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... 060725   RDKPL - Herr Pes Trinch 050725   Stinking Lizaveta - Hopeless... 030725   Yann Novak - Continuity 030725   Tourist Trap - Tourist Trap( ... 030725   Palindromes - Palindromes( Bl... 020725   Noise Trail Immersion - Tutt... 010725   Atomic Rooster - Atomic Roos... 010725   Con Funk Shun - Organized 010725   Various Artists - Heatwave- T... 010725   The Good, The Bad, The Weird ... Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sharp t... It’s fair to say the Sharksploitation genre is often tried, tested, and to be honest, tired. Fear Below is a 2025 Australian film that tries to do some... 180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha... 280525   The Residents - Visits From T... 090525   Ennaytch - Of walls, abused ... 150425   Dead, Dead Swans interview - ... 110325   Sebastian Tomb - Walls of unb... 040225   Alien Sex Fiend - Possessed B... 231224   Best Of 2024 - Music, Sound &... 191224   Splintered - Somewhere Betwee... 031224   Shane Ryan-Reid - Coerced and... 221024   Whore’s Breath - life’s h...

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