DESCRIPTION:
"Welcome to the Island" is the seventh track off of the 2017 album "The Dukes of Alhazred" by Vancouver-based rock band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Formed in 1992 the band is known for their Lovecraft-inspired music and general nerdiness. Other albums include "Cthulhu Strikes Back," "The Shadow Out of Tim" and "Spaceship Zero: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack."

The new album was crowdsourced via Indiegogo and you can support the band at https://www.patreon.com/thickets

Buy the complete album at
https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/

Artwork by Chris Woods


I have nothing...nothing to give, and I have not a single reason left to live.
I take a boat into the open sea. I am adrift, I am debris.
I am lulled by the ocean’s rhythmic splash, when I’m beset by a tempest in a flash.
My craft is rent, my fate is clear: my body washed up here.

What I was disappears;
I see my future here.
Time is clawing at my fate.

There is no fauna -- no sound of life; the jungle’s darkness as oppressive as a vice.
Upon the mountainside I find some human tracks, and when I hear the drums there is no turning back.

Welcome to the island.

They writhe around the fire as if a dying snake, their flesh impaled, the mountain’s bloody thirst to slake.
The altar glistens with the latest sacrifice before a toad-like idol with a thousand eyes.
The native cries seem to feed the flame. Their eyeless faces turn to me and call my name.
Curtains of smoke recede, reveal a blackened throne, and I...
I am home.

Iä Tsathoggua!

WELCOME TO THE ISLAND - Dedicated to Aaron Ashley