THE BUTCHER'S BALLROOM

Diablo Swing Orchestra

Progressive Metal

3.86 | 186 ratings

From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website

snobb
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator

Wow! Operetta with some metal arrangements! Show business is extremely inventive nowadays!

Debut album of this pop-swing-Latin-operetta Swedish band is catchy one! Songs are melodic and very simple,straight forward. But to make it attractive to as much auditory as possible, there are plenty of kitsch elements collected from very different musical directions.

Operatic female vocals over pop songs with some heavier guitars to attract some teen-rebels (did it work?) are quite impressive, but all that we heard on Therion albums. And to be honest, even Tarja Turunen sounded better (when she still tried to save very average Finnish symphonic pop-metal band Nightwish from total disaster). Plenty of acoustic guitar and Latin tunes sound almost fanny, Los Lobos and Tito & Tarantula from Tarantino movies soundtracks are far more authentic.

Swing in combination with teens hairy metal - lets name it avant-metal? OK, but for me it sounds more like nowadays clever rock'n'roll circus. Attraction for people who hates opera,real metal, real jazz, real avant, any real music. But who likes catchy melodies, accessible music and all kitsch in one package.

Must to note though - for such listener this album is well done! It's not cheap kitsch, it's the professional one. And it works - I am not really the one who will like this album, but I must agree this new Army Of Lovers (another Swedish band of similar musical direction) version is more attractive and possibly even will be more popular. One day.

Catchy metal music for metal haters. My rating is 2+,rounded to 3 - for new kitsch (anti)music concept.

snobb | 3/5 | 2010-12-14

MEMBERS LOGIN ZONE

As a registered member (register here if not), you can post rating/reviews (& edit later), comments reviews and submit new albums.

You are not logged, please complete authentication before continuing (use forum credentials).

Share this DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA review

Social review comments () BETA

Review related links

Send comments to snobb
Report this review (#352160)
Buy DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA music online with PA partners
Show all DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA MP3/Stream
Go to DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA page for videos, full discography with ratings, reviews and much more
Go to The Butcher's Ballroom page for more details, where to buy and ratings/reviews
Search the Forum for DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA related discussions