Elysium in popular culture

Elysium features often in popular culture.

1 Contemporary music
2 Television
3 Films
4 Games
5 References

Contemporary music

Sounds of Elysium 008 - Sunny Lax 2010 Mix (Progressive Trance)
Elysium is the title of Finnish power metal band Stratovarius's 2011 album.
Elysium is referenced in progressive metal band Symphony X's song The Odyssey, which is largely based around the adventures of Odysseus.
The American deathcore band Chelsea Grin has a track titled "Elysium" on their album "Desolation of Eden"
A song by the American rock band, Clutch, in their song "Burning Beard", features the following lyrics: "The power of the Holy Ghost comes to town / Shadow of the New Praetorian / Tipping cows in fields Elysian / Saturnalia for all you have / The seven habits of the highly infected calf"
A song by the British Hip-Hop group Rhyme Asylum titled 'Iller Instinct' contains the lyric

"I hope this beat's flame resistant, when I come off the top I've lost the plot like books with pages missing. I won't break tradition, I'm keeping it real, plant seeds of destruction in the Elysium fields."

A song by former Glasgow metal band Lithium
"Elysian Fields" is the title of a song by the metal band Megadeth from their album Youthanasia. It is about souls sentenced to eternal damnation fighting to storm heaven.
The song "Reeses Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is?" by I Set My Friends On Fire has a lyric:"Those Elysian smiles I thought I'd keep forever!"
"Elysian Fields" is a song by Irish Post-Rock band God Is An Astronaut from the album A Moment of Stillness. This song is an Instrumental
"Elysian Fields" is a New York City-based rock band formed in 1995.
Mary Chapin Carpenter's album 'Between Here and Gone' contains the song 'Elysium', where, following a long personal journey, paradise is found in the heart of her soulmate.
Elizium is the title of an album by Fields of the Nephilim. The album contains track-titles such as '(Paradise Regained)' and lyrics including "over to the window, where the night has become Elizium for the sleepless souls" and references to "some kind of Heaven" (from 'At the Gates of Silent Memory'); whilst an overall theme of voyages towards a blissful afterlife/otherworld dominates the entire album.
Elysium is the title of a dance and happy hardcore music track by Scott Brown (DJ). The chorus line lyrics have potential links to interpersonal, spiritual, and higher-order concepts or ideologies.
The track, Elysium, by Scott Brown has remixed by Trance/House group Ultrabeat with additional lyrics and the BPM reduced. That version has then been remixed back into happy hardcore by Scott Brown.
Elysium is a song by the Band LostAlone.
"Devoured Elysium" is a song by Vital Remains from their album Dechristianize, released in 2003.
Portishead has a song entitled Elysium on their 1997 self-titled album.
Wings Of Severance has a song called Elysium on their self-titled album.
The Velvet Teen's second full-length album was entitled Elysium.
In the movie Gladiator, "Elysium" is the name of the song played during Maximus's death. The film shows the character walking through fields of crops. It is ambiguous whether this is supposed to be Elysium or his family farm, it is likely that it represents both.
The video to the song "It Means Nothing" by the Stereophonics shows the spirits of the dead in white robes walking through fields of crops to be taken away in hot air balloons
David Gray's song The One I Love has the lyrics "Don’t see Elysium, Don’t see no fiery Hell"
Hardcore band named Elysia from Sacramento, California
A song titled "Elysium" appears on the album Wonderful by British 90's band Madness
A song titled "Elysium" appears on Phoenix, Az rock band Vayden's album - "Children of Our Mistakes"
An indie/rock band from Britain is called "Elysium"^[1]
A death-metal Band from Germany called "Elysium"^[2]
A punk-metal band from Tampa, Florida is called Elysium^[3]
A rock band from Newton, IA is called Elysium.
The line "As the sands slowly turn to Elysian Fields" is featured in the song "Sahara" by Finnish metal band Nightwish
The line "and cross the river of styx, you will reach elysian fields" is featured in the song "Into the light" by the Hardcore metal band John Doe.
The Alaskan metal/post-hardcore band 36 Crazyfists has a song entitled "Elysium" featuring Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones on their 'Rest Inside the Flames' album.
The phrase "Why is it called Elysian Fields when love builds only grief" is featured in the song "The Seer", by Finnish soprano Tarja Turunen, in the album My Winter Storm.
Polish blackned/death metal band Behemoth mentions an Elysium in their song "Conquer All" in the line "Mightiest self! Cast out ov thy Elysium with blood ov nazarene." And in the song "as above so below" they reference it in the line "art thou nephilim child are you looking for thy elysium here." In addition to the songs before, in the song "Be Without Fear", a line follows "materialize the ashes ov Elysium burned".
Swedish pop singer and former A*Teens band member Amit Paul has a song entitled "My Elysium" on his debut solo album "Songs in a Key of Mine."
UK Hardcore DJ Scott Brown has a song entitled "Elysium+", found on many Hardcore compilations.
Canadian progressive death metal band Into Eternity have a song titled "Elysium Dream" on their 2002 album Dead or Dreaming.
A metalcore band called Elysion Fields is from Antioch, Illinois(myspace.com/elysionfieldsband)
Swedish melodic death metal Arch Enemy's song "Dead Bury Their Dead" off of the first CD of Wages of Sin, contains the line ... "..I walk through Elysian Fields... the light is shining.. on me!"
A sideband of Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart called "the Lovemongers" recorded a song called "Elysian"
Charlotte Church's song "Dream a Dream" from her album of the same name contains the line "We will see... Elysium".
A progressive power metal band Into Eternity's song titled "Elysium Dream".
A song by singer/songwriter, Davis Howley, entitled "Our Elysium".
An album by singer / songwriter, Azam Ali, entitled "Elysium for the Brave".
Bristol metalcore band Evita have a song titled "The Elysium Fields"
The Branford Marsalis Quartet 1999 album, Requiem, has a song titled "Elysium". The album is the last recording made by the quartet's pianist Kenny Kirkland. Marsalis writes, "This record represents first takes of most of the songs and, unfinished as it is, it is a documentation of what, for me, was one of the most challenging and enduring musical relationships I have ever experienced." Presumably, the title is intended to speak of Kirkland's afterlife experience.
A Progressive Death-Thrash band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is called "Slaughter of Elysium"
U.K. band Madness included a song "Elysium" on their 1999 album "Wonderful".
Sound Horizon's albums Elysion ~Rakuen e no Zensōkyoku~ and Elysion ~Rakuen Gensō Monogatari Kumikyoku~.
"West of the Fields" -the final song on the R.E.M. album Murmur features the lyric 'dream now- of Elysium' in the first verse of the song. The song then equates dream states with being beyond the land of the dead.
Kelley Polar's song "Roseband" has repeated line, "And all around us was Elysium"

