DELLA DOPPIACASSA DI DANTE [Metal & Letteratura]

La Musica Metal come viatico/veicolo Culturale – è realtà innegabile, da sempre.

Dalle “origini onomastiche” [c.f.r. Uranian Willy, the heavy metal kid di Burroughs] il legame che mesce, contamina, fonde e sposa, in alchemica armonia – Letteratura & Heavy Metal – è legame vincolante per qualsivoglia Critica ad ampio spettro: la Lettera Aurea deve molto [anche] alle Lyrics dell’Acciaio, più puro e più pesante. Blake [Virgin Steel], Coleridge [Iron Maiden], Dante [Sepultura e Ancient], De Sade e Pessoa [Moonspell], Milton [Elend e Paradise Lost], … Sono solo alcune Coppie Nobili e degne di Nota. O almeno: dovrebbero esserlo. Pure: l’italietta gerontofila, misera e miope della “colta cerchia” è troppo presa dal farsi mutue fellatio mentali per riconoscere l’importanza divulgativa a mezzo Marshall.

Cercando di sostenere/supportare con inoppugnabile precisione filologica [necessito ancora tempo e tempo di studio] quel ch’amo chiamare la Doppiacassa Di Dante [Pluto dice “con la voce chioccia” (Inferno, Canto VII) e la nota riporta: “rauca, fra l’aspro e lo stridulo” (Ediz. Garzanti) – e non è ipotizzabile si tratti di protogrowling? O, quanto meno, la prima attestazione scritta di una sonorità definibile protogrowling?] – nel lungo lungo lungo recupero di Testi Metal che divulgano La Lettera/Letteratura, ne diffondo primo, parziale, elenco.

[Autore/Gruppo/Canzone o Concept Album. Nei casi di “libere ispirazioni” sono riportati solo i nominativi dei Gruppi].

Nell’a presto

My best growls

C.D.

ALIGHIERI [Dante]
 DANTESCO [Divina Commedia]
 DRACENA Infernal Damnation, Divina Commedia
 EVIL TWINS Divina Commedia
 FLAYST Dante’s Hell, Divina Commedia
 HOSTILE INC Each One’s Dante’s
 ICED EARTH Dante’s Inferno, Divina Commedia
 [INFERNO METAL FESTIVAL]
 NEQUIZIA [Divina Commedia]
 OF THE ARCHAENGEL The Dante’s Children Extravagance: Chapter Alpha
 ONIRIA Dante’s Journey, Divina Commedia
 SADNESS Danteferno, Divina Commedia
 SEPULTURA Dante XXI [concept album], Divina Commedia
 TRANSMETAL Dante’s Inferno [concept album], Divina Commedia
 TRANSMETAL El Infierno de Dante [concept album], Divina Commedia
 VOMIT ORCHESTRA Dante, Divina Commedia
 ZERBER [Divina Commedia]

ARTAUD [Antonin]
 IMPURE DEMAIN H.I.V. Parade, riferimento letterario

BALLARD [James Graham]
 IMPURE DEMAIN H.I.V. Parade, riferimento letterario

BARRIE [James Matthew]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Born In A Mourning Hall, Peter Pan
 BLIND GUARDIAN Imaginations From The Other Side, Peter Pan

BLAKE [William]
 BRUCE DICKINSON The Chemical Wedding [album], The Marriage of Heaven & Hell, Libri di Urizen]
 DEPRESSIVE REALITY A Poison 6Tree, poetry of W.B.
 ENIGMATIK The Ghost Of William Blake
 ULVER Themes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven & Hell
 VIRGIN STEELE The Angel Of Light, based on The Silence Of The Lamb
 VIRGIN STEELE The Marriage of Heaven & Hell part I
 VIRGIN STEELE The Marriage of Heaven & Hell part II
 VIRGIN STEELE Invictus
 VIRGIN STEELE The Rebels, Metal Opera [The Marriage of Heaven & Hell part I & part II]

BURROUGHS [William]
 IMPURE DEMAIN H.I.V. Parade, cut-up testi

BAUDELAIRE [Charles]
 ALCEST Elévation
 AMESOEURS Recueillement
 DAS ICH Blutquell [German translation of “La Fontaine de sang”]
 GORGOROTH Litani til Satan [Norwegian translation of “Les Litanies de Satan”]
 MISANTHROPE Irremediable
 MORTIFERA Ciel brouillé
 MORTIFERA Le Revenant
 PESTE NOIRE Le Mort Joyeux
 PESTE NOIRE Spleen
 THE OCEAN Paleoarchaean/Man And The Sea [incorporates English translation of “L'Homme et la Mer”]

