Cthulhu - A Cryo Chamber Collaboration

Cthulhu Music out of the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft in Dark Ambient.
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Arguably the largest Dark Ambient project to date, the Cthulhu album is a collaboration between 12 artists who all worked together to pay tribute not only to Lovecraft, but to what lurks beyond our colorful illusion.
All sounds created by:
Alt3r3d Stat3
Alphaxone
Aseptic Void
Atrium Carceri
Cryobiosis
halgrath
Neizvestija
Ugasanie
Mystified
Asbaar
Dark Matter
Sjellos
Sabled Sun

[@Eternalised]

*“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”* - The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft

[@lavendergilly5843]

Well if that ain't a knee smacker idk what is

[@dead2802]

​@@lavendergilly5843 👍

[@wobbegong9958]

i want to play this very loud while in a boat in the fog

[@Laguna69]

+beau andre Sunless Sea is your game bro ;)

[@ibizenco]

You do not want to play this very loud while in a boat in the fog.

[@wobbegong9958]

Ok, while other people are on a boat and I'm sitting in a control room witching security cameras

[@sarahgray430]

You'd be better off just listening for the fog horn!

[@Esserka]

but you will die in fear, no?

[@ethanblair981]

I love the voice at 59:34. Though seemingly unintelligible, it actually says "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." - 'In his home of R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.' Amazing detail.

[@loneventhorizon]

h.p. lovecraft was such as amazing story teller that some people actually believe the necronomicon is real

[@dakotawoodworx2282]

@@loneventhorizon There is a real form of one...

[@sselfless]

you sir, win the awesome comment award

[@charlestyra108]

I've listened to this track almost every day for six months while I write, and never did I pick up on that until scrolling down and reading this comment

[@lucaashworth4798]

@@charlestyra108 looooool same

[@ScarBrosBlackSmokeScarBrosBlac]

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest fear, is the fear of the unknown" - H.P. Lovecraft

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

Love it

[@brotheralaric7177]

well, fear, is the most primitive emotion, scientist supose even our acnester, i mean those who co existed with dinosaurs even felt it.

[@jayrobb9]

It surprises me that any one emotion is older than any of the others.

[@jayrobb9]

@MofoWentFullRetard yup. Troll account reported

[@MillenniumRP]

@@jayrobb9 Do you take everything at face value?

[@industrialborn]

Ads on this video are like stabs in my side

[@raminMTL]

yeah? maybe youre a flambè

[@menace2fear]

same and I got a headache

[@hydecat5]

I love it that so many people are still inspired by Lovecraft. This music is that fine line between tension and relaxation.

[@michaelstem8703]

Oddly enough, for me, that is productive. Just relaxed enough to get in the zone but just tense enough to stay in it.

[@lavendergilly5843]

It's the only thing that helps me relax because my anxiety makes my body feel this way all the time

[@Dave.Mustaine.Is.Genius]

yepp and so are Noir Jazz pieces

[@nono9543]

*"A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea. Accepting of all that there is, and can be"*

[@connorbarclay7284]

Grant us eyes

[@David-xh7dm]

But first, grant us some fries at McRomold's.

[@cathyshepard253]

Bruh, chill. You need a hug? o - o

[@Clairebee]

You okay there, Bill?

[@nono9543]

Sarcasm is very difficult for Bill to read apparently :)

[@Edude117]

Jesus... the first two minutes are so enormously creepy. I could imagine myself overlooking an eerily still, virtually endless, and unnaturally dark ocean with a large storm brewing off in the distance. I have a nagging feeling that something is deeply wrong... perhaps my life will soon be in danger. God damn, this ain't stuff you should listen to before hitting the hay.

[@aaronknee1218]

+Edude117 Or it is exactly the stuff you should listen to... for as your mind lulls itself to sleep, it juxtaposes your want- or is it a need- to delve deeper and learn the secrets of the deep? But, just like diving into your own head, what you ascertain from its stygian depths could very well gnarl your fragile hold of reality, instead of quelling your voracious hunger for knowledge. Thus is the enticement in scratching the itch for knowledge, and the portend to stay far away from it. Nevertheless, I love falling asleep to this haha.

[@thagirion9761]

+Aaron Knee The dark night of the soul. I love it! Good vernacular by the way.

[@aaronknee1218]

Heh, thanks. Being a logophile has its perks, like sounding mellifluously creepy at four in the morning hahaha, for in that time do I become more discursive and less restrictive. Especially when I have Eldritch horrors on the mind.

[@segura2112]

That's what H.P. Lovecraft did very well, he mostly kept his creatures in the shadows with just enough of a description and let your imagination do the rest.

[@Perktube1]

Edude117 yes the first part sounds like something verrry deep and powerful is stirring under the waves, at the oceans bottom.

