Apocalypse and Music

* The Doomsday Clock is alluded to throughout "2 Minutes to Midnight", a single from Iron Maiden's album Powerslave.
* The song "Def. Con. One." by the band Pop Will Eat Itself includes the lyric "Ten to doomsday, moving fast... Heads up! Mind that blast. No time to sleep, it's Def. Con. One. Can't get no sleep as the ticking ticks on."
* The song "Why Did I Fall For That" by The Who has the lines "Four minutes to midnight on a sunny day/Maybe if we smile the clock'll fade away/Maybe we can force the hands to just reverse/'Maybe' is a word, maybe 'maybe's' a curse... We simply believe that we'd remain intact/But history is asking why did you fall for that."
* The song "Easy/Lucky/Free" by Bright Eyes contains the lyrics, "I set my watch to the atomic clock. I hear the crowd count down 'til the bomb gets dropped. I always figured there'd be time enough; I never let it get me down."
* The Doomsday Clock is directly mentioned in the Ozzy Osbourne song "Thank God for the Bomb" on the album The Ultimate Sin. It is, however, cited inconsistent to the clocks purpose. "The face of the doomsday clock / Has launched a thousand wars / As we near the final hour / Time is the only foe we have."
* Australian Band Midnight Oil discuss the Doomsday Clock and the threat of nuclear war in their song "Minutes to Midnight" from the album Red Sails in the Sunset. The album cover depicted the disturbing scene of the city of Sydney after a fictional nuclear attack.
* "Midnight in a Perfect World" by DJ Shadow, featuring Gift of Gab (from group Blackalicious), alludes to nuclear war and that we are "now approaching midnight", especially the full lyrical "Gab Mix" off the "Endtroducing..." reissue from 2005.
* On the cover of American band Alive's album "11:59", the Trinity test's rising fireball can be seen with the text: "It's later than we thought..." written at the bottom.
* "Chaos Theory" by Jumpsteady makes mention of the Doomsday Clock in the opening song "Outcha Mouth", saying "I'm the last second, sound of doomsday clock, like an open box of anthrax...".
* Industrial band Funker Vogt refers heavily to the doomsday clock during the chorus of their track "History", a single from the album Survivor, which follows the themes of apocalyptic warfare. Specifically with the lines "The war will soon begin. It's already ten to twelve".
* In the music video for "Russians" by Sting, the Doomsday Clock is represented by the clock ticking over the main doorway.
* In the ABC's music video "S.O.S", the Doomsday Clock was used as the main theme throughout the video.
* The cover of Arch Enemy's "Doomsday Machine" album has somewhat of a picture of the Doomsday clock.
* Linkin Park recently announced the title of their 3rd studio album, "Minutes to Midnight".