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  • * Previously: Diabolus, the ping-pong playing robot.

    Dharma Ping Pong ball 2009

  • *Previously: Diabolus, the ping-pong playing robot.

    Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade 2010

  • Sitting on one of the gurneys was Nigel Darkdoom, son of the infamous Diabolus Darkdoom, and on the other was Franz Argentblum.

    The Overload Protocol Mark Walden 2009

  • Sitting on one of the gurneys was Nigel Darkdoom, son of the infamous Diabolus Darkdoom, and on the other was Franz Argentblum.

    The Overload Protocol Mark Walden 2009

  • When asked why Diabolus should choose this evening to ascend from the underworld, Ebbsfleet explained The signs of the end of days are all around us – the middle east awash with blood, the world economy falling to its knees.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Push Jelly 2008

  • When asked why Diabolus should choose this evening to ascend from the underworld, Ebbsfleet explained The signs of the end of days are all around us – the middle east awash with blood, the world economy falling to its knees.

    Beelzebub Expected Early This Evening, Say Satanists Push Jelly 2008

  • This interval was considered so dissonant that it must have been the work of Lucifer, and so the church named it Diabolus in musica.

    Archive 2006-11-01 L. Lee Lowe 2006

  • This interval was considered so dissonant that it must have been the work of Lucifer, and so the church named it Diabolus in musica.

    If they thought a tritone was devilish... L. Lee Lowe 2006

  • The supremely spooky accompaniment for this supremely spooky film takes its diabolic cue from the "Diabolus in Musica," or "Devil's Interval," the notorious dissonant tone banned from church music during the Medieval epoch because the use of the diminished fifth was thought to be a signifier of all things eeeeevuuuullll.

    Dig the music, kids! Arbogast 2008

  • Draco — a dragon — serpent — the emblem of Diabolus himself — ah!

    Westward Ho! 2007

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