.: CTHULHU :.
 
genre: avant-garde minimalistic black metal
(early: ambient / drone / experimental)
 
study the chronicle of the acts
of cthulhu the mighty
in this incarnation
(in chronological order
from the bottom upwards)
or choose the other incarnation
of cthulhu the mighty
 

Hallucinations at the Mountains of Madness

CD 2020
 
Released by Hidden Marly Production (HMP 068). Limited to 300 copies.
 


Cover art by Polar Maya

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1.   Chthonian

2.   Baric

3.   Static

4.   Funeral

5.   Tenebrific

 
Recorded live by Konstantin Dolganov
     at Hiboll Studio, St. Petersburg, 08.02.2020.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas Tannenberger
     at Hell-Lab Studio, Vienna, 20.05.2020-27.07.2020.
 
Abysslooker: guitar & effects
Colonel Para Bellum: bass & effects
Polar Maya: drums
 
(Keyboards, samples & effects by TT)
 
 

 
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Black Strange Metal

Live 07.12.2019
 
At "Zoccolo 2.0" Club, St. Petersburg
Organized by Ritual Booking

He-Whom-The-Abyss-Gazes-Into: guitar
He-Who-Is-Encased-In-Armor: bass
She-Who-Will-Never-Fall-Asleep: drums
 
Set list: Chthonian
            Baric
            Static
            Funeral
            Tenebrific
 
With Lugubrum (Belgium), Cage of Creation (Russia)
 
Watch a video of the full set
 

Well, time passes quickly, it's the turn of the next appearance of Cthulhu: avant-garde minimalistic black metal this time. But our main goal still is a panic and dead atmosphere. Just this time we reflect it in a pure metal genre and nothing more.
 

 
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Hallucinations in the Colour Out of Space

CD A5 Digipak 2018
 
Released by Phosgen Records (PHOSGEN 418). Limited to 200 copies.
 


Cover art by Polar Maya
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1.   Dream of Cthulhu (Deep in the Ocean)

2.   Fungi from Yuggoth Hunt Psilocybin Mushrooms

3.   The Desperation of Yog-Sothoth

 
Guitar ¹ 1, bass ¹ 1 and guitar ¹ 2 were recorded by Konstantin Dolganov
     at Hiboll Studio (St. Petersburg), August 11, 2017.
Bass ¹ 2 was recorded by Roman Bezinovsky
     at Gaity Records (Sergiyev Posad), August 15, 2017.
Mixed and mastered by Konstantin Dolganov at Hiboll Studio.
Cover art & layout by Polar Maya.
Portraits of the group members by Acidkopf.
 
He-Whom-The-Abyss-Gazes-Into: guitar ¹ 1
He-Who-Is-Encased-In-Armor: bass ¹ 1
She-Who-Will-Never-Fall-Asleep: guitar ¹ 2
He-Who-Juggles-With-The-Truth: bass ¹ 2
 
 

 
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Arhaika

Live 15.04.2017
 
At "Øàãè" Club, Moscow
Organized by Background Promo and Nomos Dei Productions

Colonel Para Bellum: bass
Abysslooker: guitar
Polar Maya: guitar
Acidkopf: bass
 
Set list: Dream of Cthulhu (Deep in the Ocean)
             Fungi from Yuggoth Hunt Psilocybin Mushrooms
             The Desperation of Yog-Sothoth
 
With N.K.R.T. (France), Ad Lucem Tenebratum (Russia), Adriva (Russia)
 
Watch a video of the full set
 
 

 
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Cthulhu Rise

Live 24.03.2017
 
At "Ëåñ Villa" Club, St. Petersburg
Organized by Mist Crossing Division and Background Promo

Colonel Para Bellum: bass
Abysslooker: guitar
Polar Maya: guitar
Acidkopf: bass
 
Set list: Dream of Cthulhu (Deep in the Ocean)
             Fungi from Yuggoth Hunt Psilocybin Mushrooms
             The Desperation of Yog-Sothoth
 
With Phelios (Germany)
 
Watch a video of the full set
 
 

 
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Dream of Cthulhu (Deep in the Ocean) - 2016 Version

Rehearsal, November 2016
 
Published via YouTube
 

                  

 
Colonel Para Bellum: bass
Polar Maya: guitar
Abysslooker: guitar & guitar effects
Acidkopf: bass & bass effects
 

In continuation of drone/ambient experiment. Rehearsal 27.11.2016. Holy Cthulhu! Twenty years later... Please be reminded: originally this track was recorded in November 1996 and appeared on demo "Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'Lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn" (1996).
 

 
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Fungi from Yuggoth hunt psilocybin mushrooms Pt. II

Rehearsal, November 2016
 
Published via YouTube
 

 
Published via SoundCloud
 

                  

 
Colonel Para Bellum: bass
Polar Maya: guitar
Abysslooker: guitar & guitar effects
Acidkopf: bass & bass effects
 

In continuation of drone/ambient experiment. Rehearsal 27.11.2016. Well, just four years elapsed after the first appearance of this track.
 

