lyrics, only swapping a few lines to fit rhythmical patterns of the song. It was used both due to the band's love of Poe, and the themes common to both poem and band. The song appeared on their 2006 album Aeolian. The 1965 film War-Gods of the Deep — alternately titled City in the Sea and The City Under the Sea — is credited as being loosely based on Poe's poem, which is recited at the end of the production. In 1989 Danish composer Poul Ruders wrote a piece "The City in the Sea" (subsequently released on a CD by Bridge Records, New York) for Symphony Orchestra and Contralto, making full use of Poe's text. The composition is also available in a version for 11 instruments (2013). References External links The City in the Sea at Google Books Publication history at the Edgar Allan Poe Society Publication in the August 1836 Southern Literary Messenger as "The City of Sin", p. 552. "The City in the Sea. A Prophecy" by Edgar A. Poe in The American Review, April 1845, Vol. I, No. IV, p. 393. Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe 1831 poems 1845 poems Works originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger Poems about cities