Although many would say that the following bands were influenced by
Lovecraft, it is probably more accurate to say that many of them were influenced more by the
“Simon” edition of the Necronomicon. This list includes both
individual artists and collections.
NOTE: If you have an entry to contribute to this page, please provide the name of the
band, the name of the song, the title of the album on which the song appears, and a web page
that supports your claim that the song has Lovecraftian lyrics.
– Individual Artists –
- Arkham
- The Arkhams
- A psychobilly band from Queens.
- The Road to Arkham (2007)
- Arzachel
- Arzachel (1969)
- “Azathoth”: Electric guitar, a church organ, and sound effects.
- Aymrev Erkroz Prevre
- Les Montagnes Hallucinées (2006): Translates roughly to “The Mountains of Madness”.
- Azathoth
- Doom/black metal band from Slovakia.
- Artless Puppet Show (1998)
- “The Haunter of the Dark”
- Babyland
-
- Bal-Sagoth
- Although this band has some Lovecraft references, like that to “Hatheg-Kla,” it takes
much more inspiration from Robert E. Howard.
- Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria (1994)
- “Hatheg Kla”: Keyboard Instrumental
- Bethzaida
-
- The Bevis Frond
-
- The Auntie Winnie Album (1988)
- “The Miskatonic Variations”: 15 minutes of monotonous, psychedelic guitar.
- New River Head (1991)
- “The Miskatonic Variations II”
- Black Sabbath
-
- Black Sabbath (1970)
- “Behind the Wall of Sleep”
- Blood Ritual
- Death/black metal band.
- At the Mountains of Madness
- Blood Storm
- Death/black/heavy metal band.
- Death by the Stormwizard (1996)
- “Yuggothian Slayers”
- “Expulsion of Wrath”: Sumero-Babylonian words from the Simon
Necronomicon are included in the lyrics.
- The Atlantean War Dragon (1997)
- Blue Oyster Cult
- Much of the following information can be found in The Blue Oyster Cult FAQ.
- Caïna
- I, Mountain (2007): Based on At the Mountains of Madness and the first in God
Is Myth Records’ H.P. Lovecraft
Series.
- Caravan
-
- For girls who grow plump in the night
- Cassandra Complex
-
- Satan, Bugs Bunny, and Me
- “E.O.D.” (Esoteric Order of Dagon): Makes direct references to
Cthulhu and mentions that “he sleeps beneath the waves.”
- Celtic Frost
-
- Morbid Tales (1984)
- “Morbid Tales”: Mentions Yog-Sothoth.
- “Nocturnal Fear”: Mentions “Azag-thoth.”
- Children of the Monkey Machine
-
- R’lyeh
- “The Dreamer Awakens”: “The ancient one awakens in the ageless
R’lyeh.”
- “Awaken and Rebirth”: “The Elder One has arisen.”
- “Mindflare”: “The Elder One unleashes his wrath on the minds
of man.”
- “Desolate”: “The final chapter. A desolate nightfall.”
- Cradle of Filth
-
- Midian (2000)
- Lovecraft & Witch Hearts (2002)
- The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
- A Vancouver “punky surf” band whose lyrics don’t just make passing mention to
Lovecraft—their entire existence seems to revolve around him. Their name is taken from a
sentence near the beginning of Lovecraft’s “The Tomb”: “I will tell only of
the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets...”
- Gurgle, Gurgle, Gurgle (demo)
- Hurts Like Hell (demo)
- “Screams From R’lyeh”
- “One-Gilled Girl”: Innsmouth is mentioned.
- “Chunk”: References to Cthulhu, the Mi-Go, and Azathoth.
- Cthulhuriffomania!
- “Colour Me Green”
- “Flee!”: Cthulhu is mentioned.
- “Yog Sothoth”
- Cthulhu Strikes Back (1995)
- “Goin’ Down to Dunwich”
- “Shoggoths Away”
- “Unstoppable”: References to the Necronomicon.
- “Yig Snake Daddy”
- “Hookworm”: References to Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness.”
- “Protein”: References to Nyarlathotep.
- “Cthulhu Dream”
- Great Old Ones: A compilation of most of the tracks from Hurts Like Hell and
Cthulhuriffomania!, plus some additional tracks.
