The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Ogdru Jahad

[TheFolklorist]

I was recently introduced to the band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets; "the world's foremost Lovecraft-themed ska-punk-surf rock band" as Kenneth Hite puts it in his wonderful little book Cthulhu 101 (which if you haven't bought you should).

Anyway as it turns out on The Darkest's CD Cthulhu Strikes Back they have a Hellboy-themed song. Not about Hellboy, but rather about the Ogdru Jahad. I couldn't find a preexisting place online where you could listen to the song (I may try and fix that soon) but here are lyrics...Enjoy!

Ogdru Jahad by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

ONCE... WE... WERE... FREE...
ONCE... WE... WERE... FREE...

They whispered of a prison
Ragnarok engine humming
Wrapped they in darkness dreaming
They are the mighty children
Behold the Doomsday project
Frog legions bear their vessel
Seven in Earth and Heaven

ONCE... WE... WERE... FREE...
ONCE... WE... WERE... FREE...

And underneath the desert
Encased in frozen bedrock
Stack sleeping agents waiting
To see the gates burn open
The desert rip asunder
They grind the land like corn
Bleed oily peals of thunder

Above the tortured heavens
So full of silent waiting
Howl screams of birth and triumph
Unlock the faceless hating
Bred in the depths of ocean
Of giant strength and tread
No hands defy their windstorm

ONCE... WE... WERE... FREE...

[jnapper]

Very cool to see the lyrics!

(In another life, the song was listed on the hellboy.com Tidbits page.)

[shonokin]

Strangely enough for the first time in a couple of years I was listening to Cthulhu Strikes Back this morning on the way to work.

Ogdru Jahad is in fact what got me into Hellboy.

[Jr. Wormwood]

I remember this! Awesome.