OneMetal.com REVIEW:
Diablo Swing Orchestra – “Sing Along Songs For The Damned and Delirious”

DSO Sing Along Songs

Certain things sound horrendous on paper but generally blow you away when put into practice. How on earth can you be anything other than dubious and doubtful when you have an album merging metal with swing. Yet the Swedish sextet Diablo Swing Orchestra have combined the genres with a b****y great wallop and the resulting album is deliciously dark and insane and freakishly good.

‘Sing Along Songs’ is DSO’s second album following up from the ‘Butchers Ballroom’. The band themselves say it follows through with the signature sound but this album has transformed into something more playful and at times far more aggressive.

Right from the off album opener ‘A Tap Dancer’s Dilemma’ sets the dark scene and lets you know what to expect from these six Swedish nutters. It paints a bleak but hypnotic backdrop the sort of thing that would easily and emphatically get a Tim Burton seal of approval. The album sways from bouncing manic insanity to operatic majesty rounded off with some huge and distorted swing based guitar riffs. This is Rock Opera at its finest, the brass sections juxtaposed between chainsaw waltz’s and each track tells its own diabolic tale. ‘Lucy Fears The Morning Star’ is not exactly the catchiest of titles but as a track it leaves you smiling like Heath Leger’s joker.

Everything about this album is wrong and it will divide music fans completely, but despite all its wrongness it just works, and it works damn well.

Bottom Line

The album will be available on 21st September and DSO will be playing a launch party at The Purple Turtle, Camden on October 2nd.