- “One-Gilled Girl”: Innsmouth is mentioned.
- “Chunk”: References to Cthulhu, the Mi-Go, and Azathoth.
- “Colour Me Green”
- “Flee!”: Cthulhu is mentioned.
- “Yog-Sothoth”
- “Hookworm”: References to Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness.”
- “Please God, No”: References from “The Haunter of the Dark.”
- “Six-Gun Gorgon Dynamo”: References to Shub-Niggurath.
- Spaceship Zero (2000)
- “The Innsmouth Look”
- “The Chosen One”: References to Yog-Sothoth, Zoth-Ommog, and others.
- “The Sounds of Tindalos”
- The Shadow Out of Tim (2007)
- “Prologue: Theme to an Earthquake”
- “Chapter I: A Marine Biologist”
- “Chapter II: Blackout”
- “Chapter III: No Way”
- “Chapter IV: Strange”
- “Chapter IV: Return to Melanesia”
- “Chapter V: Cultists on Board”
- “Chapter VI: A Need-To-Know Basis”
- “Chapter VII: Operation: Get the Hell Out Of Here”
- “Chapter VIII: Ride the Flying Polyp”
- “Epilogue: Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know”
- “Footnote: Downtown (In the Cenozoic)”
- “Footnote: Sleestak & Yeti”
- “Appendix: Nyarlathotep”
- Darklands
- A Swedish doom metal band.
- Chronicles (1996)
- “Dead But Dreaming”: The reference to “The Absu” make it
clear that the inspiration is the “Simon” Necronomicon.
- Dawn of Relic
- Lovecraftian Dark (2003)
- Night on Earth (2005)
- Dayglo Abortions
-
- Here Today, Guano Tomorrow (1988)
- Dead Voices on Air Versus Not Breathing
-
- A Fire in the Bronx Zoo (26 August 1997)
- “Unknown Kadath”
- “Azathoth Venom”
- Death Breath
- Deicide
-
- Deicide (1990)
- “Dead by Dawn”: Contains a reference to the Necronomicon. The
title suggests this is a reference to the “Evil Dead” films rather than to Lovecraft.
- Legion
- “Dead but Dreaming”: Mentions the “elder gods,” but nothing
else explicit.
- Amon: Feasting the Beast
- Destroid
- Future Prophecies (2004)
- “Into the Deepest Dark”: The song includes a sample of David Healy reading the
title of “The Thing on the Doorstep”.
- The Devil’s Rejects
- Dies Irae
- Immolated (2000)
- “The Nameless City”: Mentions Irem.
- “Bestride Shantak”
- Disincarnate
-
- Dreams of the Carrion Kind
- “Entranced”: Quotes heavily from Lovecraft’s “The
Tomb.”
- Djam Karet
- California progressive band. Contact ranjit@netcom.com
to obtain their album.
- Burning the Hard City
- “At the Mountains of Madness”
- Dream Death
- Some claim that Dream Death was America’s first death metal band.
- Electric Wizard
- Dopethrone (2000)
- “Weird Tales/Electric Frost/Golgatha/Altar of Melektaus”: Mentions Yuggoth,
Kadath, and “the Hyperborean continent”.
- Witchcult Today (2007)
- Endura
-
- Dreams Of Dark Waters (1994)
- “R’lyeh Awakens”
- “Black Eidolon”
- The Dark Is Light Enough (1996)
- “The Stars Are Right”
- “Ubbo-Sathla”
- “He Knows The Gate”
- Liber Leviathan (1996)
- “Dagon Is My Weapon”
- “Cthulhu Fhtagn”
- Elder Signs (1999)
- Entombed
-
- Clandestine (November 1991)
- “Stranger
Aeons”: Lyrics mention “dreamquest,” include “lurking at the
threshold/you’re lost between the gates,” and “Stranger things that eternal
lie/awaiting beyond the time to die.”
- Stranger Aeons (August 1992, EP)
- Entombed (1997)
- Equomanthorn
-
- Nindinugga Nimshimshargal Enllilara (1994): Lyrics have been borrowed from
the Simon edition of the Necronomicon.
- Eterne
- “Ethereal gothic metal with heavy riffs.”
