Metal based on literature

[Oblivious Maximus]

What are some of your favorite metal songs based on literature? Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a given. What are some other greats?

 

[cookiecutter]

I like Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Nile is based on a Lovecraft book.

I'm sure I also like some black metal songs that are unbeknownst to me about Lord of the Rings

 

[Astrum]

Iron maiden-Flight of Icarus

greek mythology

 

[Horus]

Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth (whole album)
Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence
Iced Earth - The entire album of Burnt Offerings. A theme album about Hell.
Iced Earth - The Something Wicked Trilogy
Iced Earth - The Entire Album of Horror Show. A theme album about Folk Lore Monsters.
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus (as said previously)
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Kamelot - Epica (whole album)
Kamelot - The Black Halo (whole album)
Kamelot - The Shadow of Uther
Symphony X - Through the Looking Glass
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite (whole album)

Those are all only off the top of my head.

 

[Matt]

Symphony X- The Turning

 

[messakin]

S
o no one likes mastodon?

 

[Dragao]

Drudkh uses some lyrics from the poet Taras Shevchenko, and I enjoy them.

Summoning notes their primary influence as Tolkien also, and a lot of their lyrics relate to Middle-Earth, and I enjoy them.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Blind Gard. Summoning Mastadon

 

[Kreator/Destroyer]

SUMMONING!!! i love lotr

 

[Life Sucks]

Tons of power metal is. I'm not a big power metal fan, but I like Grave Digger, and many of their albums are based on literature (Rheingold is based on The Niebelungenlied, Excalibur is based on the King Arthur story, and Tunes of War is based on some Scottish tale). Orphaned Land's most recent work is based on the Noah's Ark story of the Bible/Torah. Many of the songs on Amorphis' Tales from the Thousand Lakes are based on Finnish myths.

 

[Evil?]

I have always enjoyed 'One" by Metallica. Based off "Johnny get your Gun".

 

[skeptik]

No it's not.

 

[Hatebreeder]

I like Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Nile is based on a Lovecraft book.

What a novel concept.

I like how Bal-Sagoth created their own literature through their music.

Edit: Also, I discovered Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series through Blind Guardian and Demons & Wizards.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

 

[~Derek~]

Morbid Angel-Angel of Disease and The Ancient Ones, both based on Lovecraft's Simon Necronomicon. Trey's stage last name Azagthoth comes from the Simon Necromonicon as well.

 

[Orfanos]

The first that comes to mind is:

Fates Warning - Giant's Lore

Inspired from Oscar Wilde's "The Selfish Giant"

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Anthrax's Among The Living is based on The Stand by King

then there's Wuthering Heights but I dont think any of their music is based on Bronte's book.

 

[black blood]

Slayer-God hates us all ..based on the bible

 

[Nemesis_lxix]

Iced earth -Dante’s Inferno is the only one not mentioned yet,I guess.

 

[MasterOLightning]

Clad In Darkness (US) has an album based on Ethan Frome.