Search for   wildcard searchword search With search mode ANDOR in allband specialsreviewsarticlesmp3 section(s) And sort the results by BandnameAlbumtitle/Articletitle/SongDate show articles written by All authors Niels van Rongen Andreas Oelke Sander Hordijk Jacob Avlund Justin Faase Aldo Quispel Dan Felch François Monti Jeff Jacobus David Bauwens Roger Batty Patrick Toepoel John Pusieski Duncan Simpson Erwin Michelfelder N.S. Endebo Nicholas Szczepanik Delirious Insomniac manuel pereira Russell Cuzner Sven Klippel Serdar Yegulalp Josh Landry Lawrence J. Patti David Bourgoin Viktorya Kaufholz Andy Ortmann Various Justin Marc Lloyd Martin P James DC Todd Robinson Nicola Vinciguerra Bill Too Ross Baker Richard T Williams Paul Casey Hal Harmon Dave Biddulph Michael Cunningham Jean-Paul Garnier Tyler L. Julien Skrobek Cory Strand Adam Skyes Darren Charles James Shearman Sergey Pakhomov Johan Strömvall Hammarstedt Lob Instagon Jennifer Wallis Jan Warnke Damien De Coene A. Cooley Manuel Armida-Honner Julien Skrobek Karl Grümpe Colin Lang Alex McLean Cavan Gilbey Sarah Gregory    Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z  Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design [Avantgarde Records - 2001] Who said that black metal would never been taken serious by the 'outside' crowd has his facts wrong since this new Diabolical Masquerade album is an official motion picture soundtrack. That's right, the soundtrack to an official Hollywood horror movie. A movie that we will never see on the bigscreen since it's cancelled. It kinda fits with the music, a mysterious movie which we will never see but with a perfect soundtrack. This is Diabolical Masquerade's fourth album already. The previous three albums were nice attempts at mixing black and dark metal with a horror theme. "Nightwork", the third album was a good piece of work, but still had its flaws. "Death's Design" is the perfect follow-up since everything is improved. The main composer -Blakkheim (Katatonia)- even hired a small orchestra. Ex-Edge of Sanity-man Dan Swano also had his input. The album has 61 tracks which are divided into 20 parts. Most parts contain 4 tracks, and when played behind each other, they make a full song (don't do shuffle on this album). The orchestra is really good, no more cheesy keyboards anymore but real violins. The metal arrangements are a bit more progressive than before and not just straight black metal blast beats. The album has great riffs and the combined metal-orchestra parts are really well done. Don't miss the cool jazz and rock 'n roll guitar-solo's either. The vocals are mostly black metal style, but on two short tracks they used normal vocals which are really cool and add a great atmosphere to the music. For me this is a perfect example of good music. "Death's Design" is not only original but it also knows how to put some fresh air into a genre which has almost no interesting artists anymore. The new Diabolical Masquerade is a great album which every fan of refreshing and good metal should get. Niels van Rongen Diabolical Masquerade - Death's D... Who said that black metal would never been taken serious by the 'outside' crowd has his facts wrong since this new Diabolical Masquerade album is an official... 020524   Behind The Covent Walls - Be... 010524   Eventide - Waterline 010524   Vidna Obmana - Crossing The T... 010524   Harmony Of Struggle - Brutal ... 300424   The Man Who Drove The Hearse ... 300424   Dosis Letalis - Walled In Emo... 290424   Ayjay Nils - Microdosing EP 290424   Santo Vs the Riders of Terro... 260424   Snapshot - Snapshot(Blu Ray) 260424   Black Files - Black Files( VOD) The Music of Clay Ruby & Burial H... Over the last couple of decades Wisconsin native, Clay Ruby has been creating some of the world’s finest dark electronic music under the Burial Hex mon... 280324   The Music of Clay Ruby & Buri... 290224   Sutcliffe No More - Normal Ev... 100124   Occlusion - The Operation Is... 181223   Best Of 2023 - Music, Sound &... 051223   Powerhouse Films - Of Magic, ... 181023   IO - Of Sound, Of Art, Of Exp... 210923   Lucky Cerruti - Of Not so Fri... 290823   The Residents - The Trouble W... 110723   Yotzeret Sheydim Interview - ... 250523   TenHornedBeast - Into The Dee...

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