- The Endless (1993, demo)
- Still Dreaming (1994)
- “The Crawling Chaos”
- “Still Dreaming”
- Evils Toy
- A German band whose lyricist, Oliver Taranczewski, is apparently a Lovecraft fan.
- Illusion
- “Co-existence”
- “Prevision”
- Angels Only (1998)
- “Back on Earth”
- “From Above Comes Sleep”
- “Colours Out of Space”
- Evol
- Dreamquest (1996)
- “Dreamquest”
- “Sad Doom Of A Dark Soul (Chutulusumgal’s Presence)”
- “Sona-Nyl”
- “Flying With the Night-Gaunts”
- “Celephais”
- “The Ancient King Of Ice (Mighty Yugsuduk)”
- “Sarkomand”
- “Ulthar”
- “Dark Stairs of R’lyeh”
- “Cathuria”
- “...Verso la Cittàdel Tramonto (l’inganno di Nyarlathotep)”
- Dies Irae (2001)
- “The Dark Dreamquest (intro)”
- “Sad Doom Of A Dark Soul (Chutulusumgal’s Presence)”
- “The Ancient King Of Ice (Mighty Yugsuduk)”
- The Fall
-
- Dragnet
- “Spectre vs. Rector”: The possessing demon in this song is called Yog-Sothoth.
- Famlende Forsøk
-
- Fields of the Nephilim
- Dark, brooding, Gothic music. References to Sumer in several songs indicate they were inspired
by the Simon Necronomicon.
- Dawnrazor (1987)
- Nephilim (1988)
- “The Watchman”: Includes the lines “Kthulhu calls” and
“Kthulhu I am calling for you.”
- “Last Exit for the Lost”: Includes the line “Closer and closer
Kthulhu calls.”
- Earth Inferno (1990)
- “Intro (Dead but Dreaming)”
- Fireaxe
- A one-man metal band.
- Lovecraftian Nightmares
- “Nemesis”
- “The Ancient Track”
- “Nathicana”
- “Festival”
- Forma Tadre
- A German Industrial/Ambient band.
- Navigator (17 February 1997)
- “Date Unknown”: Based on one of the stories in The Starry Wisdom.
- “Mesozoic Tree Ferns”: Lovecraft influenced.
- “Gates”: Lovecraft influenced.
- Automate (17 November 1998)
- Automate 2.0 (2000)
- The Music of Erich Zann (2008)
- Frostmoon Eclipse
- I Am Providence (2008): The sixth in God Is Myth Records’ H.P. Lovecraft Series.
- “In the Vault”
- “The Thing on the Doorstep”
- “Providence, 1937-03-15”
- Garden of Delight
- A German gothic band whose influences include The Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim, and
the Simon Necronomicon.
- ENKI’S Temple (1992)
- “Ancient God (but never gone)”
- “Inanna”
- “Sumerian Haze”
- “ENKI’S Temple and the Gates of UR”
- Epitaph (1992)
- “The Epic of the Sumer Ziusudra”
- Shared Creation (1993)
- “Shared Creation (The Lovecraft Mix)”
- Necromanteion IV (1994)
- “Spirit Invocation -black book version-”
- “Downwards to a Sea”
- “Watchers out of Time”
- Scheoul (1996)
- “The Colour out of Space”
- Flint Glass
- Gwar
- The lead singer, Oderous Urungus, wears a spiked prosthetic appendage nicknamed
“The Cuttlefish of Cthulhu.”
- Scumdogs of the Universe (1990)
- Halloween
-
- Laz
- “The Wood”: Lyrics are from Lovecraft’s poem of the same name.
- “Waltz”: Lyrics are from Lovecraft’s “Clouds” and the
first stanza of “Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme.”
- “Yule Horror”: Lyrics are from Lovecraft’s “Festival.”
- “Laz”: Lyrics are from Lovecraft’s “The Nightmare Lake.”
- Harvist
- He Who Rises (2007): The second in God Is Myth Records’ H.P. Lovecraft Series.
