Italy’s Black Widow record label has released a heavy metal tribute album to Lovecraft. Nothing unusual in that, but the booklet that comes with the double-album vinyl is reportedly quite substantial, ‘The Dream and the Nightmare: life and works of H.P. Lovecraft’.

Here’s part of an Italian review, translated from a page that can’t be linked to due to EU cookie-madness…

Life and Works is just spectacular. The illustrations show us the bizarre sculptures by Andrea Bonazzi, dark and particular character, talented sculptor and visionary of the crazy Lovecraftian deities. We also find drawings by Luca “Laca” Montagnani. Also in the booklet there is an ample account of the journal Studi Lovecraftiani curated by Pietro Guarriello, one of the leading Italian experts of H.P. Lovecraft. […] In the limited vinyl edition we also have Paul Roland’s biography of Lovecraft as a free extra.

The double-album’s music is also explicitly about Lovecraft’s specific tales (rather than vaguely Lovecraftian) and the reviewer calls it…

one of the most beautiful musical tributes I’ve ever heard. The contextual booklet and iconography of the work makes it unmissable.

Sounds like Lovecraft collectors — especially those interested in sculpture — might want to have a copy, even if they don’t read Italian.