Diabolical Masquerade

Diabolical Masquerade is a Swedish one-man musical project. All music is written and played by Katatonia guitarist Blackheim (real name Anders Nyström) who wanted to have a band where he could co

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Diabolical Masquerade is a Swedish one-man musical project. All music is written and played by Katatonia guitarist Blackheim (real name Anders Nyström) who wanted to have a band where he could compose more extreme music whilst Katatonia were exploring more mellow moods. The music leans heavily on avantgarde melodic black metal with some death metal influences. Blackheim, whose real name is Anders Nystrom, wanted to experiment more with song structure, theme and composition. This is most notabley seen on his last project as Diabolical Masquerade called "Death's Design". This album is concieved as the soundtrack to a nonexistent swedish horror movie, with 61 tracks broken up into 20 movements, each with a unique feel and theme. While Death's Design is a more extreme album than any released by Katatonia in recent years, it also includes many passages featuring various genres and styles, experimenting with progressive rock, progressive metal, ambient, classical music, and rythmic, percussion based passages . It is for the most part an album which expresses a plot through the feel of the music itself, much like the orchestral soundtrack to a movie might, and by doing this Nystrom proves the creativity that extreme music can reach in the hands of a skilled practicioner of his trade.

Blackheim worked together on the project however, with Dan Swanö. In early September 2004, it was announced that Blackheim had put the project to sleep after not having found the necessary inspiration while working on a fifth album.

Links

Official homepage

Top tracks

Astray Within the Coffinwood Mill
The Walk of the Hunchbacked
Rider on the Bonez
Dreadventurouz
The Zkeleton Keyz to the Dead

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Top albums

	Nightwork
Rider on the Bonez Dreadventurouz The Zkeleton Keyz to the Dead Thiz Ghoultimate Omen All Onboard the Perdition Hearze! The Eerie Obzidian Circuz Haunted by Horror
	Death's Design
1st Movement: Nerves in Rush 1st Movement 2nd Movement 1st Movement: Death Ascends: The Hunt, Part I 3rd Movement 1st Movement: You Can't Hide Forever 4th Movement 1st Movement: Right on Time for Murder: The Hunt, Part II 5th Movement 2nd Movement: Conscious in No Materia 6th Movement 2nd Movement: A Different Plane 7th Movement 2nd Movement: Invisible to Us 8th Movement 2nd Movement: The One Who Hides a Face Inside 3rd Movement: ...and Don't Ever Listen to What It Says 9th Movement 3rd Movement: Revelation of the Puzzle 10th Movement 11th Movement 3rd Movement: Human Prophecy 3rd Movement: Where the Suffering Leads 12th Movement 4th Movement: The Remains of Galactic Expulsions 13th Movement 4th Movement: With Panic in the Heart 14th Movement 4th Movement: Out From the Dark 15th Movement 16th Movement 4th Movement: Still Coming at You 4th Movement: Out From a Deeper Dark 17th Movement 18th Movement 5th Movement: Spinning Back the Clocks 19th Movement 6th Movement: Soaring Over Dead Rooms 7th Movement: The Enemy Is the Earth 20th Movement 7th Movement: Recall 7th Movement: All Exits Blocked 7th Movement: The Memory Is Weak 7th Movement: Struck at Random / Outermost Fear 7th Movement: Sparks of Childhood Coming Back 8th Movement: Old People's Voodoo Seance 8th Movement: Mary-Lee Goes Crazy 8th Movement: Something Has Arrived 8th Movement: Possession of the Voodoo Party 9th Movement: Not of Flesh, Not of Blood 9th Movement: Intact With a Human Psyche 9th Movement: Keeping Faith 10th Movement: Someone Knows What Scares You 10th Movement: A Bad Case of Nerves 10th Movement: The Inverted Dream / No Sleep in Peace 10th Movement: Information 10th Movement: Setting the Course 11th Movement: Ghost Inhabitants 11th Movement: Fleeing From Town 11th Movement: Overlooked Parts 12th Movement: A New Spark: Victory Theme, Part I 12th Movement: Hope: Victory Theme, Part II 12th Movement: Family Portraits: Victory Theme, Part III 13th Movement: Smokes Starts to Churn 13th Movement: Hesitant Behaviour 13th Movement: A Hurricane of Rotten Air 14th Movement: Mastering the Clock 15th Movement: They Come, You Go 16th Movement: Haarad El Chamon 16th Movement: The Egyptian Resort 16th Movement: The Pyramid 16th Movement: Frenzy Moods and Other Oddities 17th Movement: Still Part of the Design: The Hunt, Part III 17th Movement: Definite Departure 18th Movement: Returning to Haarad El Chamon 18th Movement: Life Eater 18th Movement: The Pulze 18th Movement: The Defiled Feeds 19th Movement: The River in Space 19th Movement: A Soulflight Back to Life 20th Movement: Instant Rebirth: Alternate Ending
	The Phantom Lodge
Astray Within the Coffinwood Mill The Puzzling Constellation of a Deathrune Ravenclaw The Walk of the Hunchbacked Cloaked by the Moonshine Mist Across the Open Vault and Away... Hater The Blazing Demondome of Murmurs and Secrecy Upon the Salty Wall of the Broody Gargoyle