Complex sentence: One of the first bands credited playing funeral doom metal are fellow country-folk Thergothon; like many other bands of the sub-genre, they have lyrics either directly referencing Lovecraft's fictional works, poetry, or around themes he promulgated.
Split into simpler sentences: One of the first bands credited playing funeral doom metal are fellow country-folk Thergothon. Like many other bands of the sub-genre, Thergothon have lyrics either directly referencing Lovecraft's fictional works, poetry, or around themes he promulgated.