The Butcher's Ballroom
by Diablo Swing Orchestra

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The Butcher's Ballroom by Diablo Swing Orchestra
Year: 2006
Release date: 2006-08-07
Overall rank: 11,413th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 34 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2006 (180th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (1,968th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,413th)

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Diablo Swing Orchestra bestography

The Butcher's Ballroom is ranked 2nd best out of 5 albums by Diablo Swing Orchestra on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Diablo Swing Orchestra is Sing Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious which is ranked number 6289 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 212.

Diablo Swing Orchestra album bestography « Higher ranked (11,413th)
The Butcher's Ballroom This album (11,413th)
The Butcher's Ballroom Lower ranked (13,407th) »
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The Butcher's Ballroom rankings summary
Overall rank: 11,413th | 2000s rank: 1,968th | 2006 rank: 180th  Overall chart history
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The Butcher's Ballroom ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 34 votes)
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From BestEverAlbums 08/29/2019 20:00 in Album of the day (#3180): The Butcher's Ballroom
“Today's album of the day The Butcher's Ballroom by Diablo Swing Orchestra ( | ) Year: 2006. Country: Overall rank: 7,941 Average rating: 73/100 (from 26 votes). Tracks: 1. Balrog Boogie 2. Heroines 3. Poetic Pitbull Revolutions 4. Ragdoll Physics 5. D'angelo 6. Velvet Embracer 7. Gunpowder Chant 8.…”
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From mickilennial 09/02/2015 04:04 in Recommendations Thread
“I want to listen to more metal, but I've had pretty mixed opinions on a lot of the metal albums I've listened to lately. I've been really digging Mastodon the last couple days (especially Crack the Skye), and other albums that have a similar sound to what I'm looking for are Agalloch's The Mantle…”
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From Anonymous 04/08/2015 16:30 in You must listen to the album below you.
“this was struck me more or less how I assumed it would, which is as something that works really well but seriously shouldn't. There should be gimmicks! There should be more inconsistency! Conceptually this should've been an utter failure but hell I think it works pretty damn well. Not life-changing…”
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From 05/13/2010 01:39 | #11651
It's a shame that not more people have heard of this amazing album, especially since you can download it for free legally. It's a groundbreaking mix of classical, metal, and jazz.

Here's the download link:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/49216
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70/100
From 07/13/2010 07:27 | #13484
I have heard it several times but the last about a month ago. I still remember that I liked a lot how they achieve to mix any kind of music with trash metal riffs. But... I hate the singers voice. It would be an 85/100 for me, but I lower it to 70/100 just because of the effing vocals.
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From 05/25/2011 21:15 | #22261
Brilliant album. If it holds up after a couple more listens I may consider making this the first album of this century to enter my top 50. Best tracks are Balrog Boogie and Infralove. Great call Applerill.
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From 06/06/2011 17:50 | #22778
Not my cup of tea. (Edited)
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From 09/29/2011 23:13 | #27917
It's definitely interesting... I don't think it holds up as well after multiple listens, but it's still a pretty good album.
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