Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. Although Lovecraft, unfortunately, reigns as the preeminent weird fiction influence on the modern metal landscape, the importance of Robert W. Chambers’s landmark collection of short, interconnected stories, The King in Yellow, cannot be overstated. So important is that work and its titular antagonist, in fact, that Lovecraft himself adopted Chambers’s vague allegorical style, and August Derleth wrote Hastur and the Yellow King into the expansive Cthulhu Mythos. Countless other authors, musicians, and filmmakers have since drawn inspiration from Chambers’s opus, and today … Continue reading Video Premiere: Defiatory Bow to the “King in Yellow”