On H.P. Lovecraft’s unaddressed racism in heavy metal
Posted by Brett Reistroffer on October 17, 2016
You’re a diehard metalhead, so you know the themes; tentacles, Elder Gods, formless shadows, and cosmic madness from beyond reality. The literary imagery and subject matter of early twentieth century weird-fiction godfather H.P. Lovecraft have been co-opted by extreme metal bands since the genre was born. And not without good reason; the two are […]