History EldritchAbomination / Music

* The giant disembodied hand referred to as The Presence from the Music/NineInchNails album ''Year Zero.'' Along with some other unknown entities, it arrives to "wipe this place clean" if humans don't stop killing the planet.

** "The Seer Returns" seems to be from the perspective of one, or possibly one of its servants. "The Seer", despite being mostly instrumental, definitely ''[[HellIsThatNoise sounds]]'' [[NightmareFuel like]] [[SurrealHorror one]]. "No Words/No Thoughts" could also be interpreted as describing one, though it's hard to tell with the WordSaladLyrics.

* Electronic Ambient group The Orb has a song called "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Center of the Ultraworld". Apart from being a LongTitle it's a good description of what an EldritchAbomination is[[note]]It's also a perfectly sensible and accurate description of an episode of ''Series/BlakesSeven''[[/note]]. The song itself is pretty soothing and strange in its own way.

** "Sleep No More" is about the awakening of Cthulhu and contains the words "Cthulhu awaken" in the chorus.

* The Black Dahliah Murder's song "Thy Horror Cosmic" is about one.

EldritchAbomination in {{Music}}.

* "The Thing That Should Not Be" by Music/{{Metallica}} is about such a creature and, quite obviously, is directly inspired by Lovecraft.
** Also, "The Call Of Ktulu" (though it's an instrumental).

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{{Eldritch Abomination}}s in {{Music}}.

* A staple of album covers in certain genres such as [[DeathMetal Brutal Death Metal]] and Deathcore. If the cover doesn't have absurdly gruesome depictions of torture and murder it probably has an eldritch abomination on it, like [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/5b/a4/aa5ba4825688e3802e5acff83df60e69.jpg what in the world]]?

* A staple of album covers in the [[DeathMetal Brutal Death Metal]] genre. If the cover doesn't have absurdly gruesome depictions of torture and murder it probably has an eldritch abomination on it, like [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/5b/a4/aa5ba4825688e3802e5acff83df60e69.jpg what in the world]]?

* In Music/TheMechanisms' ''The Bifrost Incident'', the CosmicHorrorReveal is that [[spoiler: the Bifrost wormhole is actually the body of Yog-Sothoth. Travel through it is [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mentally]] and [[BodyHorror physically]] inimical, and it serves as a gate that will allow other abominations (including Azathoth) to break into the Yggdrasil system.]]

* Whatever caused the light to go out in the Music/{{Genesis}} song, "The Day The Light Went Out"

* Music/BlueOysterCult is very fond of including these. Their ''Imaginos'' album plays with it and the song E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) offers these lyrics:

** And in the song "Subhuman," which appears in two versions (''Secret Treaties'' and ''Imaginos''):

* Music/{{Ludo}}'s "Lake Pontchartrain" implies that the lake itself is one and lures people into it by creating fake drowning victims to call out to them, which the narrator's friends fell for. [[spoiler: Although, the last verse implies the narrator just murdered his friends, probably dumped their bodies in the lake, and is making the whole story up to cover himself]].

** ''Harvester Of Eyes'' seems to be sung from the perspective of an EldritchAbomination:
--> "Harvester of eyes, that's me
-->And I see all there is to see
-->When I look inside your head
-->Right up front to the back of your skull"
** In actuality, the song was inspired by a serial killer who would remove the eyes of his victims as keepsakes.