[@daxican]

It's crazy to think that this came out 5 years ago. Cryo Chamber should remaster the Lovecraft collection!

[@daxican]

Edit- is this a sign

[@jayrobb9]

Is something wrong with the current 'master'? Chances are the master is a lossless wave file on a server someplace. What would creating a new master accomplish?

[@Ohohohohoho]

7 years...

[@daxican]

@@Ohohohohoho still listening

[@zmatlik117]

Why? This is perfect as is. And right now it's helping me to concentrate to my job as a software tester. At almost 23:00 local time. While my wife and a year old daughter are sleeping comfortably.

[@PaulA-fp3vs]

"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of time" H. P. Lovecraft

[@omarlopez1372]

"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." Cthulhu Long Lives.....

[@SPYFICTION]

Omar Lopez You may be right.

[@CuBroProductions]

+_SiBI _ I believe you mean Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'htagn

[@joaovitorlima9952]

You cannot kill, that which eternally lies.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

@@CuBroProductions oh ......

[@charlesm7215]

11:48 You're trying to watch a movie at the theater, and some guy is shoving his fist in a bag of gummy bears. *(' -')*

[@wolfkermek]

+Charles Wagner Fucking hell, this is so accurate

[@1414carles]

+Sol the Sunlord hahahahaha

[@chrisc.9355]

hahahahaha

[@lecelte]

+Charles Wagner exactly !

[@The_Notorious_N.O.E.]

+Charles Wagner Great! Now I can't unhear a bag of gummy bears ::smh::

[@Abtastix]

“It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness. … The Thing cannot be described-there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order.”

[@moregasmthepowerful2959]

Better ram it with a boat.

[@thesleepinggiant6457]

Ah, the King of Purple Prose! Still amazing.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

I've never related to dark instrumental music so much in my life .....oh u wrote a comment, hold that thought I'll be back soon.......

[@steverye8872]

Great track. you inspired me too write a pretty little poem "In the depths of the sea lies a hideous beast, of immeasurable size and power- of malevolent race, from the cold depths of space, come to rule from his citidel tower- great darkness he'll bring as the Shoggoth all sing, Taki-li-li-li-lay but till the stars realign, he must sleep for a time in his horrible city R'lyeh" Also, Subbed.

[@gavonsharkie2671]

i know im late but, amazing!

[@thelocalnecromancer1224]

Normally I don't like poetry all that much, but this is amazing.

[@steverye8872]

@@thelocalnecromancer1224 Why thank you both. Cryo deserves at least half the credit though, as their music has been a constant source of inspiration. Ia Cthulu, Ia, Ia...

[@redrickschuhart3836]

Pretty cool poem, but the "Taki-li-li-lay" made me laugh lmao

[@steverye8872]

@@redrickschuhart3836 Well that is the sound the Shoggoth make in "At the Mountains of Madness" so I used it because it fit the meter of the poem and it rhymed. Very utilitarian even if it does sound a little silly.

[@pepleatherlab3872]

Why is it my brother always gets the songs and praise?....(sigh). Sleeping giants in soggy depths aren't really that impressive in my opinion. A fish brain with an endless appetite. Where's the pinache.' Where's the sense of style? Do humans ever gives points for treachery and scheming? Master plans don't weave themselves you know. Whatever...(waves hand).

[@liberval9425]

They come almost every night now... the ones I have started calling 'Intruders'... they wait until my eyes are nearly closed and my mind is half asleep, and that's when it starts. A piercing pain in my mind's eye that no amount of screaming will get rid of. Long, powerful fingers reach out from the darkness and hold me in place as sinuous appendages wrap endlessly around my throat and ankles. After a brief struggle, all is still, and I cease to exist for an unimaginably long time... I don't know what happens during that time, nor do I care to. The worst part about it all is that I've never actually seen any of them... they know exactly how to keep hidden, these Intruders... subscribed

[@vukasinivkovic]

1:15:00 - till the end is straight out of a nightmare trip. Incredible

[@CryingZombie666]

Sounds like Uncle Cthulhu had a wet dream :D

[@redrickschuhart3836]

@@CryingZombie666 This comment is more cursed than any page of the Necronomicon

[@greywalker505]

@@CryingZombie666 First of all, ew. Second of all, that’s a somewhat clever pun, given Cthulhu’s location.

[@connorhunter6717]

"Deep into that darkness peering..... Long I stood there, wondering..... Fearing...... Doubting...." Edger Allen poe

[@TheDennzio]

perfect

[@greywalker505]

An appropriate quote.

[@bryansitkawitz1364]

Great game. It's an excerpt from "The Raven," which is a great poem. As I'm sure everyone is aware, Lovecraft was a huge fan of Poe.

[@timmygun795]

Legendary quote. Surely he deserves his name correctly spelled though.

