The Swedish Metal band Decadence has a song entitled Wrathful and Sullen, "singing" about the hoarders and wasters continual fighting before transitioning into talking about the Fifth Circle: the Wrathful and the Sullen.
Their souls encumbered by dead weights
One serves the other to punish with hate
Their souls have become dimmed in fruitless wrath
There's no hope left in this bloodbath
Lost souls doomed to battle
Forever face each other
Wrathful opposing sullen
On going vital fighting
They are never to die
Howling frantic endless sighs
No coming triumph in sight
Because they refused the light
Was this worth all anger?
Trapped in hell forever
Caught in endless pain
Never to return again
Doomed to be immortal
Hate and being brutal
Skinning, biting, destroy
Hungering for final death
Countless souls attacking in the foul slime
In life refused to accept the light
In death they are buried in the wastes
Gargling the words of an endless chant
Lost souls doomed to battle
Forever face each other
Wrathful opposing sullen
On going vital fighting
They are never to die
Howling frantic endless sighs
No coming triumph in sight
Because they refused the light
Was this worth all anger?
Trapped in hell forever
Caught in endless pain
Never to return again
Doomed to be immortal
Hate and being brutal
Skinning, biting, destroy
Hungering for final death
Sullying and squandering, wasted all their light
Bringing them to the brawl of wraiths in fright
Easily grasping their depressing plight
They are doomed to Hell in an endless fight
Lost souls doomed to battle
Forever face each other
Wrathful opposing sullen
On going vital fighting
They are never to die
Howling frantic endless sighs
No coming triumph in sight
Because they refused the light
I believe that the song is a great depiction of the Fifth Circle of Hell. The song talks about the feelings of the sinners, their punishment, and the reasons for their position in Hell.
The Wrathful are continually fighting as they did in life, done so in the disgusting slime that represents hate and anger. The Sullen are choked on the mud that they are submerged under so that they cannot speak or utter any of the anger that they focused inwardly in life. They oppose each other in their expression, one focusing the anger they feel outwards, on others, and the the other inwards, on themselves.
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