ALIGHIERI [Dante]-
DANTESCO: Divina Commedia
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DRACENA: Infernal Damnation, Divina Commedia
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EVIL TWINS: Divina Commedia
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FLAYST: Dante's Hell, Divina Commedia
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HOSTILE INC: Each One's Dante's
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ICED EARTH: Dante's Inferno, Divina Commedia
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MILLA JOVOVICH: The Divine Comedy, Divina Commedia [concept album]
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NEQUIZIA: Divina Commedia
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OF THE ARCHAENGEL: The Dante's Children Extravagance: Chapter Alpha
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ONIRIA: Dante's Journey, Divina Commedia
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SADNESS: Danteferno, Divina Commedia
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SEPULTURA: Dante XXI, Divina Commedia [concept album]
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TRANSMETAL: Dante's Inferno, Divina Commedia [concept album]
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TRANSMETAL: El Infierno de Dante, Divina Commedia [concept album]
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VOMIT ORCHESTRA: Dante, Divina Commedia
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ZAMBER: Divina Commedia
ARTAUD [Antonin]-
IMPURE DOMAIN: H.I.V. Parade [riferimento letterario]
BALLARD [James Graham]-
IMPURE DOMAIN: H.I.V. Parade [riferimento letterario]
BARRIE [James Matthew]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Born In A Mourning Hall, Peter Pan
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Imaginations From The Other Side, Peter Pan
BAUDELAIRE [Charles]-
ALCEST: Elévation
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AMESOEURS: Recueillement
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DAS ICH: Blutquell [German translation of "La Fontaine de sang"]
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GORGOROTH: Litani til Satan [Norwegian translation of "Les Litanies de Satan"]
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MISANTHROPE: Irremediable
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MORTIFERA: Ciel brouillé
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MORTIFERA: Le Revenant
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PESTE NOIRE: Le Mort Joyeux
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PESTE NOIRE: Spleen
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THE OCEAN: Paleoarchaean/Man And The Sea [incorporates English translation of "L'Homme et la Mer"]
BENN [Gottfried]-
DAS ICH: Morgue
BLAKE [William]-
BRUCE DICKINSON: The Chemical Wedding, The Marriage of Heaven & Hell [album, Libri di Urizen]
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DEPRESSIVE REALITY: A Poison 6Tree [poetry of W.B.]
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ENIGMATIK: The Ghost Of William Blake
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ULVER: Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell
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VIRGIN STEELE: Invictus
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VIRGIN STEELE: The Angel Of Light [based on The Silence Of The Lamb]
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VIRGIN STEELE: The Marriage of Heaven & Hell part I
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VIRGIN STEELE: The Marriage of Heaven & Hell part II
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VIRGIN STEELE: The Rebels, Metal Opera [The Marriage of Heaven & Hell part I & part II]
BRASILLACH [Robert]-
PESTE NOIRE: Psaume IV
BRONTE [Emily]-
ANGRA: Wuthering Heights, Cime Tempestose [Kate Bush, Metal cover]
BURGESS [Anthony]-
ROB ZOMBIE: Never Gonna Stop [The Red Red Kroovy], A Clockwork Orange
BURROUGHS [William]-
IMPURE DOMAIN: H.I.V. Parade [cut-up testi]
CARD [Orson Scott]-
IRON MAIDEN: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
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IRON MAIDEN: The Clairvoyant, Seventh Son
CARDUCCI [Giosuč]-
EMPEROR: I am the Black Wizards, Inno a Satana
CARROL [Lewis]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Imaginations From The Other Side, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
CÉLINE [Louis-Ferdinand]-
IMPURE DOMAIN: H.I.V. Parade [riferimento letterario]
CERVANTES [Miguel]-
MAGO DE OZ: La Leyenda de la Mancha, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha [concept album]
CESARE [Caio Giulio]-
DOOMSWORD: Gergovia, De Bello Gallico
CHESTERTON [Gilbert Keith]-
IRON MAIDEN: Revelations
CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES-
BLIND GUARDIAN: The Maiden And The Minstrel Knight [ispirato al Tristano e Isotta]
CIORAN [Emil]-
IMPURE DOMAIN: H.I.V. Parade [riferimento letterario]
CLARKE [Arthur C.]-
IRON MAIDEN: Childhood's End
COLERIDGE [Samuel Taylor]-
IRON MAIDEN: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
CONRAD [Joseph]-
IRON MAIDEN: Edge of Darkness [Edge of Darkness/Apocalypse Now film adaption]