 
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Falling asleep Great Cthulhu's Electroencephalography

Rehearsal, December 2012
 
Published via YouTube
 

                  

 
Abysslooker: guitar
Polar Maya: guitar
Colonel Para Bellum: bass
 

Cthulhu presents drone experiment with elements of power electronics. Or to be specific "pseudo-power electronics" because for making sub-bass pulses no analogue synthesizer was used but bass guitar and effects units only. Rehearsal 12.25.2012. The electroencephalograms (diagrams of the brain's spontaneous electrical activity) of the Cthulhu's members were used for this single-frame shooting.
 

 
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Fungi from Yuggoth hunt psilocybin mushrooms

Rehearsal, October 2012
 
Published via YouTube
 

                  

 
Abysslooker: solo guitar
Polar Maya: rhythm guitar
Colonel Para Bellum: bass
Nothing: keyboards
 

Cthulhu presents drone/ambient experiment. Rehearsal 10.04.2012. Mushrooms Psilocybe semilanceata, which you can see in this video, were shooted by Colonel Para Bellum.
 

 
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The Mass "Death Is Complete"

Rehearsal / Ritual, May 2012
 
Published via YouTube
(Although on YouTube this video was attributed to Cthulhu Biomechanical,
the actual author is Cthulhu without any doubt)
 

                  

 
Abysslooker: guitar effects & jig saw
Colonel Para Bellum: electrical drill & sound effects
Polar Maya: electrical drill
 

Cthulhu presents (true)industrial/ambient/noise experiment. The news about Trondr Nefas's death, who died 05.13.2012, impressed us as well as suggested us an idea to summon Trondr Nefas's spirit to our experiment (we're not spiritualists though). The more especially as we had a rather good reason for this. On Urgehal and Blackdeath and others’ gig in Moscow 12.04.2009 Trondr Nefas tore a string and there was absolutely no time to replace it so he asked Abysslooker for his guitar and then played one till the end of the gig. Upon completion he fixed his pick to the peghead, just out of habit as musicians usually do, and returned the guitar to Abysslooker, who found the pick next day only. That is how Trondr Nefas's thing went to Blackdeath and it was used in Cthulhu's Ritual. Although this video was shot 05.19.2012, it was decided to present it officially only 05.28.2012 because that day Trond Bråthen would have celebrated his thirty-five anniversary. So, Trondr Nefas, thank for your true Black Art and good luck in your "journey through infernal maze of horror"...
 

 
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XXI Century Sessions

Compilation 2012
 
Digital release via Bandcamp
 


Cover art by Maya

1. Cthulhu - Fragment V: Dark Absorption (Hate of Cthulhu)

2. Cthulhu feat. Êîùóíû & Maleficium - Untitled

3. Cthulhu feat. Êîùóíû & Maleficium - Untitled

4. Cthulhu feat. Êîùóíû & Maleficium - Untitled

5. Cthulhu feat. Êîùóíû & Maleficium - Untitled

6. Cthulhu Biomechanical feat. Maya - The Excitement of the Blind Idiot God Azathoth
    (Although this track was attributed to Cthulhu Biomechanical, the actual author is Cthulhu without any doubt)

 
Track 1 recorded 19.07.2007.
Abysslooker: guitar & guitar effects
Para Bellum: sound effects
 
Tracks 2-5 recorded 30.09.2007.
Abysslooker: guitar & guitar effects, pipe
Para Bellum: sound effects, conductor
P. Ch. 14 (Êîùóíû): pipe & sound effects, guitar, samples
Gendolf (Êîùóíû): vocal effects
O'Leg (Maleficium): pipe & sound effects
 
Track 6 recorded 24.02.2008.
Abysslooker: guitar & guitar effects
Para Bellum: digital effects
Maya: keyboards
 
All tracks restored in February 2012.
 
Cthulhu presents ambient/noise experiment with some influences of folk music. Some tracks contain audible defects that should be considered as the element of noise incitement.
 
 

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Five Suns of Yaddith

Rehearsal, August 2011
 
Published via YouTube
 

                  

 
Abysslooker: guitar
Maya: guitar
Colonel Para Bellum: bass
 

Cthulhu presents drone/ambient experiment. Rehearsal 08.20.2011. Some untitled drawings by Maya were used for the video for this song.
 

 
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Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'Lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn

Demo 1996
 
Tape released by Hungry AK-47 Productions (Clip 03). Limited to 150 copies.
 


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1. Fragment I - The Sky of Yuggoth (Summoning Cthulhu)

2. Fragment II - Dream of Cthulhu (Deep in the Ocean)

3. Fragment III - Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'Lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn

4. Fragment IV - Cosmic Streams (Melancholy of Cthulhu)

 
Fragments of the Adjuration of Cthulhu the Great were recorded at Killall Studio in November 1996.
 
Abysslooker: music, guitars & guitar effects
Para Bellum: music, bass & bass effects, vocals on Fragment III
 

The first act of Cthulhu the Mighty. An ambient experiment. No keyboards were used during the recording. As Para Bellum explained in interview for the Dutch zine Stormblast (#2-3, 1999): "We have used a large Soviet tape reverberator (with four heads) for this unearthen sound (I bought this device from a dirty dipsomanic for two dollars!). And also small guitar reverberators... We mixed two guitars and two basses." A direction printed on the cassette says: "This tape must be listened in the dark".
 

 
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