Azathoth by Ultar. Russian black metal w/ Lovecraftian themes

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You have got to check out Tortuga's Dieties. Think you might like it.

Is there any tech death metal albums about Max and Ruby and Chika Chika Boom Boom

Fuck yeah Gotta mention Catacomb

albert?

No mention for space god ritual?

Is it just me, or does the Zuck look like Lovecraft?

Now do Tolkien

Cosmic black metal is the tits!

Waht's that album with the angel and demon on the cover?

have played the rpg

Not metal, but great ambient/ritual duo Endvra worth listening

Great that your standards “have kind of grew”😂😂😂!

What did he name his cat again?

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