Stormbringer - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The role-playing games Stormbringer (1981) and Elric! (1993) are both set in Moorcock's "multiverse".
• The video game ZAngband features the sword 'Stormbringer' with similar vampiric effects and conferring increased strength and constitution upon the user.
• Heidern from the king of fighters game series has a move named after the sword where he impales you with his hand and proceeds to drain your health and add it to his own health bar
• In the computer game Drakan: Order of the Flame there is a sword that the player can collect known as the Mournblade. In its sequel, Drakan: The Ancients' Gates, there is a similar weapon called the "Mournbringer."
• Mournblade (as Mourneblade) is featured in Konami's video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and possesses the ability to heal the player character whenever he strikes something with it (much like how Mournblade and Stormbringer grant their wielder health and vitality when used to slay a foe, though the game weapon can grant health even when striking non-living objects, such as candles). Mourneblade is widely regarded as one of the best weapons in the game, and is considered a "rare" weapon.
• A sightly modified version of the Stormbringer appears in MapleStory as the Doombringer.
• Lost Souls includes Stormbringer and Mournblade as unique instances of a class of black runeswords called lzrelekoi.
• Mournblade was a British NWOBHM band who made two albums in the 1980s: Time's Running Out and Live Fast Die Young. Several of their songs feature references to Michael Moorcock's work.
• The computer game Nethack contains a sword named Stormbringer, which causes the wielder to attack anybody with whom he/she comes in contact.
• The band Hawkwind, who have had a long association with Moorcock, released an entire album about the story of Elric and Stormbringer, The Chronicle of the Black Sword. They have also released both a single and double live album expanding upon this work, Live Chronicles. The double live album package includes an Elric short story. The album itself contains various narrations and poems read by Moorcock.
• The 1980 Blue Öyster Cult song "Black Blade" on the Cultosaurus Erectus album was created as a collaboration between Eric Bloom and Michael Moorcock.
• UK hard rock band Magnum has a song named Stormbringer, about Elric and his sword, on the reissue of their Kingdom of Madness album. It was one of the very first songs they recorded, and was not commercially available until this reissue, apart from on "Archive", a 1993 Jet Records collection of previously unreleased demo and outtake material recorded between 1976 and 1983.
• The Italian metal band Domine has a number of songs based on the Elric saga and referencing Stormbringer and Mourneblade. Additionally, Elric and Stormbringer are featured on the cover art for all four albums. Michael Moorcock himself is specifically thanked and noted as an influence in the liner notes for each of their albums.
• The song "Borrowed Time" by the NWOBHM band Diamond Head on their Borrowed Time album deals with Elric and is told from his point of view. In this song, he refers to himself as “a slave to this black blade”. Elric and Stormbringer are also featured on the album’s cover artwork.
• Deep Purple released a song about the blade entitled "Stormbringer".
• In the Elder Scrolls video games, the Daedric artifact Ebony Blade is based on Stormbringer and grows stronger whenever its wielder kills friendly NPCs.