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« Reply #90 on: May 04, 2012, 09:44:36 AM » |
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Anyone here heard a - well, I hesitate to call them 'ambient' because they're so much more than that - group called Demdike Stare? They're pretty much the musical embodiment of Lovecraft, I think. (Typical track titles: 'Forest Of Evil (Dawn)', 'The Stars Are Moving', 'Hashshashin Chant'...)
I'll post some youtube examples when I get home. They're totally amazing, btw.
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« Reply #92 on: May 04, 2012, 10:52:29 AM » |
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Just signed up to the forum here and noticed this thread. There's a group out of Dallas TX (which I belong to) called Smokestack Lightning that dabbles in mythos related lyrics from time to time. There's a demo sample of a track called The Elder Ones at this page http://www.reverbnation.com/smokestacklightningdallas . That song and a few other Lovecraft-y inspired gems will be on our debut album coming out around Christmas. |
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« Reply #93 on: May 05, 2012, 01:44:11 AM » |
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For some reason, this thread reminds me of the time in high school I was listening to Echoes by Pink Floyd and decided to read Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge at the same time. It was a mindsplosion to say the least.
Anyone have any favorite songs/album they like to listen to while reading their favorite Lovecraft story? (I don't, sadly)
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« Reply #95 on: June 13, 2012, 01:52:10 PM » |
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OK, try this on for size: old-skool rave classic 'Digeridoo', by Aphex Twin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAkFBQ6sIcc"...the maddening beat of vile, muffled drums and the monotonous whining of an accursed flute clutched in nameless paws..." - this track actually *is* the music of Azathoth! Nyarlathaphex Twin, more like.  |
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« Reply #97 on: June 19, 2012, 05:28:06 PM » |
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I don't listen to much metal anyway (though Black Sabbath will always have a place in my heart), but even if I was, I don't think I'd be so into the idea of 'Lovecraftian metal'. It's just too, I dunno, obvious? I think music that's evil in a subtle way is much more effective at evoking that nameless something that we recognise in all things Lovecraftian. Hence, as promised ages ago, some Demdike Stare! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=965dn-AjuiY - 'Suspicious Drone' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9pU3JsKWd4&feature=related - 'The Stars Are Moving' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3DLFhM8KNw&feature=related - 'Forest of Evil (Dawn)' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F0EbN3aICI&feature=related - 'Caged in Stammheim' (great video, too) Seriously, check these guys out. They're named after a 17th century witch, for heaven's sake. |
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« Reply #98 on: June 19, 2012, 05:41:15 PM » |
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I don't listen to much metal anyway (though Black Sabbath will always have a place in my heart), but even if I was, I don't think I'd be so into the idea of 'Lovecraftian metal'. It's just too, I dunno, obvious? I think music that's evil in a subtle way is much more effective at evoking that nameless something that we recognise in all things Lovecraftian. HOF don't really fit that mold. They're not from the "slick and sinister" school of metal. More the "sweat, beer, and fire" school. Think Motörhead, not Mayhem. With, now that you mention it, a heavy dose of Black Sabbath. Hence, as promised ages ago, some Demdike Stare! Dark ambient music, eh? Hexentanz makes background music for Walpurgisnacht black masses. |
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« Reply #99 on: June 20, 2012, 10:21:43 AM » |
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Just checking this out - nice! Reminds me of this: Coil - 'The First Five Minutes After Violent Death' - video well worth watching, some great footage from an old silent film about devil-worshipping nuns! |
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« Reply #101 on: June 22, 2012, 04:42:51 PM » |
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Sinister in a subtle rather than outright evil way (and all the more Lovecraftian for that): "Not sympathy in the sentimental sense. Sympathetic vibration has nothing to do with the personal or emotional. For Helmholtz, it meant transduction of energy and resonance induced in a body – a room, a building, a glass, an eyeball – by an external force. At its natural, or resonant frequency, a body ceases to dampen energy and begins to oscillate with it, amplifying it, even to the point of self destruction."http://www.deeptime.net/blog/?p=716 Really worth listening to. First track is Demdike Stare, the second one is an unsettling sub-bassy sounscape with a sample from a documentary about the so-called Electronic Voice Phenomenon, whereby radios tuned to static seem to pick up human voices that personally address people listening to them and respond to questions...brilliant bedtime listening! |
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« Reply #102 on: June 27, 2012, 09:14:33 PM » |
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Okay - cursing and gore....just to tie in with the zombies and bath salts discussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC9_PK7bBO4&sns=fb |
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« Reply #103 on: June 29, 2012, 04:02:35 PM » |
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The title seems sort of Lovecraftian, and it's a great song:
nive nielsen & deer children - nive sings 2011 greenland eskimo-indie ++\15. uulia.mp3
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