Sweden’s Diablo Swing Orchestra bring together operatic singing, mariachi, swing jazz, psychobilly, and mainstream metal to create one of the most unlistenable albums I’ve heard in a very long time. This careless combination of genres may seem clever on an elementary theoretical level, but in practice the sounds are absolutely dreadful and insufferable. I could invoke G.A. Cohen’s argument against Nozick’s claim that the consequence of two rights is necessarily another right (the inversion of the folk claim that two wrongs don’t make a right, which is equally false), but that’s not really possible here since isolating these clearly incompatible sounds doesn’t make them any less awful. When I listen to an album I don’t personally enjoy, I usually try to think of someone I know who might like it, and try to extract those qualities they would like about it. This method doesn’t work with “Sing-Alongs For The Damned & Delirious” because I can’t imagine a single person that I would non-sadistically recommend the album to. There are no redeemable qualities here. 1/10 -- Elliott Sharp (14 January, 2010)