BENN [Gottfried]
 DAS ICH Morgue

BRASILLACH [Robert]
 PESTE NOIRE Psaume IV

BRONTË [Emily]
 ANGRA Wuthering Heights, Cime Tempestose [Kate Bush, Metal cover]

BURGESS [Anthony]
 ROB ZOMBIE Never Gonna Stop [The Red Red Kroovy], A Clockwork Orange

CARD [Orson Scott]
 IRON MAIDEN Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
 IRON MAIDEN The Clairvoyant, Seventh Son

CARDUCCI [Giosue]
 EMPEROR, I am the Black Wizards, Inno a Satana

CARROL [Lewis]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Imaginations From The Other Side, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

CÉLINE [Louis-Ferdinand]
 IMPURE DEMAIN H.I.V. Parade, riferimento letterario

CERVANTES [Miguel]
 MAGO DE OZ La Leyenda de la Mancha [concept album], El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha

CESARE [Caio Giulio]
 DOOMSWORD Gergovia, De Bello Gallico

CHESTERTON [Gilbert Keith]
 IRON MAIDEN Revelations

CIORAN [Emil]
 IMPURE DEMAIN H.I.V. Parade, riferimento letterario

CLARKE [Arthur C.]
 IRON MAIDEN Childhood’s End

COLERIDGE [Samuel Taylor]
 IRON MAIDEN Rime of the Ancient Mariner

CONRAD [Joseph]
 IRON MAIDEN Edge of Darkness [Edge of Darkness/Apocalypse Now film adaption]
 IRON MAIDEN The Duellists, The Duel [A Military Tale]

CORBIÈRE [Tristan]
 PESTE NOIRE Paysage Mauvais

CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES
 BLIND GUARDIAN The Maiden And The Minstrel Knight è ispirato al Tristano e Isotta

DE MACHAUT [GUILLAME]
 PESTE NOIRE Amour ne m’amoit ne je li

DE PIZAN [Christine]
 PESTE NOIRE Dueil angoisseus [Christine de Pisan, 1362-1431]” [incorporates “Dueil Angoisseux”]

DICK [Philip Kindred]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Time What Is Time?, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [Ma gli androidi sognano pecore elettriche?/Blade Runner]

DUCASSE [Isidore-Lucien, awka: Comte de Lautréamont]
 THE OCEAN Mesoarchaean/Legions Of Winged Octopi” [incorporates English translation of “Les Chants de Maldoror”]

ECO [Umberto]
 IRON MAIDEN The Sign of the Cross, Il nome della Rosa

ELLIS [Bret Easton]
 IMPURE DEMAIN H.I.V. Parade, riferimento letterario

ENDE [Michael Andreas Helmuth]
 BLIND GUARDIAN And The Story Ends, Die unendliche Geschichte [La storia infinita]

ESCHILO
 VIRGIN STEELE, House of Atreus – Act I” and “House of Atreus – Act II, Oresteia [concept album]
 VIRGIN STEELE Klytaimnestra, [House of Atreus - Act I & Act II, 5 Giugno 1999, è stato il primo spettacolo di musica teatrale incentrato sull'heavy metal ad essere mai stato realizzato]

GALILEI [Galileo]
 BLIND GURDIAN Age of False Innocence
 HAGGARD Eppur si muove, Album

GOETHE [Johann Wolfgang]
 KAMELOT Epica Album liberamente ispirati a Faust
 KAMELOT The black halo Album liberamente ispirati a Faust
 RAMMSTEIN Dalai Lama is loosely based on Der Erlkönig

GOFFREDO DI MONMOUTH
 BLIND GURDIAN A Past And Future Secret, , Ciclo di Avalon
 BLIND GURDIAN From The Other Side, Ciclo di Avalon
 BLIND GURDIAN Mordred’s Song, Ciclo di Avalon
 BLIND GURDIAN The Script For My Requiem, Ciclo di Avalon
 GRAVE DIGGER, Excalibur [concept album], Ciclo di Avalon

GOLDING [William]
 IRON MAIDEN, Lord of the Flies

HEMINGWAY [Ernest]
 METALLICA For whom the bell tolls

HEINLEIN [Robert Anson]
 IRON MAIDEN Strangers in a Strange Land,

HERBERT [Frank]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Traveler In Time, Dune
 IRON MAIDEN To Tame a Land, Dune

HERRICK [Robert]
 DREAM THEATER A Change Of Seasons, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time [Alle vergini, perché facciano buon uso del loro tempo]

HOBB [Robin]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Within Temptations’s Hand of Sorrow

