Of Those Who Knew, the second album by Unspeakable Tales, gives nine H.P. Lovecraft stories their own speakers and conflicts. Released on 26 September 2026, it moves through dark folk, metal, rock, horror punk and blues, following witnesses, pursuers and creatures who understand more than the people around them.
A revived patient confronts Herbert West with what returned alongside him. Pickman defends the living subjects of his paintings, a hidden family speaks from beneath a mountain, and Erich Zann keeps playing while his neighbours sleep. Elsewhere, an investigator connects scattered evidence and a proud sage discovers why the gods refuse to answer.
The closer encounters are equally personal. Edward struggles inside borrowed dead flesh while another will occupies his living body. The visitor to Innsmouth changes from rejecting the town to recognising his inheritance. The final Antarctic expedition reads Shoggoth labour, pain and memory in the city’s history, developing the song’s own interpretation of what survives its masters.
The range includes the horror punk of Re-Animator, the doom blues of The Shadow Over Innsmouth and the gothic folk rock of the closing track. Explore At the Mountains of Madness in the Wiki for the fiction behind that last expedition.
Re-Animator is a horror punk song by Unspeakable Tales, told by a patient who wakes on a cold laboratory table with broken memories and an unfamiliar presence inside him. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West—Reanimator, it brings medical obsession and the terror of reanimation into the album’s wider world of Lovecraftian cosmic horror.
Pickman’s Model is a dark folk song by Unspeakable Tales, narrated by an artist who paints the living creatures he has met in the tunnels beneath Boston. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s story, it explores the Cthulhu Mythos through forbidden art, underground encounters and the unsettling suggestion that the monster on the canvas may resemble its viewer.
The Call of Cthulhu is an occult folk song by Unspeakable Tales, following an investigator as dreams, a police raid and a sailor’s manuscript become parts of the same discovery. Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos tale, it follows the evidence toward R’lyeh and an ancient power beneath the sea, until assembling the truth becomes a burden its new keeper wants to hide.
The Thing on The Doorstep is a song by Unspeakable Tales, told from Edward’s perspective as he struggles through borrowed dead flesh while Ephraim occupies his living body. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s tale and the identity horror of the Cthulhu Mythos, it follows a desperate journey through rain and failing memory toward a door where he hopes to be recognised.
Lurking Fear is a dark folk metal song by Unspeakable Tales, narrated collectively by the hidden family beneath Tempest Mountain as thunder wakes its hunger for passing strangers. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s The Lurking Fear, it turns the album’s Lovecraftian cosmic horror toward the remembered name Martense, buried bloodlines and a household that keeps growing beneath the roots and stone.
The Other Gods is a song by Unspeakable Tales about a solitary sage who climbs Hatheg-Kla, mistaking the gods’ silence for fear of his own knowledge. Reworking H.P. Lovecraft’s story within the album’s world of Lovecraftian cosmic horror, it reveals a greater hierarchy of terror: the gods have heard him, but something above them has been listening too.
The Music of Erich Zann is a dark rock song by Unspeakable Tales, told by the musician who keeps playing while his neighbours sleep, unaware of the shapes gathering outside his window. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror, it turns the room above the Rue d’Auseil into a fragile boundary between the city and a darkness held back note by note.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a doom blues song by Unspeakable Tales, following a traveller whose rejection of the town becomes recognition of an inherited bond with the sea. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos tale, it brings together Zadok’s account, Obed’s bargain and the call of Dagon and Hydra as the feared shoreline begins to feel like home.
At The Mountains of Madness is a gothic folk rock song by Unspeakable Tales, following an Antarctic witness through a ruined camp, an alien city and its carved history. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos novella, its five lyrical movements give Shoggoth labour, pain and memory a central place, interpreting the final cry as a refusal of servitude.