Diablery

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Diablery
General information
origin Vantaa , Finland
Genre (s) Symphonic black metal (initially), industrial metal , avant-garde metal
founding 1997 as Shadeclad Poetry
Website https://diablerie.fi/
Current occupation
Henri Villberg
Kimmo Tukiainen
Electric guitar
 Tomi Ullgrén
Paul Rytkönen
Leave Mammi
former members
Drums
 Antti Ruokola
Electric guitar, initially electric bass (session)
 Eric Lunden
Electric bass
 Aleksi Ahokas
Electric guitar
 Jukka Grasten
Juha Suorsa
Electric bass
 Iain Huntley
Drums
 Petri Mäkipää
Electric bass (live)
 J. Haemäläinen

Diablerie is a Finnish industrial and avant-garde metal band from Vantaa , which was founded in 1997 under the name Shadeclad Poetry . In the meantime the seat has been relocated to Helsinki .

history

The band was formed at the end of 1997 from the decay of two black metal groups under the name Shadeclad Poetry by the singer Henri Villberg and the guitarist Kimmo Tukainen. The band presented themselves to an audience for the first time at a local youth center performance in Vantaa. In 1999 the name was changed to Diablerie after their song Diablerie 3-D . Then a first demo called Astro was recorded in the Sundi Coop Studio in Savonlinna under the direction of Tuomo Valtonen . During the recording, original guitarist Jukka Grasten left the line-up and was replaced by Eric Lunden, who had previously been the group's session bassist. For the second appearance of the band, which took place in the Vernissa Club in Vantaa on March 12, 1999 with Twilight Ophera and Excelsior, J.Hämäläinen helped out on bass. Aleksi Ahokas was added for the third appearance and remained in the cast. On March 31, 2000, the band played on the West Coast Holocaust IV in Turku with Hellbox and Moonsorrow , which was the first appearance in the line-up in which the later debut album was recorded. Later that year the group signed a record deal with Avantgarde Music , after which, again under the direction of Valtonen, the Sundi Coop Studio recorded their debut album, which was released in 2001 under the name Seraphyde . After the release, the band's founder Villberg left the group later in the same year, which Ahokas joined shortly afterwards. Villberg's departure took place in the summer of 2002, shortly before the planned recording of a second album. In the same year Lunden left the cast. In 2003, as a trio, little more new material was written, while other projects were also devoted to and Diablerie was hardly active. In 2005 Villberg wrote new material that was very similar to that of Diablerie. Villberg, who was in a band called Rapture at the time, was persuaded by his bandmate, guitarist Tomi Ullgrén, to reactivate Diablerie, with the promise of Ullgrén to join the group. After discussions with other band members and negotiations with Avantgarde Music, the reactivation was finally announced. The EP Reactivation was then released via Sonic Supernova , which was followed by another self- release in 2012 under the name Transition . In 2017 the second album The Catalyst Vol. 1: Control followed via Primitive Reaction Records .

style

Adam from metalbite.com found it difficult to assign Seraphyde to a metal genre. He found that the band played an avant-garde form of metal in which they used elements from black metal , industrial and techno . The songs could be divided into three categories: the dark-sounding ones that would process influences from Black and Industrial Metal, the atmospheric ones influenced by techno, and the unusual-sounding ones that can only be described as avant-garde metal. Karoliina Kallio's singing can be heard in two songs, reminiscent of Cristina Scabbia 's. Villberg's vocals can vary from screams typical of hardcore punk to black metal-typical screeches. Grymm of angrymetalguy.com noted in his review of The Catalyst Vol. 1: Control that the album sounds like the group had stopped production in 2001. He drew sonic comparisons with Fear Factory and Static-X . In the song Hexordium: The Final Realization That You Don't Matter , Villberg's vocals consist of growling in the first half of the song before sounding like he's trying to imitate Devin Townsend . The group usually sounds best in the fast songs, which have similarities to Strapping Young Lad . Wear My Crown contained with robot voice carried forward verses and nu-metal - riffs , Selves , however contains percussion passages in the style of Meshuggah . Philipp Issler from Metal.de also reviewed the album. In the beginning Diablerie was still a symphonic black metal band, while now all possible influences from industrial metal to thrash metal and dark wave to metalcore are processed. Occasionally, synthesizer sounds are also very characteristic.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on January 4, 2017 ; accessed on March 31, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Biography. metalfromfinland.com, archived from the original on September 28, 2014 ; accessed on March 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Diablerie. Discogs , accessed March 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Adam: Seraphyde. MetalBite Review by Adam on 6/29/2001. metalbite.com, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Grymm: Diablerie - The Catalyst vol. 1: Control Review. angrymetalguy.com, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Philip Issler: Diablerie - The Catalyst Vol 1: Control.. Metal.de , accessed April 1, 2018 .