My, the author of that article does his absolute best to paint Lovecraft as a vicious bigot without redeeming qualities who "also wrote stories." Despite his disclaimers at the end of the article, he seems to think Lovecraft's bigotry was more important than his writings. I hope he never listens to Wagner, as the composer's anti-semitic feelings are well known.
There are bad people who do good things; there are good people who do bad things; most of us manage to do a lot of both. I suggest that Lovecraft's bigotry informed his writing to the point that it was more vivid (and more objectionable today,) but that vivid imagery may also have contributed to his popularity since it contributed to building the disturbing mental images he writing evokes.
BTW: I never heard of the band.
