Dawn of The Dead in Popular Culture - Music

Music

• The film was the inspiration for a number of rock songs, including:
  • Electro Rock band Does It Offend You, Yeah? have a song called Dawn of the Dead
  • Punk musician Michale Graves has a song called Dawn of the Dead.
  • The rock band Showbread has written several songs based on the film, such as "George Romero Will Be At Our Wedding".
  • "George Romero" by Sprites makes direct references to the film. ("It’s the end of the world, I wanna live inside a shopping mall")
  • "The Funeral Sciences", an album by the horror-rock band Schoolyard Heroes, features the song "Dawn of the Dead."
  • The song "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville" by My Chemical Romance was inspired by Dawn of the Dead.
  • The song "Domination" by the metal band Pantera contains the lyrics "your eyes will see the Dawn of the Dead".
  • Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 also had a song titled "Dawn of the dead" that was never released on an album, but was included in the Rare Treats section of their Little Box of Horrors Box-set collection. The song was also re-recorded by singer Wednesday 13's later project Murderdolls on their 2003 debut album Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls. This song featured the chorus line "When there's no more room in hell, then the dead will walk walk the earth, and the living won't have a prayer, 'cause it's the Dawn of the dead".
  • The song "Ouch" by be your own PET was inspired by the film, quoting the line "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth" in its chorus.
• Clips from the soundtrack have also been sampled into other tracks, such as
  • Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 sampling the line "Wake up sucker, we're thieves and we're bad guys. That's exactly what we are." in their track "Mr. Motherfucker".
  • Gorillaz have used various audio clips from this film in many of their songs. The stock music track "Dark Earth" (where Roger and Peter move the trucks) is sampled for the Intro track on Demon Days. The famous line "Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them, it gets up and kills, the people it kills get up and kill!" (as well as other sound effects of zombies and audio clips from "Day of the Dead" is used in their B-Side song "Hip Albatross" and the music video for their song "Clint Eastwood". The line "These creatures are nothing but pure, motorized instinct" is seen when you enter the bonus disc to their DVD, Phase One: Celebrity Take Down. It is on the cabinet.
  • Death Metal/Grindcore band Mortician sampled the famous "When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth" line in their song, "Zombie Apocalypse", which roughly outlined the film's premise.
  • The famous "When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth" line is used by the German punk band Die Ärzte as an intro to the song "Anti-Zombie" from their album Geräusch.
  • A variation of the famous line, "When there's no room in hell the dead will walk the earth" is used by British band Fightstar in the song "One Day Son", from their album One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours.
  • The Dutch Electro - Industrial band Grendel's club hit "Zombie Nation" features dialogue from both Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead.
  • Rapper B the Killa MC uses the "When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth" sample at the beginning of his song "Saturday Morning".