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IRON MAIDEN: The Duellists, The Duel [A Military Tale]
CORBIČRE [Tristan]-
PESTE NOIRE: Paysage Mauvais
DE MACHAUT [Guillame]-
PESTE NOIRE: Amour ne m'amoit ne je li
DE PIZAN [Christine]-
PESTE NOIRE: Dueil angoisseus [Christine de Pisan, 1362-1431] [incorporates "Dueil Angoisseux"]
DICK [Philip Kindred]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Time What Is Time, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep [Ma gli androidi sognano pecore elettriche/Blade Runner]
DUCASSE [Isidore-Lucien]-
THE OCEAN: Mesoarchaean/Legions Of Winged Octopi [incorporates English translation of "Les Chants de Maldoror"]
ECO [Umberto]-
IRON MAIDEN: The Sign of the Cross, Il nome della Rosa
ELLIS [Bret Easton]-
IMPURE DOMAIN: H.I.V. Parade [riferimento letterario]
ENDE [Michael Andreas Helmuth]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: And The Story Ends, Die unendliche Geschichte [La storia infinita]
ESCHILO-
VIRGIN STEELE: House of Atreus – Act I, Oresteia [concept album]
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VIRGIN STEELE: House of Atreus – Act II, Oresteia [concept album]
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VIRGIN STEELE: Klytaimnestra [House of Atreus - Act I & Act II, 5 Giugno 1999, č stato il primo spettacolo di musica teatrale incentrato sull'heavy metal ad essere mai stato realizzato]
FOUCAULT [Michel]-
KILLERS LODGE: Unnecessary [quasi tutto l'album č ispirato alle sue opere]
GALILEI [Galileo]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Age of False Innocence
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HAGGARD: Eppur si muove [Album]
GOETHE [Johann Wolfgang]-
KAMELOT: Epica [Album liberamente ispirati a Faust]
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KAMELOT: The black halo [Album liberamente ispirati a Faust]
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RAMMSTEIN: Dalai Lama is loosely based on Der Erlkönig
GOFFREDO DI MONMOUTH-
BLIND GUARDIAN: A Past And Future Secret, Ciclo di Avalon
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BLIND GUARDIAN: From The Other Side, Ciclo di Avalon
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Mordred's Song, Ciclo di Avalon
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BLIND GUARDIAN: The Script For My Requiem, Ciclo di Avalon
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GRAVE DIGGER: Excalibur, Ciclo di Avalon [concept album]
GOLDING [William]-
IRON MAIDEN: Lord of the Flies
HEINLEIN [Robert Anson]-
IRON MAIDEN: Strangers in a Strange Land
HEMINGWAY [Ernest]-
METALLICA: For whom the bell tolls
HERBERT [Frank]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Traveler In Time, Dune
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IRON MAIDEN: To Tame a Land, Dune
HERRICK [Robert]-
DREAM THEATER: A Change Of Seasons, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time [Alle vergini, perché facciano buon uso del loro tempo]
HOBB [Robin]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Within Temptations's Hand of Sorrow
HOWARD [Robert Ervin]-
DOMINE: [testi ispirati a Conan il Barbaro]
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ROSAE CRUCIS: [a four-tracks of a more extensive work based on the novel "The Worms of the Earth]
HUXLEY [Aldous]-
IRON MAIDEN: Brave New World
KAFKA [Franz]-
IMPURE DOMAIN: H.I.V. Parade [riferimento letterario]
KANTELETAR - raccolta di liriche popolari finniche-
AMORPHIS: My Kantele
KING [Stephen]-
ANTHRAX: Among the Living [The lyrics of the song are based on the novel "The Stand"]
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ANTHRAX: Misery Loves Company [is about Misery]
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ANTHRAX: Skeletons in the Closet [is about Apt Pupil]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Altair-4 [is about The Tommyknockers]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Guardian Of The Blind [contiene riferimenti a It]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Somewhere Far Beyond [dedicato al ciclo della Torre Nera]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Tommyknockers [ispirato a Tommyknockers – Le creature del buio]
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DEMONS & WIZARDS: Terror Train [sung from the perspective of Blaine the Mono, a character in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, and recalls part of the plot of the books]
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DEMONS & WIZARDS: The Gunslinger [based on Stephen King's The Dark Tower series]
LEROUX [Gaston]-
ICED EARTH: The Phantom of the Opera Ghost
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IRON MAIDEN: Phantom Of The Opera
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NIGHTWISH: The Phantom Of The Opera
LOVECRAFT [Howard Phillips]-
CRADLE OF FILTH: Cthulhu Dawn
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METALLICA: Call of Cthulhu
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METALLICA: The Thing That Should Not Be
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ORPHANAGE: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
MARVELL [Andrew]-
