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Sweden (1501 – present)

Diablo Swing Orchestra is a Swedish avant-garde metal band. The band was formed in 2003.

The origin of the name of the band is related both on their website and on their CDBaby description page. The back-story recounts a historically questionable, though amusing, ancestral story beginning in 16th century Sweden. Supposedly, ancestors of the band members performed orchestral works in defiance of the ruling church at the time (possibly the newly installed protestant Lutheran national church, in power during the mid and late 16th century). The orchestra was forced to go into hiding, performing in secret, with the assistance of oppressed peasants during the era. After years of performing for the pleasure of these peasants, the story claims that the church put a bounty on the performers lives, and that this bounty was so high that the orchestra knew they would soon be captured, and thusly chose to play a spectacular final show before becoming martyred to the church.

While this account is historically unsupported it does provide a backdrop to DSO’s eclectic musical style.

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ZlyZlyZly wrote:
11 hours ago

oh yeah! can't wait, I'm in love with TBB :)))

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Kusulas wrote:
yesterday evening

And it will have a male opera singer... I can't wait :D

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Kusulas wrote:
yesterday evening

The new album will be out in 2009 :)

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Harry24 wrote:
yesterday morning

Woooo Stolen Babies!!! =P

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armorxforxsheep wrote:
Saturday afternoon

You're right, that was entirely my mistake. Apologies.

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Opether wrote:
Saturday afternoon

You take it as an insult, i take it as trying to tell you, in an original way, that impulsiveness is annoying. You could easily go to my profile page and see that Stolen Babies is in my top10.

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armorxforxsheep wrote:
Saturday afternoon

Insults! A shining example of maturity and the single greatest argument tool one can wield. Thank you, Opether, you have bested me.

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Opether wrote:
Saturday afternoon

I would presume that looking at a chart in last.fm is a hard work for you, armorxforxsheep. Maybe we should ask from last.fm to change the structure of the charts - colorful and big fonted charts, so children(and others) would understand.

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armorxforxsheep wrote:
Friday evening

I wonder if Opether has ever listened to Unexpect or even Stolen Babies...

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tired_time wrote:
Friday morning

Opether, those four characteristics and chances is true, but that says nothing. I mean take any Jazz band, write it's characteristics and then take a random band and what chances are, that it will be anything like jazz? But does that mean, that all jazz bands are unconventional? I don't think so. We call it avant-garde, when a band is really very unconventional and we call it experimental-something, when it is a bit unconventional, and this one is really neither, just have their original sound, but it's not too far from typical symphonic metal.

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Prayermad wrote:
Friday morning

most of your shout is lost on me, opether. i did understand one thing, though, and you're simply wrong about that. maybe in the world of metal, diablo swing orchestra could be considered 'unconventional', but in the world of music on a whole, they're definitely not more 'unconventional' than average

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jocker02 wrote:
Thursday evening

lindo... great sound

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satyna_mayqueen wrote:
Tuesday evening

♥

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ManiacForces wrote:
Monday evening

I suppose it takes more time to record an album for DSO than regular bands. serious compositions. I like Infralove and Poetic Pitbull Revolutions best. Great band.

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RWakko wrote:
7 days ago

there is no new album coming? :(

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Opether wrote:
8 days ago

Your extrmely high language and stereotyping people tell alot about your intelligence. Anyways,it is to be ignored. I'm afraid you are missing my point,or perhaps you have a problem in reading?There are lots of teachers, go and get one. I will mark my word so you can UNDERSTAND-I said that you should take a RANDOM band,the CHANCES of this band to be with at least two of the four CHARACTERISTICS i mentioned befor are LOW. The fact that YOU listen to alot of bands like this,DOESN'T mean that the majority of the bands in the world sound like this. Now, youv'e said something about the "avant-garde" thing, listen, I have never said anything about this avant-garde thing and I don't care.I DON'T listen to music by how it's tags are called,but by how I like it.Facts are facts,and the fact is that this band is unconventional relatively to the big most of the bands in the world. And last but not least,i'm not a metalhead-and by the description of yours on a metalhead,you just described yourself.

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MetalMusa wrote:
8 days ago

Prayermad is totally right and I so love to be insulted as an ignorant fucking dipshit... that totally lightened my day. Keep your awesome stereotype-thinking up ! (P.S. DSO is great)

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Prayermad wrote:
10 days ago

thank you! this is still quite an awesome band, so i was by no means trying to insult them.

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tired_time wrote:
10 days ago

Well, I love this band, but I have to agree with Prayermad, it is not avant-garde by any means. They are unique of course, but that's not enough, it would be silly to call every original band with their own sound avant-garde. Judging from your charts, Opether, you just don't realize what that word means. Listen to John Zorn or Mike Patton. For example this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjjFl70CJEk is avant-garde and Diablo Swing orchestra is just a good Symphonic metal.

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Prayermad wrote:
10 days ago

lol opether you are a fucking moron. the things you speak of does not make music unconventional, fuckwad. or do you wish to tell me that all operas are unconventional because they have opera singers and symphonies? and what the fuck does 'uncommon musical instruments' mean? anything but guitars, i assume? and yes, fuckwad, music is supposed to have changing atmospheres, its part of music. i mean, i knew that metalheads are ignorant fucking dipshits, but when you think a band like diablo swing orchestra are "avant-garde" you're going to far. read up on the subject a bit, willya? thanks.

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