![]() ![]() I won’t go into the details of the story, though I encourage every single one of you to read it right now, but I will say that The Seal of R’Lyeh’s take on the short story is epically terrifying. The album opens with one of Lovecraft’s most famous stories: The Shadow over Innsmouth. “The Shadow over Innsmouth” has all the elements of horror and dread and cosmic nihilism you’d come to expect from something inspired by Lovecraft. When I reviewed it, I looked at an album that focused on Carcosa, now I’m moving forward to stories and places a little more familiar to the layman. ![]() I’ve reviewed The Seal of R’Lyeh once before and now I think it’s high time to return to that project. There are exceptions of course, and I’ve done my best to find those exceptions. Both, too, are almost over-represented in music, to the point that they could almost become cliché and dull. Both are considered the fathers of their genres, sculptors that molded epics from the wilds of their imaginations. What Tolkien did for fantasy, Lovecraft did for horror. If there is one author who matched Tolkien’s creativity, not his storytelling or linguistics, it would be H.P. ![]()
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