History EldritchAbomination / Music

** "The Width of a Circle" features Bowie "encountering" an Eldritch Abomination. [[DivineDate Consensually, no less]]. (TheSeventies were a ''weird'' time.)

* On Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'s second album ''Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards'', EvilSorcerer Zargothrax tries to unleash Korviliath the Elder God from the 18th Hell Dimension, which would destroy the Universe.

* The lyrical approach of BlackMetal band Music/DeathspellOmega tends to be to portray both {{God}} and {{Satan}} as this.

* The creature being summoned on the cover art of ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Spawnofpossession_incurso_web.jpg Incurso]]'' by Music/SpawnOfPossession, who also have a few examples in their lyrics as well.

* The music video for the AnimalCollective song ''Peacebone'' involves a [[InterspeciesRomance relationship]] between one of these and a human.

** The spoken lyric to ''I Have A Special Plan For This World'', written by horror author Creator/ThomasLigotti, has several references to these, the most blatant perhaps being the "sardonic spirit" that [[HannibalLecture speaks to the narrator about death]]... or [[OmnicidalManiac the narrator himself]], depending upon your interpretation.

* The giant disembodied hand referred to as The Presence from the 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.

* On Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'s second album ''Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards'', EvilSorcerer Zargothrax tries to unleash Korviliath the Elder God from the 18th Hell Dimension, which would destroy the Universe.

* {{Nile}} writes about a few of these in their songs, sometimes referring to Egyptian deities and sometimes to Lovecraftian ones. The best example in their music is from "Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten", which is essentially a retelling of the story "Literature/{{Dagon}}" by Lovecraft, only this time involving serpent folk: "I hath dreamed bleak and grim dessolate visions of the pre-human serpent volk, and communed with long dead reptiles, silently watching throught the ages, in cold curious apathy, the unending sorrows and sufferings of an abysmal human kind."

* On Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'s second album ''Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards'', EvilSorcerer Zargothrax tries to unleash Korviliath the ELder God from the 18th Hell Dimension, which would destroy the Universe.

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* [[http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/music.asp Everything here]]. They are songs about the creations of Creator/HPLoveCraft

* The titular universe-devouring force in "The Great Annihilator" by {{Swans}} probably qualifies.

* [[http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/music.asp Everything here]].

* The CreatureFeature song "Fodder for the Elder Gods".

** In ''GuitarHero'', Metallica's "Metallifacts" video for "The Thing That Should Not Be"; it also lists "All Nightmare Long" and "Ride The Lightning" as being inspired by Creator/HPLovecraft's stories; specifically, "Shadow Over Innsmouth."

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

* The title track of Vektor's Black Future album seems to deal with an entity akin to this that also acts as TheVirus and a LotusEaterMachine.
* Pretty much everything by Internal Suffering either has something to do with one of these or messing around with magic related to them.
* Being heavily inspired by ''Film/EventHorizon'', the storyline for LucaTurilli's ''Prophet of the Last Eclipse'' seemed to be going in this direction. The demons could likely qualify, as well as [[HumanoidAbomination anyone]] touched by [[TheCorruption The Black Portal]], though DarkIsNotEvil in the latter case. And if Riders of the Astral Fire is any indication, those are only a warm up for what's coming. Unfortunately, the sequels never happened.
* In the Talking Heads song "Air", the very ''air itself'' is an Eldritch Abomination. Wow. "Air hit me in the face. I run faster and faster... into the air. And I say to myself, 'What is happening to my skin? Where is that protection that I needed?' Air can hurt you too, air can hurt you too. Some people say not to worry 'bout the air. Some people never had experience with air. It can break your heart..."
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIweahpCHrQ "Azathoth"]] by Proto-Prog group [[{{Egg}} Arzachel]], which is about the Lovecraftian god of the same name.

* [[Creator/{{Disturbed}} The Guy]] is revealed to be this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW-IPrzM1g The Vengeful One.]] At the start of the video, he's a nebulous godlike entity watching the world fall apart, before getting fed up with it and taking action himself. By the time he's on Earth, he's essentially TheSacredDarkness [[LivingShadow given form]], taking on the [[InTheHood hooded]], [[SlasherSmile grinning]] [[HumanoidAbomination shape]] that we all know and love.

* [[Creator/{{Disturbed}} The Guy]] is revealed to be this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW-IPrzM1g The Vengeful One.]] At the start of the video, he's a nebulous godlike entity watching the world fall apart, before getting fed up with it and taking action himself. By the time he's on Earth, he's essentially TheSacredDarkness [[LivingShadow given form]], taking on the [[InTheHood hooded]], [[SlasherSmile grinning]] [[HumanoidAbomination shape]] that [[MetalMascot we all know and love]].

* SymphonyOfScience's "Monsters of the Cosmos" paints black holes as these.

* Much of Current 93's and David Tibet's work has heavy eldritch-apocalypse overtones. ''Black Ships Ate The Sky'' and The "Inmost Light" Trilogy in particular.

* Music/DavidBowie's album ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWOrld'' has several examples.

* "The Width of a Circle" features Music/DavidBowie "encountering" an Eldritch Abomination. Consensually, no less. (TheSeventies were a ''weird'' time.)
** "The Man Who Sold The World" and "The Supermen" are more orthodox examples of this trope. They're all from the same album, too (''The Man Who Sold the World'')!

** The spoken lyric to ''I Have A Special Plan For This World'', written by horror author ThomasLigotti, has several references to these, the most blatant perhaps being the "sardonic spirit" that [[HannibalLecture speaks to the narrator about death]]... or [[OmnicidalManiac the narrator himself]], depending upon your interpretation.
* Music/BlueOysterCult is very fond of including these. Their entire ''Imaginos'' album plays with it and the song E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) offers these lyrics:

* The Fame Monster from Lady Gaga's concert performance of Paparazzi. Resembling a cross between an octopus and an anglerfish, it's terror personified, complete with NaughtyTentacles. Still, not too much trouble if you've got a sparky bra on hand. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcoGo7-ccVI&feature=related Watch here.]]