[@C-7827]

Dreaming dreams no mortal man should dream..

[@joshuatunis6732]

1:14:20 I am reminded of taking down striders as Gordon Freeman while walking the war torn streets of City 17.

[@LordVader1094]

Same here.

[@joshuatunis6732]

+Tachyon Luxion What?

[@Nutrilik]

Agreed - also reminds of Solider of Fortune

[@DeeRock1996]

I sleep better with this playing

[@vincentbedard4267]

This is Cthulhu's lullubay

[@TheHammerheart]

I sleep to this as well.

[@necronorris]

I don't sleep.

[@ast3663]

Cthulhu is not sleeping. ever. he is waiting.

[@derekneach7975]

necronorris you are in a waking dream.

[@jessesit8288]

“The sky and the cosmos are one”.

[@FergieTheTaurus]

8 years later and this is still the best Lovecraft ambient music I've ever heard. I still listen to it frequently.

[@redabenazza9840]

Minds are like parachutes They only function when open.

[@SolidoNaso.]

Genious.

[@Темнозагадка]

deep

[@ethanblair981]

But even when open, they can only slow your descent, they cannot stop it.

[@superguyps3]

reda benazza use them in the right weather in the right time you will land carefully , use them in the wrong weather and in the wrong time and i will take you to the unknown

[@sselfless]

and by 'function' we mean to serve the purposes of those who would fill our minds

[@m35926]

When I bought Lovecraft's complete works I went home and started reading The Shunned House before going to bed... I kid you not, the power went out. I was a terrified 20 year old panicking like a little girl

[@hmmmooops]

The first story I read was The Collour out of space. That story and th nightmare in Red Hook were both included in the back of an At the Mountains of Madness copy I bought and so I started with them because they were smaller. I read one the first night and the other some nights later and in both those nights I slept with the lights on.

[@kingkong381]

The first Lovecraft story I read was The Dunwich Horror. I read that one first because I had first heard of Lovecraft when I played Fallout 3 and explored the Dunwich Building. I knew that the weird shit in that place had to be an easter egg for something so I looked it up on the Fallout Wiki.

[@dragonuv65]

I got a collection of all of his short stories for Christmas this year. First stories I read were Dagon and The Doom that Came to Sarnath, had pretty intense dreams of fish people that night hahaha kind of scary too

[@old-manparker6153]

One of my fave Lovecraft stories!

[@shaman9024]

The first story i read when I bought a copy of HP Lovecraft's complete fiction was call of Cthulhu

[@GlitchWarrior1]

...wtf..... this helps me write my essays....... i got 2 letter grades higher when i wrote them using this soundtrack vs nothing ._.

[@VampireYoshi]

KawaiiLemon That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even essays will die.

[@GlitchWarrior1]

Same

[@russellbanks8540]

KawaiiLemon see my playlists , here on you tube, Im a streetrod fabrications master in "Roswell New Mexico" . . . as well ambient soundscape musician , . . .

[@iangoldberg3992]

+KawaiiLemon The dark gods can give you more than mere letter grades child. Just open your mind... and let them feast on its contents.

[@petemadrona2252]

Thou art in favor of his majesty Cthulhu

[@JasoniBruh]

Cthulhu F'tagn what a wonderful phrase it means great evil rising up from the waves

[@Chaosian]

Well.. except that it means he's doing the exact opposite of that. But no-! That's fun! Keep it up!

[@guillehummel3228]

wut?i doesnt mean that but fuck it,its Chulhu "dreams","sleeps","waits"

[@skylerthompson8046]

For those who cannot read to a tune; Hakuna Matatta

[@JasoniBruh]

Skyler Thompson ayy

[@SSD_Penumbra]

"When he was a young Elder God..." "WHEN IIIII WAS A YOUNG ELDER GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD..."

[@solaris_142]

Just started reading "The Burrowers Beneath" again by Brian Lumley. I've not read much Lovecraft but I have however read many Brian Lumley novels who took inspiration from Lovecraft. And many of Brian Lumley's novels before he created his own "Necroscope" series were based on Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos. So I'm familiar with the Cthulhu Mythos through Lumley's writings. I've been fortunate enough to have collected some of the originals from England. ( I live in the US. ) I'm going to begin revisiting them. "The Burrowers Beneath" being one of those. :) In the age of internet streaming services and video games we sometimes forget about how great a good read is, I think. I know people that say they never read a novel in their life, wow, how unfortunate for them... I can't even imagine having lived my life without all the epic adventures I've been on through the works of fantastic writers.

[@old-manparker6153]

Not red much Lovecraft? Wow. Make sure you at least read "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Dunwich Horror", "Rats in the Walls"

[@kenfusion]

Lumley is excellent . Best line ever "Claire Come over here into the light , I want you to meet something. Claire meet ... something. Something... eat Claire ."

