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 authorsNiels 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 Jac Silver Casper van der Veen Joanne West William Burns    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... 060226   PBK & Howard Stelze - She Thi... 060226   Wilt - Mold The Earth 060226   Andreas Rönnquist - The Fou... 060226   Vampire Zombies…from Space ... 060226   This Is What I Hear When You ... 060226   Niacinamide - The Eyes Of Ages 060226   Aberdeen Abattoir - Only Pain... 050226   Crash And Burn - Crash And Bu... 050226   Visitors from the Arkana Gala... 040226   Various Artists - Under and A... Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding Wall... Back in 2024, I got my first taste of Absurd Reality, and I was so impressed by how crude and nasty its take on walled noise was. Behind the project is South... 290126   Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding ... 231225   Creepy Images Books - Killer Art 221225   Best Of 2025 - Music, Sound &... 041225   The Spectral Sounds of The Pr... 281025   Michael Hurst Interview - Unb... 071025   Xiphos - The Rise And Fall Of... 030925   Third Window Films - A Label ... 130825   HNW fest- Barcelona- 12th Apr... 250725   Raté interview - Walled-in F... 180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha...

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