Adaptations
In 1969, American electronic music composer Ruth White released an album called Flowers of Evil. It contains some quotes from Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil.
In 1986, the Australian rock band Dead Can Dance released an album called Spleen and Ideal, which used quotes from Flowers of Evil in the lyrics.
In 1987, the Swiss rock band Celtic Frost released an album called Into the Pandemonium. It contains a song called, "Tristesses de la Lune," which borrows significantly from the poems in Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil.
In 1995, the singer from the Canadian rock band The Viletones, Steven Leckie, named his controversial avante-garde art gallery and clothing line (which was sold in the art gallery) in Toronto, "Fleurs du Mal."
In 2007, German rock band Sopor Aeternus released an album called Les Fleurs du Mal, which is also the title of a song on the album.
In 2009, Shūzō Oshimi began writing the manga The Flowers of Evil, which centres on a twisted relationship between a boy obsessed with Baudelaire's poetry and a nihilistic girl in his class who blackmails him. The manga has received a Manga Taishō nomination and is set for an anime adaptation in 2013.
In September 2012, the Swedish band Therion announced its new album, named Les Fleurs du Mal.
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