Line #4 EldritchAbomination/Music


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8	EldritchAbomination in music.
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10	* [[http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/music.asp Everything here]]. They are songs about the creations of Creator/HPLovecraft
11	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg Carol of the Old Ones]]
12	* Music/DavidBowie's album ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' has several examples.
13	** "The Width of a Circle" features Bowie... ''encountering'' an Eldritch Abomination. [[DivineDate Consensually, no less]]. (TheSeventies were a ''weird'' time.)
14	** The TitleTrack and "The Supermen" are more orthodox examples of this trope.
15	* Music/{{Metallica}}
16	** "The Thing That Should Not Be" is about such a creature and, quite obviously, is directly inspired by Lovecraft.
17	** "The Call Of Ktulu" (though it's an instrumental).
18	** "Dream No More" is about the awakening of Cthulhu and contains the words "Cthulhu awaken" in the chorus.
19	** "All Nightmare Long" is about a man being chased by the Hounds of Tindalos, wo can time travel and emerge from any corner.
20	** In ''VideoGame/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."
21	* Anything by Music/TheDarkestOfTheHillsideThickets, who were inspired by most of Lovecraft's work.
22	* In Music/{{Savatage}}'s song "Hall of the Mountain King", the titular Mountain King is an eldritch abomination.
23	* Much of Music/{{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.
24	** 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 speaks to the narrator about death... or [[OmnicidalManiac the narrator himself]], depending upon your interpretation.
25	* Music/BlueOysterCult is very fond of including these. Their ''Music/{{Imaginos}}'' album plays with it and the song E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) offers these lyrics:
26	-->"I'm in fairy rings and tower beds/Don't report this three men said/Books by the blameless and by the dead/King in Yellow, queen in red... all praise/he's found the awful truth..."
27	** The song Harvest Moon from their ''Heaven Forbid'' album features the following lyrics towards the end:
28	-->"I sense the darkness clearer/I feel a presence here/A change in the weather/I feel some evil here/I hear some frightful noises/I don't go out at night/Since Bobrow's youngest daughter/Disappeared from sight/I know they'll find her some day/They find them all that way..."
29	** And in the song "Subhuman," which appears in two versions (''Secret Treaties'' and ''Music/{{Imaginos}}''):
30	--> "Oyster boys are/swimmin' for me/Save me from the/Death-black creatures..."
31	* The music video for the Music/AnimalCollective song ''Peacebone'' involves a [[InterspeciesRomance relationship]] between one of these and a human.
32	* Music/{{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."
33	* The title track of Music/{{Vektor}}'s Black Future album seems to deal with an entity akin to this that also acts as TheVirus and a LotusEaterMachine.
34	* Pretty much everything by Music/InternalSuffering either has something to do with one of these or messing around with magic related to them.
35	* Being heavily inspired by ''Film/EventHorizon'', the storyline for Luca Turilli'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.
36	* In the Music/TalkingHeads 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..."
37	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIweahpCHrQ "Azathoth"]] by Proto-Prog group [[Music/{{Egg}} Arzachel]], which is about the Lovecraftian god of the same name.
38	* The titular universe-devouring force in "The Great Annihilator" by Music/{{Swans}} probably qualifies.
39	** "The Seer Returns" seems to be from the perspective of one, or possibly one of its servants. "The Seer", despite being mostly instrumental, definitely ''[[SurrealHorror sounds]]'' [[NightmareFuel like one]]. "No Words/No Thoughts" could also be interpreted as describing one, though it's hard to tell with the WordSaladLyrics.
40	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDoWtqIGUjY "Iron Butterfly Theme"]], an instrumental piece about the birth and death of an "iron butterfly".
41	* [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlnz3u_dye-fantasy-official-video-by-jeremie-perin_music The music video for DYE's "Fantasy"]] apparently involves [[spoiler:some teenage kids getting turned into abominations. One girl seemingly escapes, only to encounter the source of the mutations and GoMadFromTheRevelation; the mere sight of it (it's MILES high) is enough of a BrownNote to make her eyeballs explode in flames]].
42	* 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 tentacles. Still, not too much trouble if you've got a sparky bra on hand. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcoGo7-ccVI&feature=related Watch here.]]
43	* 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 long title 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.
44	* The Music/CreatureFeature song "Fodder for the Elder Gods".
45	* In MGMT's music video for "Kids" there are some seriously creepy monster things.
46	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLw5b70OJH8 She'll find you and she'll kill you]]. She'll find you and she'll kill you. She'll find you and she'll kill you.
47	* The giant disembodied hand referred to as The Presence from the Music/NineInchNails album ''Music/YearZero.'' Along with some other unknown entities, it arrives to "wipe this place clean" if humans don't stop killing the planet.
48	* The Black Dahlia Murder's song "Thy Horror Cosmic" is about one, while "Throne of Lunacy" is a direct reference to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
49	* WebVideo/SymphonyOfScience's "Monsters of the Cosmos" paints black holes as these.
50	* Behind Space by Music/InFlames
51	* Whatever caused the light to go out in the Music/{{Genesis\|Band}} song, "The Day The Light Went Out"
52	* A tentacle-y entity, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfSLnRTMkgY The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing "Margate Fhtagn"]]
53	* [[Music/{{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.
54	* The lyrical approach of BlackMetal band Music/DeathspellOmega tends to be to portray both {{God}} and {{Satan}} as this. Best summed up in this stanza[[labelnote:note]]Which is a modified version of Paul Celan's poem, "Tenebrae".[[/labelnote]] from "Chaining the Katechon":
55	--> ''"We went to the trough, [[{{Satan}} Lord]].''\
56	''We went, bent and convulsed.''\
57	''We saw blood, Lord. It was glittering.''\
58	''You dispensed it and we drank it.''\
59	''[[BrownNote We saw your image]].''\
60	''[[NightmareFace The gap of your eyes and mouth is void]].''\
61	''We went, bent, and convulsed.''\
62	''[[GoMadFromTheRevelation It broke us and dissolved us]]."''
63	* In ''Apocalypse:1992'', the final song of Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'s second album ''Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards'', the EvilSorcerer Zargothrax tries to unleash Korviliath the Elder God from the 18th Hell Dimension, which would [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the Universe.]]
64	* 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.
65	* 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]].
66	* 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.]]

Context EldritchAbomination / Music