# Wasteland

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**Wasteland** or **waste land** may refer to:

- [Desert](/source/Desert) or [barren](/source/Barren_vegetation) area
- an uncultivated area of land, whether wooded or not, whether [common land](/source/Common_land) or not

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Comics

- [*Wasteland* (DC Comics)](/source/Wasteland_(DC_Comics)), 1987–1989 anthology-style horror/humor comic by John Ostrander and Del Close
- [*Wasteland* (comics)](/source/Wasteland_(comics)), 2006–2015 comic book series by Antony Johnston and Christopher Mitten
- Wastelands, setting of *[Old Man Logan](/source/Old_Man_Logan)* and its several spin-offs, since 2008
- [Marvel's *Wastelanders*](/source/Marvel's_Wastelanders), 2021 ongoing series of radio drama podcasts produced by SiriusXM

### Fictional entities

- [Wasteland (*Warhammer*)](/source/Wasteland_(Warhammer)), a fictional region in the world of *Warhammer Fantasy*
- Wasteland, the post-Great War United States in the *[Fallout](/source/Fallout_(franchise))* series of video games
- Wasteland, a world in which *[Epic Mickey](/source/Epic_Mickey)* and *Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two* take place

### Films

- [*Wasteland* (1960 film)](/source/Wasteland_(1960_film)), a 1960 French film directed by Marcel Carné, based on Hal Ellson's novel *Tomboy*
- [*Waste Land* (film)](/source/Waste_Land_(film)), a 2010 documentary about Brazilian trash-pickers
- *Wasteland*, North American title of the 2012 British film *[The Rise](/source/The_Rise_(film))*
- [*Wasteland* (2013 film)](/source/Wasteland_(2013_film)), a zombie horror film
- *[Mad Max: The Wasteland](/source/Mad_Max:_The_Wasteland)*, a prospective film in the *Mad Max* franchise
- [The Wasteland (2020 film)](/source/The_Wasteland_(2020_film)), an Iranian drama film
- [The Wasteland (2021 film)](/source/The_Wasteland_(2021_film)), a Spanish horror drama film

### Games

- [*Wasteland* (video game)](/source/Wasteland_(video_game)), a 1988 computer role-playing game - *[Wasteland 2](/source/Wasteland_2)*, a 2014 sequel to the above game - *[Wasteland 3](/source/Wasteland_3)*, 2020 sequel
- *[Wasteland Half-Life](/source/Wasteland_Half-Life)*, a mod for the 1998 video game *Half-Life*

### Literature

- [Wasteland (mythology)](/source/Wasteland_(mythology)), the Celtic motif of the land of the Fisher King
- [*Wasteland* (novel)](/source/Wasteland_(novel)), a 2003 novel by Francesca Lia Block
- ["Wastelands" (short story)](/source/Wastelands_(short_story)), a 2002 short story by Stephen Dedman
- *[The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands](/source/The_Dark_Tower_III:_The_Waste_Lands)*, a 1991 novel by Stephen King
- *[The Waste Land](/source/The_Waste_Land)*, a 1922 poem by T. S. Eliot
- *[Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse](/source/Wastelands:_Stories_of_the_Apocalypse)*, a 2008 anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction

### Music

#### Albums

- [*Wasteland* (The Jam album)](/source/Wasteland_(The_Jam_album)), 1992
- [*The Waste Lands* (album)](/source/The_Waste_Lands_(album)), a 1992 album by Venom
- [*Wasteland* (Atargatis album)](/source/Wasteland_(Atargatis_album)), 2006
- *[Grace/Wastelands](/source/Grace/Wastelands)*, a 2009 album by Pete Doherty
- [*Wastelands* (album)](/source/Wastelands_(album)), a 2013 album by Eskimo Joe
- [*Wasteland* (Riverside album)](/source/Wasteland_(Riverside_album)), 2018
- [*Wasteland* (Brent Faiyaz album)](/source/Wasteland_(Brent_Faiyaz_album)), 2022
- [*Wasteland* (Wolves at the Gate album)](/source/Wasteland_(Wolves_at_the_Gate_album)), 2025