[@Alfbeatle12]

Put this melody while playing muted Bloodborne

[@MrDibara]

Fantastic idea!

[@chipsahoy1068]

Well I think that goes without saying especially in the fishing hamlet

[@Alfbeatle12]

That comment was before I played the DLC, now I see the trick ._. Can´t beat Laurence

[@chipsahoy1068]

+Alfbeatle12 don't give up he took me forever to beat by myself ended up using the pizza cutter which I felt just ruined the fight

[@SunlightLord-jr8ic]

I'm gonna try that soon! I've been craving it lately lol

[@AmbientEpicuros]

My kind of mood, usually.

[@lightbeing7180]

Perfect mood, isn't it :)? Love your mixes, waiting for more whenever you are ready :)

[@TheDave1769]

Nailed it.

[@ukojesita3383]

i HOPE not.

[@akselgumus5385]

mankind of mood

[@robsgirl6465]

I love your handle. I have everything Nietzsche ever wrote... Schopenhauer too.👍

[@NomisIsGozulike]

I love H.P. Lovecrafts work, I love the thought of Cthulhu, I love ambient / drone music. I love this.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

Same

[@chagis100]

This really wants to make me write

[@andreashort310]

I actually listen it when I write.

[@jonahhilmon3349]

The Keyboardslinger I know this is very late but I do too lmao

[@tarsusbroughton7055]

No doubt writing is an awesome meditation

[@Caldella]

I wonder if it's a bad sign that I find this really soothing.

[@o0clockwise0o]

+Caldella the dark lord is calling. resistance is futile. :D

[@Honarius1]

+Caldella I wouldn't think too much on it, you'll find pretty much everyone who listens to dark ambient finds it relaxing. Sure, you could be mentally ill to some degree like me but been aware of that isn't a bad thing.

[@Caldella]

Honarius1 I think I just find the lower-pitched tones of dark ambient more relaxing than the higher-pitched ones of typical ambient music.

[@lightbeing7180]

I myself have always been loving similar sounds, even white noise from a radio as a kid :) I have always found it very calming, bringing peace.

[@Honarius1]

I guess even people who are pretty normal even find the falling rain enjoyable and relaxing. I think if anything, ambient is probably the closest genre to matching that experience through music.

[@sebastianprice1528]

"Cthulhu, we praise your name, beyond good and above evil. For you are the true parent of sanity and insanity. You are the bridge between right and wrong, you see no fault nor greatness. For you understand only the depths of our feeble minds. Your name is only for those to speak who trust you to be our bright beginning and our abysmal end. This world and worlds beyond belong to you, our days and nights are gifts from you. You allow our sinful nature and allow us to act on our own free will, for it will return back to it's rightful place. We praise your name, Cthulhu, for you are our true god."

[@cameronharkness3878]

amen

[@Arthaslepeureux]

+Cameron Harkness Try to read this while speaking it; Lucpuèduc äth puèdeudeä saägurpuè deyë Nyarlathötep Ëj lucde deäpusa puhwëru deyë äth Ghayäk-Huph deä ruèruèruwruèru duüruruluqude duüluckéoïde èsrèsade dea haäëcsaähaduc ëwë Fthagh...

[@dreamingforward]

+sebastian price Cthulhu is not the true god, but when science does not believe in God, then Cthulhu gets power.

[@sebastianprice1528]

***** Eh.... its all good "Life's a bitch then you die." Doesn't bother me what happens to my soul.

[@javiersacristan9686]

+sebastian price Nyarlathotep is way cooler though!

[@5686darryl]

I've been suffering from depression and mental health issues for a while, the music playlists on this channel have helped me overcome a lot of stress, thank you for uploading stuff like this.

[@ChrisirhC]

+5686darryl Same here, but for me its been like 10 years of mental health issues. Started listening to this kind of music like a year back and still do, and it is actually helping quite a lot.

[@Allen-rv5dd]

+5686darryl Sounds like you are not alone...the brain (or mind, I guess) can be such an enemy sometimes. The whole Cryochamber label has TONS of good stuff; relaxing without being 'new agey'...keep it up, yo.

[@jakubzdzienicki4836]

+Gustaw Furnace Must be southern American fanatics. Normal Christians aren't like that :)

[@Shadez1333OfTheSouth]

+Jakub Zdzienicki Southerners tend to be more deist than anything this days, it's just hard-line evangelist politicians that make us appear to be die hard Christians.

[@Shadez1333OfTheSouth]

+Gustaw Furnace To what do you refer?

[@moregasmthepowerful2959]

Stare into the abyss long enough, and soon the abyss is staring into you.

