Diabolical Masquerade question...

[NAD]

What is the artwork like on this Death's Design? Any good? Worth the purchase price if I already have the music?

Reason I ask is because I just received the promo copy purchased from eBay, and the description never says promo anywhere. Asshole.

 

[Black Winter Day]

hahaahahahahhaha

the booklet basically has NOTHING in it, so you're not missing anything at all

you should try to get you hands on the previous DM albums as well... great stuff there!

 

[NAD]

Hey don't laugh, shady eBaying pisses me off!

Alright, well if I love the album maybe I'll buy a proper copy of it. Thanks.

 

[Black Winter Day]

yeah, that is damn shitty... i bought mine from blackheim himself!

 

[JayKeeley]

@NAD - I would hunt down the other DM albums before rebuying something you already own. Honestly, as BWD said, the original aint got nuttin' on da promo. And yeah, dodgy eBay sellers are teh suck.

Disclaimer: I don't own any other DM albums, but I'm assuming that they are excellent as BWD and others say.

 

[J.]

I used to own all DM albums. Not bad at all, but they failed to really keep me interested the entire length. And I actually thought Death's Design was the weakest out of them all. NAD, if you like Death's Design, get Phantom Lodge and Ravendusk in My Heart. Nightwork is pretty good too.

 

[Black Winter Day]

i still think DD is the best, but the rest are not far behind at all

 

[JayKeeley]

My love for all things James Bond and Conan are brought together to consumate their love on DD.

 

[Black Winter Day]

moonraker!

 

[NAD]

Moonwalker? What? *is already sick of his avatar which kicked ass just 2 days ago*

No promo email... yet anyhow.

I listened to about a third of DD, it's pretty cool. I'll search for the other ones later, I've kinda buried myself in CDs lately.

 

[Papa Josh]

That is a fucking rad avatar!

In regards to Diabolical Masquerade, I like Nightwork best. One listen and I find it hard to argue otherwise.

 

[JayKeeley]

Moonwalker? What?

From some dodgy review....

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]9th movement, track #30-32
Probably the best and most impressive movement on the album, the main orchestration is taken from the Conan the Barbarian main theme (“Anvil of Crom”) by Basil Pouledoris, leading into finger picked interlude that Tom Yorke (RADIOHEAD) could have quite easily written on behalf of KATATONIA, and then a reprise of the Conan theme with a sweet, sweet guitar solo by Swano. No production credit given to Pouledoris I’m afraid to say for all you fans of Conan.[/font]

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]10th movement, track #33-37
Entering psychotic horror movie scoring now, with knife-stabbing notes that get thrown into a double-time percussive death riff with eerie, undulating keyboard melody…only to fall into the John Barry Moonraker main theme for Roger Moore’s 007(!), followed by something that wouldn’t sound out of place in a BORKNAGAR session for Empiricism rehearsals. No production credit given to Barry I’m afraid to say for all you fans of James Bond. The entire movement could easily have been a lost recording from SIGH’s Imaginary Sonicscape. Now is a good time for sanity check and acid-trippy flashbacks from college days of old….[/font]

 

[Black Winter Day]

god damn i love this album, definitely the best of 2001! and papa, nightwork is damn TIGHT! it's almost melo-death at times, but the dan swano influence just raises it to the next level. it sucks that dan won't be involved with the next DM album... although it will be interesting to witness blackhiem at the helm. i expect a 'blacker' album than anything he has released before, but i could be wrong.

 

[Demonspell]

BWD: Diabolical Masquerade is great, but don't even suggest that!

 

[Black Winter Day]

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