HOWARD [Robert Ervin]
 DOMINE testi ispirati a Conan il Barbaro
 ROSAE CRUCIS a four-tracks of a more extensive work based on the novel “The Worms of the Earth

HUXLEY [Aldous]
 IRON MAIDEN Brave New World

KAFKA [Franz]
 IMPURE DEMAIN H.I.V. Parade, riferimento letterario

KANTELETAR raccolta di liriche popolari finniche
 AMORPHIS My Kantele

KING [Stephen]
 ANTHRAX Among the Living The lyrics of the song are based on the novel “The Stand
 ANTHRAX Misery Loves Company is about Misery
 ANTHRAX Skeletons in the Closet is about Apt Pupil
 BLIND GUARDIAN Altair-4 is about The Tommyknockers
 BLIND GUARDIAN Guardian Of The Blind contiene riferimenti a It
 BLIND GUARDIAN Somewhere Far Beyond è dedicato al ciclo della Torre Nera
 BLIND GUARDIAN Tommyknockers è ispirato a Tommyknockers – Le creature del buio
 DEMONS & WIZARDS Terror Train is sung from the perspective of Blaine the Mono, a character in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, and recalls part of the plot of the books.
 DEMONS & WIZARDS The Gunslinger” is based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series

LEROUX [Gaston]
 ICED EARTH The Phantom of the Opera Ghost
 IRON MAIDEN Phantom Of The Opera
 NIGHTWISH The Phantom Of The Opera

LOVECRAFT [Howard Phillips]
 CRADLE OF FILTH Cthulhu Dawn
 METALLICA Call of Cthulhu
 METALLICA The Thing That Should Not Be
 ORPHANAGE The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

MARVELL [Andrew]
 IRON MAIDEN Bring Your Daughter To the Slaughter, To His Coy Mistress, [Alla sua timida amante]

MCFARLANE [Todd]
 ICED EARTH, The Dark Saga [concept album], Spawn

MELVILLE [Herman]
 MASTODON Blood and Thunder, Moby Dick

MILTON [John]
 AZTEC JADE PARADISE LOST [album]
 CARNIVORE HORDE For the open war [album], Paradise Lost
 CIRITH UNGOL Paradise Lost [album]
 DARK MOON Circle Paradise Lost [album]
 DAVID VALDES PARADISE LOST [album]
 DIVISION Paradise Lost [album]
 ELEND
 EVIL TWINS
 MY MATERIAL SEASON Commit suicide in the paradise lost
 PARADISE LOST Paradise Lost [album]
 PARIAH The Truth, [album], Paradise Lost
 SYMPHONY X Paradise Lost [album]
 SYNBAD Paradise Lost [album]

MISHIMA [Yukio]
 GOLGATHA Icarus [English translation]

MITOLOGIA
 BLIND GUARDIAN Walhalla, Mitologia Nordica
 IRON MAIDEN Flight of Icarus, Icaro, Mitologia Greca
 IRON MAIDEN Powerslave, Mitologia e Civilità Egizie
 NIGHTWISH Tales from the Elvenpath, Mitologia Norrena
 SONATA ARTICA My Selene, mito di Selene ed Endamione
 TIAMAT mitologia mesopotamica
 VIRGIN STEELE Visions Of Eden [The Lilith Project - A Barbaric Romantic Movie Of The Mind], Lilith, Mitologia Ebraica/Cristiana delle origini, Mitologia Sumera
 WHITE SKULL Public Glory, Secret Agony, Mitologia Romana
 WHITE SKULL Tales from the North, Mitologia Nordica

MOORCOCK [Michael John]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Follow The Blind all’Elric di Melniboné
 BLIND GUARDIAN Hall Of The King sono ispirate all’Elric di Melniboné
 BLIND GUARDIAN My Journey Through The Dark, Cronache di Corum
 BLIND GUARDIAN The Quest For Tanerlon è ispirato dall’omonimo libro, La Ricerca di Tanelorn,
 DOMINE ispirato Elric di Melniboné

NIETZSCHE [Friedrich]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Punishment Divine

OMERO
 BLIND GUARDIAN And Then There Was Silence, Iliade
 BLIND GUARDIAN Under the Ice, Iliade
 MANOWAR, Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts, Iliade
 SYMPHONY X The Odyssey, Odissea

PESSOA [Fernando]
 DESIRE Pessoa, in terms of poetry, is our main inspiration
 MOONSPELL Opium [incorporates “Opiário”]
 ULVER Christmas [English adaptation of “Natal”]

