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Selections from Graba”s 2003 Divina Commedia

November 15, 2020 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

Selection from Divina Commedia – Inferno by Graba’

Selection from Divina Commedia – Purgatorio by Graba’

Selection from Divina Commedia – Paradiso by Graba’

View Graba”s full gallery here.

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2003, Art, Artists, Belgium, Ghent, Inferno, Paintings, Paradiso, Purgatorio

Gojira, “Inferno” (2003/2020)

November 5, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Gojira may have put the brakes on the new full-length album that was rumored for release this year, but that doesn’t mean 2020 will be completely devoid of new music from the French foursome: the band has posted a new live performance video, shot at the Duplantier brothers-owned Silver Cord Studio in New York City, of a previously unreleased song called ‘Inferno,’ originally written in 2003.

“The song was inspired by the 1925 film Maciste All’inferno, which also happens to be the name of a live recording Gojira made in 2003 while playing along to that very movie. Wikipedia tells us that the album was recorded live while a projection of the film was running at the Rock School Barbey in Bordeaux, France, on May 29, 2003. That recording, which was never officially released, ran for 50 minutes and consisted of 15 individual tracks, while the selection Gojira have released today is just under four minutes — maybe it’s one of those 15.” [. . .]   –Vince Neilstein, “Gojira Post Previously Unreleased Song, ‘Inferno’,” MetalSucks (October 30, 2020)

Watch the video on YouTube.

Contributed by Pete Maiers

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2003, 2020, Death Metal, France, Heavy Metal, Inferno, Music Videos

Dante, Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

September 4, 2020 By lsanchez

“Dante (ダンテ, Dante) is the central antagonist of the Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 anime series, first introduced in Episode 32. She is a heartless elderly woman and a formidable alchemist herself. Posing as the master and the benefactor of the Homunculi, Dante is responsible for setting in motion the events of the series and the challenges its protagonists must face along the way, and orchestrates her agenda within the shadows of the Amestrian government and military.

[. . .]

She may be named after the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri, famous for writing the Divine Comedy, a three-part poem with the first chapter, Inferno, taking place in the Nine Circles of Hell. In fact in the Italian dub of the episode title ‘Dante of the Deep Forest’ was translated to ‘Dante Della Selva Oscura’ (lit. ‘Dante of Dark Forest’ [sic]), a reference to the beginning of Alighieri’s poem.”    —Fullmetal Alchemist Wiki, February 24, 2020

Learn more about the Fullmetal Alchemist series here.

Contributed by Andrea Beauvais (Luther College)

Originally posted January 26, 2010. Post updated September 4, 2020.

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2003, Animation, Anime, Cartoons, Dark Wood, Divine Comedy, Inferno, Selva oscura, Sins, Television

Anarchy Online – Pandemonium

November 4, 2019 By lsanchez

pandemonium-anarchy-online

Pandemonium is the highest-level zone in Shadowlands, Funcom’s 2003 expansion for its 2001 MMORPG Anarchy Online.

 

Its four parts are named after the four parts of the Ninth Circle of Hell: Caïna, Antenora, Ptolomaea, Judecca.

 

Learn more about Anarchy Online here.

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2001, 2003, Circles of Hell, Hell, Inferno, Video Games

Firefly and the Special Level of Hell

November 28, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

In the 2002-2003 science fiction television series Firefly, one of the main characters is threatened with a “special level of Hell” in the clip below.

You can watch Firefly on Hulu, iTunes, Amazon, and on Vudu.

Contributed by Philip Smith (University of the Bahamas)

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2002, 2003, Circles of Hell, Humor, Science Fiction, Television

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