DSO blows my head completely the hell off every time I listen, which is frequently. With that being said, I felt it was necessary to have my first review be Diablo Swing Orchestra's second album and masterpiece, Sing-Along Songs for The Damned & Delirious. Although I have used this website on a reoccurring basis, for some strange reason it has only been until now that I have felt the desire to become a member and chip in my two cents. I have been a consistent Progarchives user/lover for a couple years now and by being a younger member of the so-called "Generation Z" I have been left with a plethora of music I have discovered due to this site.
The music this band plays is absolutely progressive, trascending genre barriers and also creating a unique, incredibly original experience. If there's one band that truly deserves to be called "avant-metal", then this one is it. If one moment one can think the music is just plain metal (even power metal), it only takes one second for the band to switch to styles as varied as flamenco or jazz, or go for more atmospheric, gloomy passages. The orchestration of the songs is also very unique, with all kinds of keyboard, wind instruments and percussion. Lots of jazz, (swing), some funky tones, but also a big classical influence (with operatic vocals) and, of course, rock and metal. The music they play is a highly original avant-metal. And this is how The Diablo Swing Orchestra came to exist. Thus, a few centuries later, two of the current Diablo Swing Orchestra's members, supposedly descendants of the original 16th Century members, reunited in a local music shop and start talking about music, which only lead them to discover that they were the ones meant to resurrect the Orchestra of old. The legend says that, before being captured, the orchestra's members "signed a pact saying that their descendants were given the task of reuniting the orchestra in 500 years and continue their work of spreading thought-provoking music". After a reward was offered, the orchestra's members were finally caught and hanged. As the influence of the ensemble proved hard to eliminate, according to the story, its members were finally framed for murder and forced to hide.
The Church deemed the music satanic, calling the ensemble "the Devil's Orchestra".
According to it, in the 16th Century there was an orchestra in Sweden that "played like no other" and that defied the ruling, wealthy, powerful Church with music that give the people a "new view" of life. The origins of their name are explained on their website, though the story has more to do with fiction than with fact. The Diablo Swing Orchestra is an avant-metal band from Sweden.
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