A descendant of Herman Melville, who works in the genres
of electronic music, pop, rock and punk, took a pseudonym in honor of the white whale - Moby.
In the Danish cartoon Samson and Sally (1984), Moby Dick is
a semi-mythical character for the whales who is believed to one day return to save the ocean from humans. The main character of the cartoon is also a white sperm whale.
Led Zeppelin wrote the instrumental song "Moby Dick".
Funeral doom metal band Ahab uses imagery from the book.
The Russian rock group Shadow Theater in 2006 also uses
the image of the "coffin" and "whale" from the work of Herman Melville in the song "Moby Dick" from the Beast album.
In the thirteenth episode "Overseas" of the first season of
the television series "The X-Files", the character of the television series Dana Scully, in a conversation with her father, addresses him: "Happy sailing, Ahab!"
The American Slag metal band Mastodon has an album
