NEWS
2019/08/21
What might surprise typical reactionary parents to learn is how literary most heavy metal music is. For metal fans, classic literature is the rare first demo tape of pop culture, providing the original text from which everyone’s favorite monsters and myths stem. But while bands have been inspired by everyone from infamous British poet Samuel Coleridge to gonzo doctor of journalism Hunter Thompson, it’s horror and fantasy literature that have most enthralled metalheads since the genre’s birth. And few horror authors have inspired more heavy metal songs than American sci-fi/horror pioneer H.P. Lovecraft. As a person, Howard Phillips Lovecraft was not all that metal. In fact, Lovecraft was extremely delicate and an inveterate racist, whose work expressed overwhelming anxiety over black p...
