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* [http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/music.asp Everything here].
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6860741331552048826# Carrol of] [[Captain Obvious|the old ones]]
* "The Width of a Circle" features [[David Bowie (Music)|David Bowie]] "encountering" an Eldritch Abomination. Consensually, no less. ([[The Seventies]] were a ''weird'' time.)
** "The Man Who Sold The World" and "The Supermen" are more orthodox examples of this trope. They're all from the same album, too (''The Man Who Sold the World'')!
* "The Thing That Should Not Be" by [[Metallica (Music)|Metallica]] is about such a creature and, quite obviously, is directly inspired by Lovecraft.
** Also, "The Call Of Ktulu" (though it's an instrumental).
** In ''[[Guitar Hero]]'', Metallica's "Metallifacts" video for "The Thing That Should Not Be", it also lists "All Nightmare Long" and "Ride The Lightning" as being inspired by [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]]'s stories, specifically, "Shadow Over Innsmouth."
* Anything by [[The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (Music)|The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets]], who were inspired by most of Lovecraft's work.
* In [[Savatage (Music)|Savatage]]'s song "Hall of the Mountain King", the titular Mountain King is an eldritch abomination.
* Much of Current 93's and David Tibet's work has heavy eldritch-apocalypse overtones. ''Black Ships Ate The Sky'' and The "Inmost Light" Trilogy in particular.
** The spoken lyric to ''I Have A Special Plan For This World'', written by horror author [[Thomas Ligotti]], has several references to these, the most blatant perhaps being the "sardonic spirit" that [[Hannibal Lecture|speaks to the narrator about death]]...or [[Omnicidal Maniac|the narrator himself]], depending upon your interpretation.
* [[Blue OysterÖyster Cult (Music)|Blue Oyster Cult]] is very fond of including these. Their entire ''Imaginos'' album plays with it and the song E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) offers these lyrics:
{{quote| "I'm in fairy rings and tower beds/Don't report this three men said/Books by the blameless and by the dead/King in Yellow, queen in red...all praise/he's found the awful truth..." }}
** The song Harvest Moon from their ''Heaven Forbid'' album features the following lyrics towards the end:
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