Those punk rockers from the frozen wastes of Vancouver, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, are releasing their newest album Spaceship Zero soon!  So to celebrate, Cinemagoria is showcasing some snippets of a few tracks on the upcoming soundtrack album.  They are in mp3 format.

Frog Star 1.90 megs  //  Power Up  999kb 
Twenty Minutes of Oxygen  762kb
The Dunwich Horror / Haunter of the Dark [audio tape]
Spoken word by David Macullum.
    I remeber running across the old Dunwich Horror LP back in my hometown's library and after listening, my fondness of the story increased threefold. Returning to that same library just recently, both the librarian and I discovered that the record was now gone. Missplaced, lost. I considered it a shame, then to my amazement, I ran across a clip taken from that same recording at the Iliad Bookstore Homepage and they were kind enough to let us include it in our archive here. I did, however come across the Haunter of the Dark LP, and recorded this snippet from the climax of the story.

dunwich.wav David Macullum reads from section X, of The Dunwich Horror.

haunter.wav David Macullum reads from the last paragraph of The Haunter of the Dark.

The Haunter of the Dark / The Rats in the Walls / The Outsider [audio tape]
Spoken word by Erik Bauersfeld.
    These fine recordings were produced by Mt. Lava Records in the 1970's and are of excellent quality. They have been hard to come by lately, until Necronomicon Press began including these tapes in their collection of Lovecraftian products. Marc Michaud was kind enough to let us include these clips in our archive. They are recorded in Real Audio format so you will need the Real Audio Player to listen to them.

haunter.ram A clip from The Haunter of  the Dark.

rats.ram A clip from The Rats in the Wall.
Alone in the Dark [computer game]
I-Motion (Infogrames Inc.) / Interplay 
    This has to be the best Lovecraftian horror game, granted there aren't that many, maybe a half dozen at most, but three of the "Lovecraft inspired" games were made by I-Motion; Alone in the Dark (I'm not even going to get into AITD II and III because I'm not going to waste my breath), Shadow of the Comet, and Prisoner of Ice. This "chilling 3-D foray" takes us deep into Louisianna, to the dark mansion of Derceto where our hero/herione gets caught in the evil plot of Elijah Pickford, who has conspired with the Old Ones to come back more powerful than ever. This game actually has a plot, and a back story that is really in depth. If you take the time to read the books and papers, you get an interesting past of interweaving stories. There is alot of name-dropping such as a few Cthulhu's, Shub-Nigguraths, Deep-Ones, and the Necronomicon. You also get a chance to get your grubby little hands on the De Vermis Mysteriis and a few other old tomes. This game had me enthralled from the start, and if you haven't played it, then too bad. You missed out. 

I recorded these clips straight from the game from .voc format to .wav. They are all excerpts from the various books. 

alone5.wav An excerpt from "De Bibliotheca: Reflections on the power of the verb in certain texts" 

alone7.wav An excerpt from "The Sacrificial Dagger" 
The Call of Kutulu / The Thing That Should Not Be [midi files]
Original by Metallica. Sequences by (unknown)
    The original songs by Metallica, I must say, are very ominous. I used to own Ride the Lightning which included "The Call of Kutulu" and when I first played it late at night, I was scared. Although I was still in early high school which might explain some things. I heard "The Thing That Should Not Be" at a friends house while gaming CoC (the song was played as a group of cultists unvieled their dark secret - Rhan Tegoth) , and we all just sat there, dribbling like maddened fools, listening to the intoxicating rhythms. Although these midi's when compared to the real songs are like comparing cow flop to caviar, they are still nice to listen to.
    The band was turned onto Lovecraft by now deceased bass player, Cliff Burton, who was a fan of his writings.  The spark of beeing fascinated by the book began quickly spreading over the rest of the band. 
    The Call of Ktulu was the first instrumental that all band members played on and was released on the Ride the Lightning album.  The Thing That Should Not Be was released on the Master of Puppets album and is a staple of Metallica's live shows.  Interesting to note, Primus covered the song in 1998.  Most mistakenly beleive this song is in reference to Hastur, however its a retelling of The Shadow Over Innsmouth to be exact.
 

The Call of Ktulu  midi file    mp3 (6.68mb)

The Thing That Should Not Be midi file  mp3 (6.27mb) 

 THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE

Messenger of Fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for Father, roaming free

  [Chorus:]

   Fearless Wretch
   Insanity
   He watches
   Lurking beneath the sea
   Great Old One
   Forbidden site
   He searches
   Hunter of the Shadows is rising
                           Immortal
                           In madness You dwell

 Crawling Chaos, underground
 Cult has summoned, twisted sound

 Out from ruins once possessed
 Fallen city, living death

 [Chorus]

 Not dead which eternal lie
 Stranger eons Death may die
 Drain you of your sanity
 Face The Thing That Should Not Be

 [Chorus]