Artist description A cast of Outsiders who came together to form a folk punk band to sing the glories of horror authors such as Lovecraft, Beirce and Alan Moore. Lurking Fear formed in the fall of 1985 and had their first gig on a live radio broadcast just one week later. Mainly we played at the radio station KOPN, house parties and the occasional multi-band show. It was admittedly a short-lived hobby more than a full-time band, but in 1987 we did cut a studio tape before finally drifting apart.

Music Style Alterna-Folk-Punk

Musical Influences Dr. Know, Crankshaft, REM, Husker Du

Similar Artists We were outstanding in a field, all by ourselves.

Artist History Lurking Fear was born in a house where strangers wandered through the back yard late at night and terrible things happened on the street out front on a regular basis. Cops, dogs, crooks, shelters for bums, runaways and beaten wives... that was our neighborhood. The house itself was cheep and riddled with problems such as the ever-present mold growing on everything in the basement. I left an amp down there for three days and it was covered in a sheen of green-white powder. Floorboards in the bathroom rotted to the point where mushrooms would spawn around the bathtub basin from our frightening basement below. This is where I first read H. P. Lovecraft's The Shunned House, about a moldy vampiric presence that sucked the life from all who lived within the rotten house's confines. It was the inspiration for Lurking Fear's flagship song Something In the Basement. Our house was a practice space for several bands and all of us who lived there were in bands. I played electric violin in First Bank of Christ, Tim played bass in Three Legged Dog. In our spare time we got together to talk about Lovecraft and other eldritch things such as our freaky neighborhood and also about music. We thought it was a good idea to start a Lovecraftian punk band, seeing as how we shared many common interests and of course were constantly inspired by our own horrifying basement.

Group Members Craig Dalrymple: Lyrics, Vocals // Tim Aynardi: Bass, Drums // Dan Ross: Lyrics, Guitar, Vocals // Later Members: Mike Basey: Vocals // John Yarbrough: Bass //

Albums Songs in the Key of Lovecraft

Additional Info Original studio recording was produced at Ed Herrmann Studios, Columbia Missouri in July 1987. A CD archive was created at Olde West Studios, San Francisco in May 1998. MP3s on this site were taken from the CD. All art, lyrics & music © 1986-2002 Daniel Alan Ross, except : text to Ryme of the Ancient Mariner- by Samuel Taylor Coleridge **Werewolf & Dirge lyrics © 1985 Craig Dalrymple **Swamp Thing text © 1985 Alan Moore & DC Comics

Location Columbia, MO - USA

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