[iSleipnir]

I had my music collection on random tonight and fell across this and I had to share.

Diablo Swing Orchestra is a Scandinavian band. I hesitate to call them metal because the range of styles they imitate are fairly wide. On their first album, The Butcher's Ballroom, they manage to include a waltz, a flamenco style piece, some peices on odd time signatures, and a BIG BAND piece. In a metal style. It's completely nuts and I love it!

Audio Samples:
On CDBaby
On MySpace

My favorite part about them though, is that they use uncommon instrumentations. On various songs you can regularly hear strings like violin and cello, trumpet, flute and piano. And they feature an operatic singer.

The best part is that the album has good sound quality unlike most Scandinavian metal

SO! Has anyone else heard of this band? Anyone willing to give it a listen and tell me what they think? It's definitely out there, but I really am a sucker for music that pushes genre boundaries.

 

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DSO is definitely an entertaining band, and most definitely metal. I consider them a unique band in the metal scene, because, well, no one really sounds anything like them. They have a great combination of outright oddness and catchiness (yeah, I know it's not a word) that brings to mind bands like Unexpect, Devin Townsend, or Visions era Vintersorg.

Encyclopedia Metallum says they're active, so when is their next album coming out? I'm getting impatient!

 

[scytheavatar]

The new album is supposed to be out on September 22nd. I will be interested to see how it is cause while The Butcher's Ballroom is a good album I felt that it still had room for improvement.

 

[iSleipnir]

There's one of the new songs up on their myspace. And I know they've been working with a bunch of session musicians for this new album. I'm pretty excited for it.

I actually stumbled upon these guys because of Vintersorg. But I haven't heard of Unexptect. I'll have to check them out.

 

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Originally Posted by scytheavatar /img/forum/go_quote.gif The new album is supposed to be out on September 22nd. I will be interested to see how it is cause while The Butcher's Ballroom is a good album I felt that it still had room for improvement.

Sweet! Thanks for the info. While I agree that Butcher's Ballroom was certainly not perfect, I did think it was a nice breath of fresh air in the scene. I'm eager to see if they can improve on their debut or if they go into the dreaded sophomore slump.

 

[Jasper994]

Freakin' AWESOME Album!

 

[uriz3n]

Stumbled upon Butcher's Ballroom last year while digging for new prog. Good, definitely interesting album.

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

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Originally Posted by Jasper994 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Freakin' AWESOME Album!

Tell us how you really feel why doncha?

 

[asmox]

Yeah, it's a cool album.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

I diggy.