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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

Divinity of Death by Nekromantheon

March 17, 2023 By Cory Balon

“The debut album from Norway’s rulers of evil thrashing oldschool madness is finally re-released on all formats! Featuring members of Obliteration and Audiopain, Divinity Of Death is the perfect blend of classic Slayer, Possessed, Dark Angel, Sepultura etc. combined with Nekromantheon’s own amazing songwriting and instrumental skills. One of the strongest Norwegian debuts, recorded and produced by the band themselves in their own Kick Arse Studio for that old, necro feel!”    — Duplicate Records

The album art of their album features Gustave Doré’s, Styx-Philippo Argenti. 

Find the album here.

Find the illustration here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa. 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2010, Album Art, Albums, Canto 8, Gustave Doré, Heavy Metal, Illustrations, Metal, Norway, River Styx, Styx

Vortex by Stige

January 17, 2023 By Cory Balon

vortex-stige“Secondo demo per questi Stige, death/thrash band da Taranto. Il quintetto ha finalmente assestato la sua line-up dove svariati cambi. . .  Infatti le quattro tracce presenti in questo ‘Vortex’, sono sì furiose e violente, ma peccano pesantemente sul versante originalità. Gli Stige si rifanno palesemente alla scena americana, sia nel riffing serrato che nei solos sparati a duemila all’ora ( come gli Slayer insegnano ). Dentro di loro serpeggia anche una vena hardcore, decantata a pieni polmoni dal singer Gianfranco Liuzzi, il quale modula la propria voce su uno screaming acidulo e tiratissimo per quasi tutta la durata delle canzoni; ogni tanto Liuzzi tira fuori degli acuti Halfordiani, tecnicamente validi, ma che cozzano con il suo cantare ” classico “. Durante l’ascolto dei brani emerge anche una discreta cura nell’inserire linee altamente melodiche, questo grazie ai due chitarristi, Marcello Bruno ed Emanuele Giummarra, particolare che conferisce un pizzico di ariosità a canzoni comunque potenti e quadrate.”    –Andrea Pizzini, metal.it

The 2005 demo Vortex by Italian band Stige uses the illustration Styx-Philippo Argenti by illustrator Gustave Doré.

Find the album here.

Find the illustration here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa. 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2006, Album Art, Albums, Canto 8, Gustave Doré, Illustrations, Italian Bands, Italy, Metal, River Styx, Styx, Tuscany

Sails of Charon by Scorpions

April 25, 2022 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

screenshot-of-scorpions-album-cover

“In Dante’s poem, Charon escorts the author and his guide, Virgil, across the river to the realm of the damned. The Scorpions make reference to a “blind man” in this cut from 1977’s ‘Taken By Force.’ This is in reference to the lost souls who did not have a coin for Charon, so they must blindly wander the banks of Styx for hundreds of years.”  – Katy Irizary, Loudwire, August 15, 2018

Read the full Loudwire article here.

Categories: Music, Performing Arts, Written Word
Tagged with: Charon, Journalism, Loudwire, River Styx, Rock Music, Virgil

World Beyond by Kreator

April 25, 2022 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

screenshot-of-kreator-album-cover

The lyrics in Kreator’s song “World Beyond” describe a trip through the gates of Hell similar to Dante and Virgil’s, according to Loudwire’s Katy Irizary.

The song discusses the river Styx and selling souls.

Read the full Loudwire article here.

Categories: Music, Performing Arts, Written Word
Tagged with: Journalism, Loudwire, River Styx, Rock Music

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