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Diablo Swing Orchestra
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Sweden (2003 – present)
Diablo Swing Orchestra is a Swedish avant-garde metal band. The band was formed in 2003.
The origin of the name of the band is related both on their website and on their CDBaby description page. The back-story recounts a historically questionable, though amusing, ancestral story beginning in 16th century Sweden. Supposedly, ancestors of the band members performed orchestral works in defiance of the ruling church at the time (possibly the newly installed protestant Lutheran national church, in power during the mid and late 16th century). The orchestra was forced to go into hiding, performing in secret, with the assistance of oppressed peasants during the era. After years of performing for the pleasure of these peasants, the story claims that the church put a bounty on the performers lives, and that this bounty was so high that the orchestra knew they would soon be captured, and thusly chose to play a spectacular final show before becoming martyred to the church.
While this account is historically unsupported it does provide a backdrop to DSO’s eclectic musical style.
The origin of the name of the band is related both on their website and on their CDBaby description page. The back-story recounts a historically questionable, though amusing, ancestral story beginning in 16th century Sweden. Supposedly, ancestors of the band members performed orchestral works in defiance of the ruling church at the time (possibly the newly installed protestant Lutheran national church, in power during the mid and late 16th century). The orchestra was forced to go into hiding, performing in secret, with the assistance of oppressed peasants during the era. After years of performing for the pleasure of these peasants, the story claims that the church put a bounty on the performers lives, and that this bounty was so high that the orchestra knew they would soon be captured, and thusly chose to play a spectacular final show before becoming martyred to the church.
While this account is historically unsupported it does provide a backdrop to DSO’s eclectic musical style.
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Poetic Pitbull Revolutions
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D'angelo
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Rag Doll Physics
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Gunpowder Chant
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Infralove
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Wedding March for a Bullet
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Shoutbox
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RenanSalaberga wrote:
You talk to much.
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egnops wrote:
You people didn't just compare them to SOAD did you? Please kill yourselves.
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Pippe_111 wrote:
me gusta mas el disco nuevo, saludos desde Chile!
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Luiz_Sabbath wrote:
Diferente a sonoridade deles, dificilmente ouve-se algo parecido. O "The Butcher's Ballroom" é foda pra caralho! Jazz, múscica oriental, Metal, música clássica. Banda foda!
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HeadMuse wrote:
Funny, but great (y)
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ThoXyne wrote:
Lol!!! How can someone compare an avantgarde metal band to an... (alternative) nu metal band... Sing-along Songs for the Damned and Delirious is a "stellar" album, compared to any SOAD album.
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Quispiam wrote:
A Tap Dancer's Dilemma <3
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hp_vicious wrote:
anyway, new album is fucking amazing :D
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hp_vicious wrote:
they don't sound like SOAD
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Katolz wrote:
Awesome :3 can't stop listening to the last album
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mrsblackxd wrote:
lov<33333
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Mephisto_NL wrote:
I can see the comparison with System of a Down. SOAD is pretty chaotic and experimental, especially for a 'mainstream' band. DSO just takes it (musical experiment) to a different level.
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snehuliak51 wrote:
Try Metal-archives
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makuin wrote:
nice, where i can reas texts from last album?
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HannaHidrah wrote:
A mistura perfeita: Erudito + Rock
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Prifava wrote:
Ouvir Diablo Swing Orchestra é algo demasiado maravilhoso e único!
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Dustspell wrote:
From Greece : www.myspace.com/dirtygrannytales (Cabaret/Folk/Exprimental)
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xsinthorasx wrote:
Simply amazing! [4]
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grisevg wrote:
First album is better... Second is not so catchy...but still ok
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RustyLiver wrote:
SOAD? lol....where? wash your ears...and brain for sure ;)
Videos
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Balrog Boogie full track | 3:52 |
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Free MP3 Heroines | 5:21 |
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Poetic Pitbull Revolutions full track | 4:52 |
Events
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May
15
Diablo Swing Orchestra
клуб Х.О., Москва, Moscow, Russian Federation
8 shouts
| 69 attendees
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Aug
12
Brutal Assault XV 2010
Fortress, Josefov, Czech Republic
1,401 shouts
| 642 attendees
News
Russian date confirmed
9 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/diabloswingorchestra
Some rather excellent news!DSO will play at Club XO in Moscow on the 15th of May 2010.cheers/DSO
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30 Sep 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/diabloswingorchestra
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ASoundOfThunder tagged Diablo Swing Orchestra with jazz, jazz metal, symphonic metal and 3 other tags. Thursday evening
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