#### Songs

- ["Wasteland" (Billy Idol song)](/source/Wasteland_(Billy_Idol_song)), 1993
- ["The Wasteland" (Elton John song)](/source/The_Wasteland_(Elton_John_song)), 2001
- ["Wasteland" (Poison song)](/source/Wasteland_(Poison_song)), 2002
- ["Wasteland" (Maxïmo Park song)](/source/Wasteland_(Max%C3%AFmo_Park_song)), 2005
- ["Wasteland" (10 Years song)](/source/Wasteland_(10_Years_song)), 2005
- ["Wasteland" (The View song)](/source/Wasteland_(The_View_song)), 2007
- ["Wasteland" (Needtobreathe song)](/source/Wasteland_(Needtobreathe_song)), 2014
- ["Wastelands" (Linkin Park song)](/source/Wastelands_(song)), 2014
- ["Wastelands" (Suede song)](/source/Wastelands_(Suede_song)), 2018
- "Wasteland", a song by Against the Current from the album *[In Our Bones](/source/In_Our_Bones)*
- "Wasteland", a song by All That Remains from the album *[Victim of the New Disease](/source/Victim_of_the_New_Disease)*
- "Wastelands", a song by Amoral from the album *[Beneath](/source/Beneath_(Amoral_album))*
- "Wastelands", a song by Avantasia from the album *[The Wicked Symphony](/source/The_Wicked_Symphony)*
- "Wasteland", a song by Bury Tomorrow from the album *[Will You Haunt Me, with That Same Patience](/source/Will_You_Haunt_Me,_with_That_Same_Patience)*
- "Wasteland", a song by Chelsea Grin from the album *[Desolation of Eden](/source/Desolation_of_Eden)*
- "Wastelands", a song by Extol from the album *[Extol](/source/Extol_(album))*
- "Wastelands", a song by Hawkwind from the album *[Alien 4](/source/Alien_4_(album))*
- "Wasteland", a song by The Jam from the album *[Setting Sons](/source/Setting_Sons)*
- "Wasteland", a song by John Cale from the album *[blackAcetate](/source/BlackAcetate)*
- "Wastelands", a song by Midge Ure from the album *[The Gift](/source/The_Gift_(Midge_Ure_album))*
- "Wasteland", a song by The Mission from the album *[God's Own Medicine](/source/God's_Own_Medicine)*
- "Wasteland", a song by Shadows Fall from the album *[Fire from the Sky](/source/Fire_from_the_Sky)*
- "Wasteland (Vechnost)", a song by Silent Planet from the album *[The Night God Slept](/source/The_Night_God_Slept)*
- "Wasteland", a song by Trapt from the album *[Only Through the Pain](/source/Only_Through_the_Pain)*
- "Wasteland", a song by X Ambassadors from [*Orion*](/source/Orion_(X_Ambassadors_album))
- "Wasteland", a song by [Royal & the Serpent](/source/Royal_%2526_the_Serpent) from the Arcane soundtrack
- "The Waste Land", a song by [Weezer](/source/Weezer) from the album *[Everything Will Be Alright in the End](/source/Everything_Will_Be_Alright_in_the_End)*

### Television

- [*Wasteland* (American TV series)](/source/Wasteland_(American_TV_series)), an American television drama, debuted in 1999
- [*Wasteland* (Czech TV series)](/source/Wasteland_(Czech_TV_series)), a Czech television series
- [Wasteland Speech](/source/Wasteland_Speech), a 1961 speech by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow

## Other uses

- [Wasteland (event)](/source/Wasteland_(event)), a bi-annual fetish event held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- [Wasteland Weekend](/source/Wasteland_Weekend), an immersive post apocalyptic event held annually in the Mojave Desert since 2010

## See also

- *[Wastelanding](/source/Wastelanding)*, a 2015 book by Traci Brynne Voyles
- [Waste (disambiguation)](/source/Waste_(disambiguation))

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