bands or albums based on obscure authors?

I guess by "obscure" i just meant, "let's not waste time with the albums most proggers are familiar with already."
Perhaps I should not have used that word.

But, lots of good (amazing!) responses from everyone.

And, i really want to check out that Decoding Kadath.

seems to me , there is a sort of "lovecraft curse" , where every band with a Lovecraft-inspired name is just absolutely awful.  The only exception I've found is Brown Jenkins.  But Decoding Kadath sounds promising and I'll absolutely give them a shot!

Authors are not obscure, but the first half of Shadow Circus' Whispers and Screams is based on Stephen King's The Stand; and On A Dark And Stormy Night is inspired by Madelaine L'Engle's famous novel, "A Wrinkle In Time". 

For that matter, the epic song Journey of Everyman from their debut album Welcome to the Freak Room is inspired by the Stephen King/Peter Straub book The Talisman.


Edited by rushfan4 - June 04 2014 at 10:57

Dean wrote: Seventh Wave's Things To Come is loosely based on The Shape Of Things To Come and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Someone else did a Wells album, the name escapes me at the moment.

Are you thinking of Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds?

Genesis self-tilted - inspired by God  (although their debut was - great proto-prog concept album about the Bible, even if the songs aren't that sophisticated)

Hawkwind's basically the musical arm of the New Wave movement in science-fiction literature. In addition to the many songs that Michael Moorcock wrote for them, they've also done several Roger Zelazny-inspired tracks.







J. G. Ballard as well.



This one is based on a series of novels by Philip José Farmer.

Shub Niggurath - Lovecraft and Hawkwind - Moorcroft are the most obvious two to me.

Has no-one mentioned Dun - Eros based on Dune yet?

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - June 06 2014 at 13:30

Hi,

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - influenced by the novel Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card (1987)

If I remember correctly, the ROGER WATERS solo album 'Amused to Death' was inspired by a 1985 book by NEIL POSTMAN called 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. The book is about the negative influence of TV and the mass media on our culture.

Steeleye Span's latest album Wintersmith is based on the stories of Terry Pratchett.  I'm not familiar with him, but I suspect that he may be less obscure on the other side of the ocean.