Television

In the fourth season of the anime Sailor Moon, the guardian of dreams, Helios, resides in Elysion. In the manga version of that plotline, Elysion is equally important to the arc.
In Doctor Who, Davros, creator of the Daleks, was said to have been lost at the Gates of Elysium during the first year of the Time War, when his command ship was swallowed by the Nightmare Child.
In the third and fifth seasons of the anime Digimon, Dukemon has an attack called "Final Elysium", where he fires a red beam from his Shield.
In the Hades arc of both the anime and manga of Saint Seiya, the bronze saints infiltrate Elysion to rescue Athena from Hades.
In the fifth season episode "Lineage" of the television show "Angel" Wesley Wyndam-Pryce uses the word Elysium as a password to enter his high secure vaults within his office.
In the final episode of the British sitcom Green Wing, Martin hears that Mac will be going to "Elyssian Fields", which he thinks is a place in Dorset. He later learns that it actually means that he is going to die.
In the anime series Spawn (season 3, episode 2), the Elysium Fields were mentioned by the bounty hunter Jade, asking Spawn to kill her so she would die in battle and have peace in the Fields instead of going to Hell for sparing HellSpawn.
In the fourth season of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, it is shown that the Fields of Elysium are part of the Colonial religion's teachings about the afterlife. Colonial religion is heavily influenced by real-world Greek mythology.
In Xena Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys the Elysian Fields was a wide, open garden centered around a tower. There is a crack in this dimension to access Tartarus.
In the episode "Last Call" of the television show Dead Like Me, the reaper Mason is sent to "Elysian Lake" to reap a man. The man dies after being struck by lightning while swimming in the lake.
In the episode "Hammer of the Gods" in the fifth season of the television show Supernatural, Sam and Dean Winchester are lured to the Elysian Fields Hotel by a diverse group of gods holding counsel there.

