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| rdfs:comment | - "The Call of Ktulu" is the eighth and last song of the album Ride the Lightning. It is the second instrumental track written by Metallica, and the last song credited to Dave Mustaine. The title refers to H.P. Lovecraft book "The Call of Cthulhu", misspelled "Ktulu" in fear of the beast. Also because James Hetfield wanted to let the fans know how to pronounce the name.[citation needed]
- The song appears on a 1983 four-song demo for Ride the Lightning. Like the album, the demo closes with the instrumental, which was named "When Hell Freezes Over" at the time. The song was often played much faster live than the finished version.
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| Producer | - Metallica, Flemming Rasmussen, Mark Whitaker
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| abstract | - "The Call of Ktulu" is the eighth and last song of the album Ride the Lightning. It is the second instrumental track written by Metallica, and the last song credited to Dave Mustaine. The title refers to H.P. Lovecraft book "The Call of Cthulhu", misspelled "Ktulu" in fear of the beast. Also because James Hetfield wanted to let the fans know how to pronounce the name.[citation needed]
- The song appears on a 1983 four-song demo for Ride the Lightning. Like the album, the demo closes with the instrumental, which was named "When Hell Freezes Over" at the time. The song was often played much faster live than the finished version. The current title of the song is named after author H.P. Lovecraft's most well-known story, the Call of Cthulhu. Lovecraft was introduced, along with his book "The Shadow over Innsmouth", to the rest of the band by Cliff Burton; the latter song inspired the Thing That Should Not Be, written by Burton. In Lovecraft's stories, Cthulhu is a powerful, God-like alien from another dimension, who is worshipped by cults on earth who believe it is a demonic God - the song has various demonic growls and noises throughout.
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