PRESS RELEASE #3
IN WHICH THE LINUS PAULING QUARTET
ELUCIDATES UPON
THE MADNESS OF CLINTON HEIDER
AND THE TRUE STORY OF
THE A-SIDE
“C IS FOR CTHULHU”
Clinton and his double neck. Photo by Francisco Montes used by permission from the Houston Press
We found him in a horrendous state. Plagued as he was by fetid, corrosive dreams that consumed his fevered mind, Clinton Heider writhed in his sleep as if vainly attempting to escape the cold embrace of death…or perhaps racing towards its arms in a futile escape from something much more terrifying. He awoke, grabbing each of us with such strength that his fingernails pierced skin through clothing. With eyes that burned – consumed by an incomprehensible madness – he shouted, “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!” These words meant little to us when uttered but, as time passed, we came to understand that his words were not borne of hysterical delusions but a result of his having seen beyond our realm and into the true, unimaginable horror that lies hidden underneath the waves.
Slowly, as the brise-filled shroud pulled away from his consciousness, Heider’s jaundiced hand took to his guitar to banish the demons that plagued his soul for those many weeks. “C is for Cthulhu” is not simply a metal song with a truly awesome drop-C metal riff, it is a baleful cry – an exorcism on vinyl – of the horrors to come when the Great Old One rises.