PETRARCA [Francesco]
 VISION DIVINE La vita fugge, Canzoniere

POE [Edgar Allan]
 AGATHODAIMON
 ANNIHILATOR Alice in Hell, Ligeia
 ARCTURUS Alone incorporating the full, unaltered text of Poe’s poem “Alone”.
 CRIMSON GLORY
 DONOR
 GREEN CARNATION Alone
 HAWAII
 HIM il cantante Ville Valo of the band HIM frequently cites Poe’s work as the inspiration for many of his lyrics, even sporting a tattoo of Poe’s eyes on his back.
 IRON MAIDEN Murders In The Rue Morgue
 IRON MAIDEN The Grave Digger is dedicated to Poe, and some of Poe’s works, including “The Raven” and “Fall of the House of Usher” are the basis of a number of songs.
 Manilla Road,
 MARILYN MANSON has been quotedsaying that some of his inspiration for his music and art comes from Edgar Allan Poe’s works, and has even painted a portrait of Poe.
 METAL CHURCH
 NEVERMORE takes its name from “The Raven”
 NIGHTWISH The Poet and the Pendulum, The Pit and the Pendulum
 RA’S DAWN
 RAGE
 ROMEO, MICHAEL [SYMPHONY X] instrumental album called The Dark Chapter where has several songs inspired from Edgar Allan Poe including “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Premature Burial”, and “The Masque of the Red Death”]
 STORMWITCH
 THE OCEAN The City in the Sea
 TRISTANIA My Lost Lenore, ” The song refers to “her raven eyes” and ends similarly to the poem “The Raven,” still mourning his lost Lenore.
 TOURNIQUET Vanishing Lessons, The Masque of the Red Death
 TOURNIQUET Tell-Tale Heart entirely as a tribute to Poe
 OMNIA The Raven

RYAN [CORNELIUS]
 IRON MAIDEN The Longest Day

SACRE SCRITTURE
 AMORPHIS THE LOST SON The Brother Slayer Part II, Caino e Abele
 BLIND GUARDIAN Sadly Sings Destiny, martiriologia christi
 GRAVE DIGGER The Last Supper, [concept album], L’Ultima Cena
 IRON MAIDEN The Number Of The Beast, Revelations [ch. xiii v.18], citazione all’inizio
 IRON MAIDEN Piece Of Mind, The quote on the back of the Piece Of Mind LP sleeve: again from Revela-tions [ch. xxi, v.1]: “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes,
and there shall be no more death. Neither sorrow nor crying. Neither shall there be any more Brain.” [where 'pain' was replaced by 'Brain', obviously]. This refers to Eddie’s brain being removed in Piece Of Mind.
 METALLICA Creeping Death, la strage dei primogeniti d’Egitto.
 METALLICA The four horseman, Apocalisse
 SATYRICON The Dawn of a New Age, Book of Revelation, Il libro dell’Apocalisse, Giovanni
 STRATOVARIOUS The kiss of Judas
 WHITE METAL [chi più chi meno – tutti]

SHAKESPEARE [William]
 AGATHOCLES Even Shakespeare Fed the Worms
 AYIN Aleph Hamlet
 DAGGER OF THE MIND
 DEATHBOOT Nightmare III: Nightmare on Hamletsgade
 DREAM THEATER Pull Me Under, Hamlet
 EMBALMING THEATRE Even Shakespeare Fed the Worms / Piles Left to Rot
 ENMESSARA Shakespeare’s fear
 FUCK THE FACTS .Canada Shakespeare CAI / This Is Beatbox / Linguistic Violations
 JAG PANZER
 HAMLET Hamlet [Black Album]
 HADES Aftermath of Betrayal [The Tragedy of Hamlet]
 HÄMMER Hamlet
 HOW LIKE A WINTER The band’s name is taken from the first line of William Shakespeare’s sonnet XCVII:- “How like a winter hath my absence been”
 HOW LIKE A WINTER XCVII, song-sonnet
 IRON MAIDEN The Evil That Men Do, Julius Caesar [The quote is "The evil that men do lives on after them, But the good is oft interred with their bones." This is from Mark Antony's soliloqui]
 LOCKED IN A VACANCY Shakespearean Tragedy
 MACBETH
 MARIA CHUANA Shakespeare
 MASTERPIECE Footprints in the Hamlet
 MY DYING BRIDE For My Fallen Angel, Venus and Adonis [versi citati ]
 OGRE Hamlet Gets Paranoid
 REBELLION
 SHAKESPEARE IN HELL Shakespeare in Hell was formed in late 2000 by Kevin Kish and Keith Guillory, ostensibly for a school project. This project has since evolved into a full-time band. Against this sonic stage the band sets the darkest plays of William Shakespeare, delivering lyrics t
 SHIVER
 SORROWFUL GOD taken verbatim from the original Elizabethan text.
 THE METAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Aufidius’ Plot [Coriolanus IV.VII]
 THE METAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY A Touch of Henry in the Night [Henry V IV.i/iii]
 THE METAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Julius Caesar, A Play In Minutes
 THE METAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY The Ballad of Isabella [Measure for Measure II.ii]
 THE METAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY The Caliban Stomp [scenes from The Tempest]
 THE METAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY The Drunken Porter [Macbeth II.III]
 THE METAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY To Bleed Or Not To Bleed [Hamlet III.I]
THE METAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY We Are The Dagger Of The Mind [Macbeth II.I]
 THEATRE OF TRAGEDY A Hamlet for a Slothful Vassal
 THY NATURE Shaded Hamlet
 TIERRA SANTA Hamlet
 TYSTNADEN Hamlet
 VITACIT Hamlet v rauši

