Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
The album Angeldust and Blasphemy by Vilkates was 1998 heavy metal album limited to only 500 copies. The art used for this album was Gustave Doré’s illustration of Canto 18 of the Inferno, Devils and Seducers.
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Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa
The 1998 metal album, In the Valley of Tears, by the Ukrainian band Dawn of Winter uses Gustave Doré’s illustration, Paramours and Flatterers as its album art.
“Almost two hours’ worth of superbly crafted and passionately expressed doom metal from the German underground! No frills, no fads, no gimmicks, no asinine image! This is TRUE DOOM the way it’s meant to sound. A formula enduring in the hearts of real genre fans until the end of days.” – I HATE
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Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa.
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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.