- “To Unleash the God of Armageddon”
- “Crown of the Tentacled King”
- “He Who Rises From the Deep”
- “Rites of the Outer Gods”
- H.P. Zinker
-
- Mountains of Madness (1994)
- H.P. Lovecraft
-
- H.P. Lovecraft (1967)
- H.P. Lovecraft II (1969)
- “At the Mountains of Madness”
- At the Mountains of Madness (1988): A compilation of the previous two
albums, plus some additional tracks.
- Hypnos
-
- Hypocrisy
-
- Osculum Obscenum (1993)
- “Necronomicon”
- “Necronomicon” (demo version)
- Pleasure of Molestation (1994)
- Iron Maiden
-
- Live After Death: Album cover has “That is not dead which can eternal
lie/And with strange aeons even death may die” on a gravestone.
- Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons
-
- Shape I’m In: Complete Anthology (9 May 2000)
- Kindred Idol
-
- Conscious in the Mudvein
- “By Erich Zahn” (sic)
- “Sea of Gthey”: Mentions Innsmouth and “Mr. Ward.”
- Ktulu
- A Spanish hardcore band.
- J.B. Lee
-
- Necronomicon: “Four electronic pieces designed as ‘imaginary
soundtracks’ for Lovecraft stories.”
- “Strange Aeons”
- “My Thousand Other Forms”
- “The Neighboring Regions of Dream”
- “Just a Colour”
- Lovecraft
- Founded in 1970 by members of the group H.P. Lovecraft, which broke up the previous year.
- Lovecraft
- This rock band hails from Argentina.
- Lurking Fear
-
- “Innsmouth Bay”
- “Something in the Basement”: “Based very loosely on
Lovecraft’s ‘The Shunned House.’”
- LVTHN
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Lovecraft is mentioned in the “special thanks to” section of the liner notes of
several of Malmsteen’s albums. They include Rising Force (1984), Odyssey (1988),
Trial by Fire (1989), Eclipse (1990), and Magnum Opus (1995).
- Manilla Road
- Heavy metal with many Lovecraftian references throughout.
- Mystification (1987)
- “Children of the Night”: Mentions “Cthulu.”
- Out of the Abyss (1988)
- “Out of the Abyss”: Mentions “Cthulu.”
- “Return of the Old Ones”: Mentions “Cthulu.”
- “Black Cauldron”: Mentions “Cthulu” and Yog-Sothoth.
- “War in Heaven”: Mentions “Cthulu.”
- The Courts of Chaos (1990)
- “From Beyond”: The events described in the song seem to indicate it is based
more on the Stuart Gordon film than the Lovecraft story.
- “The Books of Skelos: I. The Book of Ancients”: Mentions “Cthulu”
and the Necronomicon.
- Marillion
-
- Massacre
- A death metal band from Florida.
- Mekong Delta
-
- Mercyful Fate
-
- Time (1994)
- “The Mad Arab (Part One: The Vision)”
- Into the Unknown (1996)
- “Kutulu (The Mad Arab Part Two)”
- Mercyless
-
- Abject Offering (2 June 1992)
- Metallica
-
- Ride the Lightning (1984)
- “The Call of Ktulu”: Instrumental
- Master of Puppets (1986)
- “The Thing That Should Not Be”
- Morbid Angel
- Lead guitarist and only remaining founding member, Trey Azagthoth, admits that most of their
music is inspired by the Simon edition of the Necronomicon.
- Abominations of Desolation (1986, demo)
- Altars of Madness (1989)
- “Lord of All Fevers and Plague”: “Ia iak sakkakh ia sakkakth/Ia
shaxul/Ia kingu ia cthulu ia azbul/Ia azabua”
- Blessed are the Sick (1991)
- “Unholy Blasphemies”: Mentions Yog-Sothoth.
- “The Ancient Ones”: Lyrics mention “Come forth, Ancient Ones,
Tiamat, Kutulu...”
- Covenant (1993)
- “Angel of Disease”: Lyrics mention “Shub Niggurath goat with one
thousand young” and “Kutulu meets in the void.” References to Absu, Kingu, and
Nammtar make the source of inspiration clear.
- Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
(1998): Several songs quote entire lines from the Simon Necronomicon.
- “Heaving Earth”: “Chthhulhu” is mentioned.
- “Prayer of Hatred”: Mentions the “Ancient Ones.”
