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Diminished is a Brutal death metal / Slam death metal band from Texas, USA. Band Info .

DIMINISHED 7 was created during 2007 in Los Angeles by Alex Crescioni. After two years of tentative writing and pre-production, the first album “Dim World” was thriving to bloom. The album was produced in August 2009 at Shrine Recording in Valencia, California where Crescioni took on recording, mixing, and producing of the record. The albums release, on November 10th 2009 unexpectedly generated considerable hype and much deliberation throughout the gothic rock and metal scene. “Dim World” embraces songs presenting a blend of solid 7 string guitar riffs, melancholic synths, and unforgettable vocal melodies. Its atmosphere is orchestrated to the dance...

By distorting hard boiled film and classic instrumental music through a dark, overcast lens, Diminished Men refocus their influences into something entirely unique. Their jagged, hard-charging approach evokes images of slit jugulars and accelerated heart rates, all the while swathing you in a blissful claustrophobia. Drawing elements of Link Wray, Morricone's dissonant horror scores, gritty noir and Joe Meek's sickly productions, as well as the provocative imagery of filmmakers like Wim Wenders and Jean-Pierre Melville, synthesizing them into something truly organic and original. "CAPNOMANCY" (Jan 2013), their second release on Abduction Records, run by Alan Bishop of the legendary Sun...