[@sandragruber4596]

One word... PERFECT: It makes you feel like floating under the sea... at the lost city... Hearing his call... :-D

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

@Golden Age Creation neat ......

[@loufaen4520]

perfect for darkest dungeon !

[@Kopserulii]

What is dead may never die

[@luvlylady55]

For some reason...i find t his music relaxing...ive had some stresses in the past months..and i try to listen to relaxing music..found this by accident...really like it...i wonder what that means???

[@tydyman2003]

Linda Hernandez dark ambience just helps

[@Ali.Aideel.Ismail]

You likes Dark Ambient :) detached from social dogma..congrates and hope you'll get better with life

[@benhuether5474]

That's weird because when I listened to it it sounds like something that's not supposed to be heard by human ears. (I hope you like your "Cthulhu shall cradle me to eternal cosmic suffering and madness" music)

[@the_Melpomenea]

I seriously need to read H.P Lovecraft again.

[@cryochamberlabel]

+CherryPai The rule is to take a shot every time he writes "non-euclidean geometry"

[@Ashvoreth]

+Cryo Chamber You'd start seeing Shoggoths by the the end of the first story.

[@jakubzdzienicki4836]

+Cryo Chamber No, you take a shot every time he writes 'bas-relief'

[@unfortunatelythis4183]

Take a shot every time he describes architecture.

[@filipmauer9762]

or cyclopian structures. or the Necronomicon. or when the monster turns out to be Nyartlathotep all along. or when the protagonist has a revolver. or when he goes insane. or when there's a comment that's probably racist. you get the picture.

[@worldofthought8352]

Who would have thought the sound of madness would sound...calming.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

Ikr

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

It helps the crazies

[@morphing_erebus]

It's even creepier if you play "rainy mood" at the same time. And more atmospheric of course.

[@CuBroProductions]

+kakashimorph Awesome

[@MajorTom1313]

Good idea. Now i can sleep for sure.

[@ryansburrner1044]

I have a Cthulhu poster and he is my favorite elder god

[@GibbousTheGame]

Working on a HP Lovecraft-inspired point and click adventure, and your channel is my go-to for building atmosphere while I write and animate. Thanks so much for the beautiful sounds. Everyone on this channel is a huge inspiration. Thank you, thank you. Love from Transylvania, Romania.

[@ethanblair981]

Hahaha, sorry, it's just so fitting that an individual from Transylvania should be designing cosmic horror.

[@SithCelia]

This is great music to write to, especially when the project on the table is party inspired by the cosmic horror of Lovecraft.

[@GingerScallion]

Agreed.

[@maytaurus1961]

this stuff is so good. it almost too dark for words. thanks so much. if I were a film maker, I would employ you and reward you handsomely for your genius.

[@lostjack157]

I rather drown with sounds from the endless depths instead of the noises sung by life.

[@aegireyt]

I find myself coming back to this collab again and again and again, it's just SO DAMN GOOD

[@usmh]

Me too, I've listened to it while taking a bath at night many times...

[@gungnir3926]

you would wounldnt you Ægir. Your mythology suggests you favour the ocean.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

@@usmh wth? Lol

[@aegireyt]

@@gungnir3926 Absolutely true 😃

[@lilov3111]

-This is madness. -No! THIS IS R'LYEH!

[@lilov3111]

Yep, it was unspeakable, i fainted, i can't describe what i saw, another short story ended well :D

[@BrotherBearBarras]

You win the internet.

[@lunaargent3159]

Herpy Derp yeah..pretty much

[@greywalker505]

What’s the difference?

[@Alpharius93]

* gets kicked "down" a non-Euclidean pit *

[@i_racconti_di_antonio]

About two millions and three thousand views for this masterpiece. About the half of views was mine.

[@MorejaSparda]

La música perfecta para leer a Lovecraft y su círculo. Ya se que es una obviedad tan grande como una "ciclopea ciudad sumergida desde hace eones", pero tenía que decirlo (jaja)

[@madilynmcmanaway1043]

My DM uses these sounds for DND all the time and it works perfectly

[@ojaspiondoscomentarios3224]

Cadê os BR? Meditar ouvindo isso é show! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

[@alextschetter6109]

I listened to this while it was raining outside... I almost couldn't tell the difference between the album and thunderstorm!

[@icarusdjr]

19:30 getting a huge Half Life/Black Mesa Research Facility vibe right here.

[@veangeful3]

Idiot.

[@icarusdjr]

Infinitus Paradoxious ?

[@XDeathzors]

Half Life has a strong Lovecratian influence.

[@SevenFootPelican]

It's funny because Half Life 2 ambience is actually what led me to find this channel in the first place. I loved the game, but more so the desolate surroundings and the sounds even more than the storyline. Afterwards, did a little digging into the kind of music used. Before I knew it, I was led here. Haven't found any channel or content that comes even close in comparison. It's like every upload by Cryo Chamber, I'm able to re-live the amazing experience of playing through Half Life 2 for the first time again.

