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- "Dalai Lama" by Rammstein is loosely based on Der Erlkönig by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- "Dante's Inferno" by Iced Earth, retells Dante's Inferno.
- "The Dawn of a New Age" by Satyricon is based on the Book of Revelation.
- "Dead" by Pixies refurbishes the biblical legend of David and Bathsheba.
- "Dracula" Iced Earth is about Dracula by Bram Stoker
- "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police references Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
- "Doublespeak" by Thrice is about George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four
- "Damnation Alley" by Hawkwind from the novel by Roger Zelazny.
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