![]() ![]() Spaceship Zero was released under a new record label, Divine Industries. The singer Toren said the album was "heavily inspired by the science fiction movies and reruns we’d all grown up with like Lost in Space and Angry Red Planet". In 2000 the Thickets released Spaceship Zero: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. See also: Spaceship Zero the roleplaying game ![]() In 1996 the band released Great Old Ones. Cthulhu Strikes Back was re-released as a Special Edition in 2003, containing two new songs. The band's first CD release was Cthulhu Strikes Back. Most of the songs were later re-released on other albums. In their early years the band produced three demo tapes: Gurgle Gurgle Gurgle', Hurts Like Hell!, and Cthulhuriffomania. ![]() Atkinson and Banks decided to create a band around the Cthulhu mythos because it was a topic they were interested in, and it was a unique "niche that to be filled". The band's name is drawn from a phrase in Lovecraft's story The Tomb: "I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets". Even though they "had no musical training or experience" they were able to create a three song set list and play the opening act for their first show. ![]() Lead singer Toren Atkinson and lead guitarist Warren Banks formed the band so they could open for local group Mystery Machine. The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets formed in January 1992 after meeting at Fraser Valley College in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Lovecraft, specifically the Cthulhu Mythos. Their music largely consists of often tongue-in-cheek homages to the works of H. The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is a rock band from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. Chris Woods, Devon Presseau, Chris West, Bob Fugger, Troy Zak ![]()
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