Cemetery Lament

H.P. Lovecraft stories in heavy metal music aren't anything new. In fact next to Satan I would be willing to bet that Cthulhu probably is a close second in getting the most play in the occult/death/black metal music world. Not that I have any problem with that since I'm a lifelong fan of Lovecraft and his various works. So when I was contacted by Cthuluminati I was pumped as hell to check out their music. It was definitely worth it! Of course one of the first questions I had for the guys in Cthuluminati was how the hell they came up with a name like this in the first place.  Hiss Squidniss (Devi) - Vocals, Guitar and Percussion provided me with the following answer... "We wanted to tell stories Based on Lovecraft's mythos as well as conspiracy theories. At first Calarami (guitar) came up with it as a joke, but we all were very enthusiastic about it, so we decided to go on with it." You can't argue with that kind of logic. Cthuluminati has been...

Recently I made contact with a few of the smaller labels and distributors in the extreme metal world to see if there would be any interest in having Cemetery Lament do promotional features for upcoming artists and albums. I received a pretty good response from a few of them and I'm happy to announce that moving forward I will feature news and release information from several labels in the emerging underground scene.  Now before anyone worries that I'm already selling my soul in some kind of Faustian bargan to the man or going "mainstream"... pfft ... trust me when I say this won't change anything about Cemetery Lament or my focus on unsigned underground artists. Underground metal will always be the focus of my blog and no amount of money, power or sexual favors is going to change that... okay maybe the last one. My reason for striking such a devious deal was to provide you [the reader] with even more content from as many different sources as possible in the...