Rocking Out To Literature & Film Traditional Cache
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Rocking Out To Literature & Film
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Sometimes songs heavily reference – if not completely retell – events from a poem, book, and/or movie. These are particularly popular in the metal genre. I’m particularly fond of such songs as long as I can understand the lyrics. I’m not a fan of bands who scream and growl or don’t sing in English; what good are great lyrics if I can’t understand them? Here are some of my favorites:
Blind Guardian is a German power metal band with mostly fantasy-themed lyrics. Many of their songs refer to specific books by authors such Michael Moorcock, Stephen King, and especially JRR Tolkein. These include the concept album “Nightfall In Middle Earth” (about J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Silmarillion”) and the first song by them I ever heard: “Lord Of The Rings”.
Blue Oyster Cult has songs about “Godzilla” and “Nosferatu” while the song “Vengeance: The Pact” is about one of the stories that makes up the movie “Heavy Metal”.
Dark Moor is a Spanish power metal band with some songs about literature including “A Life Of Revenge” (about “The Count Of Monte Cristo”), “Cyrano of Bergerac”, and their namesake “The Dark Moor” (about “The Riftwar Saga”).
Demons & Wizards is a power metal band that serves as a side project for some members of metal bands Blind Guardian and Iced Earth. Given the literary tendencies of both of those bands, it should come as no surprise they have several songs about literature, particularly Stephen King’s “Dark Tower series.
Dream Theater is a progressive metal band with an excellent song called “Pull Me Under” which is supposedly inspired by Hamlet.
Iced Earth is an American metal band that usually has horror-themed lyrics. These include several songs about classic literature with horror elements such as “Dante’s Inferno”, “Dracula”, “Frankenstein”, “Jekyll & Hyde”, and “Phantom Opera Ghost”.
Iron Maiden’s lyrics make even more references to film and literature than they do to history. These include “Brave New World”, “Flight Of Icarus”, “Heart Of Darkness”, “Lord Of The Flies”, “Man On The Edge” (Falling Down), “Phantom Of The Opera”, “Quest For Fire”, “Rime Of The Ancient Mariner”, “Sign Of The Cross”, “To Tame A Land” (Dune), “The Duelists”, “The Prisoner”, “Where Eagles Dare”, “When Two Worlds Collide”, and “The Wicker Man” (which is also a Bruce Dickinson song of the same title and subject).
Furthermore, their entire “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son” album references Orson Scott Card’s “Seventh Son”.
Iron Savior is a German power metal band with at least one song about a movie: “Omega Man”.
Jag Panzer is a NWOBHM-inspired American power metal band. Their “Thane To The Throne” is an entire concept album about Macbeth.
Metallica has worked in a few literary songs: “Creeping Death” retells events from the Book Of Exodus, “For Whom The Bell Tolls” is a Hemingway story, and “One” references the classic anti-war story “Johnny Got His Gun”.
And last but certainly not least is the epic title track from Symphony X’s album “The Odyssey”.
I hope you’ll give some of these songs a listen.
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