Death's Design

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Death's Design
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 2, 2001
Genre Avant-garde metal, extreme metal, progressive metal, ambient
Length43:23
Label Avantgarde Music
Producer Dan Swanö
Diabolical Masquerade chronology
Nightwork
(1998)
Death's Design
(2001)
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Death's Design is Blakkheim's fourth and final album, released under the moniker of Diabolical Masquerade and his most experimental. The album is broken up into 20 movements, the shortest of which is just 6 seconds long. Also the album seems to be without genre, changing directions many times. According to the last update of Blakkheim's website it was to be an original motion picture soundtrack to a movie that was never made but that turned out to be a prank on everyone by Blakkheim. The European version features 61 tracks while the US release has 36, both have a similar length.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Nerves in Rush"0:06
2."Death Ascends - The Hunt (Part I)"0:16
3."You Can't Hide Forever"0:24
4."Right on Time for Murder - The Hunt (Part II)"1:31
5."Conscious in No Materia"0:40
6."A Different Plane"0:21
7."Invisible to Us"0:41
8."The One Who Hides a Face Inside"1:09
9."...And Don't Ever Listen to What It Says"0:57
10."Revelation of the Puzzle"0:57
11."Human Prophecy"0:20
12."Where the Suffering Leads"0:19
13."The Remains of Galactic Expulsions"0:12
14."With Panic in the Heart"0:22
15."Out from the Dark"0:46
16."Still Coming at You"0:29
17."Out from a Deeper Dark"0:28
18."Spinning Back the Clocks"1:42
19."Soaring over Dead Rooms"2:19
20."The Enemy Is the Earth"0:35
21."Recall"0:14
22."All Exits Blocked"0:35
23."The Memory Is Weak"0:11
24."Struck at Random/Outermost Fear"0:20
25."Sparks of Childhood Coming Back"0:27
26."Old People's Voodoo Seance"1:25
27."Mary-Lee Goes Crazy"0:32
28."Something Has Arrived"0:15
29."Possession of the Voodoo Party"0:46
30."Not of Flesh, Not of Blood"0:50
31."Intact with a Human Psyche"1:02
32."Keeping Faith"1:07
33."Someone Knows What Scares You"0:30
34."A Bad Case of Nerves"0:50
35."The Inverted Dream/No Sleep in Peace"0:16
36."Information"0:17
37."Setting the Course"0:52
38."Ghost Inhabitants"0:50
39."Fleeing from Town"1:02
40."Overlooked Parts"0:50
41."A New Spark - Victory Theme (Part I)"0:49
42."Hope - Victory Theme (Part II)"1:01
43."Family Portraits - Victory Theme (Part III)"0:36
44."Smokes Start to Churn"0:08
45."Hesitant Behaviour"1:35
46."A Hurricane of Rotten Air"0:19
47."Mastering the Clock"0:55
48."They Come, You Go"2:11
49."Haarad el Chamon"0:20
50."The Egyptian Resort"0:35
51."The Pyramid"0:24
52."Frenzy Moods and Other Oddities"1:10
53."Still Part of the Design - The Hunt (Part III)"0:18
54."Definite Departure"0:37
55."Returning to Haarad el Chamon"0:45
56."Life Eater"0:32
57."The Pulze"0:27
58."The Defiled Feeds"0:36
59."The River in Space"0:56
60."A Soulflight Back to Life"1:18
61."Instant Rebirth - Alternate Ending"0:06
Total length:43:23

| Notes: The tracks are in 20 Movements

Credits

Diabolical Masquerade

The Maalten Quartet, Estonia

Other Personnel

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