SHELLEY [Mary]
 ICED EARTH Frankenstein

SHEVCHENKO [TARAS]
 DRUDKH Solitude [English title for “Самітність”]
 DRUDKH The Swan Road [album]

SHIRLEY [JOHN]
 JESTER’S FUNERAL Fragments of an Exploded Heart, adapted a bunch of stories

SILLITOE [Alan]
 IRON MAIDEN Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, La solitudine del maratoneta

STEVENSON [Robert Louis]
 ICED EARTH Jekyll & Hyde, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

STOKER [Bram]
 ICED EARTH Dracula

TASSO [Torquato]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Precius Jerusalem, Gerusalemme Liberata

TENNYSON [Alfred]
 IRON MAIDEN The Trooper, The Charge of the Light Brigade

TEGNÉR [ESAIAS]
 THYRFING The Giant’s Laughter, by the poem Jätten

TESSIMOND [A.S.J.]
 AGALLOCH Birch White [all lyrics taken from “Birch Tree”]

THOMAS [Dylan]
 ANAAL NATHRAKH Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light [incorporates “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”]

TOLKIEN [Sir John Ronald Reuel]
 BLIND GUARDIAN By The Gates Of Moria e Gandalf’s Rebirth sono due canzoni istrumentali che contengono nel titolo riferimenti al Signore degli Anelli
 BLIND GUARDIAN Harvest Of Sorrow al laid di Tùrin, raccontato da Tolkien ne Il Silmarillion
 BLIND GUARDIAN Imaginations From The Other Side, Signore degli Anelli
 BLIND GUARDIAN Lord Of The Rings è ispirato dal Signore degli Anelli di Tolkien
 BLIND GUARDIAN Lost In The Twilight Hall è ispirato alla morte di Gandalf, quindi ancora Signore degli Anelli
 BLIND GUARDIAN Nightfall in Middle-Earth [album][ispirato dal Silmarillion di JRR Tolkien]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Majesty contine riferimenti al Signore degli Anelli
 BLIND GUARDIAN The Bard’s Song [In The Forest] contiene riferimenti al Signore degli Anelli
 BLIND GUARDIAN The Bard’s Song [The Hobbit] parla dello Hobbit di Tolkien
 NIGHTWISH Elvenpath refers to the basic premise del Signore degli Anelli di Tolkien
 THE GATHERING Mandylion

TRAKL [GEORG]
 THE OCEAN Ectasian/De Profundis [incorporates English translation of “De Profundis”]

TRUMBO [Dalton]
 METALLICA One, Johnny Got His Gun

VERLAINE [PAUL]
 PESTE NOIRE Soleils couchants
 VALFUNDE Sérénade De Verlaine

VILLON [FRANÇOIS]
 PESTE NOIRE Ballade cuntre les anemis de la France

WEIS/HICKMAN [MARGARET/ TRACY]
 LAKE OF TEARS Raistlin and the Rose, Dragonlance
 BLIND GUARDIAN The Soulforged, Dragonlance

WELSH [Irvine]
 IMPURE DEMAIN H.I.V. Parade, cut-up testi

WILDE [Oscar]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Wait for an Answer, The Picture of Dorian Gray

WILLIAMS [Tad]
 BLIND GUARDIAN Otherland

WORDSWORTH [William]
 DRACONIAN A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

WYLIE/BALMER [Philip Gordon/ Edwin]
 IRON MAIDEN When Two Worlds Collide, When Worlds Collide

YEATS [William Butler]
 AGALLOCH A Poem By Yeats [all lyrics taken from “The Sorrow of Love”]
 PRIMORDIAL Hosting of the Sidhe