Diablo Swing Orchestra
| Diablo Swing Orchestra | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Appearance at the Global East Rock Festival 2010 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Metal , jazz |
| founding | 2003 |
| Website | www.diabloswing.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Daniel Håkansson | |
Electric guitar, synthesizer , didgeridoo
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Pontus Mantefors |
singing |
Kristin Evegård |
bass |
"Andy" Johansson is different |
| Johannes Bergion | |
| Andreas Halvardsson | |
| former members | |
singing |
Annlouice Loegdlund (2003-2014) |
| Live and session members | |
| Emmy Lindström | |
| Kristin Olsson | |
| PG Jukiussin | |
| David Werthén | |
| Tobias Wiklund | |
The Diablo Swing Orchestra ( DSO for short ) is a Swedish metal or crossover band. Their style is characterized by a mixture of traditional metal, jazz , progressive rock and neoclassical music.
history
The band was founded in 2003, was immediately followed by Demo - EP Borderline Hymns published. By participating in the international Emergenza competition in Sweden, the band won a record deal with the Guillotine Grooves label . There the first album The Butcher's Ballroom was first released in Scandinavia in 2006 and then in the rest of the world in 2007. It was later made available digitally and free of charge on jamendo under a Creative Commons license . The Butcher's Ballroom received critical acclaim and won the 2006 Metal Storm Award.
In 2006 the band toured Scandinavia and selected clubs in Central Europe. She also had a live performance in German-speaking countries in August 2008, when she was allowed to present her repertoire for over half an hour at one of Germany's largest metal festivals, Summer Breeze . In September 2009 the second studio album Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious was released on the new label Ascendance Records.
In 2014 singer and founding member Annlouice Loegdlund left the band to focus on her career as an opera singer. Kristin Evegård was her successor.
style
The band's style is characterized by an unconventional mix of diverse styles. Elements of mainstream jazz are interspersed with hard guitar riffs , the line-up with flute , violin and cello also creates neoclassical and baroque interludes. The singer Annlouice Loegdlund, trained in opera singing , sings in the soprano range . The lyrics are in English , Latin and Italian .
The band's image is shaped by a self-mystification that ironizes the metal scene. An artificial myth is created as the official biography of the band : The band has existed since the Middle Ages , but was banned there by the church due to its diabolical style of music. 600 years later, the musicians of that time reincarnated into today's Diablo Swing Orchestra.
Discography
- Borderline Hymns (2003, demo)
- The Butcher's Ballroom (2006, Guillotine Grooves)
- Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (2009, Ascendance Records)
- Pandora's Piñata (2012, Plastic Head Distribution )
- Pacifisticuffs (2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ jamendo.com: Download this album for free: The Butcher's Ballroom - Jamendo . Retrieved December 21, 2009.
- ↑ blogs.myspace.com: Release date and cover art for the new album - Official MySpace Blog ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 21, 2009.
- ^ Message from the band on Facebook . Retrieved November 23, 2017.
- ^ Diablo Swing Orchestra. Retrieved July 2, 2017 .
