Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom (2006)

Year: August 17, 2006 (CD 2006)
Label: Guillotine Grooves (US), GILDS020061/DSO 0501
Style: Swing, Flamenco, Jazz, Gothic Metal, Progressive Metal, Symphonic Metal
Country: Sweden
Time: 50:18
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 353 Mb

Five hundred years ago, long before the atom bomb and McDonald's, there was a band whose music could please every longing heart. They played like heavenly choir, still the Church sentenced them to the capital punishment. Now, they find their way back again through six faithful musicians, who follow the message of their ancestors....
If you believe their heartfelt story or not, you can't not to be moved by their overwhelming impact to the metal scene. For the swedish combo doesn't content themselves with creating something we have already heard before. One can't describe their original style with other word than "avant-guarde". The long list of their influences includes rock & metal, so as jazz, opera or electronic music. The result is a pure melange of these genres.
In those 50 minutes you take a frenetic journey inside of their souls, on which there is a new surprise around every corner. Hard guitar riffs get combined with gentle sound of classical string instruments, such as cello and violin. One can hear even a poetic flute, soft strums of acoustic guitar and then the melody turns into even a disco rhytm. On the top of that stand the intriguing and distinguishable operatic vocals of Ann-Louice Logdlund, which can sound convincingly powerful, so as romantically delicate.
This unbelievable album is filled with contrasts and paradoxes. Inventive Swedes play with atmosphere driving it to the complete edge. I'm convinced that this quite brave experiment came out more than well. In fact, I daresay this is a good choice not even for opera or avant-guarde lovers, but for any eager ear. This band has a really great potential, so let's hope their enchantment will last ... maybe for the next 500 years.
(metal-archives.com/reviews/Diablo_Swing_Orchestra/The_Butcher%27s_Ballroom/123593/) Review by MaHTiel_rAGdOll. March 17th, 2007

01. Balrog Boogie (03:53)
02. Heroines (05:22)
03. Poetic Pitbull Revolutions (04:51)
04. Rag Doll Physics (03:53)
05. D'Angelo (01:54)
06. Velvet Embracer (04:05)
07. Gunpowder Chant (01:50)
08. Infralove (04:54)
09. Wedding March for a Bullet (03:13)
10. Qualms of Conscience (01:16)
11. Zodiac Virtues (04:47)
12. Porcelain Judas (04:09)
13. Pink Noise Waltz (06:06)

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