When you think about it, her story resonates surprisingly well with themes in European melodic metal. She's an ancient princess banished to the cold, dark moon for attacking her sister out of envy and jealousy. It's straight-up medieval folklore. Her Nightmare Moon phase resonates more with traditional black metal while season two onwards has more of an atmospheric/melodic feel. Reminds me of albums like Midvinter's At the Sight of the Apocalypse Dragon or Immortal's winter-themed discography from the '90s. Coincidence? Probably, but it's still cool to think about.

7967350 I agree with you, and not just that, I can also demonstrate the amount of correlation these songs have to Luna's backstory.

For my pain - Queen Misery — Correlation: 91% (Lyrics)
No, take this pain away - Even for one day - She cried on her own grave
Please, demons set me free - My heart has started to bleed - I have become the queen misery - And it seems to last forever

Sentenced - Broken — Correlation: 90% (Lyrics)
I am dying down growing weaker now — It could seem that I'm doing fine — but I'm broken to little pieces deep inside
Why did I ever choose to go this way — The question I keep asking myself all the time — I guess it was my instinct for self-destruction — that pointed me down this way — The fire in my eyes is dying — and the dream I had is gone

Primal Fear - Fighting The Darkness — Correlation: 90% (Lyrics)
I'm fighting the darkness within me — Can you hear my call — Feels like I'm frozen under my skin — I'm forever lost — Here in the shadows in the twilight — Life is eternal and my past is forsaken — I'm fighting the darkness

Beseech - Lost — Correlation: 89% (Lyrics)
Calling out in pain, my weaknesses, fighting to get back whole — Overwhelmed by madness, lost in the darkness of my soul

Fallen - Sea of emotions — Correlation: 88% (Lyrics)
Moments of madness - Slowly drowning in your love
The poem so beautiful - Can turn into nightmare before we know - The secret bound of our blood oath - Keeps us together until the dawn

Abney Park - The Only One — Correlation: 85% (Lyrics)
I wake each night into this nightmare — Only to find that the worst is clear — I have to spend each day without you — And spend each night dreaming that it's not true
All of my life I gave you my soul — I lived for you, but you had another goal

Linkin Park - Numb — Correlation: 85% (Lyrics)
all I want to do — Is be more like me and be less like you — Can't you see that you're smothering me — Holding too tightly  — afraid to lose control?  — ‘Cause everything that you thought I would be — Has fallen apart right in front of you.

Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days — Correlation: 80% (Lyrics)
All I feel is hollow and bruised — Used up and misused — Forced to be someone I don't want to be — Have I failed somehow or some way

Disturbed - Pain Redefined — Correlation: 80% (Lyrics)
In the realm of pain, I am the deceiver — Now I lie to myself, so I can believe her — As she disassembles my life — I cannot dispel the illusion — All my hopes and dreams are drowned by confusion — Can I find a way to make a solution that will reconfigure my life

Ravenous - Between the Worlds — Correlation: 80% (Lyrics)
Always thought I knew the person — Always thought I knew you — But right now I must confess — That I know little of what you do

Bella Morte - Torn — Correlation: 80% (Lyrics)
All I've loved is lost — I can not count the days, I can not count the hours — I live within a mystery, That dies with me at dawn — And I am lost again
Watching from this distant place, That breathes within my skin — This grief is all my own

Helloween - World of fantasy — Correlation: 80% (Lyrics)
The day you're born you're under pressure — Your life is well prepared, my friend — They surely teach you what to think — How to behave until the end
I'm living in a world of fantasy — Reality ain't meant or made for me — All that I see is so unreal

Beautiful Sin - This is not the Original Dream — Correlation: 75% (Lyrics)
I'm wasting my time to wait for solutions — I seek out the sun, a ray of light to clear my way
And all my life was built on illusions — I seek out the sun, a ray of light crossed my way

The Drowning Season - Curse — Correlation: 75% (Lyrics)
Another day is fading — With the darkness closing fast — And soon the nightmares will begin — Prayers go unanswered — So much to answer for

Linkin Park - Crawling — Correlation: 70% (Lyrics)
Against my will I stand beside my own reflection — It's haunting how I can't seem — To find myself again

Redemption - The Suffocating Silence — Correlation: 70% (Lyrics)
The tension's ever-mounting, and the dam's about to break — Something's going wrong here – the lines have all been broken — In the shelter of our silence conflicts keep upon themselves
Subconscious acts replace the spoken word and we express with cruelty what we neglect to say

30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill — Correlation: 65% (Lyrics)
I tried to be someone else — But nothing seemed to change — I know now, this is who I really am inside. — Finally found myself — Fighting for a chance. — I know now, this is who I really am.

