Diabolical Masquerade was a Swedish one-man black metal band with progressive influences. The band was formed in 1993 in Stockholm as side project of Anders Nystr?m (aka Blackheim), known for his work as the guitarist of Katatonia.
History
Diabolical Masquerade was a Swedish one-man black metal band. All music is written and played by Katatonia guitarist Blakkheim (Anders Nystr?m) who wanted to have a band where he could compose more extreme music while Katatonia were exploring more mellow moods. The music leans heavily on avant-garde melodic black metal with some death metal and thrash metal influences. Blakkheim wanted to experiment more with song structure, theme and composition. This is most notably seen on his last project as Diabolical Masquerade called "Death's Design." This album is conceived 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 rhythmic, 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 Nystr?m proves the creativity that extreme music can reach in the hands of a skilled practitioner of his trade. Blakkheim worked together on the project with Dan Swan?, however. In early September 2004, it was announced that Blakkheim had put the project to sleep after not having found the necessary inspiration while working on a fifth album.
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