The Wind Walker

Wind Walker is inspired by August Derleth’s Ithaqua, introducing one of the most haunting deities of the expanded Cthulhu Mythos. Far beyond the last traces of civilization, where endless snow meets a lifeless sky, an ancient being wanders the frozen wilderness in search of those who dare to cross its domain.

The song follows the legend of Ithaqua, He Who Walks the Wind—a towering god of ice, storms and desolation whose presence is carried on the freezing wind. Those who hear the distant call or glimpse the impossible figure against the snow are said to vanish forever, becoming part of the endless procession through the great white silence.

Driven by relentless riffs, cold atmospheric passages and an overwhelming sense of isolation, Wind Walker captures the terror of facing a force as vast and indifferent as the Arctic itself. Rather than depicting a battle against the unknown, the song embraces Lovecraftian inevitability: once the wind has found you, there is no escape.

As the second chapter of UNSPEAKABLE TALES — Vol. 1: The Old Gods, Wind Walker expands the album’s journey beyond the oceans into the frozen frontiers of cosmic horror, where death arrives not with violence, but with silence, snow and the distant footsteps of an ancient god.