Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
“In ‘Join the Club’ (2006), Tony has a recurring coma-dream in which he checks into Room 728 (i.e., level seven) at the Omni Hotel in Costa Mesa, using the identity of non-mafia civilian Kevin Finnerty. When the hotel elevator is out of commission, Tony descends a red staircase, slips, and falls to level five. Tony’s surgeon, Dr. Plepler, tells Tony’s wife, sisters and daughter they’re lucky Tony’s at a Level 1 trauma center. (Level one is Limbo[42]).” —Wikipedia
“Australian goth-electro band the Tenth Stage has a self-titled track (2006) that describes the singer’s descent past the nine stages of Dante’s poem to a 10th stage of Hell.” —Wikipedia
“Technical death metal guitarist Fredrik Thordendal (from the Swedish Death metal band Meshuggah) used quotes from the Divine Comedy in the song ‘Dante’s Wild Inferno’ from his solo album Sol Niger Within.” —Wikipedia
“The song ‘Canto IV (Limbo)’ from Progressive music group Discipline’s album Unfolded Like Staircase describes the sorrow of those souls whose (sic) never knew a deity.” —Wikipedia
“New Jersey band The Gaslight Anthem referenced the Comedy in their song ‘The Navesink Banks’ from the album Sink or Swim with the opening line, ‘All hope abandoned, ye who enter here’.” —Wikipedia