IRON MAIDEN: Bring Your Daughter To the Slaughter, To His Coy Mistress [Alla sua timida amante]
MCFARLANE [Todd]-
ICED EARTH: The Dark Saga, Spawn [concept album]
MELVILLE [Herman]-
MASTODON: Blood and Thunder, Moby Dick
MILTON [John]-
AZTEC JADE: Paradise Lost [album]
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CARNIVORE HORDE: For the open war, Paradise Lost [album]
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CIRITH UNGOL: Paradise Lost [album]
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DARK MOON: Circle Paradise Lost [album]
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DAVID VALDES: Paradise Lost [album]
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DIVISION: Paradise Lost [album]
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ELEND: [album]
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EVIL TWINS: [album]
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MY MATERIAL SEASON: Commit suicide in the paradise lost
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PARADISE LOST: Lost Paradise [album]
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PARIAH: The Truth, Paradise Lost [album]
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SYMPHONY X: Paradise Lost [album]
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SYNBAD: Paradise Lost [album]
MISHIMA [Yukio]-
GOLGATHA: Icarus [English translation]
MITOLOGIA-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Walhalla, Mitologia Nordica
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IRON MAIDEN: Flight of Icarus, Mitologia Greca [Icaro]
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IRON MAIDEN: Powerslave, Mitologia e Civilitŕ Egizie
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NIGHTWISH: Tales from the Elvenpath, Mitologia Norrena
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SONATA ARTICA: My Selene, Mito di Selene ed Endamione
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TIAMAT: Mitologia mesopotamica
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VIRGIN STEELE: Visions Of Eden [The Lilith Project - A Barbaric Romantic Movie Of The Mind], Mitologia Ebraica/Cristiana delle origini, Mitologia Sumera [Lilith]
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WHITE SKULL: Public Glory, Secret Agony, Mitologia Romana
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WHITE SKULL: Tales from the North, Mitologia Nordica
MOORCOCK [Michael John]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Follow The Blind [ispirato all'Elric di Melniboné]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Hall Of The King [ispirato all'Elric di Melniboné]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: My Journey Through The Dark, Cronache di Corum
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BLIND GUARDIAN: The Quest For Tanerlon [ispirato dall'omonimo libro, La Ricerca di Tanelorn]
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DOMINE: [ispirato all'Elric di Melniboné]
NIETZSCHE [Friedrich]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Punishment Divine
OMERO-
BLIND GUARDIAN: And Then There Was Silence, Iliade
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Under the Ice, Iliade
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MANOWAR: Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts, Iliade
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SYMPHONY X: The Odyssey, Odissea
PESSOA [Fernando]-
DESIRE: [in terms of poetry, is main inspiration]
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MOONSPELL: Opium [incorporates "Opiário"]
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ULVER: Christmas [English adaptation of "Natal"]
PETRARCA [Francesco]-
VERDE LAURO: Son animali al mondo [concept album]
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VISION DIVINE: La vita fugge, Canzoniere
POE [Edgar Allan]-
AGATHODAIMON:
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ANNIHILATOR: Alice in Hell, Ligeia
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ARCTURUS: Alone incorporating the full [unaltered text of Poe's poem "Alone"]
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CRIMSON GLORY:
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DONOR:
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GREEN CARNATION: Alone
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H.I.M.: [singer Ville Valo of the band HIM frequently cites Poe's work as the inspiration for many of his lyrics, even sporting a tattoo of Poe's eyes on his back]
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HAWAII:
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IRON MAIDEN: Murders In The Rue Morgue
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IRON MAIDEN: The Grave Digger [dedicated to Poe, and some of Poe's works, including "The Raven" and "Fall of the House of Usher" are the basis of a number of songs]
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MANILLA ROAD:
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MARILYN MANSON: [been quotedsaying that some of his inspiration for his music and art comes from Edgar Allan Poe's works, and has even painted a portrait of Poe]
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METAL CHURCH:
