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Herot by Herot

February 23, 2023 By Cory Balon

Herot by the band Herot is a 2005 EP. The EP was a limited run with only 200 cd copies being released.

The album art of the EP is a distorted version of Gustave Doré’s illustration, Ugolini and Gaddo. 

Find the album here.

Find the illustration here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa. 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2005, Album Art, Albums, Canto 33, Cocytus, Germany, Gustave Doré, Heavy Metal, Illustrations, Metal, Ninth Circle, Ruggieri, Treachery, Ugolino

Summoning Curses by Suðri and Atel

February 14, 2023 By Cory Balon

Summoning Curses is a collaborative album between bands Suðri and Atel. The cover art of this album features Gustave Doré’s illustration, Ugolino and Gaddo. This illustration is Doré’s imaging of canto 33 from the Inferno. 

Find the album here.

Find the illustration here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa. 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2016, Album Art, Albums, Betrayal, Canto 33, Chile, Gustave Doré, Heavy Metal, Illustrations, Metal, Ninth Circle, Treachery, Ugolino

Winds of Sirius’ Beyond All Temples and Myths

February 7, 2023 By Cory Balon

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Beyond All Temples and Myths is a 1999 album by the heavy metal band, Winds of Sirius. The album art is an altered version of the 1961 Gustave Doré painting, Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of Hell.

Many of the song titles are biblical references as well, including; “The Light Beyond,” “Wise Men Keep Silent,” and “Everlasting Souls.”

Buy the album here.

Read more about the painting here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 1999, Album Art, Albums, Canto 33, Cocytus, Gustave Doré, Heavy Metal, Illustrations, Ugolino

Pÿlon’s The Harrowing of Hell

February 2, 2023 By Cory Balon

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“The original album from these Swiss doomsters was only released on vinyl last year and reviewed by our resident ultimaniac Scott Waters. Roxx Productions decided to make this rare piece more available to the headbanging public by reissuing it in two new formats. The single-disc version has the seven original songs and adds the bonus tracks ‘Golden Voice’ and ‘Lines.’

[. . .]

“The lyrical content is strictly biblical, and when singer Matt Brand kicks into his gravel-tongued mode, there’s heaviness aplenty, especially on the tune ‘The Stream of Forgetfulness.’ Pylon’s cover of Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’ disassembles the original with its slow delivery. I can appreciate the doom metal more than the stoner rock here, but all in all, I’m glad the light of day has shone on this band – surely we will hear more from Pylon.”    –Chris Gatto, HM Magazine

This album art uses Gustave Doré’s 1861 painting titled, Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of Hell.

Listen to the album here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa.

 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2012, Album Art, Albums, Canto 33, Cocytus, Gustave Doré, Heavy Metal, Illustrations, Switzerland, Ugolino

Nell Gifford, By the Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars (2019)

January 6, 2022 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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Nell Gifford, By the Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars, acrylic ink on paper.

More information about the sale of this piece here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2019, Art, Canto 33, Horses, Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars, Paradiso, Visual Arts

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