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AZATHOTH (Other Dimensions)

About the song (from Carlo's song notes):

Azathoth is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors. Its epithets include Nuclear Chaos and the Daemon Sultan.

And a quote from H. P. Lovecraft himself (Thanks sumR):

"When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of Spring's flowering meads; when learning stripped the Earth of her mantle of beauty and poets sang no more of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone forever, there was a man who traveled out of life on a quest into spaces whither the world's dreams had fled."

"Azathoth" H. P. Lovecraft

BETWIXTER X's rambling notes:

In the first part of the song, you can just imagine The Mad Arab, chanting his incantations, gutteral and otherwordly. His vocalization, I suspect, having been transformed through his contact with the Elder Ones.

In the second half of the song, I feel that old Azathoth has manifested in some way. Chaos reins supreme. The Blind Idiot god, sows confusion. Best not to seek him out, unless you are foolhardy enough, or very brave. Is there a difference between the two?