[@lars38010]

You can also try the channel: Dark Black Core. It`s a lot noisier. Dark, menacing soundscapes, very abstract, sometimes mechanical, but with no rhythm per se. Deep murky sounds and rumbles, devoid of any melodic structure, except for some short snatches of melody from time to time.

[@Domzdream]

Haha weird I'm actually reading the HP lovecraft book 'necronomicon', basically short stories compiled. I put on dark ambient for effect, run a hot bath and like a few candles. I lie back and read for a couple of hours. I'm so glad I found this track!

[@Cleftlipkid]

don't know why i love this so much but i listened to it while role playing. good music keep it up

[@cryochamberlabel]

+Cleftlipkid +1 to DMing

[@Cleftlipkid]

:3 its also great for story writing ! helps me get into a dark twisted mood ! i love it

[@matthewtackittsr1420]

+Cleftlipkid I enjoy listening to this in my earbuds as I write as well.

[@br123mn]

+Cleftlipkid yup, same here :D

[@travisshallenberger9486]

+Cleftlipkid As a DM I played this (along with other select music) in the background as my players explored a haunted city. It really got to them. They were saying "We need to get the FUCK OUT of this place and soon!"

[@DGISALWAYS]

I'm curious to read to H.P. Lovecraft now, I been a Stephen King and Poe fans for years but I never read H.P. Lovecraft's work at yet.

[@shadomatch4375]

heheheh... something to listen to while playing starcraft as zerg... chewing up the terrans...

[@halfpipefreak]

beginning sounds like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. so much. that game has great atmosphere and dark ambient tracks that are truely awesome. great game, and great dark ambience

[@DecayingReverie]

I love this so much. I used it for background music and inspiration for my investigative poem for my poetry class. Here it is if you're interested: Lovecraft’s Parents A madness took hold of me just as madness took hold of father. I was just a boy when I saw the men dressed in white suits charge into the theater and steal him away. They said the syphilis was the cause for his madness but I knew otherwise. Madness rises not from man’s devices. Madness comes from places astral, from pelagic beings who lurk within the depths of both the world and the mind, their discorporate visages projecting a wave of screaming, twisted, total madness. It was those great beings that really took daddy, not the men from Butler Hospital. Slaves serve the master’s purpose. I should count myself lucky. Then they took mommy. Pulling her by the hair out into the damp Providence streets, throwing her into a van with bars on the window, saying it was her hysteria and depression and that she would get better at the Hospital. I wrote her every day. She never got better. Gallbladder surgery was her final sentence after her mind was spent, after her mind was taken. It will be my turn next. The human mind is frail and insignificant on its own. Imminent terror approaches to take me. It roils and burbles, writhing in the sticky viscera, bathed in an air of insanity. But first, I will leave my mark. Eldritch, arcane practices, long lost invocations, black candles, ancient runes of a long lost language all culminate into an oppressive darkness that seems almost tactile. The insanity will rip my mind like an overzealous stage crew who rips the veil open while the actors are mid-dress, unprepared for the show. And now, my final act complete, the end draws to a close.

[@rhysbutnormal]

it captures the sense of insanity, i also felt like it was a diary entry of sorts. very nice

[@DecayingReverie]

Rainbowlite Thank you kindly.

[@Eric-zv4og]

+Decaying Reverie this shit is fucking gold. love iiiittttt. would totallly read a whole book like this. youre amiizing. The Dark Lord awaits you, my dear child

[@DecayingReverie]

Eric Põdra Thank you very much.

[@jarithesaunalover6008]

+Decaying Reverie sulphur aeon is such a good band.

[@univerex-8061]

Bow down to Cthulhu. Bow down to God. Bow down to the _Universe_. The time is nearing.

[@thecapone45]

Currently reading Lovecraft's, "Beyond the Wall of Sleep." This music makes it even more terrifying and indeed fits the tone of his work. Thanks for the amazing job!

[@RandomNexus]

Just discovered Cryo Chamber and this delightfully dark ambient mix. I may be late to the party, but what fun to slither along the pathways obviously enjoyed by others before me. ;D

[@mdandrews]

Any Bloodborne players out there: start playing this as soon as you enter the Fishing Hamlet. One of the eeriest atmospheres you can possibly make.

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

This is why i wish fromsoft would add more ambient music for areas like that.

