If you haven’t heard of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, they are a criminally underrated and under-famous band. They have a sound very similar to the Ramones but the majority of their songs revolve around Lovecraft stories and such…except with a sense of humor.
One of my absolute favorite bands. I’ve been listening to them since Let Sleeping Gods Lie, the CD that was released to support Wizards of the Coast’s D20 release of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, which I still have a copy of. That and the Spaceship Zero RPG, which was written by DOTHT (specifically Toren “MacBin” Atkinson) for their Spaceship Zero album.
Although… I must confess, I haven’t given The Dukes of Alhazred its due. Probably because I don’t actually have that on CD, it was an iTunes purchase.
While in Nashville this week I stopped at Third Man Records (Jack White’s label). Super cool place to check out with mostly music I never heard of but I asked some advice and picked some just because of the covers, this is one of them, Olivia Jean (Jack is her husband). It’s fantastic!!!
Here’s the whole album, which I’m finding is great top to bottom.