A very positive review for the heavy Lovecraft tribute album The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos (Dec 2018) by German band Sulphur Aeon. The ‘death metal’ form of heavy metal isn’t my thing, but I’ll take the word of the reviewer that this new release is something very special within the sub-genre. The album is also of interest here because it’s from one of the few bands who only focus on Lovecraft…
[The band] Sulphur Aeon stand as debatably the single best musical entity drawing inspiration from the Cthulhu Mythos. […] The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos, continues their conceptual obsession […] This is premium, nearly flawless death metal, building on every positive attribute of their previous work to create something titanic and utterly sinister. It’s one of the best metal adaptations of its source material, and also happens to be one of the single best death metal releases of 2018.
Other reviews are equally as positive and the sample track, at the foot of the review, is certain an impressive listen. Even a bit of a melodic toe-tapper, rather than the expected wall-of-noise-and-screaming. If this is death metal, at its best, then I may have misjudged it somewhat.
Apparently the focus of the album is a sonic evocation of Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark”, and the lyrics are in English. It appears to be available in full(?) and free to stream on BandCamp…
The album’s cover artist signs himself “Ozarsson”, which makes him un-findable in Google, but he’s online as Ola Larsson of Sweden.