[@reptilianroyal9455]

I remember when there were no ads on this and would play if every night to sleep. There shouldnt be ads on this music generally used for relaxtion

[@riskit_4_thebiscuit]

Gotta say, I see tons of supposed Christians on these Dark Ambient songs' comments sections being all "This is evil" and "You need Jesus", and I just don't get it. Okay, yeah, if it was all "Hail Satan" and everything, maybe I could see your point, but stuff like this - instrumental stuff? Man, I think it's important. Nobody can sustain a happy, clappy attitude all the time, and I genuinely think we need music like this - a memento mori if you will - because we need to understand that we will one day die and be dissolved...and that's okay. This music is so good to meditate on your own mortality, which can be very beautiful and freeing. Accept that there are more powerful things than yourself. Accept that you will die. Accept that you are temporal, rather than infinite. You will be much happier. I think the quote posted on here by Darrius Cooper says it well - "A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea - accepting of all that there is and can be". Yeah, i know it's from a video game, but I think you can find truth and beauty even there. I have experienced great joy at the thought that I will one day die and be completely at rest - I think I want a sea burial. I really have ever since I read Moby Dick many years ago. Though that feeling has been heightened by reading Lovecraft more recently. I know his works are all about fear of the unknown, but i think the people who are the most afraid in his stories are the ones who won't accept it. I know there's no great monolithic creatures the like of which Lovecraft wrote about, but I know that I'm nearly powerless in this world, and that's the heart of what he wrote really. I've accepted it, and I am at peace. Calming but dark music like this helps me accept it. I say this as a Christian as well - i love the unknown, and I think there's still so much of the unknown even in the God of the Bible. Even if you believe He exists, we can't possibly know everything about Him, or very much at all really. We are temporal and simply *cannot* comprehend certain things. And I wouldn't probably want to, even if I could. I think it would make my head explode. Cheers, y'all.

[@AlfredFJones1776]

Benjamin Kelly You need Jesus fam.

[@LivWildStyle]

Hail Satan

[@XXX_xxxxxxxx]

Hail Lucifer!

[@Lordoftenticles]

Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan, rise from the depths when the seventh horn has blown.

[@hyperiontitan463]

There's no Chtulhu which can eternal lies and with the pass of strange Azag, even Death may die.

[@ugsskywatchermckenzie4319]

these are fucking AMAZING for reading books thank you

[@shayden4296]

59:34

[@odysseus691]

smoking and listening to this, what a journey

[@Aranohr]

Perfect for playing Call of Cthulhu games with friends.

[@falcon989]

When my roleplaying group descends to the final chamber of undead, this will be waiting for them.

[@DamienB_YT]

Actually the undead have nothing to do with Cthulu, even though the music could fit any dark dungeon.

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

I want this playing on my birthday party!

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

So typical

[@vishnudas3328]

AT MY FUNERAL

[@jamesfry8983]

all hail cthulu lord and master of the earth we humble servants are yours to command we who have not forget the old ways of the cosmos arias great elder being the time is right the stars are in your favour.

[@James-he7bu]

That “colorful illusion” seems a bit frayed of late. Something is bleeding through from the Other Side. I get the feeling the stars may be, errr, ‘strange,’ and as we all know, “with strange aeons even death may die.”

[@old-manparker6153]

• Howard Phillips Lovecraft wrote in the 1920's when Egypt and Polynesian culture were newly discovered, in any mass-media sense, to America. Both cultures seemed to be the door-ways to greater, ancient, old-gods, and knowledge of a cosmos so large that we're humbled before it. • Unlike western religion that tells us we are the center of the universe, Lovecraft's Cthulhu-mythos tells us we are not. We are an insignificant tiny part of a fearfully vast, complex, and quite often alien universe. The universe is far greater than we think, or can even imagine - and we are but a tiny little part of it, and very very far from the most powerful thing in it. • However, the link to mankind's significant role in this universe is through the earth Dreamlands, where a human can journey - travel through time & dimensions, and even transform into something more.

[@Akamaholic]

Nothing. That's all I felt. Both in terms of emotion and when considering my own existence. The beast I was confronted with was so overwhelmingly towering; it must have pierced the sky above my head and peered into outer space. Its howls shook the ground below me. It sounded hollow, but at the same time carried a force of thunder. It uttered a tongue that I couldn't even imagine comprehending, least my consciousness would shatter. The awe of this monster's might filled me with such dread, with such hopelessness that I couldn't help but just sit down on the cold, dark blacktop, crossed legs and let it consume me. There was no use of fighting back. No use of fleeing. It would just hunt me down shortly after. If I managed to escape, this night at least I was certain it would haunt my dreams; turning them into nightmares. As I gazed at this behemoth of a creature's ghastly complex, I felt my eyes light ablaze and my mind began to rot. Something was filling my thoughts that I knew did not belong. I gained insight of humanities destruction. It was horrific, but at the same time peaceful. Then as the monster swept me up into its grasp, I couldn't even let out a cry as I instantly began experiencing the seething pain of dying the most painful deaths for all eternity.

