What is the title of Dondi's famous 1981 subway mural featuring a skeleton band?

The title of Dondi’s famous 1981 subway mural featuring a skeleton band is Children of the Grave.

Dondi, born Donald Joseph White, became one of New York’s most influential subway graffiti artists. Children of the Grave was a major series painted across entire subway cars, making it unusually large and ambitious even within the expansive tradition of New York train graffiti. The title came from Black Sabbath’s 1971 song of the same name.

The work is often discussed as three parts, created between 1978 and 1980 rather than as a single isolated 1981 mural. Dondi’s final version incorporated cartoon-like figures associated with Vaughn Bodē, helping give the piece its distinctive skeletal, fantastical appearance. Photographer Martha Cooper documented the final piece from start to finish.

A common mix-up is confusing Children of the Grave with a song, a conventional wall mural, or other subway-graffiti titles. In this context, the answer refers to Dondi’s celebrated whole-train series, one of the landmarks of early New York subway art.