Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
Katy Irizarry explains that in this song King Diamond sings from the perspective of Charon, while he takes the lost souls across the River Styx.
“Welcome my friend, my name is Charon / Please take my hand, I know the secret land / Don’t be afraid, oh no / I’m faceless, but don’t fear now / I’ll take you safe across the River Styx.”
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“Dante juxtaposed Greek mythology with modern Catholicism, which is exactly what Hammerfall do in their hellish song, “666 – The Enemy Within,” Loudwire’s Katy Irrizary writes.
“The band sings of both the symbol of Christ’s death as well as the rivers of Hades. “Six, six, six / Get the holy crucifix / Throw it in / Into Acheron on Styx” – Katy Irrizary, Loudwire, August 15, 2018
The song “…is about a hell that is even more vile and terrifying than Dante’s version,” says Loudwire’s Katy Irizary.
The lyrics directly reference Dante, “All damned in this Inferno / Where even Virgil averts his eyes.”
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The lyrics “I went into the demon’s gate / Across the Styx among the mists of Hades / A gate of stone marks the path / To soul’s damnation and hell’s wrath” are “a nice homage to Dante’s epic writing style,” according to Loudwire’s Katy Irizary.
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Loudwire’s Katy Irizary explains that the “cover-art alone… is very Dante-esque.” A dragon, which Irizary claims “could be a representation of the centaur Cacus who has a fire breathing dragon in Canto 25.”
Lionheart describes meeting Ulysses in Hell with the lyrics ““Drown Ulysses / Drown here in the silence / Cause down to Hades I’ve gone / But I cannot get out.”
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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.
