Azathoth Blues - full cast audio drama from Talos Principle writer & Risk of Rain composer
Hi everyone,
Azathoth Blues is an audio drama that's deeply inspired by Lovecraft, taking his literary and philosophical ideas seriously even as it tells its own story. It's a huge production with an awesome cast of people from the world of horror and beyond, put together by myself (lead writer of the Talos Principle series) and Chris Christodoulou (Risk of Rain composer), and released entirely for free. It doesn't even have ads.
>Something is deeply wrong in the city. Strange murders are being ignored, dangerous new drugs are spreading, corporations are corrupting everything they touch, and the law itself seems to have a price tag.
>Into this mess step three cops who, against all odds, have stayed honest. Harrison Crane (Joe Lynch) is a war veteran slowly drinking himself into oblivion. Ben Wade (Adam Green) is an idealist desperately trying to stay hopeful. Susan Danton (Kacey Camp) is principled, analytical, and utterly alone. The reward for their integrity is reassignment to the Unified Cold Case Taskforce, an infamous unit buried in a basement office nicknamed the Murder Dungeon and overseen by Captain Donovan (Sean Branney), a legendary hardass no one wants to work for.
>But nothing is quite as it appears, and what starts as a dead-end assignment turns into something far stranger. Their pursuit of answers will lead them on a journey into paranoia, conspiracy, murder, ritual, and madness. But will finally uncovering the truth save them, or destroy them?
The cast also includes Highlander TV legend Peter Wingfield, whom we collaborated with in our previous show, Gospels of the Flood, and who was also in The Talos Principle 2.
We're also very lucky to feature several performers from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society, including its founders, Sean Branney and Andrew Leman.
Chris and I invested countless hours and no small amount of money to make this thing, and we did it out of a deep love of Lovecraft's stories and Lovecraft himself, complicated and frustrating as old Howard could often be. We've worked really hard to tell a story that's not a pastiche but also isn't one of those things where they just slap some Lovecraftian terminology onto a story that contains nothing truly Lovecraftian in a deeper sense. We wanted to tell a story that would engage with the literary and philosophical ideas Lovecraft was exploring in his writing.
I initially didn't post here because I was wary about the rules limiting self-promotion (and I frankly hate advertising my own work), but I really think we've made something you're going to enjoy. 8 episodes of the 10-episode first season are available so far.
Website: http://www.azathothblues.com
RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/azathothblues/feed.xml
Bandcamp: https://chrischristodoulou.bandcamp.com/album/azathoth-blues-audio-drama
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6uS-jMm7A0&list=PLLDf8Bnp1K1JCjNfkaVlwrGisl3jgtnSQ&index=1
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4wwmpjhZGTy7AnKGZl3ucv
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/azathoth-blues/id1876347986
Pocket Casts: https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/azathoth-blues/47562240-e9ad-013e-7e05-0afffc11161f