Maelstrom (disambiguation)

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A maelstrom is a powerful whirlpool.

In English, the word originally referred to the Moskstraumen.

Maelstrom may also refer to:

Amusement rides

• Maelstrom (ride), a log flume dark ride attraction in the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
• Maelstrom, a gyro swing ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park, Staffordshire, UK

Characters

• Maelstrom (comics), fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics
• Maelstrom (Ice Age), a Pliosaurus
• Mael Strom, aka Yuki Yoshida, from the anime/manga Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?

Film and television

• Maelström (film), a 2000 Canadian film
• Maelstrom (TV series), a 1985 BBC television drama serial
• "Maelstrom" (Battlestar Galactica)

Games

• Maelstrom (1992 video game), an Apple Macintosh game
• Maelstrom (role playing game), a role-playing game by Alexander Scott
• Maelstrom (video game), a 2007 PC game
• VOR: The Maelstrom, a miniature wargame
• Maelstrom (Live Action Roleplaying), a live action roleplaying game run 2004–2012 by Profound Decisions
• Maelstrom, a lightning-based hammer item in the video game "Dota 2"

Literature

• A Descent into the Maelström, an 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Maelstrom (Timms novel), a novel by E.V. Timms
• Maelstrom, a 2001 novel by Peter Watts
• Maelstrom, a 2006 novel in the Petaybee Series by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Maelstrom (Destroyermen novel), the third book of the Destroyermen series

Music

• Maelstrom, an album by JR Ewing
• Mælstrøm , an album by the Belgian crust punk band Oathbreaker
• "Maelstrom," a song by The Steve Miller Band on the album Living in the 20th Century
• "Maelstrom," a composition by Julian Cochran
• "The Maelstrom," a composition by Robert W. Smith
• "Maelstrom 2010," a song by the Canadian melodic death metal band Kataklysm on the album Temple of Knowledge
• Malström Graintable Synthesizer, a component of the musical software Reason
• Maelstrom, a Boston-based thrash metal band active from the late 1980s to the early 1990s that released an LP on Taang! Records
• "Ocean - II. Maelstrom" song by Canadian instrumental progressive metal band "Pomegranate Tiger" released on their 2013 album "Entities"

Other

• Maelstrom, a Chromium-based browser by San Francisco-based BitTorrent Inc. with an integrated BitTorrent engine