The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

“	The Thickets haven't been able to get ahold of the ancient spellbook, but they've got their own brand of corruption. They’re on a Lovecraft binge of madness, and they mean to take you with them.	„
	~ band's official website

🐙 The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is a Canadian rock band dedicated to promoting the literature of H. P. Lovecraft and the Mythos, especially the Necronomicon.

The band was formed in January 1992 by lead singer and main songwriter Toren Atkinson and lead guitarist Warren Banks, who met at Fraser Valley College in Abbotsford, British Columbia. They were originally joined by bass player Quentin Rogers, though he was replaced by Devon Presseau before their first show. The band's current lineup includes Atkinson, Banks, guitarist/bassist Mario Nieva, drummer Jordan Pratt, and bassist/backup vocalist Merrick Atkinson. Members live in British Columbia's Vancouver, Abbotsford, and Chilliwack.

Their music blends melodious punk and rock. They describe their song titles and lyrics as good-natured but macabre. The band's name comes from the Lovecraft story "The Tomb," which includes the line, "I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets."

Discography[]

The Shadow Out of Tim concept album is an updated reimagining of Lovecraft's story "The Shadow Out of Time".

Spaceship Zero is not a Lovecraft-oriented album.

Gurgle! Gurgle! Gurgle! (1992)
1. Cthulhu Dreams
2. Diggin' Up the World
3. Three Hour Log
Hurts Like Hell! (1993)
1. Tarred and Feathered
2. My Tank
3. Battered
4. One-Gilled Girl
5. Jimmy the Squid
6. Chunk
7. Diggin' Up the World
8. Screams From R'lyeh
9. Stitching Uranus
Cthulhuriffomania (1994)
1. Colour Me Green
2. Space Ghosts
3. A Thousand Fists
4. Big Robot Dinosaur
5. Rocket Science
6. Flee!
7. Everyone Calls Me Ted
8. Mustard Gas
9. Diggin' Up the World (acoustic)
10. Yog-Sothoth
Cthulhu Strikes Back (1995)
1. Goin' Down To Dunwich
2. Ogdru Jahad
3. Shoggoths Away (1995)
4. Unstoppable
5. Yig Snake Daddy
6. Hookworm
7. Wrath
8. Rock Lords
9. Protein
10. HVW
11. Burrow Your Way To My Heart
12. Sloth
13. Worship Me Like a God
14. Cthulhu Dreams
15. Gluttony
16. Slave Ship (2003 special edition)
17. House of Clocks (2003 special edition)
Great Old Ones (6 June 1995)
1. Tarred and Feathered
2. My Tank
3. Battered, Bruised & Scarred
4. One Gilled Girl
5. Jimmy the Squid
6. Chunk
7. Diggin' Up the World
8. Colour Me Green
9. Space Ghosts
10. A Thousand Fists
11. Big Robot Dinosaur
12. Rocket Science
13. Flee!
14. Mustard Gas
15. Everyone Calls Me Ted
16. Diggin' Up the World - Acoustic
17. Yog-Sothoth
18. Hookworm - Live
19. Burrow Your Way to My Heart - Live
20. Please God No!
21. Walking on the Moon
22. Six-Gun Gorgon Dynamo
Spaceship Zero: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (6 June 2000)
1. Theme to Spaceship Zero
2. 20 Minutes of Oxygen
3. The Innsmouth Look
4. Power Up!
5. B.T.L. Drive
6. Frogstar
7. The Math Song
8. Dies Ist Unverschamtheit
9. Oblivion
10. The Chosen One
11. Slave Ship
12. Requiem for a Clone Hunter
13. Kablam!
14. Sounds of Tindalos
15. End Credits
The Shadow Out of Tim (6 June 2007)
1. Prologue: Theme to an Earthquake
2. Chapter I: A Marine Biologist
3. Chapter II: Blackout
4. Chapter III: No Way
5. Chapter IV: Strange
6. Chapter V: Return to Melanesia
7. Chapter VI: Cultists on Board
8. Chapter VII: A "Need to Know" Basis
9. Chapter VIII: Operation: Get the Hell Out of Here
10. Chapter IX: Ride the Flying Polyp
11. Epilogue: Some Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
12. Footnote: Sleestak and Yeti
13. Footnote: Downtown (in the Cenozoic)
14. Appendix: Nyarlathotep
15. Sounds of an Earthquake
The Dukes of Alhazred (13 January 2017)
1. You Fool! Warren Is Dead!
2. Arachnotopia
3. Shhh....
4. Coelacanthem
5. The Great Molasses Disaster
6. A Little Late
7. Welcome to the Island
8. I Want to Live
9. Erich Zann
10. It Must Be the Wind
11. Shoggoths Away (2016)
12. Varcolac
13. Kill the Chupacabra Tonight