Cryo Chamber Collaboration - Ithaqua (2025)

A 2 hour dark soundscape album recorded by 19 ambient artists to pay tribute to H.P. Lovecrafts Mythos

Ithaqua is one of the Great Old Ones, a horrifying giant with a roughly human shape and glowing red eyes. He has been reported from as far north as the Arctic to the Sub-Arctic, where Native Americans first encountered him. He is believed to prowl the Arctic waste, hunting down unwary travelers and slaying them in a gruesome fashion. He is believed to have inspired the Native American legend of the Wendigo and possibly the Yeti.

Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia, Canada and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua; not as worship but as appeasement. Those who join his cult are granted immunity to extremely cold temperatures

"They followed a trail heading north towards the abandoned ruin of Fort Maurepas. Bélanger's team had come this way in the morning, 15 men with half a dozen horses. The trail wound its way alongside the Winnipeg River through the deep woods of the Manitoban south-east. Under the canopy of trees, their faces glowed red and grey in the mottled light of dusk. The gush of the river was accompanied by the clashing debris of the ice floe. Slabs of ice slid and span in slow circles, groaning and clacking like the grinding teeth of sleeping monsters."