DIABOLICAL MASQUERADE

The Phantom Lodge LP

Artist:	DIABOLICAL MASQUERADE
Label:	Peaceville

Description

Release Year: 2014
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: intense atmospheric infernal black metal

sophomore full-length [1997] by highly influential atmospheric devilish black metal side-project of Anders "Blackheim" Nyström [Katatonia, Bloodbath] falls under the same ferocious Scandinavian direction with Marduk and Dissection worth burning and infernal determination, yet involves exceptionally epic grandeur and neosymphonic moments, opening up hypnotic vicious beauty of highly complex yet spiritual experience, where fantasy intertwines with increasingly liberated experimentation, unexpected arrangement choices and colder, denser layers of sound, further expanding the artist's creative vision; part of drum programing and guest vocals were provided by Dan Swanö of Edge of Sanity fame, who also produced the whole thingie; first time ever - British black 180g vinyl edition of the classic album comes with a pro-printed lyric inner sleeve

Tags: diabolical masquerade, the phantom lodge, atmospheric infernal black metal, blackheim, anders nystrom, sean c bates, 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, 1997, peaceville, heavy vinyl