List of Nuclear Holocaust Fiction - Music

Music

• "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" by Jimi Hendrix
• "1999" by Prince, from the album 1999
• "99 Luftballons" by Nena
• "2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden, on the subject of the Cold War
• "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", by Bob Dylan
• "Aftermath" by Armored Saint
• "Aftershock" by Anthrax
• "Against The Machines", by Downlink Featuring Datsik, on one of the albums called Dubstep. The song features machinery sounds and 'techno' beats with voice-over references to The Terminator Franchise including a line about the survivors of the nuclear fire.
• "Arise" by Sepultura
• "As It Was, As It Soon Shall Be" by Exodus, on the album The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
• "As The End Draws Near" by Manufacture, featuring Sarah McLachlan on vocals
• "As The World Burns" by Bolt Thrower on the album The IVth Crusade
• "Atomchild" by Underground Zero
• "Beneath the Remains" by Sepultura
• "Blackened" by Metallica, the first track off their fourth album, ...And Justice for All.
• "Bomb" by Gang Green
• "Boom!" by System of a Down on the album Steal This Album!
• "Breathing" by Kate Bush, the final track off her third album, Never For Ever
• "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" by Iron Maiden, from the album A Matter of Life and Death
• "Christmas at Ground Zero" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
• "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" by Ultravox
• "Damnation Alley", by Hawkwind, inspired by Roger Zelazny's novel of the same name
• "Dachau Blues", by Captain Beefheart, which also touches on World War III.
• "Dead Flag Blues" by Godspeed You Black Emperor!, first track from their album F♯A♯∞
• "Destruction Preventer" by Sonata Arctica
• "Distant Early Warning" by Rush
• "De Bom" by Doe Maar
• "Domino (Genesis song)" by Genesis, from Invisible Touch, subject of the effect of dropping the bomb
• "Dresden Blues" by Cold Chisel
• "The Earth Dies Screaming" by UB40
• "Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath. 1970 from the Paranoid LP.
• "Epitaph" by King Crimson
• "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire
• "Ever Since The World Ended", by Mose Allison
• "Everyday is Like Sunday" by Morrissey
• "Fabulous Disaster" by Exodus
• "Fallout" by Fortification 55
• "Fight Fire with Fire" by Metallica, the first song off their second album, Ride the Lightning
• "Generals and Majors" by XTC
• "The House at Pooneil Corners" by Jefferson Airplane, from their album Crown of Creation
• "Ignorance" by Sacred Reich
• "In the Hole" by Armored Saint
• "Ink Mathematics", by Captain Beefheart
• "It's a Mistake" by Men at Work from the album Cargo
• "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" by Nik Kershaw
• "Killer of Giants" by Ozzy Osbourne
• "King of the World" by Steely Dan, from the album Countdown to Ecstasy
• "Last Breath Before We Are Unmade" by Apathy in Edea
• "Last Sunset" (Последний Закат) by Russian metal band Aria.
• "Last Rockers" by Vice Squad
• "Like A Thousand Suns" by Heaven Shall Burn
• "Living Through Another Cuba", by XTC
• "London Calling" by The Clash
• "M.A.D." by Hadouken!. The song's lyrics and title refer to nuclear war. Indeed the whole album has several themes and lyrics which refer to atomic war.
• "Man at C&A" by The Specials, from the album More Specials
• "Manhattan Project" by Rush, third track from their album Power Windows
• "Memories of Tomorrow" by Suicidal Tendencies
• "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" by Billy Joel
• "Morning Dew", by Bonnie Dobson; also recorded by Jeff Beck, Blackfoot, and The Grateful Dead.
• "Mutually Assured Destruction" by Gillan (band), from 1989 re-issue of their album Future Shock
• "Northern Wind" (Северный ветер) by Russian singer Linda (Линда) on the album Crow (Ворона)
• "Nuclear Annihilation" by Bolt Thrower on the album In Battle There Is No Law
• "Nuclear Attack" by Gary Moore on the album Dirty Fingers
• "Nuclear Attack" by Sabaton on the album Attero Dominatus
• "Nuclear Holocaust" by Holocaust 427
• "Nuclear War" by Sun Ra
• "Nuclear Winter" by Sodom
• "Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me", by Charles Mingus
• "One World" by Anthrax
• "Or Shall We Die?" by Michael Berkeley
• "Pink World" by Planet P Project
• "Part III" by Bad Religion
• "Party at Ground Zero" by Fishbone
• "Put Down That Weapon" by Midnight Oil
• "Quite Unusual" by Front 242
• "Reclamation" by Lamb of God
• "Rumours of War" by Billy Bragg
• "Rust in Peace...Polaris" by Megadeth, from the Rust in Peace album
• "Seconds", by U2
• "Set the World Afire" by Megadeth, from the So Far, So Good... So What! album
• "Skeletons of Society" by Slayer
• "So Long, Mom (A Song For World War III)", by Tom Lehrer
• "Stop the World" by The Clash
• "Thank God For The Bomb" by Ozzy Osbourne
• "The Sun Is Burning" by Ian Campbell, performed by Simon and Garfunkel and The Dubliners
• "Survive" by Nuclear Assault
• "The Only Hope For Me Is You" by My Chemical Romance
• "Third World War" by Evil's Toy
• "This World Over", by XTC
• "Trouble", by Tonio K.
• "Twilight of the Gods", by Helloween
• "Two Minute Warning", by Depeche Mode from the 1983 album Construction Time Again
• "Two Suns in the Sunset" by Pink Floyd from the album The Final Cut
• "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
• The music video for "Untitled 1" by Sigur Rós features a world ravaged by a nuclear holocaust as its setting.
• "Warhead" by Tarot
• "War Pigs", by Black Sabbath
• "We're So Small" by The Epoxies
• "We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer
• "We Will Become Silhouettes" by The Postal Service
• "When That Hell Bomb Falls*" by Fred Kirby
• "When the Wild Wind Blows" by Iron Maiden from their album The Final Frontier based on the Raymond Briggs book When the Wind Blows
• "Who's Gonna Win the War?" by Hawkwind
• "Will The Sun Rise?" by Dokken
• "Wooden Ships", recorded by both Crosby Stills & Nash and Jefferson Airplane
• "World War III" recorded by D.O.A.
• "World Wars III & IV", by Carnivore
• "WWIII" by KMFDM
• "Your Eyes Were Open" by UB40, from the album Geffrey Morgan
• "Your Attention, Please!" by Scars