Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
Trinity of Night, Day and Demise is a 2005 metal album by the band Tremendum. The art for the album was an illustration titled The Erinnys, by artist Gustave Doré. This illustration was from Canto 9 of the Inferno.
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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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Find the illustration here.
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.
