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In Soulitary’s Demo 1

April 16, 2023 By Cory Balon

Brazilian metal band, Solulitary released their demo titled Demo 1, using Gustave Doré’s The Lustful as the album art.

Find the demo here.

Find The Lustful by Gustave Doré here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2004, Album Art, Albums, Brazil, Gustave Doré, Heavy Metal, Illustrations, Metal

Subterranean Forgotten Caverns by Ghoul

April 5, 2023 By Cory Balon

subterranean-forgotten-caverns-ghoulSubterranean Forgotten Caverns is an album released in 2004 by the metal band Ghoul. The art for the album cover is the illustration, Evil Counsellors, by Gustave Doré. The illustration is from Canto 26 of the Inferno. 

Find Subterranean Forgotten Caverns here.

Find Evil Counsellors Gustave Doré here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2004, Album Art, Albums, England, Greece, Gustave Doré, Heavy Metal, Illustrations, Metal

For Those of the Blood by Legion of Doom

March 17, 2023 By Cory Balon

In 2004 the band Legion of Doom rereleased their 1997 album, For Those of the Blood. The new 2004 edition featured Gustave Doré’s Styx-Philippo Argenti as the album art.

Find the album here.

Find Doré’s illustration here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa. 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2004, Album Art, Albums, Canto 8, Greece, Gustave Doré, Illustrations, Metal, River Styx, Rock, Styx

Efimera Existencia by Carnage

March 17, 2023 By Cory Balon

efimera-existenciaThe Venezuelan heavy metal band Carnage, released a three song demo, titled Efimera Existencia in 2004. Their album art was a stylized version of Gustave Doré’s illustration, Devils and Seducers. 

Find Carnage’s demo here.

Find Devils and Seducers here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2004, Album Art, Albums, Canto 18, Death Metal, Eighth Circle, Gustave Doré, Heavy Metal, Illustrations, Venezuela

Nuruddin Farah, Links (2004)

March 17, 2022 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

links-by-nuruddin-farah-book-cover

“Nuruddin Farah’s ninth novel in English, Links, makes a mainly para-textual use of Dante’s Commedia, implicitly validating its canonical status both within Italian literary tradition and world literature as a whole. The epigraphs chosen for each part of the book come from Dante’s Inferno, except the first three exergues…

“Through the references to Dante’s Commedia, Jeebleh’s journey is configured from the beginning as a descent to hell, represented by the city of Mogadishu during the civil war.” [. . .]    –Simone Brioni, Lorenzo Mari, Postcolonial Dante: Reading the Commedia in Mogadishu, 2019

Access Links by Nuruddin Farah here.

Contributed by Simone Brioni (Ph.D., Stony Brook University)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2004, 2019, Books, Canto 24, Canto 3, Cities, Civil War, Colonialism, Epigraphs, Guides, Homes, Intertextuality, Journeys, Mogadishu, Novels, Somalia, The Canon

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