Beyond the Void - The Deeper We Fall — Correlation: 65% ([url= ]Lyrics)
So that's how it feels to be buried alive — To be cast into the void — Deeper than all shades of night — With no morning to return to

Lunascape - Tears From The Moon — Correlation: 60% (Lyrics)
Tears from the moon — Fall down like rain — I reach for you — I reach in vain

Angra - Live and Learn — Correlation: 60% (Lyrics)
Remember the first time you've faced the dark — Why were you so afraid? — Hiding so many secrets inside — When fears have got to be tamed

Gretchen - Fading — Correlation: 60% (Lyrics)
I'm fading inside, lately — I can not seem to find myself again
What is wrong here — I don't belong here — Save me from myself

The Dreamside - Gates of Dawn — Correlation: 60% (Lyrics)
She passed many sleepless nights — Then gathered every bit of strength — For her unguided attempt — Can't you, can't you comprehend?

Enigma - Tears from The Moon — Correlation: 60% (Lyrics)
It just ain't fair this thing called loving — When one's still there and the other feels nothing — I would have done anything for you

Within Temptation~ Jillian (I'd Give My Heart) — Correlation: 55% (Lyrics)
I'd give my heart, I'd give my soul. — I'd turn it back, it's my fault.

Evanescence - Whisper — Correlation: 50% (Lyrics)
I'm frightened by what I see — But somehow I know — That there's much more to come — Immobilized by my fear — And soon to be — Blinded by tears

Twisted Tower Dire - Make It Dark — Correlation: 50% (Lyrics)
If your heart's misread and you're left for dead — You can Make it Dark — Woncha cry for help don't try to save yourself — And we'll Make it Dark

Revolution Renaissance - I Did It My Way — Correlation: 50% (Lyrics)
Look at me — Do you see all the things — I want you, you to see?
I am me, I cannot be — What I'm not, I am real and I feel — But you can never stop, you forgot

Epica - Deep Water Horizon — Correlation: 50% (Lyrics)
There's the feeling once again — The day where black and white began — Await the ending of our everlasting violence

Evanescence - Lithium — Correlation: 50% (Lyrics)
don't make me sleep alone. — Couldn't hide the emptiness, you let it show. — Never wanted it to be so cold.
I forgive you... After all, — Anything is better than to be alone. — And in the end I guess I had to fall. — Always find my place among the ashes. — I can't hold on to me, — Wonder what's wrong with me.

Tapping the Vein  - Damage — Correlation: 50% (Lyrics)
You don't live in this awful place — You don't know the darkness like I do

Within Temptation - What Have You Done — Correlation: 50% (Lyrics)
Would you mind if I hurt you? — Understand that I need to — Wish that I had other choices — than to harm the one I love
you have turned into my worst enemy — You carry hate that I don't feel

Within Temptation - Jillian (I’d Give My Heart) — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
I'd give my heart, I'd give my soul — I'd turn it back, it's my fault — Your destiny is forlorn — Have to live till it's undone

Luna's Reply — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
So great was her pain - she rose in rebellion - Against those who cared for her most

Fallen - Taking over me — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
Refuse to acknowledge me — I'm not what you want to see

Hungry Lucy - A girl alone — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
I lost you in the dark — I lost your beating heart — I lost you to the years — I lost you through my tears — So often I cry for you — Do you cry for me too?

Deafening Silence - Northen Star — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
Far away from home — Lost and alone

The Dreamside - Forsaken (Vigilante remix) — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
I don't regret it — and I don't deny — For I saw dark — Am I forsaken?

Katatonia - In Death, A song — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
You came back to a place without sun —And you don't seem to know what you've done — To me — Now I see — Darkness is what you left in me

Xandria - In Love With The Darkness — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
I'm in love with the darkness of the night — I'm in love with all that's out of sight — I'm in love with the magic of the new — And the darkness loves me, too

WASP - Still not black enough — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
I can't go on till I get off — For me it's still not black enough — With darkness gone, my fear is seen — My fear is real, my fear is me

Sirenia - Absent Without Leave — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
I' ve been drifting away from days of light — I' ve been swept away far into the night — I guess I'll never ever make it back

Hungry Lucy - Bound in Blood — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
You can't hear me — You won't see me — I am sorry — Please don't hurt me — Wanting, pleading, loving, bleeding

Hungry Lucy - You Are — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
Revolting is how you make me feel — Disturbing how your love isn’t real — Typical is what this seems to be — For you deception comes so easily

I:Scintilla - Scin — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
Revive a dormant spirit — Spill over darkened shades — Under quickness awakened — This balance will never fade
Stand up embrace this night — It still shelters assembled stars — what comes from the source of light — And all that is opposing — Scratches in and breaks down — The torn theme of self-loathing

Carfax Abbey - Love Hate Kind — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
Your shattered world is your piece of mind — They label us as the love hate kind

The Last Dance - Nightmares — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
This bitter silence — Taints my world, becomes my nightmares — And moments passing by

After Forever - Discord — Correlation: 45% (Lyrics)
You need to get out of my sight — A lonely heart can beat — You're too dangerous — A lonely heart can bleed

Lacuna Coil - Upside Down — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
I don't understand why do you feel confused? — Once again you fail to even realize — The person that you think of me — Doesn't care what you believe

Lahannya - Out Of Time — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
When I see the morning sun again — I’m one step closer to the end
Wake me up — From this recurring — Nightmare I get — Infiltrating — Night and day — Never relenting — Until I give up — To get some relief