- “Umulamahri”: “Chthhulhu” is mentioned.
- Morphine Angel
-
- Nachtgeblüt
- Strange Ways to Ancient Times (2005): The last six tracks are referred to as
“Six fugues on H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Outsider’.”
- “No. 1 in C minor for harpsichord: Alone in the Dark Castle”
- “No. 2 in A major for organ: A Dream of Pastoral Delights”
- “No. 3 in C minor for harpsichord: The Ruined Black Tower and the Endless Forest”
- “No. 4 in D minor for organ: The Moon, the Graveyard and the Lonesome Road”
- “No. 5 in D minor for harpsichord: Ghastly Vision haunting the Ivied Pile”
- “No. 6 in C minor for organ: The Dweller in Shadows”
- Nameless City
-
- Necrodeath
- Italian thrash metal.
- Into the Macabre (1987)
- “The Flag of Inverted Cross”: A portion of the descending node formula from
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is recited.
- “Sauthenerom”: Yog-Sothoth, Hastur, Nyarlathotep, and Kadath are mentioned.
- “At the Mountains of Madness”
- Necronomicon
- A German heavy metal band.
- NecronomicoN
- A Canadian “Spiritual Occult Death Metal” band.
- Morbid Ritual (1991, demo)
- “Dark Young of Shub-Nygurath” [sic]
- The Silver Key (1996)
- “The Silver Key”
- “The Asylum”
- “Hunting Horror”
- “Cthonians”
- Pharaoh of Gods (1999)
- Necrophagia
-
- Season of the Dead
- “Ancient Slumber”: Mentions the Necronomicon, although the
liner notes say the song was “inspired by the movie Evil Dead...”
- Necrosanct
-
- Equal in Death (1991)
- Incarnate (1992)
- Nile
- A death metal band from South Carolina that claims to take its inspiration from Sumerian
myth.
- Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
- Ninnghizhidda
- Demigod (2002)
- “The Awakening”: Mentions “That is not dead which can eternal lie/And
with strange aeons even death may die” and R’lyeh.
- Non Serviam
-
- Necrotical (1998)
- “Which Eternal Lie”: Mentions “Ph’nglui Mglw’nafh
Cthulhu R’lyeh Wgah’nagl Fhtagn,” “Yog-Sothoth,” “That is not
dead which can eternal lie/And with strange aeons even death may die,” and “Call of
Cthulhu.”
- Not Breathing
- An industrial band from Tucson, Arizona, most of their albums have been produced by
“Instant Shoggoth Productions.”
- Nox Arcana
- Obituary
-
- Cause of
Death: The cover of this album uses Michael Whelan’s artwork from the
Ballantine/Del Rey editions of Lovecraft’s fiction. However, none of the songs on this
album appear to be Lovecraft-inspired.
- The Old Ones
- The Raven (2004)
- “The Old Ones”
- “Nameless City”
- “To Pan”
- Le Orme
- An Italian progressive rock band.
- Orphanage
- A Dutch death-metal band.
- Oblivion (March 1995)
- “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”
- By Time Alone (October 1996)
- “At the Mountains of Madness”
- At the Mountains of Madness (1997)
- “At the Mountains of Madness”
- Pain Teens
-
- Pain Teens (7 April 1998)
- “Unnamable”
- “Brown Jenkin”
- “Innsmouth”
- Payne’s Gray
- A German band that’s been around since 1989.
- KADATH: decoded: Described as “the musical interpretation of H.P.
Lovecraft’s masterpiece The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.” The CD may be
purchased from Gavinicuss Books.
- Pestilence
-
- Testimony of the Ancients
- John Petrucci
- Guitarist for Dream Theater, John
played the music for KAZe’s Digital Pinball game for the Sega Saturn, Necronomicon
(1996). An
excerpt is available on John’s site.
- Rage
-
- Trapped! (1992)
- “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”
- Black in Mind (1995)
- “The Crawling Chaos”
- “Shadow out of Time”
- “In a Nameless Time”: Inspired by Lovecraft’s “The Shadow
out of Time.”
