For this Halloween, Are You Morbid? XXXVI: A Heavy Metal Podcast offered listeners “Lovecraft Returns”. This being a two-hour discussion survey of the best Lovecraft heavy metal music, which sports track titles such as “In the Maze of Kadath”.

This is a “part two”, though, and follows last year’s three-and-a-half hour Lovecraft-a-thon Are You Morbid? XV – Lovecraft & Metal: A Beginner’s Guide, with lots of expert discussion about the music and where to start. Skip to around the ten minute mark, to get past the usual basic “Who is Lovecraft?” intro for metal folk who’ve (somehow) never heard of him. For those who feel they may need to skip over certain sections, the links above go to listennotes.com. The “…” on the sidebar there opens up to offer an MP3 link, and if you then right-click on this your Web browser should be able to force an MP3 download.

In the case of “A Beginner’s Guide” the track-listing also categorises the tracks by metal type, for those who have not yet correlated the mind-bending differences between Symphonic Black and Blackened Drone/Sludge/Doom Metal.

Sadly there appears to be no Spotify playlist for these track selections, and so perhaps someone might want to spend time combining these two ‘Are You Morbid?’ Lovecraft lists into one. And then posting a link to the playlist. Possibly www.playlist-converter.net can help with that, as it appears to be able to take a plain-text band name – track name list and turn it into a Spotify playlist, though I don’t trust it enough to give it Spotify account access. I’ve partially cleaned the combined list for such a conversion, removing accents, type brackets, dual track names and sending the “Everything” bands to their own list…

BAND NAME | TRACK NAME

Olyphant – Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
Terrible Old Man – Cosmic Poems
Terrible Old Man – Fungai from Yuggoth
Back To R’leyh – The Awakening
Last Fight of the Primordial Revenant – Prophecies of a Dying World
Aldebaran – Dweller in the Twilight
Swampcult – The Festival
Fiendlord – Neuromancy
Ripping Corpse – Dreaming With the Dead
Nile – Those Who The Gods Detest
Septic Flesh – Sumerian Demons
Morbid Angel – Gateways to Annihilation
Infinite Spectrum – Haunter in the Dark
Shoggoth – Mythos
Dreamlongdead – Madnessdeadgrave
Alkaloid – Liquid Anatomy
Lurking Fear – Out Of A Voiceless Grave
Colosseum – Chapter 1: Delirium
Chthe’ilist – Le dernier crepuscule
Hesper Payne – Unclean Rituals
Great old ones – EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
Obed Marsh – Innsmouth
Catacomb – In the Maze of Kadath
Arkham – Chapter III
Fiendlord – Neuromancy
Hypnos – Arcane Moon
Astrophobos – Remnants of Forgotten Horrors
Crafteon – Cosmic Reawakening
Ancient Niggurath – Horrors and Wonders
Barabas – The Arrival of Yog-Sothoth
Ultar – Kaddath
ceremonial castings – Cthulue
Bal-sagoth – Starfire Burning upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
Brown Jenkins – Dagonite
Brown Jenkins – Death Obsession
Swampcult – An Idol Carved of Flesh
Swampcult – The Festival
Them Vultures – Weird Tales
Giant of the Mountain – Moon Worship
The Lurking Fear – Out of the Voiceless Grave
Philosopher – Thoughts
Beast Conjurator – Summoned to the Abyss
Beast Conjurator – Strange Aeons Comp
Smothered – The Inevitable End
Yogth Sothoth – Abominations of the Nebulah Mortiis
Nile – Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Massacre – From Beyond
Innsmouth – Consumed by Elder Sign
Cosmic Horror – Tales of the Macabre
Coffin Birth – The Bowels of Chaos
dawn of relic – Lovecraftian Dark
temple of the demigod – the great old ones
the uncreation – Dreaming in R’lyeh
Serapheum – Serapheum
Obed Marsh – Innsmouth
Thergothon – Stream from the Heavens
Aldebaran – Dwellers in Twilight
Aldebaran – Buried Beneath the Aeons
Solemn They Await – Sanctuary in the Depths
throng of shoggoths – The Cosmic Reconfiguration
Catacombs – In the Depths of R’lyeh
Innzmouth – Lovecraft’s Dream
Tyranny – Tides of Awakening
Tyranny – Aeons in Tectonic Interment
The Disciples of Zoldon – Blackened Theological Tome
Ripping Corpse – Dreaming with the Dead
Revenant – Prophecies of a Dying World
Deathchain – Death Gods
Aarni – Bathos
Shoggoth – Mythos
Tentacle – Ingot Eye
Skyler Alexandre – Whispers in the Dark
Arkham Witch – Legions of the Deep
Arkham Witch – I Am Providence
Mad God – Tales of a Sightless City
Evangelist – In Partibus Infidelium
Evangelist – Doominicanes
Black Temple Below – Into the Black Temple
aeon sphelion – Visions of Burning Aeons
tortured spirit – Arkham Sanitarium
Keziah – The Ocean Is Not Silent
evoke thy lords – Escape to the Dreamlands
Living Death – Protected from Reality
Mekong Delta – The Music of Eric Zahn
Payne’s Grey – Kadath Decoded
Back to R’lyeh – The Awakening
Back to R’lyeh – Last fight of the Primordial
Back to R’lyeh – The McMurdo Expedition 1909
Infinite Spectrum – Haunter in the Dark

EVERYTHING: BAND NAME | ALL TRACKS BY…

The Great Old Ones – Everything
teen cthulhu – Everything
Drowner – Everything
Portal – Everything
Puteraeon – Everything
Sulphur Aeon – Everything
Azrath-11 – Everything
Colosseum – Everything
fungoid stream – Everything
eyes of leigeia – Everything
Space God Ritual – Everything
Tyrant’s Kall – Everything
Yzordderex – Everything
Bretus – Everything
space mirrors – Everything