The Danse Macabre (/ d ɑː n s m ə ˈ k ɑː b (r ə)/, French pronunciation: [dɑ̃s ma.kabʁ]) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Danse Macabre unites all. About “Death Dance” (Unreviewed) Death Dance is the first song of the album Boom Boom Room: Side B and was released almost two months before the rest of the album (on the 2nd of August, 2018). May these morbid faves live on forever. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for days. What follows are 20 of the finest songs about death, kicking the bucket, biting the dust, buying the farm, and catching the last train for the coast. The dancing plague of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace, in the Holy Roman Empire in July 1518.