The Dreamside - Into a Frenzy — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
This hell within — Of blood red tears — Without mercy — Full of fears
I'm into a frenzy — Got myself to blame — For I believed in you

Satyrian - The Dark Gift — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Suffer every shame and blame — What ear would hear me if I cried — what could I do to stand the tide?
Darkness pressed the shimmering veil — To the black it starts to rend — I am not called upon to be — The dark gift

Thoushaltnot - Inside of You, In Spite of You — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
I am the sun before you see me rise — I burn still when you close your eyes — I am the soul that never dies when flesh is weak

Forever Slave - Lunatic Asylum — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Innocent! Your soul — come back to the Shades — Her sweet voice shakes

Moonspell - Luna — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Accept no resignation — For some life has been cruel — You have set the mood — Thinking about you... Luna..Luna..Luna

The Dreamside - Mirror Moon — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Stay with me — I have made my sacrifice — This pain inside is killing me — I require you tonight — Save me — I have made my sacrifice — I require you tonight

HIM - Gone With The Sin — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
I crave for your scent sending shivers down my spine — I just love the way you're running out of life

Hungry Lucy - Into Pieces — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Why must I do this  — Can you help me through this

Angtoria - Six Feet Under's Not Deep Enough — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
You'll twist and turn your spite — Till you drain the sane — Cover up your tracks with lies — Deceit hides a smile
Approached by truth, you take offence — Praise the hypocrite!

Xandria - Eversleeping — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
I will lose my breath in my last words of sorrow — And whatever comes will come soon — Dying I will pray to the moon — That there once will be a better tomorrow

Pink Cream 69 - Talk to the moon — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Don't you tell me no lies — When I look in your eyes — If you talk to the moon — Oh, can't you see me crying — I'm crying for you

Apoptygma Berzerk Suffer In Silence — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
It's hard to confess — and look you in the eyes — I need you to forgive — and make this tragic feeling go away

Candlebox - You — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Pain in my heart it is real — And I'll tell you now how I feel inside — Feel in my heart it's for you — And I'll take everything — As it comes my way

Eyes Of Eden - Star — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Promises made by night — Vanishing in day's light — I will break your chains — Save your tears — Let me go! — Nothing touches my burning soul

Nemesea - No More — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
You won't let me go — Right now you should know — I'm no longer yours — It won't be the same — Your the one to blame — Can't take no more.

Dio - Dream Evil — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
things that can't be real the truth is really lies — Don't wish on a rising star you should open up the door — Where things that just should never be are calling up a spell so you can see

Ozzy Osbourne - Waiting For Darkness — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Spare me from the light — Here comes the night — And here I'll stay
Who knows the answers — Is it friend or is it foe — Don't ask me questions — There are things you should not know

Inkubus Sukkubus - Prince of Shadows — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Your life is so much sorrow — Let me take one moment of your pain
The world shall show us such wonders — I'll cast my net into the Sea of Dreams

Kamelot - Insomnia — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
I’m asleep but wide awake — A nightmare on repeat

Beseech - Illusionate — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
they transformate my soul — completely black — my skill to love is gone — I can not feel

The Dreamside - Nocturnal — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Nocturnal, nocturnal — Stars and dreams protect me — Take me away, take me away — From here
Shapes are moving, shadows lurking — Fears freed from subconsciousness — Terror thoughts and nerves and shaking — An anguished soul on the verge

Bella Morte - Exorcisms — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
A monster finds life within — A darkness inside — With little left to defend — No one to defy — The eyes of disorder — Stare in to watch over

Bloodbound - Behind the Moon — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
From dusk till dawn — The curse is on — With the light of day comes no sanctuary — As the shadows fade away

Yngwie J. Malmsteen - You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget — Correlation: 40% ([url= ]Lyrics)
It was you, it was me — And we would last forever — Any fool could see — That we were meant to be

Gretchen - Lie to Yourself — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
you're afraid — Trapped inside the mess you've made — That's the way it's always been — Through your rainbow colored lens

Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
It's all a game, avoiding failure, when true colors will bleed — All in the name of misbehavior and the things we don't need — I lust for after no disaster can touch, touch us anymore — And more than ever, I hope to never fall, where enough is not the same it was before

Abney Park - Breathe — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
I feel a chill deep in my bones — Nothing can heal the way my blood moans — Nothing can quench — My bitter thirst
Grasp at my heart that burns in my chest — It's your precious art that makes my soul stressed — Run short of blood — Light-headed I swoon

Apoptygma Berzerk - Bitch — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
Every time you hurt me, — I lie helpless for a day — I try to stand up but you're in my way

Beyond the Black - In the Shadows — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
It’s so hard to kill the demons — When they live inside your heart
So come here and take me — I’m already gone — In a second life beside you — Is where I want to belong

Katatonia - Tonight’s Music — Correlation: 40% (Lyrics)
How could this go so very wrong — That I must depend on darkness

Even though this is a fan made song, "The Moon Rises" does give the idea to why she wanted to do such a thing in the first place.