Antoine Reuben-Diavola is a professional musician from San Francisco Bay Area. A student of the musical arts since the age of 9 years old, Antoine has played a wide range of musical instruments and styles ranging from the laid back smooth sounds of jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, to the chaotic ultra fast blast beats of extreme metal

Extreme metal

Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. The term usually refers to a more abrasive, harsher, underground, non-commercialized style or sound nearly always associated with genres like black metal,...

. Antoine first gained notoriety in 1997 for his dynamic live drum work playing in the underground black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Black Goat. After the split of Black Goat in 2002, Antoine was asked to join the San Francisco based thrash band Hadan, that also featured ex-Black Goat guitarist Robert Williams

Robert Williams

- United Kingdom :*Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet , Member of Parliament for Carnarvonshire, 1656–1658, and for Carnarvon Boroughs, 1659*Robert Williams - United Kingdom :*Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet (c. 1627–1678), Member of Parliament for Carnarvonshire, 1656–1658, and for Carnarvon...

 (UBZUB, Weakling

Weakling

Weakling was a progressive/black metal band from San Francisco. The band never toured and released only one album, Dead As Dreams, recorded in 1998 and released on Tumult Records in 2000.-History:...

, Artificium Sanguis) at the time. Antoine toured the western United States with the band Hadan until their hiatus in 2005 spurred by the departure of their vocalist Ian Deaderick. Antoine also gained notoriety as the touring drummer with the band Slough Feg (The Lord Weird Slough Feg

The Lord Weird Slough Feg

Slough Feg is a Heavy Metal band that formed in Pennsylvania in the early 1990s and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Taking their name from the Celtic folklore-influenced comic Sláine, the band released their self-titled debut album in 1996...

) throughout 2006-2007, including appearances at SXSW and the first annual Alehorn of Power

Alehorn of Power

Alehorn of Power is an independently organized metal festival held annually in Chicago, Illinois since 2006.-History:The festival is organized by Greg Spalding, who is the drummer of Bible of the Devil and who worked for the Tone Deaf Touring booking agency.-2009:Held on August 5 at Cobra Lounge in...

 festival in Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

. Still an active drummer, Antoine currently releases music under the aliases Diavola, Bit.Krusher, and produces hip-hop music for the groups Emetic Landscape and Tha Glitch under the alias DJ Monte Carlo.

Discography

Antoine Reuben-Diavola has contributed to all of the albums listed as a musician, unless otherwise stated.

• 1996 - Black Goat - 1996 Bootleg
• 2004 - HADAN - 2004 Tour Sampler Demo
• 2004 - HADAN - Northwest Death Fest Compilation: Vol 1 (track "Dawn Of The Endless Night")
• 2005 - HADAN - Genocide Demo
• 2005 - HADAN - Northwest Death Fest Compilation: Vol 2 (track "Bled, Butchered, Burned")
• 2006 - Black Goat - 1996 Re-Issue CD
• 2006 - Tha Archivez - Next On The Menu (production for the track "Long As I Got A Face")
• 2006 - Tha Glitch - Longhorn Entertainment Compilation "My Arrangement Vol 2: The Franchise" (track "Bannanaz")
• 2007 - Black Goat - 1996 Re-Issue LP
• 2007 - Slough Feg - A Tribute to Manilla Road Compilation "The Riddle Masters" (track "Street Jammer")
• 2007 - Tha Archivez - Do It Movin' (tracks "Make Me Happy Wit My Hand", "Betrayal", "Gotta Get The Cash", "Twisted")
• 2007 - Slough Feg - Hardworlder
• 2007 - Diavola - Noxilux Beta
• 2008 - Tha Archivez - Almost Famous
  Almost Famous
  Almost Famous is a 2000 musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and telling the fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the fictitious rock band Stillwater , and his efforts to get his first cover story published...
  
  (tracks "Extra Ruff", "The Realest")
• 2008 - Diavola - Radix III
• 2008 - Tha Glitch - Computer Error EP
• 2009 - Tha Glitch - ...A Galaxy Near You
• 2010 - Bit.Krusher - Nexus
• 2011 - Tha Glitch - Robots!
• 2011 - DJ Monte Carlo - S.O.I.: Spaced Out Instrumentals
• 2011 - Diavola - The Awakening