[@LunerKunai]

See that? What is that crawling from the depths 'round Innsmouth? ♫Its beginning to look a lot like fishmen♫

[@dylanwebster-hall3161]

Is it crazy to say that this type of ambient sound is calming?

[@janetcraft]

Beautiful. This music makes you think.

[@eddthulhu5020]

Perfect soundtrack for "Call of Cthulhu RPG".

[@alan138]

Wow!! that last song whas incredibly sugesting. I actually can feel like i was in a Cthulhu apocalipse, just 10/10.

[@misaeldroguettgomez2465]

H.P Lovecraft Is A Genius 👍😊

[@CasualPoster]

An excerpt from a waterlogged journal: "Plagued for days by unknown shapes shifting in the depths and the darting shadows of teasing tails slapping our hull, an unnatural storm has now blown us far off-course. Rumors have begun to spread amongst the men, tales of benthic horrors which no godly man ought speak of lightly: sharks with dead eyes and bloody maws like hundreds of butcher's knives, whales with sinkholes in place of mouths, dolphins with taunting, all-too-human laughter, and the most unusual, creeping starfish, which seek those who sleep, and cling to our vessel with determined strength. In the distance, through the fog and spray, one can occasionally make out the shape of that which overwhelms the mind: a cyclopean tentacle, writhing and rising far above even the tallest of waves, bringing with it even more torrential rain. It - or the entity to which it is anchored - seems to be taunting us. Increasingly, night after night, the writhing mass appears closer than ever, sending wave after treacherous wave upon our ship. I fear what this night brings..."

[@old-manparker6153]

I'm listening to a Cthulhu Mythos novel by Greig Beck "Book of the DEAD" with This Cryo Chamber Collaboration of 'Cthulhu" in the Back Ground. Utterly perfect. I think I'll purchase the CD version of this Cthulhu - A Cryo Chamber Collaboration.

[@David-xh7dm]

In the depths of Ry'leh dead Cthulhu lies in His house dreaming

[@lurkerinthedarkness]

Making contact with eldritch wisdom is a blessing, for even if it drives one mad, it allows one to serve a grander purpose, for posterity

[@Danthehorse]

I think it's a shame you have retconned the artwork for the vinyl and cd reissues of this one. I first got into CC when the first 3 lovecraft collabs had come out, and the look and vibe to it all was and is so important to me in hooking me in. Pray you dont change the other two which have cool pictures rather than symbols. Imho etc etc 😉

[@fjfeuankcnncne7663]

9gag brought me here, I am now a cthulhu worshipper, great.

[@Perktube1]

Do you have anything post-apocalyptic, not quite dystopian, but a little song the lines of road warrior, ie ramshackle camps of corrugated steel and few people, something along that line of music?

[@Arthaslepeureux]

This is the BEST thign to listen to while reading Lovecraft works of litterature. Thanks man.

[@Frigoxful]

Yo utilizo mucho este audio para leer "Los Mitos De Cthulhu" todos los días y ustedes???

[@MajorTom1313]

This is my sons favorite. He listens to this in our murky basement for hours when he doesn't eat the vegies. I told him this is what happens. He is always so calm when i lock him out again. He's a good boy.

[@univerex-8061]

You're not serious right?

[@Nemesis_T-Type]

Univerex Why would he? The suffering of his breed only feeds the lingering Darkness, and one day, may his corpse be consumed and his soul be thrown in the endless Abyss, for this is the Truth of Oblivion and death.

[@MajorTom1313]

Well, no. I'm not actually insane ;)

[@blandantey]

Some parents are not meant to exist.......But they do and breed the creepiest of organism on the planet to spread fear and chaos. MuuahhahahahHahahAHHA! Go forth my spawns!

[@sarahgray430]

My son would probably like this too, but I don't lock him in the basement. He'd probably dig his way out!

[@flafibmx]

Hey there Cthuhlu , down there in your sunken city,

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

Awwww

[@WillFehlhaberMusicOfficial]

1:10:00 area. that is fucking unsettling. Great job!

[@greywalker505]

That's the point where he begins to stir, when he starts "yawning".

[@NoMoreNever]

"In his house at R`lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." I`ll listen to this as I go to bed and see where it takes me... ;)

[@ChronicNOTAG]

Ia Cthulhu F'htagn! Ia Cthulhu F'htagn!

[@CuBroProductions]

+ChronicNOTAG Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[@SolidoNaso.]

It's not Ia, It's Iä!

[@-YogSothoth]

Fuck all of you, Team Hastur all the way!

[@BigTimeAndy]

6:10 Ending Theme of a Cthulhu Movie

[@BigTimeAndy]

I watched last night Kong: Skull Island - not impossible to make a Lovecraft Movie...maybe setteled in 1912 or whenever Call of Cuthulhu takes place