DEVIL DOLL

They're an acquired taste, and I'd recommend downloading a sample before you pay for an import CD. They have a very melodramatic style that (for me anyway) falls rather flat and doesn't impress. I know a lot of people on this forum are big big fans though, which just backs up my comment that they're a very acquired taste. Just a taste I failed to acquire, I suppose.

reviews and mp3 download:
http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAN D.asp?band_id=79

more sound clips:
http://members.aol.com/septicflesh/devil4.htm

lyrics: http://members.aol.com/septicflesh/text/devil5.txt

good fan sites:
http://www.devildoll.nl/

http://www.x-tag.com/erauch/devildoll/DevilDoll/index.html
http://www.progressiveworld.net/devildollartc.html - good biog

http://www.sortedmagazine.com/archive/magazine/sordid/devild oll.htm - good info article

excellent reviews: http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=5950

best band ever!

corea_p83 wrote: Thak for the links Suonds intresting but the samples are not enough   What is the meaning of this 1. The Girl who was....Death (38:48 + 26:20 of silence + 1:56) Beacuse i wont pay for an album that contein 20 minutos of silence I think i better get one cd from emule and listening well.

Yes, there is silence because of the coda. There is a coda in the albums "Sacrilegium" and "Dies Irae" as well.

I agree that this band is very much an acquired taste and i happen to think it's some of the most brilliant music ever made. The vocals are even more an acquired taste and i happen to love the vocals as well.

no syntetizer sorry

Distortion

I have to be honest here. I only heard of Eliogabalus and Sacrilege of Fatal Arms. Eliogabalus was a nice album, but I think I gave it 4 stars because of the shock factor. It's a great album, but after some more listens the novelty wears off. I'm thinking of giving it a desent 3 stars instead of the previous 4.  Sacrilege of Fatal Arms is... well... long. Too long for it's own good. In the second half of the song they sound like their making things up just to reach the 70 minute mark.

They have nice potential, but they need to focus more their ideas.

I pretty much agree with Trotsky's words: "...and while it's cool to have checked it out once, it's not something you'd want to revisit too often..."

He recently made a reissue of Sacrilegium in a leather box numbered to 10. He gave one to the webmaster of Devildoll.nl and select more people. And his comment on the book of some 1000 fan letters was simply "Astounded".

His first album called Mark Of The Beast there is only one copy of but presumably everyone in the band has heard it because they recorded it, but they would have only heard the recording and nothing else. No test pressings or anything exist of it as far as I know. None of the musicians or the producer have a copy. Stranger thing about the Mark Of The Beast besides it only being in one copy was that it was an official release on Hurdy Gurdy records I think. It has it's own number and everything. His comment on this album - and always a man of very few words it seems - was "This is a painting, not a graphic work".

Quite a character

I don't listen to Devil Doll much but now and then I listen to them, or I show a new friend. Whenever I show someone the reaction I get is often they're blown away by it but it's too dark. Or it's too scary and they don't finish it. Or they're just completely entranced.

devil doll is great, the girl who was death is incredible, and talking bout the voice,...mr doctor is known as the man of the 1000 voices as far as i know

progadicto wrote: Ok.. Ok... There are two special editions: one from Eliogabalus and one from Dies Irae: Both of them are basicly the same but with a few musical minutes more which not make much difference... Well, the special edition of Dies Irae is on a cover of leather imitation and... it's very beautiful but the cost... wow! If you're not a fan you wouldn't pay for that... The music: Well, Mr. Doctor has a gloomy and scary voice of course sometimes passed through synth but the effects are good. I don't recommend the samples. Every Devil Doll album is a complete piece with strong concepts and many references to b-movies from the 60's and 70's (just see the cover art). Camera music, rock, epical chorus, metal, prog, dark lyrics... all in one. It's hard to find the key to understand every album but when you find it... wow! you will enjoy every note alone, light out and loud in your bedroom... Really. I'm a huge symph fan (My all-time favourite is Yes) but Devil Doll still makes feel goosebumps... Buy it! Buy it!

I have the fan club Dies Irae and it only cost me $27 USD. Maybe a lot for Americans to spend but I pay at least $24.99 CDN without tax for every CD I buy from the store, sometimes $27.99 or $31.99, so the $27 USD was normal. That, and I imported it from Italy.