Films

In Gladiator (2000 film) Maximus: "Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!"^[4]
Phantom of the Opera (2004 film), In the opening scene of "The Masqurade" Andre sings the line "Of Elysian Peace." in reference to the Phantom's 3 month absence.
In Mister Roberts (1955 film), the ship The USS Reluctant, was sent to the "Limbo Islands", specifically to Elysium Island for liberty. The capitol of the island is "Elysium City". Elysium is the largest of the Limbo Islands. It is often referred to as the Polynesian paradise. Vanilla, sugar, cocoa, coffee, phosphates and rum are the chief exports.^[5]
In The Man from Elysian Fields (2001 film),^[6] Mick Jagger plays a high priced male escort
In the 2009 science fiction thriller Pandorum, Elysium is the name of the ill-fated starship on which the film takes place. In the film, the Elysium is a large sleeper ship built in Earth orbit and designed for a 123-year one way journey to a fictional planet called Tanis. The Elysium carries 60,000 colonists in suspended animation along with substantial specimens of Earth's biosphere to assist in colonization of Tanis. The ship is piloted by flight teams who rotate on two year duty shifts where they are awake and montior the ship's systems. The Elysium is powered by an unspecified form of nuclear power.
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's new science fiction film titled Elysium^[7], is due to be released sometime in 2013.

Games

In earlier editions of the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game, Elysium is the outer (spiritual) plane of absolute and purist good alignment - also referred to as Neutral Good - without any partisan regard towards law (as with the Seven Heavens) or chaos (as with Olympus/Arvandor/Arborea).
In God of War: Chains of Olympus, the Elysium Fields is accessed through a portal in Persephone's garden, and sits at the bottom of the pillar that holds the world above Hades.
In the Game Rise of the Argonauts in a re-telling of the Classic "Jason and the Golden Fleece" in RPG form, Elysium is where the virtuous are sent and Jason must obtain the fleece to bring his Wife back from the Dead.
The expansion Titan Quest: Immortal Throne takes place in the Greek underworld, with one significant section taking place in Elysium itself. The player must defend Elysium from the enemy daemon army and is aided by several well known Greek heroes.
In the Atari 2600 game No Escape, the Greek hero Jason must escape the Temple of Aphrodite with the Golden Fleece.
Elysium is the domain of Persephone, the goddess of Life, in Sacrifice.
In Megaman Legends 2 Elysium is the name of an artificial planet where the ancient humans lived for thousands years.
In RuneScape, an Elysian Spirit Shield is available to players.
In Vampire: The Masquerade Elysium is the status of a place or a meeting, where vampires are not allowed to harm each other, hence carrying weapons and using disciplines is prohibited.
In Aion: The Tower of Eternity, the name of the angelic faction is "Elyos," and their homelands are called "Elysea."
In Mass Effect, Elysium is a human colony in the Skyllian Verge.
In L.A. Noire, Elysian Fields is an antagonistic organisation involved with property development.

References

^ [1]
^ Elysium official web page
^ Elysium Band
^ "Gladiator Script". Script-o-rama.com. http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/g/gladiator-script-transcript-russell-crowe.html. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
^ "Mister Roberts Script - Dialogue Transcript". http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/m/mister-roberts-script-transcript-lemmon.html. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
^ http://www.answers.com/topic/mick-jagger
^ "Neill Blomkamp’s New Sci-Fi Film is Called Elysium; Reps Say He Won’t Direct The Hobbit". /Film. http://www.slashfilm.com/neill-blomkamps-new-sci-fi-film-is-called-elysium-reps-say-he-wont-direct-the-hobbit.