- Soundchaser (2003)
- Rigor Mortis
-
- Ripping Corpse
-
- Dreaming with the Dead (1991): The lengthy “Ripping Corpse
thanks...” section mentions Skull Comics, “HP Lovecraft,” Necronomicon, and
“Evil Dead 1&2.”
- “Dreaming with the Dead”: The word “Necronomic” is
mentioned. Once.
- “Anti-God”: Describes a ritual to Cthulhu and mentions
“Ry’leh” (sic).
- “Beyond Humanity”: The references to Crawford Tillingast (sic) and
Benevolent Street would seem to indicate that Lovecraft’s “From Beyond” is the
source of inspiration, but later references to Pretorious (sic) and “Humans are such easy
prey” instead point to Stuart Gordon’s film of the same name.
- Rudimentary Peni
- Weird punk music.
- Cacophany (1989): This entire album seems to be Lovecraft inspired, but
only the following song titles have explicit Lovecraft references.
- “Nightgaunts”
- “The Horrors in the Museum”
- “The Evil Clergyman”
- “Brown Jenkin”
- “Crazed Couplet”
- “Lovecraft Baby”
- “Beyond the Tanarian Hills”
- “The Dead Loved”
- “Kappa Alpha Tau”
- “American Anglophile in the World Turned Upside Down”
- “Arkham Hearse”
- “The Old Man is not so Terribly Misanthropic”
- “Sonia”
- “The Day the Universe Ceased (March 15th 1937)”
- “The Crime of the Century”
- Sacrifice
-
- Torment in Fire (1985)
- “Necronomicon”: “Bound by human flesh” and “the evil
dead” indicate that the source of inspiration is “The Evil Dead” films.
- Forward to Termination (1987)
- “Re-Animation”: Probably an homage to the film,
”Re-Animator.”
- Samael
-
- Worship Him (1990)
- “The Rite of Cthulhu”: Two minutes long.
- Sapthuran
- Joe Satriani
-
- Time Machine (October 1993)
- “Dweller on the Threshold”
- Seance
-
- Forever Laid to Rest (1992)
- Sentenced
- A Finnish death metal band.
- Sephiroth
-
- The Absolute Supper (Various artists, 10 February 1998)
- Shub-Niggurath
- A French band whose influences range from “electroacoustic and modern jazz to 17th century
Italian and contemporary classical.”
- Shub-Niggurath (1985)
- Les morts vont vite (1987)
- Shub-Niggurath
- A Black/Death/Speed/Thrash Metal band from Mexico.
- Evilness and Darkness Prevails: The Gigeresque cover shows the three
separate sigils that are combined on the cover of the Simon Necronomicon.
- Smohalla
- Nova Persei (2007): Based on “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” and fifth in God
Is Myth Records’ H.P. Lovecraft
Series.
- Solitude Aeturnus
- A doom metal band from Texas.
- Solstice
-
- New Dark Age (1998)
- “New Dark Age”: The opening paragraph of Lovecraft’s “The
Call of Cthulhu” is read.
- The Talisdream Mission
-
- Mythos: H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Nightmares
- Thergothon
-
- Fhtagn-Nagh Yog-Sothoth (1991, demo)
- Stream from the Heavens (1994)
- “The Unknown Kadath-in-the-Cold-Waste”
- Therion
-
- Beyond Sanctorum (1991)
- Sirius B (2004)
- Tiamat
-
- Sumerian Cry (1990)
- “Evilized”: Lyrics include, “When the stars are right/They will
rise from the sea.”
- A Winter Shadow (1990)
- “A Winter Shadow”: Mentions “A shadow out of time....”
- The Astral Sleep (1991)
- “Sumerian Cry (part 3)”: Mentions “Arab’s wise words”
and “the Ancient Ones.”
- “A Winter Shadow”: Mentions “A shadow out of time...”
- Twin Obscenity
-
- Where Light Touches None (1996)
- Univers Zero
- Belgian progressive band.
- Ceux du Dehors
- “La Musique D’Erich Zann”: The liner notes describe it as
“a collective improvisation inspired by a short story by H.P. Lovecraft.”
It’s actually a bit boring and monotonous when compared to the sort of music that story
should inspire.
