I chose to analyze musical artist Hozier’s new album Unreal Unearth. I have always enjoyed his music a lot and was inspired when seeing his connection to the Divine Comedy on the Dante Today website. After listening to the album from beginning to end, I instantly felt the connection between the album and the book. While each individual track in connected to different aspects of Dante’s Inferno (ex: canto’s, circles, sins, characters, themes), the whole album itself is inspired by Dante’s works. His album pulls inspiration from Inferno through lyrical, musical, thematic, and character references though does not follow the story or plot extremely closely. The album begins in the dark forest where we first meet Dante in Canto 1, continues through the path Dante took on his journey through the 9 circles of hell, and ends where Inferno did. When Dante breaches into the natural world of the Southern Hemisphere and sees the star littered sky once again. Hozier reference sins such as lust, gluttony, greed, heresy, fraud, violence, and treachery throughout the different songs on the album. He also references specific characters such as Francesca and Charon. Although Hozier’s album is a general reference to Inferno in its entirety, he specifically and most frequently references Canto’s 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 19, 22, 33, and 34. This assignment did change my view of some aspects of Inferno. The lenses I view different characters in was impacted the most. Hozier does an excellent job of portraying all people as unique and yet in a sympathetic manner, even Satan, arguably the “ultimate villain” of most Christian centric art and media.