Songs based off of books

This seems to be a popular topic here, so what are some songs that are based off of books? I'll get the obvious one out of the way first,pretty much ALL Christian Metal is based off of the Bible. Now that we've got that one out of the way:
Anthrax: Among the Living (The Stand), Lone Justice (The Gunslinger), Skeletons in the Closet (Apt Pupil), Misery Loves Company (Misery, all stephen king books or stories)
Hammerfall: Take the Black and Dark Wings, Dark Words (both based off of A Song of Ice and Fire)

Almost everything Blind Guardian does.

MetallicSeminarian wrote:

Almost everything Blind Guardian does.

you stole my answer   

Sabbat's album Dreamweaver is a concept album based on a novel called The Way of Wyrd.

Although an instrumental Call of Ktulu is an obvious reference to a book (The Call of Cthulhu)

also For Whom the Bell Tolls and One (Johnny got his Gun) It would seem that James is better read than he looks.

Apparently The Thing that Should Not Be is also based on The Call of Cthulhu

Anthrax Anthrax Anthrax.

Okay, here goes! (and I'm including short stories as books)

Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera
Iron Maiden - Murders In the Rue Morgue
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - El Dorado
Iron Maiden - The Longest Day
Iron Maiden - Lord of the Flies
Iron Maiden - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Iron Maiden - The Prophecy (Seventh Son)
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (also Seventh Son)
Iron Maiden - The Sign of the Cross (The Name of the Rose)
Iron Maiden - To Tame a Land (Dune)
Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare

and yes, I did cheat

Seasons Of The Wolf has had several songs based off Stephen King books. Can't find any good quality ones on youtube though.

Also, countless Christian metal bands could be included. Whether you believe in it or not, you gotta admit, the Bible is certainly a book.

It's bedtime, can't think of anymore.  

Iced Earth, Dante's Inferno, although it's really the first part of a poem. Also Frankenstein and Dracula, if we're counting lose connections to original sources.

Cool list, Boris.

Sabaton's songs are based off history books.  

There's obviously a ton of stuff based on Lord of Rings, and A Song of Ice and Fire is growing in popularity -Seven Kingdoms, Winterfell and Claymorean all have a lot of songs based on that.

Poe and Howard:



Howard






Darwin:




Michael Moorcock









Ayn Rand



Ray Bradbury



Bible



Dante Alighieri



Homer







Leo Tolstoi

Running Wild- War and Peace



Robert Louis Stevenson

Running Wild- Treasure Island




Mark Twain

Rush- Tom Sawyer




Nostradamus



John Milton



Samuel Taylor Coleridge








In some cases not all the songs of the albums are based on books.

Good call on 2112!

corplhicks wrote:

Good call on 2112!

Yeah, both are masterpieces: Asia's Xanadu and Rush's Xanadu.

Boris2008 wrote:

Okay, here goes! (and I'm including short stories as books)

Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera
Iron Maiden - Murders In the Rue Morgue
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - El Dorado
Iron Maiden - The Longest Day
Iron Maiden - Lord of the Flies
Iron Maiden - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Iron Maiden - The Prophecy (Seventh Son)
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (also Seventh Son)
Iron Maiden - The Sign of the Cross (The Name of the Rose)
Iron Maiden - To Tame a Land (Dune)
Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare

and yes, I did cheat

You can also add Lord of Light and When The Wild Wind Blows (When The Wind Blows)

There is a lot of metal based on Orwell's writings.

James George Frazer



Hesiod



Charles Taze Russell



Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra





François Rabelais

The Sword - Winter's Wolves & To Take The Black - George RR Martin
Grand Magus - Steel Versus Steel - Michael Moorcock - Elric
Diamond Head - Borrowed Time - Michael Moorcock - Elric
Gypsyhawk - The Red Wedding & Hedgeking - George RR Martin

Michael Moorcock





Every song, actually.

thejokeriv wrote:

Boris2008 wrote:

Okay, here goes! (and I'm including short stories as books)

Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera
Iron Maiden - Murders In the Rue Morgue
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - El Dorado
Iron Maiden - The Longest Day
Iron Maiden - Lord of the Flies
Iron Maiden - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Iron Maiden - The Prophecy (Seventh Son)
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (also Seventh Son)
Iron Maiden - The Sign of the Cross (The Name of the Rose)
Iron Maiden - To Tame a Land (Dune)
Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare

and yes, I did cheat

You can also add Lord of Light and When The Wild Wind Blows (When The Wind Blows)

Yeah there were a few in the grey zone like Wicker Man and When the Wild Wind Blows because they were only loosely associated with the books story wise. I also thought about including others that were based on poems (The Trooper, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) or written mythology (Flight of Icarus)

I did completely miss Lord of Light though.

It's a whole album, but Symphony X's "Paradise Lost"

Didn't some jack-ass just release a concept album about the writings of Scrooge McDuck? That counts, right?

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Didn't some jack-ass just release a concept album about the writings of Scrooge McDuck? That counts, right?

One of the most WTF albums out there. It's all new age orchestral epic fluff, no rock and metal at all.

Whole album based off of an epic poem.

DallasBlack wrote:

Whole album based off of an epic poem.

Same goes for about 4 or 5 other Amorphis albums. They've recruited a Kalevala expert to write the lyrics.