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MICHAEL ROMEO: [instrumental album called The Dark Chapter where has several songs inspired from Edgar Allan Poe including "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Premature Burial", and "The Masque of the Red Death"]
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NEVERMORE: [takes its name from "The Raven"]
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NIGHTWISH: The Poet and the Pendulum, The Pit and the Pendulum
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OMNIA: The Raven
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RAGE:
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RA'S DAWN:
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STORMWITCH:
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THE OCEAN: The City in the Sea
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TOURNIQUET: Tell-Tale Heart [entirely as a tribute to Poe]
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TOURNIQUET: Vanishing Lessons, The Masque of the Red Death
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TRISTANIA: My Lost Lenore [The song refers to "her raven eyes" and ends similarly to the poem "The Raven," still mourning his lost Lenore]
RYAN [Cornelius]-
IRON MAIDEN: The Longest Day
SACRE SCRITTURE-
AMORPHIS: The Lost Son - The Brother Slayer Part II, Caino e Abele
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Sadly Sings Destiny, Martiriologia Christi
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GRAVE DIGGER: The Last Supper, L'Ultima Cena [concept album]
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IRON MAIDEN: Piece Of Mind [The quote on the back of the Piece Of Mind LP sleeve: again from Revelations [ch. xxi, v.1]: "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death. Neither sorrow nor crying. Neither shall there be any more Brain.", where 'pain' was replaced by 'Brain', obviously]. This refers to Eddie's brain being removed in Piece Of Mind.]
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IRON MAIDEN: The Number Of The Beast, Revelations [ch. xiii v.18] [citazione all'inizio]
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METALLICA: Creeping Death, La strage dei primogeniti d'Egitto
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METALLICA: The four horseman, Apocalisse
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SATYRICON: The Dawn of a New Age, Book of Revelation, Il libro dell'Apocalisse, Giovanni
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STRATOVARIUS: The kiss of Judas
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WHITE METAL:
SHAKESPEARE [William]-
AGATHOCLES: Even Shakespeare Fed the Worms
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AYIN: Aleph, Hamlet
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DAGGER OF THE MIND:
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DEATHBOOT: Nightmare III: Nightmare on Hamletsgade
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DREAM THEATER: Pull Me Under, Hamlet
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EMBALMING THEATRE: Even Shakespeare Fed the Worms / Piles Left to Rot
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ENMESSARA: Shakespeare's fear
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FUCK THE FACTS: Canada Shakespeare CAI / This Is Beatbox / Linguistic Violations
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HADES: Aftermath of Betrayal [The Tragedy of Hamlet]
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HAMLET: Hamlet [Black Album]
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HAMMER: Hamlet
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HOW LIKE A WINTER: [The band's name is taken from the first line of William Shakespeare's sonnet XCVII: "How like a winter hath my absence been"]
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HOW LIKE A WINTER: XCVII [song-sonnet]
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IRON MAIDEN: The Evil That Men Do, Julius Caesar [The quote is "The evil that men do lives on after them, But the good is oft interred with their bones." This is from Mark Antony's soliloqui]
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JAG PANZER:
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LOCKED IN A VACANCY: Shakespearean Tragedy
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MACBETH:
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MARIA CHUANA: Shakespeare
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MASTERPIECE: Footprints in the Hamlet
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MY DYING BRIDE: For My Fallen Angel, Venus and Adonis [versi citati]
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OGRE: Hamlet Gets Paranoid
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REBELLION:
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SHAKESPEARE IN HELL: [formed in late 2000 by Kevin Kish and Keith Guillory, ostensibly for a school project. This project has since evolved into a full-time band. Against this sonic stage the band sets the darkest plays of William Shakespeare, delivering lyrics]
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SHIVER:
