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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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Velvet Embracer
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Gunpowder Chant
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Infralove
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Wedding March for a Bullet
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Qualms of Conscience
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Shoutbox
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fruzsi222 wrote:
Great band, but I prefer their first album. Pink Noise Waltz is one of my favourites and that song is so underrated.
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inorganique wrote:
What can be better : a real soprano.
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SoundscapeMN wrote:
new album is such fun.
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Sa1r wrote:
stygmata666, agreed
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stygmata666 wrote:
In my opinion, vocals are really great... I mean.... they have a freaking soprano... what can be better than that???
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arturcastelo wrote:
o.O" Music = 10, Vocals = 10. I'm not disappointed =)
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elchingolense wrote:
Music = 8, Vocals = 1. I'm disappointed :(
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linc- wrote:
продам душу за их выступление в Петербурге!!!
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LiTTle-HoRn wrote:
loving the music and the vocals, it's all so synched! :D
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Kaleidotroph wrote:
The only time that metal music and female operatic vocals work for me. [2] Well, this and 3 other bands.
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Fummi-San wrote:
<3 me encanta mucho esta banda a pesar de que perdi la oportunidad de conoceles en vivo
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dememe wrote:
The only time that metal music and female operatic vocals work for me.
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NMorte wrote:
Отличная группа!
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flowerette wrote:
There's not much to compare with uneXpect. They're on a whole other level
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DzzirtDourden wrote:
new album !!!!plz!!!!
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Emtay13 wrote:
@ RedArmada: It isn't really nonlinear enough to be avant-garde, although their sound definitely deviates from the typical. There's no doubt that they experiment. Actually, none of the "similar artists" are anything like DSO (I lol'd upon seeing Epica)
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stygmata666 wrote:
haha.... i didn't realise... but yeah, it sounds a little bit like SOAD... xD
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redripperblues wrote:
oh, shi~! riff in New World Windows on 4:30 sounds very similar to Slipknot's Vermillion
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Ziltoilusion wrote:
The opera is more over the top on the new album, I love them both.... this band is amazing. Butchers Ballroom is a hell of a lot darker in its own respect, Sing Alongs is more upbeat.
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DarkMusicWizard wrote:
I like SOAD... and DSO... but wtf you can compare them D: ... Maybe your ear is too dirty :S
Videos
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Featured Tracks
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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
11 shouts
| 95 attendees
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Aug
12
Brutal Assault XV 2010
Fortress, Josefov, Czech Republic
1,880 shouts
| 887 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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