- The Unnameable
- But of that, I will not speak... (2002)
- Graves Are Not Harde to Digg, Nor Acids Loth to Burne (2005)
- The UnQuiet Void
- Vader
-
- Morbid Reich (1990)
- “From Beyond”
- “Breath of Centuries”: Mentions the “That is not dead...”
couplet.
- The Ultimate Incantation (1992)
- “Testimony”: Quotes from the Simon Necronomicon (“IA!
KHTULU ZI KUR!”).
- “Breath of Centuries”
- The Darkest Age (1993, Live)
- Sothis (1994)
- De Profundis (1995): It is clear from the lyric notes that the
Lovecraftian references are related to the Simon Necronomicion.
- Reborn in Chaos (1997)
- Vangelis
-
- The Dragon: The artwork on the cover of this album clearly depicts
Cthulhu rising from R’lyeh.
- The Vaselines
-
- The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History (31 July 1992)
- “Lovecraft”: The liner notes comment, “H.P. was a great writer I
hope we’ve done him justice.”
- La Voce de Cthulhu (The
Voice of Cthulhu)
-
- A Vision of Kadath
- Dagon
- The Shadow out of Time
- The Sign of Shub-Niggurath
- Les Wampas
- A French rock band.
- Chauds, sales et humides (1988)
- “Quivoron”: Mentions the Nécromicon [sic], “les
grands anciens” (“the great old ones”), Arkham, Chtulu [sic], and Yog-Sothot
[sic].
- White Flag
-
- Without Face
- Astronomicon (2002)
- “The Violin of Erich Zann”
- Yog-Sothoth
- Insane, French, free-form Jazz band; similar to what one might expect from Erich Zann.
- The Ziggurat
- Hymns of the Cthulhu Mythos (2004)
- The Plague of the Pallid Mask (2008)
- John Zorn
- Magick
(2004): The first five tracks on this album make up a work titled “Necronomicon”.
– Collections –
- At the Mountains of Madness - International Doom Collection (1999)
- A collection of 10 doom metal songs by Solstice, Burning Witch, Revelation, Blessed Realm,
While Heaven Wept, Pale Divine, Eternal Elysium, Cold Mourning, Warning, and Millarca. Released
on the UK’s Miskatonic Foundation label.
- The Challenge from Beyond: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft (1999)
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- “Re-Animation” by Decoded Feedback
- “Dreams In The Witchhouse” by Hexedene
- “Hold Your Breath (Dreams 1 & 2)” by Society Burning
- “C’thulhu” by Xol Dog 400
- “Fading Giant” by New Mind
- “To Ramble in the Hills” by Burning Blue
- “Thaumaturgos” by Suspicion Breeds Confidence
- “Fallen Idols (Legends Speak Mix)” by Seven Trees
- “Nightgaunts” by Oneiroid Psychosis
- “Sectorial” by Inertia
- “Conversations With Chaos” by Stone 588
- “Tok’!” by D-Drik & Iktus
- “The Whisperer in the Darkness” by Railgun
- “Pulsar” by Haujobb
- “Corona Mundi” by Forma Tadre
- The Outsider - An Aural Channelling of H.P. Lovecraft (2002)
- “Through the Gates of the Silver Key” by Tugend
- “Dreaming” by Axone
- “The Marching Things” by Murderous Vision
- “Colours Out of Space” by Bestia Centauri
- “Learning with Nature” by When Joy Becomes Saddness (sic)
- “Crushing the Sleeping Flowers” by Post Scriptum
- “Technocore (Iteration X)” by Schloss Tegal
- “One Sunlit Decaying Day” by The Hollowing
- “Feast Upon the World’s Dead” by Kuru
- “Nyarlathotep (excerpt)” by Bestia Centauri
- “Degeneration” by Axone
- Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft (2006)
- “The Outsider” by Endura
- “The Diary of Alonzo Typer” by Funerary Call
- “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” by Paranoia Inducta
- “The Dunwich Horror” by Moan
- “The Dreams in the Witch House” by Wilt
- “At the Mountains of Madness” by Lunar Abyss Quartet
- “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” by Dense Vision Shrine
- “The Mound” by IHVHLXXII
- “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” by Aeoga
Much thanks to Rich Kulawiec’s “SF-references-in-music
List” for several of these references.
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