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SORROWFUL GOD: [taken verbatim from the original Elizabethan text]
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THE METAL SHAKESPEARE CMPANY: A Touch of Henry in the Night [Henry V IV.i/iii]
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THE METAL SHAKESPEARE CMPANY: Aufidius' Plot [Coriolanus IV.VII]
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THE METAL SHAKESPEARE CMPANY: Julius Caesar, A Play In Minutes
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THE METAL SHAKESPEARE CMPANY: The Ballad of Isabella [Measure for Measure II.ii]
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THE METAL SHAKESPEARE CMPANY: The Caliban Stomp [scenes from The Tempest]
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THE METAL SHAKESPEARE CMPANY: The Drunken Porter [Macbeth II.III]
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THE METAL SHAKESPEARE CMPANY: To Bleed Or Not To Bleed [Hamlet III.I]
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THE METAL SHAKESPEARE CMPANY: We Are The Dagger Of The Mind [Macbeth II.I]
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THEATRE OF TRAGEDY: A Hamlet for a Slothful Vassal
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THY NATURE: Shaded Hamlet
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TIERRA SANTA: Hamlet
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TYSTNADEN: Hamlet
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VITACIT: Hamlet v rauši
SHELLEY [Mary]-
ICED EARTH: Frankenstein
SHEVCHENKO [Taras]-
DRUDKH: Solitude [English title for "CaMiTHiCTb"]
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DRUDKH: The Swan Road [album]
SHIRLEY [John]-
JESTER'S FUNERAL: Fragments of an Exploded Heart [adapted a bunch of stories]
SILLITOE [Alan]-
IRON MAIDEN: Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, La solitudine del maratoneta
STEVENSON [Robert Louis]-
ICED EARTH: Jekyll & Hyde, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
STOKER [Bram]-
ICED EARTH: Dracula
TASSO [Torquato]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Precius Jerusalem, Gerusalemme Liberata
TEGNÉR [Esaias]-
THYRFING: The Giant's Laughter [by the poem Jätten]
TENNYSON [Alfred]-
IRON MAIDEN: The Trooper, The Charge of the Light Brigade
TESSIMOND [A.S.J.]-
AGALLOCH: Birch White [all lyrics taken from "Birch Tree"]
THOMAS [Dylan]-
ANAAL NATHRAKH: Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light [incorporates "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"]
TOLKIEN [Sir John Ronald Reuel]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: By The Gates Of Moria [canzone strumentale che contiene nel titolo riferimenti al Signore degli Anelli]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Gandalf's Rebirth [canzone strumentale che contiene nel titolo riferimenti al Signore degli Anelli]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Harvest Of Sorrow [al laid di Tůrin, raccontato da Tolkien ne Il Silmarillion]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Imaginations From The Other Side, Signore degli Anelli
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Lord Of The Rings [ispirato dal Signore degli Anelli]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Lost In The Twilight Hall [ispirato alla morte di Gandalf, quindi ancora Signore degli Anelli]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Majesty [contiene riferimenti al Signore degli Anelli]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: Nightfall in Middle-Earth [album ispirato dal Silmarillion]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: The Bard's Song [In The Forest] [contiene riferimenti al Signore degli Anelli]
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BLIND GUARDIAN: The Bard's Song [The Hobbit] [parla dello Hobbit di Tolkien]
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NIGHTWISH: Elvenpath [refers to the basic premise of the Lord of the Rings]
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THE GATHERING: Mandylion
TRAKL [Georg]-
THE OCEAN: Ectasian/De Profundis [incorporates English translation of "De Profundis"]
TRUMBO [Dalton]-
METALLICA: One, Johnny Got His Gun
VERLAINE [Paul]-
PESTE NOIRE: Soleils couchants
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VALFUNDE: Sérénade De Verlaine
VILLON [Francois]-
PESTE NOIRE: Ballade cuntre les anemis de la France
WEIS/HICKMAN [Margaret/Tracy]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: The Soulforged, Dragonlance
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LAKE OF TEARS: Raistlin and the Rose, Dragonlance
WELSH [Irvine]-
IMPURE DOMAIN: H.I.V. Parade [cut-up testi]
WILDE [Oscar]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Wait for an Answer, The Picture of Dorian Gray
WILLIAMS [Tad]-
BLIND GUARDIAN: Otherland
WORDSWORTH [William]-
DRACONIAN: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
WYLIE/BALMER [Philip Gordon/Edwin]-
IRON MAIDEN: When Two Worlds Collide, When Worlds Collide
YEATS [William Butler]-
AGALLOCH: A Poem By Yeats [all lyrics taken from "The Sorrow of Love"]
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PRIMORDIAL: Hosting of the Sidhe
